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9 Battery Saving Hacks and Tips For 100% iPhone Battery Health

Though iPhone is a tech marvel, battery life has always been one of the concerns, even after the latest iOS update.

Fortunately, you can extend the battery lifespan and maintain battery health properly for an extended period of time using some simple tricks.

We have used these tips and tricks for over a year duration and it has really helped our phones to have 100% battery health. These tips have also provided extra 2 – 3 hours of extra battery backup.

If you are looking for the same with your latest iPhone, then this article is for you.

Here, we have provided detail description of 9 secret battery tips that have helped us reach the goal. Read the information thoroughly and try them on your iPhone as well.

#1 Battery Tip – Charging Time

Most of you have already been aware of the optimized charging feature in your phone. However, maximum people do not know how to use it properly.

Let us show you how I we have used this feature to maintain proper battery health.

We used to keep the iPhone charging for almost same time every day and within just few days my phone understood what exactly is my charging pattern.

And using this information, instead of charging quickly in just 2 hours of time span – now it has been taking 4 to 6 hours of slow charging overnight.

Now instead of taking 2 hours, it takes almost 4 to 6 hours to charge the iPhone at night and because of that my phone battery has also maintained quite well. And the phone will also notify the optimized battery charging and even you can take the benefit of this by charging your phone almost same time every day

#2 Battery Tip – Wireless Charging

Wireless chargers and wireless charging have become quite popular these days and it’s also quite convenient to use for us.

However, do you know if you use wireless charging every day, it can harm you iPhone’s battery. Because wireless chargers utilize almost 30% to 40% more power to charge your phones.

Due to this, it generates much higher heat compared to a wired charger. This can cause a great deal of harm to the battery, especially if you are using this option for almost every day for longer duration of time.

It is true that, wireless charging can be quite a convenient feature. But if you want to avoid any repercussions, we recommend using it only once in a while instead of utilizing it as daily usage.

#3 Battery Tip– Tracking Apps

Do you know that you can actually check out which all Apps are tracking your daily activities like what all do you browse, what apps do you use more often and even the location you are present.

This data is utilized for target marketing and even use it for many other things. This thing consumes a lot of battery in the background.

Fortunately, you can disable the it as well. For this, you just have to follow the below-mentioned process.

  • Go the settings and click on the privacy.
  • Now, click on the tracking where you can see all the Apps tracking your activity.
  • You can disable the unwanted Apps or you can turn it off completely as well.

#4 Battery Tip – Modes

Mostly our iPhones stay in light mode during day time and turns into dark mode at night time.

Here, we would like to mention that iPhone consumes 20% to 30% of less battery in dark mode. While using your iPhone, if you are comfortable with both the modes, we would recommend that you completely switch your iPhone to dark mode.

And with this change, you will not only get one to two hours of extra battery life throughout the day. Even you will stay safe if you use the dark mode, especially if you are on the phone for longer duration.

#5 Battery Tip – Wi-Fi Connectivity

This tip is recommended by Apple itself – that you have to use the phone on Wi-Fi as much as possible. Because when compared to the mobile data, Wi-Fi consumes much less power.

So, if Wi-Fi is available regularly in your home or office, then you can keep your Wi-Fi mode continuously on. And because of this, whenever you go to a Wi-Fi range, your phone will automatically switch to Wi-Fi mode and your phone will use your battery quite efficiently.

And do you know how much data you can save using this option – you can actually watch complete Netflix series on the mobile data.

#6 Battery Tip – Heat During Charging

Most of the iPhone users may have noticed that the mobile gets slightly heated up while charging. And this happens because whenever you keep the iPhone charging when completely zero percent, it tries to get charged at a very fast speed which generates a lot of heat.

Here, we would like to provide a simple trick you should on charging before it reaches 20% to 30% of charging. With this your phone will get heat up quite less and even your phone’s battery will stay quite well.

#7 Battery Tip – Location Access

Well, we all know Apps like Zomato, Swiggy or Uber, uses our location to reach us quite easily but there are a lot of other apps which actually do not require our location information but they still end up using our location in the background.

And because of this, our battery keeps draining in the background throughout the day. You also must have noticed this location icon on the top of your screen.

You can disable this location access individually App wise as well. For this, you can follow the below process.

  • Go to the settings and in privacy, you need to click on location services.
  • Here you can check which Apps that doesn’t require your location access.
  • Next you can disable the access for unnecessary Apps.
  • For some Apps, you can also change the settings to ‘while using the App’ option.

Because of these changes, the battery will not get overused continuously.

#8 Battery Tip – Heat

In this tip, we are going to discuss about the biggest enemy of any mobile phone including iPhones – that is ‘heat’.

In the Apple website, it is clearly stated that you have to keep your phone’s temperature under 30 degrees Celsius.

So, we would like to suggest you that never keep your phone directly under the sunlight or slightly at hotter environments. For instance, on top of the car dashboard or in your kitchen. Because this can cause permanent damage to your phone’s battery.

#9 Battery Tip – Chargers

We would also like to mention that whenever you use a third-party charger, your phone gets heated up slightly more as compared to an original Apple charger.

So, your Apple charger will not only charge your phone quite fast, it will generate much lesser heat as compared to any other charger.

And we have even tested this real time by charging the iPhones by Apple charger and the top third-party chargers.

Conclusion

Purchasing iPhone is relatively an expensive investment. Though they have innovative features to make our life simpler, battery health and charging duration are a common issue.

But fortunately, there are certain tips and tricks you can follow to reduce this issue and extend battery lifetime compared to general usage.

We have mentioned all these tips and hacks in this article for your reference. We hope they have helped you reach your goal. If you know any other tricks that are not mentioned here, write to us in the comment section below.

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