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What’s not to love about Instagram? Whether you’re in the mood to check out celeb profiles, follow fashion bloggers for style ideas, get fitness tips from trainers, or just check in on what your friends are up to (or what their brunch plates look like) Instagram is the place for connecting over captivating images.
As far as social media sites go, it’s a favorite among so many people. But it’s also a notorious consumer of data and a battery drainer. Luckily, there’s a solution for that.
This is the one Instagram setting you should change right now because it’s slowly destroying your iPhone’s battery.
Every single time you use Instagram to snap a photo of your surroundings, your lunch, or your flawless eye makeup, the app responds by doing what it considers a helpful task: it saves those photos and sends them straight over to your camera roll.
Of course, there are probably only so many photos of pretty pancakes that you need saved on your phone. And all of those photos consume precious data and can slow down your device.
Inevitably, as you continue to save hundreds of unnecessary images on your phone, you could find that most-annoying-of-all popup appear at some point alerting you to the fact that you are running out of storage data. Changing just one setting on Instagram can help.
As is always the case, other ways to ensure your phone’s battery is as fit as possible include lowering the brightness on your screen and turning off notifications so that the app isn’t constantly working hard to provide you with updates you probably don’t even need.
According to Wired: “No matter your follower count, you should tweak the notification settings in your app to tone everything down a little. There are a number of options accessible via the profile icon, then Options, then Push Notification settings. Pick whatever works for you, but here's what I recommend: Get notified for likes either only from people you follow, or turn it off altogether and enjoy the surprise every time you open the app. Set comments to "From People I Follow," and avoid creepers sliding into your lock screen.”
