How long a grace period does your phone give you in between necessary charging sessions? If you feel like the time is shrinking and that your phone pretty much lives on a charger all day long because it loses battery so fast, it’s time to do something about it. Having a good, hard look at some of the settings that you have enabled will help.
According to experts at Payette Forward, there are settings that could be responsible for all of that recent battery drainage you’ve been experiencing. By simply disabling these settings, or changing the way you use them, you can save a ton of battery and possibly speed up your phone and make it more functional, to boot. Start by changing these two settings on your iPhone for significant battery gains.
1. Brightness
There is a direct correlation between how bright your phone shines and how much battery drainage you experience. The equation couldn’t be simpler: lower your brightness to a level that is still comfortable, but not as bright as the sun, and you’ll save battery power. It’s a fool-proof way of gaining back power.
Automatic Brightness is a smart setting that will adjust your phone’s lighting to suit your situation. Based on the ambient light conditions in your current setting, your phone will become brighter or dimmer without your interference. To turn on automatic brightness, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Auto-Brightness.
2. Location Settings
Be careful with the Location Services setting. Some apps, like those with navigation and weather apps, require it to do their jobs correctly. But several more apps would love permission to access your location, even if it won’t enhance your experience using them, so that they can sell this valuable data to third-party advertisers. You can turn off Location Services completely, or change the settings so that only certain apps can see you location, and only when you’re using them.
Head over to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services. Toggle it off or scroll down to decide how individual apps get to view and use your location.
