It feels like one of life’s biggest mysteries – how do you actually optimise your iPhone’s battery life?
You get a brand new Apple phone, and within a year, the likelihood is that you’ve noticed a depletion in how long the battery lasts and you’re walking around constantly with a portable charger.
But, according to one expert, this can be avoided if you charge your iPhone.
It may feel natural to charge your phone to 100% and let it almost completely run out, then charge it back to 100% overnight. But Tyler Morgan, who posts on TikTok as @hitomidocameraroll, shared that’s not the case at all, and there’s something else you should be doing.
“Basically, don’t charge it above 80%”, he said, sharing one of his top tips.
The expert also said to people that people shouldn’t ‘let their phones drop below 20%’, sayunng you need to keep it somewhere between 20% and 80% consistently.
He admitted that it’s “hard to do”, but said: “If you hit 20% put it on low power mode.” Tyler also shared another tip, because he said he gets asked about phone batteries every single day.
If you have an iPhone, he recommended that you go into your settings, go to general, and hit background app refresh. He said: “If I were you I would either set that to Wi-Fi only, or better yet, turn it off completely” to stop “all these apps consistently refreshing”, which will deplete your battery.
Tyler claimed that swiping your apps away doesn’t do anything, because when they’re sitting on your screen unused they’re “basically frozen” and are “not using any power”.
He said you actually “use more power if you close it and then go back into it”, saying it makes more sense to keep all your apps open.
Also, he said enabling dark mode on your phone helps you to “save a little bit of power”.
Tyler admitted the background app refresh was the most “useful” of all the tips, and could help preserve your power – but it’s also important to try and keep your battery between 20% and 80%.
People agreed they had a problem with their phone batteries, as one person wrote in the comments: “In a year my brand new iPhone 13 dropped from 100% to 87% [battery health].” You can check this by going to settings, battery, then battery health and charging where it will give you a percentage.
“My iPhone 11 is at 72% is that good?”, someone else asked, with another admitted theirs was at 47%.
Meanwhile, another TikToker boasted they’d had their iPhone 15 for six months and they were still on 100%.
