Battery Saving Tips for the iPhone 6S
The iPhone 6S has an alleged battery life time of 8 hours and 15 minutes for the “average” user. Many iPhone owners will tell you that their phone doesn’t last that long, whether it’s a battery or a cracked screen, we can all agree that it’s annoying having your phone die before you get home from work for the day or breaks and is need of repair. Fortunately, there are ways to greatly extend the battery life of your iPhone 6S. According to an article in the Hamilton Spectator, Apple has stated that closing apps to save your iPhone battery is a myth, but there are several legitimate ways to make your phone last longer. This includes:sing
Setting your phone to Low Power Mode
– this will automatically complete many of the tasks below
- Disabling background refresh
- – this is so your apps don’t automatically refresh all the time, as it’s really not necessary because you can just refresh an app when you want to use it
- Turning off location services – you can turn off locations services altogether, but since there are likely many apps (like
Google Maps) that you’ll want this on for, you can turn it offfor individual apps
- Turn off push notifications – another feature that isn’t reallynecessary, because if you want to see if there is an updateto an app, just open the app
- Choose still wallpaper instead of active wallpaper – activewallpaper looks cool, but is it really worth draining yourbattery
- Enable reduce motion – it’s unlikely you will even notice adifference
- Set fetch new data for email to manual – turn this on unlessyou need to see every email that comes in immediately
- Turn off Siri – if you don’t use it regularly, turn it off
- Set auto-lock to happen more often – the phone uses lessbattery when locked, so if you are not using it, it should be lockedHere’s a video that walks you through the ways to reduce battery draining on your iPhone 6S:
Ideally, we’d all be able to use our iPhones at full capacity all day without having to worry about the battery, but we’re not there yet. Here’s hoping the iPhone 7 takes a significant step in that direction.