hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and iOS 16 has been out for a little while now we have the
iPhone 14 series devices and so let's talk about iOS 16 iPhone battery tips that truly work now
the first thing that was introduced with iOS 16 specifically that Apple has actually come
out and said in a document that uses quite a bit of battery is haptic keyboard feedback
that's when you're typing you actually feel a vibration this is something that's not turned
on by default but you can turn on an iOS 16. but if you want to optimize for the most battery you
want to turn that off under settings go to sound and haptics scroll down to keyboard
feedback and turn off haptic feedback this will help optimize for the most battery use possible
personally I like this feature so I leave it on but there's other things we can do as well
now widgets are something we've had for a little while and certain widgets can use more power than
others so if we go to the lock screen you'll see we have the battery widgets and the weather widget
but these widgets actually will use power as they update it may not be a lot of power and
they don't update constantly they update at a set interval that could be 30 seconds it could be 15
minutes depending on what the app developer sets however if you want to optimize for the
absolute best battery life go to customize go to your lock screen and remove certain widgets
that aren't important to you I like them like I said so I'm going to leave them however if
you want to optimize even more for home screen widgets you can do that as well I like to use
one widget but the more you use the more power you'll use because it's actually getting data
from multiple apps and different things such as location you can see here I have weather set up
for my location however we can make this use less power we can do that first by going into weather
and then optimizing our specific location just by setting it to what we want so if I want to set
it to the location I live in but not allow it to check for location data every single time we can
optimize for this the way you do that is go into your settings then we'll go down to privacy and
security location services and then under location services go down until you get to weather under
weather you'll see that it's been using location because it has this purple Arrow here tap on this
and change it to Never by changing it to never it can never turn on your GPS antenna and use
additional power now we can go back you'll see it says location services are off press and hold
on the widget and then you can either edit the widget altogether to show a specific location
that's actually saved so if we change it to where I live now it will show the area I live instead of
looking at every area I'm visiting so it won't turn on the GPS antenna it will only look here
and use far less power than it would if it was looking for location every single time we went
and looked at the home screen so that's something I would recommend changing this is true for any
widget that actually uses location information and we can optimize location as well so location
information does use a tremendous amount of power as it has to enable the GPS antenna and while you
want to leave this enabled for specific apps you'll want to turn it off for others so if we
again go into our privacy and security settings go to location services you'll see here you could
turn it off altogether but then you lose a bunch of features and maybe you're using find my we'll
talk about in a moment but maybe you're using features such as Apple Maps if we scroll down
to Apple Maps you'll see here I have this set to while using the app or widgets you can change it
to never however if you don't have this enabled it won't be able to understand your location and it
sort of makes Maps pointless so it will only work when I go into the app so that's a good thing but
you can customize this on an app by app basis and you can see what's using location data by seeing
the little arrow next to it so one of these for example this app I have to actually leave enabled
in order for it to work as my key to my car others I don't need to leave enabled so depending on what
they are this Tile For example while I'm using the app I don't really need to have that enabled but
I can have it enabled home it makes sense some of these make sense some do not so you want to
enable these based on what works for you what's most important to you there's also some system
services that we want to look at as well so all the way down at the bottom of location services
you'll see system Services tap on system services and we have a bunch of different things here now
I don't typically recommend turning most of these off because they're helping with different systems
throughout the OS so emergency calls and SOS and definitely leave on but down at the bottom there
are some I would turn off such as iPhone analytics routing and traffic and improved Maps this
information actually shares with apple routing and traffic may be the only one I would consider
leaving on as it lets people know what the traffic is like around you anonymously so when you're in
your car you see there's heavy traffic that's how they know however if you want to save the
most amount of power again turn that off so you're not sending information back to Apple typically I
leave this one on though it's up to you what you want to do if you don't use Apple Mac apps at
all well then definitely turn it off also under significant locations you may want to consider
turning this off the reason is it says allow your iPhone and iCloud connected devices to learn
places significant to you in order to provide useful location related information in maps
calendars photos and more this may or may not be relevant to you and you'll see I have 99 records
here because of that you may want to turn that off because of it actually tracking this information
now I actually don't mind because I'm using it in services and you'll see it says disabling
significant locations will affect many Apple apps and services that use personalized locations I
