When you travel, you never know when you’ll have another chance to recharge your devices. It doesn’t hurt to carry a portable charger; But even if you have a power bank, you probably want to prevent your iPhone’s battery from draining too quickly while you’re on the road. Fortunately, you have a few options in iOS 17.4 to enable or disable certain settings that affect battery life. For example, by using “optimized charging,” you can prevent your iPhone from overheating.
With the Battery Health menu, you can check not only the battery health percentage (80% or more is considered good), but also a new menu that shows how many times you have performed battery cycles and whether or not your battery is “. normal.”
In addition to iPhone battery best practices, there are other battery-saving tips. iOS 16 and iOS 17 are less obvious and can help you keep your iPhone battery alive longer.
In this story, we’ll cover two features in iOS 16 and iOS 17 that put a strain on your iPhone battery to varying degrees and how you can disable them to help preserve battery life. Here’s what you need to know.
For more tips and tricks to save battery, check out how to stop background apps from updating and how to replace your iPhone battery (cheaper than Apple).
Remove widgets from your iPhone lock screen
All the widgets on your lock screen force your apps to run automatically in the background, constantly fetching data to update the information the widgets display, such as sports scores or the weather. Because these apps are constantly running in the background due to their widgets, that means they consume power continuously.
If you want to help conserve some battery in iOS 17, your best bet is to simply avoid widgets on your lock screen (and home screen). The easiest way to do this is to switch to another lock screen profile: press your finger down on the existing lock screen, then swipe to choose one that doesn’t have widgets.
If you simply want to remove widgets from your existing lock screen, press down on your lock screen, press Personalizechoose the Lock screen option, tap the widget box, and then press the “-” button on each widget to remove them.
If you’re already low on battery, it’s best to switch to a wallpaper that doesn’t have lock screen widgets.
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Turn off the haptic keyboard response on your iPhone
Surprisingly, the iPhone keyboard has never had the ability to vibrate while you type, an addition called “haptic feedback” that was added to iPhones with iOS 16. Instead of just hearing click-clack sounds, haptic feedback gives each key a vibration. , providing a more immersive experience while you write. According to Apple, the same feature can also affect battery life.
According to this Apple support page About the keyboard, haptic feedback “could affect the battery life of your iPhone.” No details are provided on how much battery life the keyboard feature consumes, but if you want to conserve battery, it’s best to keep this feature disabled.
Fortunately, it is not enabled by default. If you have enabled it yourself, go to Settings > Sounds and haptics > Keyboard Feedback and deactivate haptic to turn off haptic feedback on your keyboard.
Every time you type, you will feel a slight vibration for each key you press.
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For more iOS tips, learn how to download the new iOS 17 and how to automatically delete multi-factor authentication messages from text messages and emails.
