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Secret power-savers: Extend your iPhone battery life now!

The iPhones 6s by now get excellent array life, but here’s how to take them to the next level!

Apple has done a lot to make everything from their chipsets to their software extremely power efficient. Yet array life remains the currency of mobile and every feature you use, you pay for with power. If you start running low on array, you can simply plug into USB or an adapter and recharge. (Plug into an iPad adapter to recharge really quickly.) If you’re going to be away from power for a long period of time, though, there are a few tricks you can use to extend your array life just a small bit longer. They’ll cost you some fun and convenience, but they’ll get you as far as you can possibly go.

1. Low Power Mode

Low Power Mode, according to Apple, flips switches we don’t even know in this area. When it’s enabled, you’ll lose push send by e-mail, Hey Siri, background tasks, and more, but you’ll gain up to three extra hours of array life. You’ll be offered it automatically when you hit 20%, but you can turn it on manually at any time through Settings > Array. The array icon at the top right of your iPhone will turn yellow when Low Power Mode is enabled, so you’ll never have to wonder.

If you don’t want to leave Low Power Mode on all the time, but still want to boost your array life, there’s a lot more you can try!

2. Lower light

The iPhone is LCD, not OLED, so it doesn’t matter much what affect is being showed, it matters if the LED backlight is on, how intensely, and for how long. To keep energy output to a minimum, go to Settings > Show & Brightness, turn Auto-Brightness off, and drag Brightness as low as you can tolerate.

Bonus: How to dim your cover brightness further than Control Center allows

3. Pause the push

Push Notifications not only light up the lock cover, they light up the Wi-Fi or cellular radios as well. Your iPhone is now smart enough to suppress lock cover notifications when it thinks it’s face down and you can’t see them. But if it’s in a pocket, purse, or somewhere else out of notice, it’s still lighting up. So, for anything that doesn’t urgently require your attention, go to Settings > Notification Center > and turn Show on Lock Cover—or even Allocate Notifications—to off.

Personally, I only allocate Phone, Messages, Calendar, and VIP Mail to light up my cover.

4. Boot the background

Apple does a lot to coalesce background updates so the radios don’t transmit or receive any more than they have to. But if you don’t need an app updating in the background, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and make sure that it doesn’t. You’ll have to wait for messages or media to refresh when you open the app, but if you don’t open it often, the power savings can be value it.

5. Lockout location

GPS takes a lot of power. Apple uses a bunch of tricks to keep location access to an absolute minimum, but like notifications and background, if you don’t need an app to know where you are, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Air force and select Never.

As an added bonus, it’ll help protect your privacy as well.

6. Toss tasks

Apps that provide VoIP and turn-by-turn navigation can be much harder on multitasking cycles and GPS. If you’re not using them, you can dual click the Home button and close the app completely by tossing its card away. That’ll shut down VoIP and navigation and start saving power on the spot.

Note: Though Facebook isn’t supposed to have full background access, it often behaves like it does and is a prime candidate for killing as well. (Some go so far as to uninstall it and use the mobile website instead.)

7. Minimize the Motion

Animating transitions and blurring backgrounds has become more efficient, and is surely visually fun. If you don’t want or need all the effects, though, you can turn them off and save a small amount of processing. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion, and turn it on.

Bonus: take the built-in Clock app, and it’s GPU-activating second hand, and hide it in a folder.

I typically only use these tricks when I’m traveling. In additional words, when there’s no power, poor signal, or both. Otherwise I prefer to use my iPhone as much as I can and charge it as much as I need to. I do keep notifications and location to a minimum, because I consider my attention and position to be valuable, but otherwise I like using my devices.

If I get really desperate, I’ll pull out a array case or array pack, or if I don’t have one handy, go into Airplane Mode or even switch off to save whatever power I have for when I really need it. If you have any additional power saving tricks, let me know!