How to Improve Battery Life By Up To 80%

By Brad Burd

It’s true – just knowing some of the features to turn off or on can improve you battery life up to 80% and here is how:

Tip #1

Screen Brightness

Most people realize that the brightness effects the battery life. The problem is they have no clue how much.

More battery life is used up for the iPhone’s screen than any other function or part of the iPhone period.

Following the steps below can improve you battery life dramatically:

1 From the home screen click settings

2 make sure Auto-Brightness is on

3 Turn the brightness all the way down to the lowest level you are comfortable with

Don’t worry about not being able to read the screen like this when you’re in a bright room or outside, that auto-brightness adjusts the lighting accordingly for you.

Tip #2

Only Lock the iPhone While in the Home Screen!

This is a big one that most people will never know!

When you have an application open , like Maps, and you lock you iPhone, your iPhone is still using power to keep everything that Maps needs to run up and running for hours and hours while you phone is locked!

While if you fist go to the home screen  before you lock your iPhone then the iPhone doesn’t give all its resouces to the last App you had open, saving you a lot of power.

Tip #3

Turn Off Wi-Fi

Something else that can be a huge battery hog is Wi-Fi.  If you have Wi-Fi switched on all day and are not connected to Wi-Fi then your phone is using  battery power for a chip to constantly search for Wi-Fi (continually searching for Wi-Fi and never connecting can use more battery life than connecting to it)

If you do connect to Wi-Fi the closer the wireless router is the less of a strain it is on your iPhone’s battery.

If you don’t have a need to connect to Wi-Fi then turn it off and save a lot of battery power:

1 From the home screen go to Setting

2 Go to Wi-Fi

3 Turn Wi-Fi from on to off

Tip #4

Turn Off Push Email

Push email is convienent because you may get your email quicker, but it has to keep a constant connection with your email server to do this, so if you’d rather you can have it periodically check for mail – this will save you a ton of battery life.

1  From the home screen go to settings

2 Mail

3 Contacts

4 Calendars

5 Turn Push to off and Fetch to Manually

Tip# 5

Auto-Lock Faster

As I said before more power is used by the screen than anything else.  Decreasing the amount of time it takes the phone to auto lock/ auto turn off can make a big difference.

1 From home click settings

2 General

3 Auto-Lock

4 Change this down to 1 or 2 minutes