In fact, doing this too frequently will decrease lithium battery life.
LIthium ion batteries like Apple products use usually do not benefit from a “recalibration” by completely draining and full recharging the batteries. Settings -> General -> Usage Do I need to recalibrate my battery? You can check this through the following steps: If the amount of time recorded for your standby time is much lower than you expect, that means your phone is using energy when you do not expect it. At the end of the day your standby time should be much greater than your usage time. Heavy internet, GPS, or gaming use will crush the battery on any device, but with minimal usage, any apple devices should easily make it through a day on one charge. Start at the top, and if you don’t get the results you desire, work down the list.īy the way, if you are worried about your battery life, you will want to enable Show Battery Percentage so you can more accurately measure your battery levels. The most difficult and more limiting recommendations will be listed at the bottom. So I will list the least invasive and easiest methods for improving battery life first. Of course, the most efficient, but hardly palatable, way to improve battery life is not to use the device at all. However, every Apple device owner should understand the methods for tweaking his or her device for the longest battery storage. Many suspect iOS 6 has a few similar issues. iOS 5 had some obvious battery draining bugs that have subsequently been fixed. My neighbor swears that his new iPhone 5 (with LTE) has radically decreased battery life. When iOS 5 first was released, and now with iOS 6 being rolled out, we are hearing of issues with shorter battery life. By changing some simple settings on your Apple device, you should be able to improve your battery life and charge less frequently. Increasing available of LTE increases battery usage as well. The increasing popularity of location based apps and iCloud syncing are partly to blame for the increased consumption.
If you do, greatly reduce the amount of active website tabs your web browser.With each update of the operating system that powers Apple’s mobile devices, many users experience issues with decreased battery life. You should be able to use more than one finger to quit more than one app window simultaneously.Īlso, make sure you don’t have scads and scads of active website tabs running in the web browser. If you are, you need to quit the bulk of these background running apps by tap and hold a finger on an app window in the switcher and slide your finger upwards to quit an app. Make sure you aren't running scads and scads of background apps in the iOS 11 Control Panel/App Switcher. In Settings app, General settings panel, turn OFF Background App Refresh.Īlso, in general, if you want a faster IDevice, on all of my iDevices, I turn off most of the iOS motion graphics eye candy, by simply turning ON Reduce Motion in Settings app, General, Accessibilty settings. Make sure screen brightness is lowered to a brightness you can tolerate. I get between 10-12 hours of constant use and if I just leave my iPod just working behind the scenes with just my smart watch, I get between 16-20 of battery life on a charge.
I use a smartwatch connected to my iPod Touch 6 and Wifi and Bluetooth are always on. Again, I have the opposite battery performance with my 64 GBs iPod Touch 6th gen.