Your iPhone Not just for text messages and phone calls. From checking email to navigating on the go, you use it constantly throughout the day. It can be frustrating if your iPhone battery dies before you get home from work. Bye phone batteries degrade over time, there is a better option than relying on low power mode to guide you through the day.
There are a few key settings on your iPhone that are notorious for draining your battery in the background. The good news is that you can turn them off. Instead of watching your battery percentage plummet at the worst possible time, you can make a few simple tweaks that will give you extra hours of life.
Before you even think about buying a new phone, check your Battery status menu (anything above 80% is acceptable) and then turn off those three power-hungry settings. It's the easiest way to extend your iPhone's battery life, starting now.
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Disable Widgets on iPhone Lock Screen
All lock screen widgets cause your apps to automatically run in the background, constantly receiving data to update the information the widgets display, such as sports scores or weather. Since these apps are constantly running in the background due to your widgets, this means they are constantly consuming power.
If you want to save battery on iOS 18, your best bet is to simply avoid widgets on your lock screen (and home screen). The easiest way to do this is to switch to a different lock screen profile: tap your finger on your existing lock screen, then swipe across the screen to select one that doesn't have widgets.
If you want to simply remove widgets from your existing lock screen, tap on the lock screen and tap Tuneselect Lock screen option, click on the widget field and then click “—“ button on each widget to remove them.
If your battery is already low, it's best to simply switch to wallpapers that don't have lock screen widgets.
Reduce your iPhone's UI movement
Your iPhone's user interface has fun and elegant animations. There's the fluid motion of opening and closing apps, and the splash of color that appears when you activate Siri with Apple Intelligence, to name a few. These visual tricks will help bring the piece of metal and glass in your hand to life. Unfortunately, they can also reduce your phone's battery life.
If you want more subtle animations in iOS, you can turn on the Reduce Motion setting. To do this, go to Settings > Availability > Movement and turn on Reduce movement.
Visual tricks like the parallax effect are fun, but they can impact battery life.
Turn off your iPhone's keyboard vibration
Surprisingly, the iPhone keyboard has never had the ability to vibrate when typing. This addition, called haptic feedback, was added to iPhones with iOS 16. Instead of just hearing “click” sounds, haptic feedback creates a vibration for each key, providing a more immersive typing experience. According to Apple, this same feature could affect battery life.
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According to this Apple Support Page As for the keyboard, haptic feedback “may affect your iPhone's battery life.” No details are given regarding how much battery life the keyboard feature consumes, but if you want to save battery, it's best to disable the feature.
Fortunately, it is not enabled by default. If you enabled it yourself, go to Settings > Sounds and tactile sensations > Keyboard Feedback and turn off Tactile to disable haptic feedback for the keyboard.
Every time you type, you will feel a slight vibration every time you press a key.
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