iPhone Battery Life: 4 Quick Tips

“Siri, what in the world is wrong with my iPhone’s battery life?” This is what I found myself asking my “personalassistant” after a couple of days with fighting with my new iPhone 4S battery. She didn’t answer of course, but if she could, I can think of 4 easy things she would have told me to try. I’m here to pass those along to you.

1. Do not use location based reminders: While this feature can sometimes be proven very useful, it can seriously drain your battery, since your iPhone constantly monitors your location to activate your reminders. This is a feature that can be done without, and should be until a permanent fix is found to repair the battery lifeissue.

2. Turn off location services: Turn off all of the location services you aren’t using. You can do this by going to General Settings -> Location Services. Also go into your system services and disable “Location-based iAds” and “Setting TIme Zone.”

3. Reset network settings: This will not delete any data on your phone at all. You will be asked to reenter Wi-Fi passwords after completing. General > Reset > Reset Network Settings

4. Disable Siri’s Raise to Speak Feature: This is a feature that monitors your phones light sensor to activate Siri when you raise the phone to your ear. In my opinion, utilizing the home button by holding it down is a fine way to activate your new “personal assistant.” This one is easy; go to Settings > General > Siri > Turn off raise to speak.

These swift tricks should greatly enhance your battery life. Keep in mind that Apple is investigating a fix on this battery issue, and it shouldn’t be long until you can go back to utilizing these couple of features to their full abilities very soon.

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