I’m going to tell you exactly why your iPhone battery drains so quickly and exactly how to fix it. I’ll explain how you can get longer battery life out of your iPhone without sacrificing functionality. Take my word for it:
The vast majority of iPhone battery issues are software related.
We’ll cover a number of proven iPhone battery fixes that I learned from first-hand experience with hundreds of iPhones while I worked for Apple. Here’s one example:
Your iPhone tracks and records your location everywhere you go. That uses a lot of battery life.
A few years ago (and after a lot of people complained), Apple included a new section of Settings called Battery. It displays some useful information, but it won’t help you fix anything. I rewrote this article to improve iOS 16 battery life, and if you take these suggestions, I promise your battery life will improve, no matter which model iPhone you have.
I recently created a YouTube video to go along with the iPhone battery fixes I explain in this article. Whether you prefer to read or watch, you’ll find the same great information in the YouTube videos that you’ll read in this article.
Our first tip is a truly a sleeping giant and there’s a reason it’s #1: Fixing Push Mail can make a tremendous difference in the battery life of your iPhone.
The Real Reasons Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Battery Dies So Fast
1. Push Mail
When your mail is set to push, it means that your iPhone maintains a constant connection to your email server so that the server can instantly push the mail to your iPhone as soon as it arrives. Sounds good, right? Wrong.
An Apple lead genius explained it to me like this: When your iPhone is set to push, it’s constantly asking the server, “Is there mail? Is there mail? Is there mail?”, and this flow of data causes your battery to drain very quickly. Exchange servers are the absolute worst offenders, but everyone can benefit from changing this setting.
How To Fix Push Mail
To fix this problem, we’re going to change your iPhone from push to fetch. You’ll save a lot of battery life by telling your iPhone to check for new mail every 15 minutes instead of all the time. Your iPhone will always check for new mail whenever you open the Mail app.
- Go to Settings -> Mail -> Accounts.
- Tap Fetch New Data.
- Turn off Push at the top of the screen.
- Scroll to the bottom and choose Every 15 Minutes under Fetch.
- Tap on each individual email account and, if possible, change it to Fetch.
Most people agree that waiting a few minutes for an email to arrive is worth the significant improvement in your iPhone’s battery life.
As an aside, if you’ve been having problems syncing contacts or calendars between your iPhone, Mac, and other devices, check out my other article called Why Are Some Of My Contacts Missing From My iPhone, iPad, or iPod? Here’s The Real Fix!
2. Turn Off Unnecessary Location Services
Location Services are part of what makes the iPhone such a great device, so I’d like to be clear: I don’t recommend that you turn off Location Services entirely.
I’ll show you the hidden services that constantly drain your battery, and I’m willing to bet you’ve never even heard of most of them. I believe it’s important for you to choose which programs and services can access your location, especially given the significant battery drain and personal privacy issues that come with your iPhone, right out of the box.
How To Fix Location Services
- Go to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Services.
- Tap Share My Location. If you want to be able to share your location with your family and friends in the Messages app, then leave this on, but be careful: If someone wanted to track you, this is how they’d do it.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap System Services. Let’s clear up a common misconception right away: Most of these settings are all about sending data to Apple for marketing and research. When we turn them off, your iPhone will continue to function just as it always has.
- Turn off everything on the page except Emergency SOS, Find My iPhone (so you can locate it if it’s lost) and Motion Calibration & Distance (if you’d like to use your iPhone as a pedometer – otherwise, turn that off too). Your iPhone will work exactly as it had before. The compass will still work and you’ll connect to cell towers just fine — it’s just that Apple won’t be receiving data about your behavior.
- Tap Significant Locations. Did you know your iPhone has been tracking you everywhere you go? You can imagine the excess strain this puts on your battery. I recommend you turn off Significant Locations. Tap <System Services to return to the main System Services menu.
- Turn off all the switches under Product Improvement. These only send information to help Apple improve their products, not make your iPhone run more efficiently.
- Scroll to the bottom and turn on Status Bar Icon. That way, you’ll know your location is being used when a little arrow appears next to your battery. If that arrow is on all the time, there’s probably something wrong. Tap <Location Services to go back to the main Location Services menu.
- Turn off Location Services for apps that don’t need to know where you are.
