Want Your iPhone Battery To Last Longer? Turn Off These 3 Settings, Apple Experts Say

Location Services

Some apps need you to have Location Services turned on to do their jobs properly. Weather apps? Yes. Navigation apps? Absolutely. Social media apps? No, probably not — and having this service turned on not only depletes your battery power quicker, but it could also put your privacy more at risk.

Head to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services. Here’s the thing: You may not want to disable this setting completely because, as we mentioned, it is helpful if you use certain apps that require it. But you should adjust your settings so that only the apps that need it have access to it — and only when you’re using them.

Display Brightness

How bright is your screen right now? And honestly, can you live with an iPhone screen that’s a bit dimmer, for the sake of a longer-lasting battery?

That’s the trade-off, unfortunately. The brighter you keep your screen, the more taxing it is on your battery — there’s no way around this one. You can turn on Automatic Brightness to allow your phone to adjust your screen’s brightness depending on how light or dark it is in the room — that’s one way to help minimize this problem. Or you can manually toggle your brightness so that it’s lower by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > and then drag the slider down as much as possible.

Changing or disabling this three settings will help boost your battery and make it last longer — and you won’t even realize anything has changed.