iPhone Battery Drains Too Quickly
The Problem: Your iPhone runs out of battery too quickly.
The Fix: The obvious though not particularly satisfying, fix is to reduce how much you use your phone. However, there are some tricks to help you eke out a bit more time from your phone:
- Check the Battery Health: This is a new feature introduced in iOS 11. Head to Settings > Battery > Battery Health (Beta). It tells you how far your battery has degraded over time, and whether you need to change it. This is not Apple ‘planned obsolescence’, either. It’s an issue inherent to all lithium ion batteries.
- Turn Bluetooth off: You need to head into the settings menu to do this, turning it off via the control centre doesn’t actually turn off Bluetooth.
- Turn down screen brightness
- Turn on lower power mode
- Decrease the auto screen lock time
- Turn off background app refresh: Head to Settings > General > Background app refresh.