iPhone Battery Draining Fast? You Might Need to Undo These 3 Settings
It’s not just your imagination: your iPhone’s battery does not last as long as before. Indeed, the battery of each phone is gradually losing its ability to maintain a load. But even if your iPhone has a few years, you shouldn’t have to keep it in low power mode all day. By making some small changes, you can give your battery a big boost.
Whether you use your phone to get routes, broadcast music or send this last text, the last thing you want is that it stops at the worst time. Instead of rushing for a charger or activating the low power mode every few hours, take a minute to check the settings of your iPhone. The deactivation of a few reception features can be the correction that your battery needs desperately – and it only takes a few seconds to do.
You can also keep an eye on the health menu of your battery – it will tell you that your battery health percentage (80% or more is considered good), as you show how many times you have bicycle in your battery and if your battery is “normal”.
We will explain three iOS features that put pressure on the battery of your iPhone to various degrees, and show how you can deactivate them to help preserve the battery life. Here’s what you need to know.
Turn off the widgets on the lock screen of your iPhone
All widgets on your lock screen force your applications to execute automatically in the background, constantly recovering data to update the information that widgets display, such as sports scores or weather. Since these applications are constantly operating in the background due to your widgets, this means that they continuously shed power.
If you want to help preserve a battery on iOS 18, the best thing to do is just avoid widgets on your locking screen (and home screen). The easiest way to do so is to switch to another locking screen profile: press your finger on your existing lock screen, then slide to choose one that has no widgets.
If you just want to delete widgets from your existing lock screen, press your lock screen, press PersonalizeChoose it Locking screen The option, press the widget box, then press “–“” button on each widget to remove them.
If you are already low on the battery, it is best to simply switch to a wallpaper that does not have locking screen widgets.
Reduce the movement of your iPhone UI
Your iPhone user interface has fun and elegant animations. There is the fluid movement of the opening and closing applications, and the bursting of the color that appears when you activate Siri with Apple Intelligence, to name a couple. These visual tips help bring the metal and glass slab in your hand. Unfortunately, they can also reduce your phone’s battery life.
If you want more subtle animations on iOS, you can activate the reduction movement setting. To do that, go to Parameters > Accessibility > Movement and switch to Reduce movement.
Visual tips like the parallax effect are fun, but they can affect the life of your battery.
Turn off your iPhone keyboard vibrations
Surprisingly, the keyboard on the iPhone never had the possibility of vibrating when you type, an addition called “haptic feedback” which was added to iOS 16. Instead of simply hearing click sounds, haptic feedback gives each key a vibration, offering a more immersive experience when you type. According to Apple, the same characteristic can also affect the battery life.
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Depending on this Apple support page on the keyboard, haptic comments “can affect the battery life of your iPhone”. No specificity is given as to the battery life that the keyboard functionality drains, but if you want to keep the battery, it is best to keep this functionality deactivated.
Fortunately, it is not activated by default. If you have activated it yourself, go to Parameters > Sounds and haptics > Keyboard feedback and switch Haptic To deactivate haptic comments for your keyboard.
Whenever you type, you will feel a slight vibration for each key you touch.
For more advice on iOS, read how to access your control center more easily and why you may want to load your 95%iPhone.
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