The Low Power Mode alert on your iPhone is always annoying, particularly if you’re not at home with a charger. In the worst situation, you won’t be able to get instructions to your house or contact an Uber if your phone’s battery dies.
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Fortunately, there are a few iOS settings you can change to assist keep your iPhone from dying when you need it most. Additionally, you may monitor your Battery Health menu, which will display your battery’s health percentage (80% or above is regarded as healthy), the number of cycles you’ve completed, and if your battery is “normal.”
We’ll demonstrate how to disable two iOS functions that each drain your iPhone’s battery to differing degrees in order to aid extend battery life. What you should know is as follows.
Check out how to replace your iPhone’s battery (which is less expensive than Apple) and how to prevent background applications from updating for other power-saving tips and techniques.
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Disable the widgets on the lock screen of your iPhone.
Your applications are forced to run automatically in the background by all of the widgets on your lock screen, continuously retrieving data to refresh the information the widgets show, such as the weather or sports scores. Your widgets force these programs to operate in the background all the time, which means they continually take up power.
Simply avoiding widgets on your lock screen (and home screen) is the easiest way to help save battery life on iOS 18. Changing to a different lock screen profile is the simplest method to do this: To choose a lock screen without any widgets, swipe around while holding down your finger on the one you now have.
Press down on your lock screen, choose Customize, select Lock Screen, touch the widget box, and then click the “—” button on each widget to delete them if you just want to remove the widgets from your current lock screen.
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It is advisable to just change to a wallpaper without lock screen widgets if your battery is already low.
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Turn off the vibration on your iPhone’s keypad.
Remarkably, the iPhone’s keyboard has never been able to vibrate as you write. This feature, known as “haptic feedback,” was introduced with iOS 16. Haptic feedback vibrates each key as you write, making the experience more engaging than just hearing click-clack noises. Apple claims that the same function may have an impact on battery life as well.
The keyboard’s haptic feedback “may affect the battery life of your iPhone,” according to this Apple support website. The keyboard feature’s energy consumption is not specified, so it’s advisable to leave it turned off if you want to save battery life.
Thankfully, it isn’t activated by default. To disable haptic feedback on your keyboard, go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback and toggle off Haptic, if you have enabled it yourself.
iOS 16’s haptic feedback keyboard setting
Each time you press a key, you will experience a little vibration.
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For further iOS advice, find out how to obtain the latest version of iOS 18 and how to automatically