What you need to know: If you see a purple arrow next to an app, it’s using your location now. A gray arrow means it’s used your location within the last 24 hours and a purple-outlined arrow means it’s using a geofence (more about geofences later).- Pay attention to any apps that have purple or gray arrows next to them. Do these apps need to know your location to work? If they do, that’s absolutely fine – leave them alone. If they don’t, tap on the name of the app and choose Never to stop the app from unnecessarily draining your battery.
What you need to know: If you see a purple arrow next to an app, it’s using your location now. A gray arrow means it’s used your location within the last 24 hours and a purple-outlined arrow means it’s using a geofence (more about geofences later).A Word About Geofencing
A geofence is a virtual perimeter around a location. Apps use geofencing to send you alerts when you arrive at or depart from a destination. It’s a good idea, but for geofencing to work, your iPhone has to constantly use GPS to ask, “Where am I? Where am I? Where am I?”
I don’t recommend using apps that use geofencing or location-based alerts because of the number of cases I’ve seen where people couldn’t make it through a full day without needing to charge their iPhone — and geofencing was the reason.
3. Don’t Send iPhone Analytics
Here’s a quick battery tip: Head to Settings -> Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and open Analytics & Improvements. Turn off the switch next to Share iPhone Analytics and Share iCloud Analytics to stop your iPhone from automatically sending data to Apple about how you use your iPhone.
4. Close Out Your Apps
Once every day or two, it’s a good idea to close out your apps. In a perfect world, you would never have to do this and most Apple employees will never say you should. But the world of iPhones is not perfect — if it were, you wouldn’t be reading this article.
Don’t Apps Close When I Go Back To The Home Screen?
No, they don’t. They’re supposed to go into a suspended mode and stay loaded in memory so that when you reopen them, you pick up right where you left off. We don’t live in iPhone Utopia: It’s a fact that apps have bugs.
A lot of battery drain issues occur when an app is supposed to close, but doesn’t. Instead, the app crashes in the background and your iPhone battery beings to drain without you even knowing it.
A crashing app can also cause your iPhone to get hot. If that’s happening to you, check out my article called Why Does My iPhone Get Hot? to find out why and fix it for good.
How To Close Out Your Apps
Double-click the Home Button (iPhones without Face ID) or swipe up from the bottom to the center of the screen (iPhones with Face ID) to open the iPhone app switcher. The app switcher allows you to see all the apps that are stored in the memory of your iPhone. To browse through the list, swipe left or right with your finger. I bet you’ll be surprised by how many apps are open!
To close an app, use your finger to swipe up on the app and push it off the top of the screen. Now you’ve really closed the app and it can’t drain your battery in the background. Closing out your apps never deletes data or causes any negative side-effects — it can only help you get better battery life.
How Do I Know If Apps Have Been Crashing On My iPhone? Everything Seems Fine!
If you’d like proof, go to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Analytics & Improvements -> Analytics Data. It’s not necessarily a bad thing if an app is listed here, but if you see a lot of entries for the same app or any apps listed under LatestCrash, you might have a problem with that app.
The App Closing Controversy
Recently, I’ve seen articles that say closing out your apps is actually harmful to iPhone battery life. My article called Is Closing iPhone Apps A Bad Idea? No, And Here’s Why. explains both sides of the story, and why closing out your apps really is a good idea when you look at the big picture.
5. Notifications: Only Use The Ones You Need
We’ve all seen the question before when we open an app for the first time: “App Would Like To Send You Push Notifications”, and we choose OK or Don’t Allow. Few people realize how important it is to be careful about which apps you say OK to.
When you allow an app to send you Push Notifications, you’re giving that app permission to keep running in the background so that if something happens that you care about (like receiving a text message or your favorite team winning a game), that app can send you an alert to let you know.
Notifications are good, but they do drain battery life. We need to be notified when we receive text messages, but it’s important for us to choose which other apps are allowed to send us notifications.
How To Fix Notifications
Go to Settings -> Notifications and you’ll see a list of all your apps. Underneath the name of each app, you’ll see either Off or the kind of notifications that app is allowed to send you: Badges, Sounds, or Banners. Ignore the apps that say Off and take a look through the list. As you go, ask yourself this question: “Do I need to receive alerts from this app when it’s not open?”
If the answer is yes, leave everything as it is. It’s absolutely fine to allow some apps to notify you. If the answer is no, it’s a good idea to turn off notifications for that app.
To turn off notifications, tap the name of the app and turn off the switch next to Allow Notifications. There are other options in here too, but they don’t affect your iPhone’s battery life. It only matters if notifications are off or on.
