iPhone 14 Pro battery draining? Turning off 'always-on' display won't help. Here's what will - ZDNet

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Everyone wants their iPhone's artillery to past longer, adjacent if they've conscionable bought a caller iPhone 14 Pro oregon Pro Max.

Apple claims that the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max get "up to" 20 and 25 hours of video stream, respectively, but adjacent that's not capable for immoderate caller owners.

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max features an always-on display, and it seems that radical judge that this puts a important dent successful artillery life. That, oregon they've been speechmaking 1 of the galore "battery redeeming tips" posts connected the net that item this caller diagnostic arsenic a large artillery drain.

Well, is it?

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There's lone 1 mode to find out, and that's to bash immoderate real-world testing.

There are a fewer antithetic ways to bash real-world testing, but present I decided to marque things simple.

For this trial I enactment the iPhone into Airplane Mode and past near it with the show connected (and doing nothing) for a mates of hours, made a enactment of the driblet successful artillery level, and past repeated the trial with the show off.

It's speedy and simple, and if determination was going to beryllium immoderate important betterment successful artillery life, it would amusement up successful a mates of hours.

Bottom line, the always-on show makes small difference.

Just to beryllium sure, I repeated the experiment, but this clip I ran it for 4 hours, and again, the quality was negligible.

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The always-on show is intelligibly a diagnostic that's been optimized for the OLED ProMotion display, and turning it disconnected buys you precise small other artillery life.

That said, if you enactment your iPhone into Low Power Mode (tap connected Settings > Battery and toggle Low Power Mode), the always-on show is 1 of the features disabled.

You tin archer if the iPhone is successful Low Power Mode due to the fact that the artillery icon turns yellow

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So, if you're trying to get much artillery beingness (maybe you're moving out, oregon request to get done an particularly agelong day), turning disconnected the show is not going to assistance you.

What should you do?

Here are a mates of suggestions that volition get you hours of other artillery life:

• Turn connected Low Power Mode: You do suffer immoderate features, but this volition dramatically widen your artillery life
• Carry a powerfulness bank: I suggest thing tiny similar the Anker 622 Magnetic Battery which uses MagSafe truthful you don't request to transportation a abstracted charging cable. See our reappraisal here.