Top tips for how to make your iPhone battery last longer!

 
Now we will get practical from a consumer point: lets fix the problem of bad battery life on your iPhone (or even Samsung Galaxy). Getting your iPhone battery to last longer is actually quite easy and only requires a few simple steps and changes in your iOS 7.

The new iPhone 5S for example offers a mere 10 h talktime and internet. The problem in essence here is that your phone will not even last one day.

So lets start with the basics of battery saving:

• Update to the latest iOS. Usually this always includes optimizations in regards to battery life.
• Reduce brightness. Slightly reducing your brightness already helps a lot. Make sure you are at around 40% brightness on iOS 7 and have auto-brightness activated. 
• Use more Wifi instead of 3G/LTE.  Cellular takes a lot of energy and Wifi is much more friendly in that regard. Always join your local office network and possibly even turn data usage off while at the office. You do not need it if you have Wifi!
• Turn off Bluetooth if you do not need it. That's not just more secure, Bluetooth sucks your battery dry. 

 Now some more tips if your still craving for more battery life:

• Turn off a few iOS 7 features you do not need:
• Turn off Airdrop (unless you are sharing contacts daily)
• Do not use animated backgrounds
• Turn off Raise-iPhone-To-Talk for Siri
• Do not enable the auto-update feature. Especially if you are more on-the-go and never in a Wifi network.
• Limit push notifications. Do you really need Shazam and your favorite games to send you push notifications? No! Let Facebook, Whatsapp and mail apps keep pushing you notifications but the rest is just wasting your battery life.
• Do not keep heavy apps open all the time. If you have heavy apps like Skype, Spotify or Pandora installed, just close them if you do not use them. Especially apps which stream things or do VoIP, try to limit their usage and certainly avoid using them over 3G/LTE.
• Recalibrate your iPhone at least once a month. Use your iPhone and let it completely go dry. Then completely charge it in one go without interruptions. This will recalibrate the calculation for the battery life and hence become more accurate.

As a last resort: go into Airplane mode!

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