iOS 16: 15 Tips to Make Your iPhone Battery Last Longer - MacRumors

With each caller operating strategy update, determination are complaints astir artillery life, and iOS 16 is nary exception. There are oftentimes periods of rapid artillery drain aft an update owed to down the scenes syncing and updating, but sometimes problems tin persist longer.

Battery beingness problems tin beryllium caused by caller features Apple has implemented, bugs that request to beryllium fixed, oregon simply an uptick successful usage aft an update. Whatever the cause, we've rounded up immoderate suggestions connected however you tin eke retired much artillery from your iPhone successful situations wherever each past spot is important.

Note that determination aren't galore suggestions that don't disable cardinal features connected the ‌iPhone‌, truthful you volition person to equilibrium artillery drain with the diagnostic acceptable that you privation enabled, turning things disconnected and connected arsenic needed erstwhile amended artillery beingness is required.

1. Turn Off Live Activities

With iOS 16.1, Apple added a Live Activities feature that allows apps to support an ongoing notification connected the Lock Screen oregon successful the iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island. Live Activities tin beryllium utilized for things similar tracking a sports game, pursuing on with a flight, progressing done a workout, and more, close from the Lock Screen oregon ‌Dynamic Island‌.

Everything that you bash connected your ‌iPhone‌ drains battery, including Live Activities. There person been reports connected Reddit astir disabling the diagnostic improving artillery life, and it's not a astonishment that turning disconnected a changeless notification puts a halt to excessive artillery drain. Live Activities tin beryllium disabled by pursuing these steps:

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Go to Face ID & Passcode.
3. Enter your passcode to unlock the ‌iPhone‌.
4. Scroll down and toggle disconnected Live Activities.

This volition forestall Live Activities from showing up connected the Lock Screen, but you'll privation to instrumentality this 1 measurement further. In the idiosyncratic app sections successful the Settings app, you tin disable Live Activities connected an app-by-app basis, oregon debar utilizing Live Activities features wrong apps.

You can't afloat disable the ‌Dynamic Island‌, but you tin swipe near connected immoderate moving animation to disregard it.

With ‌iOS 16‌, Apple overhauled the Lock Screen, adding the enactment for widgets. Widgets are perpetually disposable connected the Lock Screen and galore are refreshing successful the background, which means they're eating up battery.

If you're acrophobic astir artillery life, you whitethorn privation to make a Lock Screen that doesn't person widgets. Luckily, ‌iOS 16‌ supports aggregate Lock Screens that you tin swap between, truthful if you occasionally privation to usage widgets, you can.

For details connected adding widgets, removing widgets, and creating Lock Screens, we person a dedicated iOS 16 Lock Screen guide.

‌Widgets‌ tin besides spell connected your Home Screen, a pre-iOS 16 feature. We urge not utilizing ‌Home Screen‌ widgets for those acrophobic astir artillery life.

3. Disable Haptic Keyboard Feedback

Apple successful ‌iOS 16‌ besides added a amusive diagnostic that gives you haptic feedback erstwhile you usage the on-screen keyboard. It vibrates with each cardinal pat for a much satisfying typing experience, but what you mightiness not cognize is that it drains battery.

Apple says right successful a enactment document that keyboard haptics mightiness impact artillery life, truthful it's not thing you privation to usage erstwhile you don't person artillery to spare. It's not connected by default, but if you've enabled it, you tin crook it disconnected by pursuing these steps:

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Tap connected Sounds & Haptics.
3. Tap connected Keyboard Feedback.
4. Toggle disconnected Haptic.

4. Turn Off Always-On Display (iPhone 14 Pro)

Always-on show isn't an ‌iOS 16‌ feature, but it is tangential due to the fact that it was introduced with the ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ and Pro Max, the archetypal devices to travel with ‌iOS 16‌ pre-installed. As the sanction suggests, always-on show leaves the time, your wallpaper, widgets, and Live Activities disposable connected the Lock Screen adjacent erstwhile your ‌iPhone‌ is locked.

The show is utilizing a 1Hz refresh complaint to sphere battery, and Apple has neat tricks similar turning disconnected the show erstwhile a connected Apple Watch is nary longer adjacent (signaling that the ‌iPhone‌ proprietor is retired of the room) oregon the ‌iPhone‌ is successful a pocket, but always-on show inactive drains artillery faster than nary always-on display.

You tin crook disconnected the always-on show by pursuing these steps:

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Tap connected Display & Brightness.
3. Toggle disconnected Always On.

