Your iPhone is a costly device that provides a major convenience in your life, but it isn’t perfect. Even the most expensive, shiny new iPhone models will have their hiccups — and one major one is that certain settings and apps can drive its battery power down to the ground. You may have charged your phone for hours, but there are apps that can send you searching for your phone charger just a few hours into the day. The solution is to figure out which apps are causing the most battery stress and deciding if you can and should delete them or change their settings so that they are less taxing on your battery.
As far as pre-installed apps are concerned, these two app types can take hours off of your iPhone’s battery life, according to experts.
Apps That Use Your Location
Any app that relies on your location to more effectively do its job could also be costing you battery power and opening you up to additional privacy concerns you hadn’t considered. One example of a pre-installed app that uses location is the Weather app. You may not be eager to delete the Weather app because it’s pretty important and convenient for many of us, but you can change your location settings within the app so that it’s not constantly trying to pull up your location. Head to Settings and click on the Weather app. Here you can decide if you want the app to always access your location or only access it when you’re using the app (there are a few additional options from which to choose from, as well).
Unused Apps
The problem with many pre-installed apps is that you simply have no use for them. As a result, they’re sitting there, taking up space and battery power, and not giving anything back to you in return. But the same can be true if you have a pre-installed app, such as Apple Maps, that is perfectly capable of getting you from one place to another, yet you’ve downloaded a number of additional navigation apps, as well. You are setting your phone up for a situation where you’re asking its battery to work harder than needed. If you can unload any unused or redundant apps, including pre-installed apps, do so to help save your phone from battery depletion.
