Apple reveals three iPhone settings tweaks that will double your battery life
Many iPhone owners are familiar with the fear of seeing the “Low Battery” message appear on the screen.
But Apple has shared three settings that users can adjust to double their smartphone’s battery life.
These settings include auto-brightness, Auto-Lock, and adjusting access to your location.
The features are set at a default level, but can be easily changed with a simple switch.
Automatic brightness
Auto brightness is a feature on electronic devices that adjusts the brightness of the screen based on the ambient lighting.
It uses built-in light sensors to detect ambient light levels, improving readability, reducing eye strain and extending your device’s battery life if the correct setting is used.
To find automatic brightness, open Settings and tap Accessibility. Once in View and Accessibility, select View and Text Size.
Then scroll down to auto brightness and disable the option. As a result, the device does not automatically adapt to the environment.
Apple has shared three settings that users can adjust to double their smartphone’s battery life. These settings include auto-brightness, Auto-Lock, and adjusting access to your location
Enabling Night Shift from this menu will also help extend battery life.
This feature works similarly to auto-brightness by using an iPhone’s time and geolocation to determine when it is sunset in your location, lowering the brightness to appropriately adjust for the light around you .
Automatic locking
This feature automatically turns off and locks the device after a certain period of inactivity, which is designed to extend battery life.
Apple says users should enable this feature.
To find it, go to Settings and then select Display & Brightness. Then scroll down to find Auto Lock and shorten time to extend your iPhone’s battery life.
The tech giant also advised users to disable the Always-On feature uses a dimmed screen to stay awake and show notifications even when the device is locked.
Although the Always-On feature is intentionally designed to have a marginal impact on battery drain, disabling the feature can still help save your iPhone’s battery.
Auto brightness is a feature on electronic devices that adjusts the brightness of the screen based on the ambient lighting. Placing it at the right level will increase battery power
The setting is enabled by default, but can be found in the same steps as locating Auto-Lock.
Location services
Apple’s latest suggestion is a little less obvious than the previous two and may require more effort, but it could be the ultimate hack to extend your iPhone’s battery life: Location Services.
When users download a new app to their iPhone, a small gray box will appear with a series of options related to allowing the app to collect location data.
The warning will appear quickly, allowing users to allow or block the third-party app from tracking their location.
Disabling Location Services for apps will significantly reduce battery life because using GPS to continuously track a user’s location consumes a significant amount of power.
To disable the ‘Users’ setting again, go to Settings and select Privacy & Security.
Select the app in question and open Location Services. Here you will see apps that have access to your location.
Simply disable the location service to close each app or select the apps you don’t want tracking your every move.
In addition to these hacks, users may also want to keep an eye on the brightness settings. These can be easily accessed from the drop-down menu that appears when you pull down from the top right corner of your screen at any time.
Within this menu, users can also enable power saving mode, which will reduce battery consumption in no time. However, it may reduce the smoothness of use and reduce the quality of the screen.