6. Turn Off The Widgets You Don’t Use
Widgets are little “mini-apps” that continually run in the background of your iPhone to give you easy access to up-to-date information from your favorite apps. Over time, you’ll save a significant amount of battery life by turning off the widgets you don’t use. If you never use them, it’s OK to turn them all off.
If your iPhone is running iOS 14 or newer, press and hold on a widget you want to remove, then tap Remove Widget -> Remove.
If your iPhone is running iOS 13 or older, go to the Home screen swipe from left to right until you get to widgets. Then, scroll down and tap the circular Edit button to see a list of the widgets you can add or remove on your iPhone. To remove a widget, tap the red minus button to its left.
7. Turn Off Your Phone Once A Week (The Right Way)
It’s a simple tip but important nonetheless: Turning your iPhone off and back on again once a week can resolve hidden battery-life issues that accumulate with time. Apple would never tell you that because in iPhone Utopia, it wouldn’t.
In the real world, powering off your iPhone can help resolve issues with apps that have crashed or other, more technical problems that can occur when any computer has been on for a long time.
How To Turn Off Your iPhone (The Right Way)
To power off your iPhone, press and hold the power button until “slide to power off” appears. If your iPhone has Face ID, simultaneously press and hold the side button and either volume button.
Swipe the circular power icon across the screen with your finger and wait as your iPhone shuts down. It’s normal for the process to take several seconds. Next, turn your iPhone back on by pressing and holding the power or side button until you see the Apple logo appear.
8. Background App Refresh
Certain apps on your iPhone are allowed to use your Wi-Fi or cellular data connection to download new content even when you’re not using them. You can save a significant amount of battery life (and some of your data plan) by limiting the number of apps that are allowed to use this feature that Apple calls Background App Refresh.
How To Fix Background App Refresh
Go to Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh. At the top, you’ll see a toggle switch that turns off Background App Refresh entirely. I don’t recommend you do this, because Background App Refresh can be a good thing for certain apps. If you’re like me, you’ll be able to turn off almost every app on the list.
As you scroll through each app, ask yourself this question: “Do I want this app to be able to download new information even when I’m not using it?” If the answer is yes, leave Background App Refresh enabled. If not, turn it off and you’ll be saving more battery life each time you do.
9. Keep Your iPhone Cool
According to Apple, the iPhone, iPad, and iPod are designed to work from 32 degrees to 95 degrees fahrenheit (0 degrees to 35 degrees celsius). What they don’t always tell you is that exposing your iPhone to temperatures above 95 degrees fahrenheit can permanently damage your battery.
If it’s a hot day and you’re going for a walk, don’t worry about it — you’ll be fine. What we’re talking about here is prolonged exposure to extreme heat. Moral of the story: Just like your dog, don’t leave your iPhone in a hot car. (But if you had to choose, save the dog).
Can Cold Weather Damage My iPhone Battery?
Low temperatures won’t damage your iPhone battery, but something does happen: The colder it gets, the faster your battery level drops. If the temperature gets low enough, your iPhone might stop working entirely, but when it warms up again, your iPhone and battery level should return to normal.
10. Make Sure Auto-Lock Is Turned On
One quick way to prevent battery iPhone battery drain is by making sure auto-lock is turned on. Open Settings and tap Display & Brightness -> Auto-Lock. Then, select any option other than Never! This is the amount of time you can leave your iPhone on before the display turns off and goes into sleep mode.
11. Disable Unnecessary Visual Effects
iPhones are beautiful, from the hardware to the software. We understand the basic idea of manufacturing the hardware components, but what allows the software to display such beautiful images? Inside your iPhone, a tiny piece of hardware built into the logic board called a Graphics Processing Unit (or GPU) gives your iPhone the power to display its beautiful visual effects.
The problem with GPUs is that they’ve always been power-hungry. The fancier the visual effects, the faster the battery dies. By reducing the strain on your iPhone’s GPU, we can significantly increase the life of your battery. Ever since iOS 12 was released, you can accomplish everything I used to recommend in a few different tips by changing one setting in a place you probably wouldn’t think to look.
Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Motion -> Reduce Motion and tap the switch to turn it on.
Aside from the parallax wallpaper effect on the home screen, you probably won’t notice any differences and you’ll save a significant amount of battery life.
