These iOS 16 Features Are Ruining Your iPhone's Battery Life - CNET

Does it look similar your iPhone is ever dying? You mightiness not request to buy a caller one conscionable yet, but it's astir apt clip to marque immoderate changes. Maybe you request to charge it differently, with the due cables, oregon invest successful a decent powerfulness bank that lets you complaint your iPhone from anywhere, without depending connected a partition outlet. 

You could also turn connected Low Power Mode permanently or propulsion your iPhone into Airplane Mode to assistance sphere the small artillery you have.

However, not each battery-saving tips are obvious, and if you're moving iOS 16, determination are a fewer caller ways that tin assistance you support your iPhone's artillery live for longer.

In this story, we'll screen 2 caller features to iOS 16, some of which devour your iPhone's artillery successful varying degrees, and however you tin crook them disconnected to sphere artillery life. Here's what you request to know.

And if you privation immoderate much artillery savings tips and tricks, cheque retired how to halt inheritance apps from refreshing and how to regenerate your iPhone's artillery (cheaper than Apple).

Remove widgets from your fastener screen

All the widgets connected your fastener surface unit your apps to automatically tally successful the background, perpetually fetching information to update the accusation the widgets display, similar sport's scores oregon the weather. And due to the fact that these apps are perpetually moving successful the inheritance owed to your widgets, that means they continuously drain battery.

If you privation to assistance sphere immoderate artillery connected iOS 16, the champion happening to bash is simply debar widgets connected your fastener surface (and location screen). The easiest mode to bash this is to power to different fastener surface illustration -- property your digit down connected your existing fastener surface and past swipe astir to take 1 that doesn't person immoderate widgets.

However, if you privation to conscionable region the widgets from your existing fastener screen, property down connected your fastener screen, deed Customize, take the Lock Screen option, pat connected the widget container and past deed the "—" button connected each widget to region them.

If you're already debased connected battery, it's champion to conscionable power to a wallpaper that doesn't person fastener surface widgets.

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Keep haptic keyboard feedback turned off

Surprisingly, the keyboard connected the iPhone has ne'er had the quality to vibrate arsenic you type, an summation that was precocious made connected iOS 16, known arsenic haptic feedback. Instead of conscionable proceeding click-clack sounds, haptic feedback gives each cardinal a vibration, providing a much immersive acquisition arsenic you type. However, according to Apple, the precise aforesaid diagnostic whitethorn besides impact artillery life.

According to this Apple enactment page astir the keyboard, haptic feedback "might impact the artillery beingness of your iPhone." No specifics are fixed arsenic to however overmuch artillery beingness the keyboard diagnostic does drain, but if you privation to conserve battery, it's champion to support this diagnostic disabled.

Fortunately, it is not connected by default. If you've enabled it successful yourself, spell to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback and toggle off Haptic to crook disconnected haptic feedback for your keyboard.

Every azygous clip you type, you'll consciousness a flimsy vibration for each cardinal you hit.

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And though they haven't been released yet, Live Activities and the iCloud Shared Photo Library are 2 iOS 16 features that whitethorn besides drain your battery, truthful look retired for an update to this communicative connected however to disable them.