This Bluetooth Mistake Is Zapping Your iPhone’s Battery, According To Experts

Few wireless features are as convenient and important in your life as Bluetooth, which allows you to share and access data between devices. Bluetooth is the very reason why you can go for a run while listening to your favorite music without getting tangled up in wires — and that’s just one of its myriad perks. But the fact remains: you may notice your phone’s battery dwindles so much faster when you’re using Bluetooth. If the cost of using the feature is a dead phone, is it even worth it? 

The answer is yes — because there are certain Bluetooth mistakes that can be avoided in order to maintain a strong and efficient iPhone battery that holds it charge. This Bluetooth mistake is zapping your iPhone’s battery, according to experts — but the moment you remedy the problem you may just notice your phone running as good as new. 

In order to use Bluetooth you have to actively select it. But many iPhone users forget to turn it off once they’re finished using it, which is a mistake that can cost you in battery power, says Tech Expert and CEO Steve Anderson.

“The one mistake people make that can zap an iPhone battery very fast is leaving it on at all times; it is setting it to always be scanning for new devices automatically,” Anderson says. “Having Bluetooth on in the background isn’t like having an application running — instead, leaving Bluetooth on is like your phone is permanently connected to a Wi-Fi network which has little or no effect on the battery, but the mistake here is setting it to automatically scan for new devices around.”

Leaving the Bluetooth setting to always scan around us for new devices zaps a lot of battery, Anderson notes. In fact, it takes up as much battery as when you’re actively using the Bluetooth connection, such as when you’re streaming audio to a Bluetooth speaker or a headphone, because it is actively scanning, searching for available devices around us.

“The best way to fix this is to switch the Bluetooth off when it isn’t in use, but then, if you prefer for it to be on, go to the Bluetooth setting and switch off the ‘scan for available devices’ option,” Anderson says.