12. Turn Off 5G
Turning off 5G on your iPhone 12 or newer can help save battery life. The chips in 5G iPhones (and most Android smartphones) aren’t designed for 5G. Instead, there’s an additional 5G chip, which uses a lot of power.
Additionally, 5G infrastructure is still in its infancy. Your iPhone will usually need to use more power to connect and stay connected to 5G than it would to LTE.
Open Settings and tap Cellular -> Cellular Data Options -> Voice & Data. Tap LTE to turn off 5G. You’ll know 5G is off when a checkmark appears next to LTE.
If you don’t want to turn off 5G entirely, tap 5G Auto. According to Apple, 5G Auto only uses 5G “when it will not significantly reduce battery life.” So, it’ll still reduce battery life more quickly, just not as significantly as 5G On.
13. Turn On Dark Mode
Dark Mode was finally introduced with iOS 13. Not only does it look awesome, it can also save a bit a battery life, because darker colored pixels generally use less power than lighter colored pixels.
Open Settings and tap Display & Brightness. Tap Dark at the top of the menu under Appearance. Dark Mode will turn on immediately!
14. Turn Off Always On Display
The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max now support Always On Display, which dims the screen while still showing you the time and your Lock Screen widgets. It’s essentially a dimmer version of the Lock Screen.
While it’s nice that Apple finally added Always On Display to the iPhone, the battery has to put out more power to keep the display on all the time. Disabling Always On Display will turn off the screen anytime you lock your iPhone.
Open Settings and tap Display & Brightness. Scroll down and turn off the switch next to Always On.
15. Turn On Limit Frame Rate
The iPhone 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max, 14 Pro, and 14 Pro Max support ProMotion, enabling adaptive refresh rates up to 120Hz. Turning on Limit Frame Rate sets the maximum frame rate on your iPhone to 60Hz and can help save some battery life at the expense of a smoother-looking display.
If that’s a trade-off you’re willing to make, open Settings and tap Accessibility -> Motion. Turn on the switch next to Limit Frame Rate.
16. Did You Recently Update Your iPhone?
After updating to a new version of iOS, your iPhone runs background tasks to reindex its databases and caches. Apple claims this can take up to 48 hours. These background tasks will use some battery life, so you may notice increased battery drain immediately after updating your iPhone.
If you notice your iPhone dying faster immediately after an update, try to wait it out. Things should normalize in a day or two.
However, if the battery drain persists, check for an additional software update by going to Settings -> General -> Software Update. When an iOS update causes a widespread problem, Apple usually releases a subsequent update to fix it.
While you’re here, tap Automatic Updates and make sure the switch next to Security Responses & System Files is on. This is a new iOS 16 feature that allows your iPhone to automatically install rapid security responses and system files.
Why is this a battery tip? It’s possible, but extremely unlikely, your iPhone could be hacked if its security responses are out of date. One of the signs of a hacked phone is excessive battery drain. I’ll admit, it’s a bit of a stretch, but this is a setting you should absolutely leave on.
17. Turn Off Haptic Feedback
Another new iOS 16 feature that can impact battery life is Haptic Feedback. When Haptic Feedback is on, you’ll feel a physical response anytime you use the keyboard on your iPhone.
When iOS 16 was released, Apple published a new support article stating, “Turning on keyboard haptics might affect the battery life of your iPhone.”
Simply put, leaving this setting on will drain some battery life, as your iPhone needs to use power to give you the physical response while you’re typing.
Open Settings and tap Sounds & Haptics. Then, tap Keyboard Feedback and turn off the switch next to Haptic.
18. DFU Restore & Restore From iCloud, Not iTunes
At this point, you’ve waited a day or two and your battery life still hasn’t improved. It’s time to restore your iPhone. We recommend doing a DFU restore. After the restore is finished, we recommend restoring from an iCloud backup if you can.
Let me be clear: Yes, you need to use iTunes to restore your iPhone — there’s no other way. We’re talking about the way you put your data back on your iPhone after it’s been restored to factory settings.
Some people are confused about exactly when it’s safe to disconnect your iPhone from your computer. As soon as you see the ‘Hello’ screen on your iPhone or ‘Set Up Your iPhone’ in iTunes, it’s absolutely safe to disconnect your iPhone.
Next, use the menus on your phone to connect to Wi-Fi and restore from your iCloud backup. If you’ve been having trouble backing up to iCloud and especially if you’re run out of storage, check out my article that’s all about how to fix iCloud backup.
Aren’t iCloud Backups and iTunes Backups Essentially The Same?