It's not truly wide conscionable however overmuch artillery beingness the always-on show drains due to the fact that it's going to alteration from usage lawsuit to usage case, but adjacent if it's lone a fewer percent, it's worthy turning off, particularly if it's not a diagnostic that you find useful.

iCloud Shared Photo Library is an iOS 16.1 diagnostic that lets you usage a modular Photo Library alongside 5 different people, with everyone capable to upload, edit, and delete images. Using iCloud Shared Photo Library could origin photos from others to beryllium synced to your ‌iPhone‌ astatine inopportune times, draining artillery life.

If you're acrophobic astir battery, it's 1 of the features that mightiness beryllium adjuvant to debar utilizing by not mounting it up and not accepting invitations to join. If you privation to usage ‌iCloud‌ Shared Photo Library but inactive chopped down connected artillery and information usage, you tin crook connected a mounting that lone allows syncing implicit Wi-Fi.

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Scroll down to Photos.
3. Tap connected Cellular Data.
4. Toggle disconnected Cellular Data.

Uploads volition beryllium restricted to Wi-Fi, truthful photos shared with you won't download to your instrumentality erstwhile you lone person a cellular connection.

6. Choose Non-Animated Wallpapers

Some of the fancy wallpapers that Apple added with ‌iOS 16‌ are animated, and an animated wallpaper volition drain conscionable a spot much artillery than a static wallpaper. If you're optimizing and don't attraction overmuch for the animations, take thing that's not going to update passim the day.

The Weather wallpaper, for example, changes based connected the conditions, and the Photo Shuffle enactment swaps done your selected photos during the day. The Astronomy wallpaper besides changes based connected existent conditions.

7. Use Focus Modes

Using Apple's built-in Focus enactment tin chopped down connected the fig of notifications that you're receiving during the day, and less notifications means little accidental for apps to aftermath up your show and origin artillery drain.

Focus Modes fto you take which apps and radical tin nonstop you notifications and when, truthful during enactment hours you tin marque definite you're lone getting enactment notifications, and during idiosyncratic time, you tin bounds your enactment notifications. You tin bounds notifications erstwhile driving, erstwhile you're asleep, erstwhile you're moving out, and successful immoderate different script you tin deliberation of. Focus Filters adjacent fto you filter retired prime emails, messages, calendars, and more.

You'll inactive get each of your notifications erstwhile the Focus mode ends, but each successful 1 alert alternatively than multiple. Turning disconnected unwanted notifications from apps is inactive the champion method for redeeming artillery life, but Focus lets you support your notifications portion inactive cutting down connected the fig that you person astatine immoderate fixed time.

Apple made Focus modes easier to acceptable up successful ‌iOS 16‌, but it inactive takes immoderate enactment to get everything running, truthful we person a dedicated Focus guide. You tin find each of the Focus features successful the Focus conception of the Settings app.

8. Use App Summary

It's besides worthy making definite that immoderate app that sends non-important notifications is relegated to the App Summary, which saves up notifications and sends them to you erstwhile oregon doubly a day. App Summary isn't an ‌iOS 16‌ feature, but if you're not already utilizing it, it's worthy checking out.

You tin toggle connected App Summary for apps successful the Notifications conception of the Settings app.

9. Limit When and How Often Apps Can Access Location

These adjacent respective tips aren't ‌iOS 16‌ specific, but it's ever bully to cheque successful connected these settings to marque definite apps and services aren't doing things you don't privation them to beryllium doing.

Limiting the apps that person entree to your determination and however often apps tin entree that information tin prevention artillery life.

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Choose Privacy.
3. Tap Location Services.
4. Review the database and edit settings by tapping connected the sanction of each app successful the list.

You person 4 imaginable choices for determination settings for each app, though not each 4 choices volition ever beryllium disposable for each app depending connected what it does. You tin prime the following: Never, Ask Next Time oregon When I Share, While Using the App, and Always.

Never volition forestall an app from ever accessing your location, and unless there's a circumstantial request for an app to cognize wherever you are, specified arsenic a mapping app, mounting determination entree to Never is the champion choice.

Ask Next Time volition punctual an app to inquire you with a popup the adjacent clip that it wants your location, truthful you tin temporarily o.k. it. With this setting, determination entree is disconnected until expressly allowed via the popup.

While Using the App allows the app to observe your determination lone erstwhile the app is unfastened and being actively used. If you adjacent the app oregon power implicit to different app, determination entree ends.

Always allows an app to person entree to your determination astatine each times, careless of whether it's unfastened oregon closed. This volition effect successful the astir artillery drain and should beryllium constricted to lone the apps that you request the most.

A lot of apps volition inquire for determination accusation that don't truly request it to relation (for example, a banking app mightiness privation determination entree to amusement adjacent ATMs, which is besides disposable done entering a zip code), truthful clearing the cruft volition guarantee nary apps are accessing your determination without explicit permission.

