Solution 3: Disable Background App Refresh
Applications and games keep refreshing in the background. If you found an app to be eating a good battery percentage, disabling the app’s background activity can save the battery a lot. This feature in iOS is called Background App Refresh.
We recommend disabling background app refresh for all apps that are not important to run in the background all the time. By doing this, there will be a significant increase in the battery life. After you turn off the background app refresh for apps, you will not receive any notifications from those apps. So make sure you are only disabling it for non-essential apps.
Here’s how to turn off background app refresh for any app on iOS:
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap on General.
- Click Background App Refresh.
- Tap on the toggle next to the app to bring it to the off position.
Solution 4: Improve Battery Health
It’s important to track your iPhone’s battery health percentage. If you’ve ever noticed a significant depletion in that percentage, you must follow some protective measures to reduce battery health.
To check the battery health percentage of your iPhone, open the Settings app, scroll down and tap on Battery, and select Battery Health.
Here’s how you can maintain the battery health on your iPhone:
- Turn On Optimised Charging: If you keep plugging your phone into the charger for the whole night, it can harm the battery, reducing its health. If you want your phone to be fully charged by the time you wake up, you can use the Optimised Charging feature. What it does is it stops charging the phone after reaching eight percent and resumes it sometime before you are likely to remove the charging cable.
- Do Not Let the Battery Drain Too Much: It is always advised that do not let the battery percentage go down below 15%. If you keep using the device even when the battery percentage is below the recommended value, it may degrade the lifespan.
Solution 5: Install the Latest iOS Update
Sometimes, after installing a new software update, users start to face many issues. The last software update you installed might have a bug which could lead to the battery drain. If Apple developers are working on it, you should get a new software update containing to a fix to this issue.
Here’s how you can check for new updates on iPhones:
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to General > Software Update.
- Download and install the update (if available). Otherwise, check for new updates after a couple of days.
Solution 6: Reduce Motion and Disable Location-Based Services
If the GPS is turned on, it will keep tracking your location which will result in battery consumption. If not needed, we recommend disabling the GPS which will improve the battery life.
Another important feature that can greatly improve is reduced motion. It removed the animation and offers a little less load on the processor. Not does it only improve the battery life, but the device’s performance also gets a boost.
To reduce motion on your iPhone, head over to the Settings app and go to the Accessibility section. There you’ll see a Motion tan, tap on it and turn on the toggle next to Reduce Motion. To further disable the animation, enable the toggle next to Prefer Cross-Fade Transition.
Solution 7: Turn Off Raise to Wake and Use Dark Mode
The Raise to Wake feature on your iPhone keeps on checking the device’s motion through sensors that consume the battery in the background. Disabling this feature will surely improve the battery backup.
We also recommend using the dark mode for as much as possible. It also helps in improving the battery life.
Solution 8: Enable Low Power Mode
By turning on the Low Power Mode feature, you can significantly improve the battery backup on your Apple devices. This is probably the best solution when the battery is draining too fast or when the remaining battery percentage is too low. What it does is that it automatically removes unnecessary background processes and animations which contributes to better battery life.
Final Words
Fast battery consumption can be frustrating for all of us. So, fixing this issue is not an optional thing, we’ve to do it anyway. In this article, we’ve gone through various ways you can improve the battery life on your iPhone. Hopefully, the battery will now last longer than before. Did you find these tips useful? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