Yes, iCloud backups and iTunes backups do contain essentially the same content. The reason I recommend using iCloud is that it takes your computer and any problems it may have completely out of the picture.
19. Erase Your iPhone And Set It Up As New
If you’ve tried absolutely everything and you’re still having trouble, you may have a deeply-rooted software issue that can only be resolved by restoring your iPhone to factory settings and setting it up again as if it were brand new.
It’s not all bad. You’ll add your iCloud and other mail accounts to your iPhone as you set it up. Your contacts, calendars, notes, reminders, and bookmarks are often stored in those accounts, so all of that information should come right back.
What you will have to do is redownload your apps, reconfigure Wi-Fi and other settings, and transfer your photos and music back to your iPhone. It’s not that much work, but it does take some time to get everything back the way you like it.
To restore your iPhone to factory settings, open Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase All Content and Settings. If your iPhone is running iOS 15 or newer, open Settings and tap General -> Transfer or Reset iPhone -> Erase All Content and Settings.
Enter your passcode, then tap Erase iPhone to confirm your decision.
20. You May Have A Hardware Problem (But It Might Not Be The Battery)
In the beginning of this article, I mentioned that the vast majority of issues related to iPhone battery life come from software, and that’s absolutely true. There are a few instances where a hardware issue can cause problems, but in almost every case the problem isn’t with the battery.
Drops and spills can cause damage to internal components that are involved in charging or maintaining the charge on your iPhone. The battery itself is designed to be quite resilient, because if it were punctured it could quite literally explode.
The Apple Store Battery Test
When you bring your iPhone to an Apple Store to be serviced, Apple techs run a quick diagnostic that reveals a fair amount of information about the overall health of your iPhone. One of these diagnostics is a battery test, and it’s pass/fail. In all my time at Apple, I believe I saw a total of two iPhones with batteries that did not pass that test — and I saw a lot of iPhones.
If your iPhone passes the battery test, and there’s a 99% chance it will, Apple will not replace your battery even if you’re under warranty. If you haven’t already taken the steps I’ve described in this article, they’ll send you home to do them. If you have done what I’ve suggested, you can say, “I tried that already, and it didn’t work.”
In Conclusion
I sincerely hope that you have enjoyed reading and learned from this article. Writing it has been a labor of love, and I’m grateful for each person that reads it and passes it on to their friends. If you’d like to, leave a comment below — I’d love to hear from you.
My solution also. The battery on my Samsung lasts a good 10 to 12 hours when I’m using it to watch video. Ordinarily just laying around and used as a phone, it is a phone too, it lasts for days. The android system also doesn’t close apps either but it’s no big deal.
Thank you so much for your easy to understand tutorials.
All I can is is Thank You David. I struggled with battery problems and your easy to read and put into action instructions,
has given my phone a new lease of life. Great Work my friend. Tony
Hey Tony,
Thank you so much for your kind words. Sometimes all it takes is to put some simple steps into action and we get that new lease on battery life. There is something you can do if you’re willing: Pass it on using Facebook or just tell your friends – a lot of people have this problem.
Gratefully yours,
David
Hello David, I took over an iPhone 5s from a family member and set it up as new. I already knew the battery isnt’t great on this phone but what happened overnight was ridiculous. I lost 37% in 7 hours (from 50 to 13%). After I did all the things you recomended in this article it wasn’t much better. It lost 29% in one night (from 100 to 71%). To be clear, I was sleeping both nights so I didn’t use my phone. Any more tips? I’m going to the Apple store this monday. Thank you so much. Your article… Read more »
hey I recently updated my phone to the new iOS and now it’s been so buggy ?. my phone is left in my locker at school all day for about 6 hours. it’s left at about 85-90% and when I ride home on the bus its at 20-25% 🙁 i tried everything in this article and I really want my phone to last me the whole day. please help
hi david
Ive recently seen a video that shows top five things that could kill your iPhone and they mention that if your charging cable has little bulges close to the ends it could harm your phone. You were a technician at apple …..would you know whether this is true?
Hi Uwais,
After responding to your question before, I’ve turned what was my response into a more complete explanation in a brand new blog post here: https://www.payetteforward.com/my-iphone-cable-is-hot-can-a-hot-cable-cause-damage/ Check it out, and thanks for the inspiration!
Best,
David P.
Really useful stuff here, thanks.
