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10 Best Ways to Actually Save Battery Life on iPhone
Mar 11, 2025
Article on Cult of Mac: https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/save-iphone-battery More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Produced by Extra Ordinary for Cult of Mac Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:17 Low power mode 0:46 Display brightness 1:21 Always-on display 1:50 Background app refresh 2:18 Do not disturb 2:45 Hey Siri 3:47 Speakers 4:20 Wi-Fi 4:49 Airplane mode 5:30 Quitting apps Follow us!
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it can be hard figuring out what advice
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will actually help save battery life on
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your phone and what amounts to Tech
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Superstition what settings can you
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easily change that'll have the biggest
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impact without ruining your phone here
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are my 10 best
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tips let's start with the most obvious
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one low power mode it's a single button
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you can press that turns all kinds of
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switches and settings in the background
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to optimize your phone for longevity you
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can use it as a preventative measure if
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you're having a big day out and you know
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you won't be able to charge it at all
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you can also use it when you're down to
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20% if you need an extra few hours
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before you can get back home you can add
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low power mode to control center you can
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also ask Siri to turn it on next up turn
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down display brightness the display is
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one of the biggest power drains on the
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battery if possible you should keep the
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display at the minimum brightness that's
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still legible the power consumption of
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an LED display like the one in your
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iPhone is roughly linear there's a
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certain Baseline of power consumption
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because your iPhone doesn't let you turn
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it all the way down to zero but doubling
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how bright the display looks will double
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the power consumption above the Baseline
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you can turn down your display
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brightness from control center or by
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asking Siri if you have an iPhone 14 15
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or 16 Pro turning off the always on
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display is a good way to save power you
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can find this in settings
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display and brightness always on display
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by unchecking well always on display
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Apple says this feature draws 1% of your
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battery per hour that may not sound like
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a lot but at the end of a long day that
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could add up to an extra 16% of your
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battery a feature called background app
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refresh lets an app periodically fetch
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new stuff in the background while it's
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not running so that there's new content
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to show you as soon as you open it and
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it makes apps appear like they're
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opening faster but you can turn it off
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in settings General background app
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refresh background app refresh off or
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you can selectively disable it I
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recommend at least trying to turn it off
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with social media apps and shopping apps
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this next recommendation is more of a
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hack on your behavior than your phone's
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behavior try turning on do not disturb
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open control center tap the focus button
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and tap do not disturb every time you
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see your phone light up whether you act
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on a notification or not has the
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potential to draw you in if you're
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interrupted less you'll be drawn into
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your phone less and using your phone
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less will drain its battery less if you
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have series active listening mode
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enabled which it is by default when you
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set up your phone it's always waiting
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for you to
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say or even
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just this takes a small amount of
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battery power but if you really want to
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maximize your gains you should turn this
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feature off it also has the secondary
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benefit of preventing Siri from randomly
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going off all the goddamn time go to
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settings Apple intelligence and Siri
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talk and type to Siri and tap off on an
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older iPhone you can find the same
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setting in settings Siri listen for off
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if you still do want to activate Siri
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you can do so by holding the side button
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personally though I haven't disabled it
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I'm a fan of
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using my Pro tip is actually that you
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don't have to say the trigger phrase and
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then wait for your phone to respond if
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you say it and then carry on talking in
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one continuous sentence it can actually
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make Siri feel faster and more
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responsive next up don't use the
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iPhone's built-in speakers newer iPhones
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have surprisingly good sounding stereo
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speakers but bumping the music comes at
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a big cost connecting airpods Bluetooth
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headphones
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or plugging in a wired speaker will
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significantly reduce the battery drain
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and sound a lot better too now you don't
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have to worry about this if you're not
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actively listening to music videos or
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podcasts the occasional ding sound
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effect when you get a notification won't
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have much of an impact also stay on
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Wi-Fi as much as possible if you live in
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a city with good cell coverage and you
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have an unlimited plan then you may be
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able to live your life Carefree enjoying
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your Perpetual connection to the
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internet but that comes at a cost
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connecting to Wi-Fi when you're at a
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friend's house or a coffee shop will
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significantly reduce the battery drain
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Wi-Fi takes much less energy than 4G LTE
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and especially 5G as a lastage effort to
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save as much power as possible you can
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enable airplane mode from control center
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tap the airplane mode toggle and it'll
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turn off everything except for Bluetooth
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if you tap the Bluetooth icon that'll be
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turned off as well and it'll remember
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that you want airplane mode to disable
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Bluetooth the next time you use it
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obviously though this is an extreme
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solution when you're in airplane mode
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you can't be called or contacted and if
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your phone is lost or stolen you won't
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be able to track it with find my so this
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is the most extreme thing you can do
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short of turning your phone off finally
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let's do a little myth bust
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a large number of people force quit
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their apps when they're not in use some
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people do it reflexively every time they
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use their phone if you do this you are
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wrong Force quitting your apps is worse
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for your battery life when you force
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quit an app your iPhone has to do extra
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work to end all the running processes
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and clear it from memory then when you
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open the app again your phone has to
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load it from scratch which slows it down
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if an app isn't active ly on screen
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there's very little that it's even
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allowed to do it can do things like play
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music run a live activity talk to
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Bluetooth devices run a shortcut update
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data in a widget if an app is in the
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background there's very little it can do
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without you knowing about it or
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specifically asking for it so when you
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clear out your list of running apps
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you're not helping your battery it's
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like unscrewing the light bulb every
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time you're done using it instead of
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just flicking the switch so that is my
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list of tips on how to get the best
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iPhone battery life remember to like And
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