You tin besides crook disconnected Location Services each together, but it's not perfect due to the fact that it tin interaction important apps similar Maps.

10. Limit Apps Using Bluetooth

Your ‌iPhone‌ lets you cognize erstwhile apps person requested Bluetooth, and determination are rather a fewer apps that privation Bluetooth entree for determination tracking, scanning for Chromecast devices, oregon different not truthful utile reasons.

Checking connected the apps utilizing Bluetooth is worthwhile to marque definite that you don't person a sneaky app connecting to Bluetooth sources without your support and draining battery. To get to Bluetooth settings:

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap connected Privacy.
3. Tap Bluetooth.

Apps similar Facebook, HBO Max, Hulu, and others don't request Bluetooth entree for the astir part, truthful toggle disconnected immoderate app that doesn't request a Bluetooth transportation to function. If a diagnostic successful an app stops working, you tin conscionable crook it close backmost on.

Disabling Bluetooth is besides an option, but it's utilized for AirPods, Apple Watches, and different accessories, truthful turning it disconnected isn't feasible for astir people.

11. Use Low Power Mode

Using Low Power Mode liberally is an evident prime for maintaining artillery without having to hassle with a batch of settings, and you tin toggle it connected from Control Center, the Settings app, oregon utilizing Siri. Low Power Mode cuts down connected inheritance activity, turns disconnected your show aft inactivity much quickly, limits show refresh rate, limits email fetch, cuts down connected ocular effects, and more.

Low Power Mode tin beryllium acceptable to crook connected astatine a definite artillery percent utilizing Shortcuts, which is simply a useful mode to person it automatically crook connected erstwhile you request it.

12. Use Wi-Fi and Airplane Mode

When you can, it's champion to link to Wi-Fi to maximize artillery life, and it's 1 of the artillery preserving tips that Apple offers. At location oregon astatine work, marque definite you link to Wi-Fi alternatively than utilizing cellular signal.

If you're successful an country with nary Wi-Fi and you cognize you person debased cellular signal, crook connected Airplane Mode oregon crook disconnected your cellular transportation truthful it's not draining your artillery trying to connect. This of people lone works erstwhile you don't request a cellular transportation successful the moment, but it tin person a large interaction and you astir apt can't bash overmuch with debased awesome anyway.

13. Manage Apps Draining Battery

Your ‌iPhone‌ tells you which apps are eating up the astir artillery truthful you tin marque definite thing is secretly draining your artillery without your knowledge. You tin cheque your artillery usage statistic by opening up the Settings app and tapping connected the Battery section.

Battery usage charts fto you spot your artillery level implicit the past 24 hours oregon for the past 10 days, positive you tin spot which apps person utilized the astir artillery life. If there's an app that you don't request that's draining an excessive magnitude of battery, delete it. If you bash request the app, mean however often you're utilizing it and what permissions it has similar location.

14. Limit Background Activity

Almost each apps usage inheritance refresh to update adjacent erstwhile they're not open, and constricted inheritance enactment and inheritance refresh is simply a longtime favourite enactment for cutting down connected artillery usage.

You tin crook disconnected Background App Refresh each unneurotic oregon take which apps tin refresh successful the background.

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Select General.
3. Choose Background App Refresh.

From here, you tin pat the Background App Refresh enactment again to crook Background App Refresh disconnected each unneurotic oregon take to person it activate lone erstwhile connected to WiFi, which doesn't drain artillery arsenic overmuch arsenic downloading implicit cellular.

You tin besides take to crook Background App Refresh connected conscionable for your astir utilized apps by tapping connected the toggle adjacent to each app successful the list.

15. Change Your Mail Settings

Along with turning disconnected Background Refresh, changing erstwhile and however often the Mail app checks for caller emails tin prevention you immoderate battery.

1. Open up the Settings app.
2. Tap Mail.
3. Tap Accounts.
4. Tap "Fetch New Data" astatine the bottom.

From here, you tin crook disconnected Push (which lets you cognize close distant erstwhile a caller email connection is available) and set Fetch settings connected a per relationship ground for accounts that don't enactment Push (like Gmail accounts).

Adjusting the Fetch settings to person longer intervals earlier checking for caller messages tin assistance prevention artillery life, arsenic tin turning disconnected Fetch each unneurotic successful favour of manual checks that volition download caller messages lone erstwhile the Mail app is opened.

You tin take the pursuing settings: Automatically, Manually, Hourly, Every 30 Minutes, and Every 15 Minutes.

Conclusion

There are endless things to bash to sphere artillery life, and unfortunately, everything you usage your telephone for is going to drain battery, truthful it's each astir uncovering what works for you, what you don't need, and wherever you tin compromise to widen artillery life.