Hi David, I have implemented most of your suggestions to help my battery life on my iPhone 5s so am hoping (and confident) your advice will help. I just want to say a massive thank you for your time in writing these various articles. I have never before read anything so easy to understand, you make it like it should be – simple. Keep up the great work. Ps I am so optimistic that I have shared your article via Facebook!
It it good ? I have 68% left
Just recently I’ve noticed my battery life on my iPhone6 is draining incredibly fast at least 1-2% in matter of minutes and no apps are running. Any suggestions on what it could be or how to fix it
Thanks for this blog.I had no idea how much I was giving away in privacy and how many things were running in the background too. I had to turn so much off. Hopefully it will make my iphone much more usable now x
Just get a Morphie battery case. Problem soloved.
If you have a care that burns too much gas, getting a bigger gas tank does not solve the problem.
You may think it is an Apple but it is really a Lemon. Get a Blackberry Passport if you want a real high performance phone with a battery that lasts and lasts and lasts.
This is not about battery performance, this about preventing the unnecessary consumption of battery energy and about being tracked without knowing it.
Hi, thank you. My phone is getting a bit of extra time, not a ton but enough to get me to the charger before it dies when I am out.
Dear All hi,I have very big problem in my Iphone 5s because it battery drains down quickly if it shows on 40 Per cent suddenly it comes directly to 30 or 31 per cent leaving between percentage plz give some suggest may change or replace my battery because i tried all ways for saving battery step.
Hii david,
I am using iphone 5s , it was working great but suddenly from midnight it started draining fast.
At night i keep the phone on charging and when its done to 100% i remove it. But being charged fully and even not using it for anything all the apps and other things is off than too my battery drains 10% per hour..
Is it because its been hited by water or other thing or is bacause some of my software is problem or what..
Plz help me
Mr. Payette,
Thank you so much for this outstanding article! It is amazing how many small things waste battery life in an iPhone. You are definitely doing a great service by sharing this article. I have shared it on FaceBook. Thanks again!
Mary F.
Hi,
My battery drains crazy fast,is there a chance it needs a replacement ?
Hi David ! How are you?i have an issue with my iphone 4s .it really suck.Phone is on 0 usage no sim card insatlled.Still it is draining too fast that some times i would like to break it off.when i start to use it along with battery draining it is heating like hell.i cant hold it in my hand after 5 minutes.Please help me
My phone takes hours to charge, but when it’s om 100% it literally goes down a percent every second, even when I’m not on it? someone please help me (iPhone 5c)
Nice post, we are one of the leading ipad service center in Chennai
David Payette
Thanks for all the tips on my iPhone 4s.
Desmond
When your mail is set to push, it means that your iPhone maintains a constant connection to your email server and asks, “Is there mail? Is there mail? Is there mail? etc.” No, that’s actually the opposite of push mail, that’s classic mail polling (and that’s exactly what you have configured to be done every 15 minutes). Push Mail means that your mail server tells your phone whenever it got new mails (“I have new mails for you”) and until that happens, your phone does nothing and the connection between both is idle. Turn off Location-Based Alerts. This piece of… Read more »
Note that if you turn off Traffic, traffic still works in the Maps app. Turning off Traffic here only stops your iPhone from sending your location to Apple, not from receiving up-to-date traffic information. And where do you think does the traffic information come from? Well, it comes from people who have NOT disabled “Traffic”, because if everyone disables it, Apple won’t have any traffic information they could share with you. Others have to sacrifice their battery life so that you can have accurate and up to date traffic information on your iPhone, yet you are not willing to share… Read more »
David, i bought a iphone 5s from my friend and I noticed that the battery dies so fast without doing anything, infact I did not put the sim card into it. What could be the problem
Great website and really easy to follow – even for a technophobe like me.
Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to write it all. Have made some changes to my phone re your advice and instructions so fingerscrossed.
Best regards, Karen
my iphone is not charging rather when i plug in my charger it says charged even at 4% and it restarsts on its own
Hi David! Thanks for all these tips! I have a question: I accidentally upgraded my iPhone to iCloud Drive. Does that mean that now everything is stored on my other devices instead of in the cloud? I would like to restore my iPhone with iCloud backup and my only other device is an iPad and I don’t want to upgrade my iPad to IOS 8 just yet. And I’m worried where the backup data will be sent to.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this!
Step-By-Step Guide to free up storage space and make your iPhone fast:
You download iphone cleaner macgo in your computer (it has mac version and pc version).
