20 Tips To Extend The Life Of Your iPhone Battery Life

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Few things are as frustrating (or terrifying) as seeing that bright red notification telling you your iPhone battery life is at 20 percent. You have people to call, texts to send, statuses to update, and a new level to beat on Candy Crush and your charger is nowhere near you! Whatever are you to do when this occurs? While many people think that the life on their iPhone battery is short-lived, it’s actually just overused. Read on to find out 20 ways you can extend your iPhone’s battery life.

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Put it Down

Seriously, put it down. Stop using it and do something productive, like work or exercise. Stop using it for everything you do, such as taking photos of yourself at stop lights or on the treadmill. If you have time to take selfies at the gym, you’re probably wasting your money seeing as how you aren’t working out very hard.

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Use Auto-Brightness

Your battery will last longer if you go into your settings and turn on the auto-brightness feature. With this on, your iPhone uses less power to light your screen in the dark. You can extend battery life for quite a while with this simple fix.

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Turn Down Brightness

Your phone doesn’t need to be the brightest phone on the block. You can see it just fine if the screen brightness is set at the halfway point rather than the full power point. Adjust this setting and extend your battery life significantly.

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Turn off Stop Motion

If you’ve updated to the iOS7 you know that moving your phone allows you to see your icons move slightly. It’s fun to watch and amazingly distracting for some people. However, it’s a killer on your battery life.

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Turn off Animated Backgrounds

Sure, it’s fun to watch your background move behind your icons, but what does it really do for you? Honestly; it just drains your iPhone battery. Go into your settings and turn this feature off if you want to be able to use your phone for important things such as emergencies.

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Turn Off Bluetooth

Unless you are in your vehicle, turn off the Bluetooth feature in your settings. Being on all the time allows your phone to accept incoming data at all times, which can drain the life.

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Turn off 3G and 4G

These networks take a significant amount of power to transmit faster data to your iPhone, which translates into more battery life. Your battery will last longer when you turn this off, though it will take longer to download information onto your phone.

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No Wi-Fi

Unless you’re actively using your Wi-Fi for something at the moment, turn it off. It uses entirely too much battery life when it’s on and not being used. If you’re not in a hotspot zone, turn it off to increase your phone’s battery.

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Turn off Locations

Your phone has a built in GPS system which can track you down anywhere. It’ll help you with your maps, directions and even the ability to find restaurants and shops nearby. However, when you’re at home and not using it, it just wastes your battery life.

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Manually Update Your Apps

There is a feature on your phone that allows you to update your apps automatically, but it’s killer on your battery life. It takes far less battery power to update them automatically when your phone notifies you of their need for upgrading.

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Skip the Movies

Watching television and movies on your phone is a surefire way to quickly drain your battery life. These movies require a significant amount of power because they are battery-intensive. By avoiding watching videos online and downloading them to your phone, you can make your battery last hours longer.

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Stay Offline

Using the internet on your phone is one of the best features of the iPhone, but it’s also one of the worst for your battery. To avoid charging your phone multiple times each day, stay off the internet as a way of wasting time or perusing the news each morning over coffee.

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Fetch Email Infrequently

If you go into your settings and your mail information, you have the power to change your mail settings so that your phone does not automatically fetch your email for you. This means your phone will never show you that you have a new email unless you manually check it yourself. It saves significant battery life and helps you to keep the red icon away.

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Auto-Lock

If you don’t use the auto-lock feature on your iPhone, you should. By setting it to turn off as soon as possible, you can preserve battery life significantly longer. It takes a great deal of battery to keep your phone lit and on the main screen. By setting auto-lock to go off quickly, you will save battery power.

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Don’t Download Intensive Apps

If you have a Pinterest app on your phone and you have thousands of pins, guess what? You’re going to quickly drain your battery. Apps like these require a ton of power to save your features and settings. Save it for your home computer or laptop – or even your iPad.

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Use Airplane Mode

Your normal mode always uses power to connect to local connections. If you’re somewhere you aren’t expecting to receive or make calls (or you simply don’t want to talk to anyone) switch your phone to Airplane Mode. It won’t allow you to make or receive calls, but it will allow you to use your phone without using battery life to connect to local connections.

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Shut Off Apps

When you are not using your Facebook and Twitter apps, turn them off. Left open, they automatically use power from your battery. To turn them off when you’re finished with them, simply double-click on the home button and swipe upward on each app to close them out. This only works on iPhones with the iOS7 upgrade.

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Check the Temp

According to Apple, iPhone batteries prefer nicer weather. Seriously, I’m not making this up. By keeping your phone between 32 and 95 degrees, you can actually prolong the battery life. This means finding a cool, shady place to keep your phone when you’re on the boat or at the beach, and a warm place to keep it when you’re out skiing and hitting the slopes.

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Update Your iPhone

Older software tends to use more battery life than newer software. This means it’s time to update your iPhone to the latest software version, and continue to do so each time an update is available for your phone.

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Disable Maps

If you’re home most of the time driving along roads you’re familiar with, you don’t need your maps. Turn this feature off anytime you’re not traveling to save battery life. You can easily turn it back on in your settings when you need to figure out where to go, but don’t waste battery life at home.

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