Second,start the cleaner Connect your iPhone to Mac and open this cleaner, just two simple clicks and you can start the clean now.
Then, deselect the files that you wanna keep and click on Clean your iPhone button to start cleaning.
This is quite possibly the easiest fix. Just throw away your iphone, uninstall itunes and purchase an android. See, no need for an entire discussion. No need to thank me. Your welcome!
Hi please i have a problem with iPhone 5s battery is not charging until 1% now my battery is drained and off for 2 days now. Please can you tell me what the problem is ?
Interesting you say that as I had the same problem. Funnily enough, I followed the instructions on here for my phone overheating & it brought back my WiFi, even thought that wasn’t what I was trying to fix at the time.
Hi everyone,
I have only just upgrade my iPhone 4 s to the latest ISO upgrade. Since I have done this my phone has dumped all it’s charge twice in 2 days even though it was saying above 80% before it happened. Can I do anything to stop this happening again. I have only just got an iPhone so only getting used to it.
Thanks you Tim
Hello. I have charged one day my 5s iphone with another charger, not original one and now that I have a original charger my battery still drains so fast. It lasts 5 hours. should I replace the battery?
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. My battery life has improved so much and I never would have turned off some of the things that you pointed out because I didn’t know they existed and probably never would have taken the time to go through my phone without your guidance. Much appreciated!
So my batter capacity is 1500mAH yet my batter can only charge to 1199mAH this is odd to me and I’d like to ask how to fix this. I can tell you how many Cycles the device has been through if that helps any.
Thank you so much for this article! I upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 8.1 today, and I was watching the battery drain about 1% every 2 minutes – even while I was plugged in and in airplane mode! After turning everything off, I am back online and the charge is going up instead of down.
Dear Barb,
I’m so happy to hear that this article helped you. You’re certainly not the only one who has struggled with their iPhone battery life! If you think it would help others, I’d love it if you’d share this article with your friends on Facebook or Twitter.
Thanks again for reading and all the best,
David
Thanks guys for help me,this article helped me,before than I read this article about iPhone battery my iphone drained so fast and that bothered me always.But my iPhone still drain so fast,my iPhone only during 3 hours from it’s full charge
anyone might help me how to fix that issue?
I have an iPhone 5s
Hey Dude,
really appreciate your article up there
I have followed all the steps you have wrote, but I still suffer from battery drains.
It was just that every time I open settings and check website or send text messages for about one or 2 minutes, the battery would drain 1%. 1%/2 min
Is that normal or my phone got an issue?
Thanks
I just bought my iphone 5s last 2 weeks.
hi i have a problem with my iphone 5. it keeps on charging but wont turn on. i let it charging for a day then i discharged. surprisingly it shows that it needs charging.i wonder why this can possibly happen. is there anything i can do? thank you so much
Dear Mellianna,
Thanks for your question! Often times when an iPhone’s screen is black, it appears as if the battery is dead, but what’s actually going on is that the iPhone software has crashed. Try resetting your iPhone by holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least 10 seconds (maybe longer), until you see the Apple logo reappear on the display. Here’s the Apple support article that explains how to do it: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
I hope this helps to steer you in the right direction, and I wish you all the best!
David P.
So basically, this article is telling me to not use any of the cool functions and special features that apple advertised that my phone can do (the reasons that made me want to buy the phone), because the battery and processor actually aren’t designed well enough to carry out those functions… Thanks soooooo much… :/
Dear Fyodor, thanks for commenting! I want to assure you that I don’t believe anyone should have to sacrifice the features that make the iPhone so great in order to be able to get through a full day’s worth of battery. The intention of this article is not to discourage you from using your iPhone, but to highlight some areas that don’t decrease the iPhone’s functionality but also increase battery life exponentially. Here’s an example: In my first tip, I recommend switching from having your iPhone check for mail all the time to having your iPhone check for new mail… Read more »
hi I have a problem with iPhone 4s battery draining fast (even after i’ve done everything in this article) and also my phone switches off at 10% (although i just recently replaced the battery) help? please?
btw this website is such a great help thank you so much
Hi,
i am really tense,i would be glad if you please solve problem i’m facing.My iphone5 battery drains very quickly,specially when i increases the brightness.i use my phone with lowest brightness.This really sucks i face problem in sun 🙁
please help me with this.
when ever i take photos it drains
when i make video it drains very quickly.
i am worried!
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