prefer to have those features but if they don't matter to you then go ahead and turn it off now
the final thing under location services is under share my location under share my location it shows
who you're sharing your location with based on find my so if you share your location using find
my you may want to optimize this go into that and within here you can see I'm sharing with family
and friends and if I want to stop up sharing you want to customize this based on what matters to
you I want to share with everyone I have selected but if you don't you can go into that individual
and turn that off if you don't use find my iPhone well then you could disable that however I highly
recommend you don't do that as it helps you locate your phone should you lose it or if someone took
it now before we exit privacy and security if we go down to the bottom you'll see analytics and
improvements this sends data back to Apple about what you're doing across the OS this is something
that gathers information that doesn't take a whole lot of power but every time it has to send that
information back it can use a little bit of power I typically have most things turned off and you
can just shut them all off or leave them all on it says this will also turn off data collection
on your Apple watch we'll hit OK it should extend battery life on my watch as well based off of that
so all of this information I don't really send back I know it's relevant for some people they
want to improve this information I prefer to keep my information private and shared just with myself
so if you want to do that turn that off you'll save maybe a little bit of Power with that one
now one thing that I think gets misunderstood the most is brightness brightness is something that
you can set yourself and a lot of people think it's best to leave it on manual however Apple
says it's best to leave it on auto brightness the reason for this is you can adjust it while it's
on auto brightness so if you go to your display and brightness settings of course you can change
how often it locks your screen this will help as well I only have it on never because of using it
in this video I don't want it to lock while I'm sharing this with you but typically I leave this
on 30 seconds and then under accessibility if we go to accessibility display and text size at the
bottom is auto brightness Apple has purposely buried this to make sure that you don't change
this regularly however if you leave it on auto brightness you'll get better battery life overall
and when you're in a situation just go into a room like this bring down the brightness if you want to
bring it down leave it there it will stay there for quite some time until you change situations
so you can adjust this while auto brightness is on and it will save you even more battery and
then it will adjust based on the situation using the ambient light sensor so if you're inside the
light goes down it will actually bring it down to save some power I highly recommend leaving that on
as does Apple to save some power also something that saves power is dark mode I haven't used it
this whole video but if we turn it on now we're in dark mode you can enable that easily through the
control center so you can add it to your control center under your settings then Control Center
and then you'll see it here under dark mode if you don't see it it'll be down at the bottom hit
the plus button add it to your control center you can also add it by going under display and
brightness in your settings so you'll see light and dark once you enable dark you'll save some
power because what it does is in the dark areas on an OLED phone this is specific to OLED phones it
actually turns off the pixels so the less pixels you're using the less amount of power it's going
to be drawing from the battery so all of the truly dark areas are not using power areas that
are light gray are using a little bit of power just like it would be if you were using it with
different colors so it really makes a difference only on completely dark backgrounds so that could
be something you want to do with your wallpaper as well turn it to a black wallpaper again you'll
save more power it's negligible how much power you'll save but it will save some power now on
phones that have an always on display you'll save some Power by disabling that on the 14 pro and pro
Max of course this is a major feature that many people appreciate and so if you want to use it
of course you can most people that have tested it say it uses less than one percent per hour however
if you're trying to optimize for the very best battery possible you may want to turn that off
you can find that under settings again under display and brightness and then always on if
you disable that then you'll save a little bit of power again I prefer to have features of my phones
since those are the new things but if you want to optimize for power that's one thing you can do now
on an iPhone 13 Pro 13 Pro Max 14 pro and 14 pro Mac tax you have Pro motion that ramps the display
speed up to 120 hertz however turning it off will reduce some power usage that feature though is
something that many people appreciate including myself it makes things super smooth but if you
want to optimize for power go to settings go down to accessibility under accessibility go to motion
and under motion you'll see limit frame rate it says sets the maximum frame rate of the display
to 60 frames per second so it will seem like it's a non-pro iPhone if you're trying to save optimal
power you can do that but you are really limiting a feature that makes this phone super nice to use
now a feature that was introduced some time ago helps you update your apps in the background
however this uses additional power according to Apple on their iPhone optimization website you
can disable this by going into settings General and background app refresh I've found that this
makes no difference whether it's on or off as to the relevance of the information in the app or
the speed at which it loads I personally turn this off because I find it saves a lot of power so you
can customize this on an app by app basis if you want to do that and then have it check things on
Wi-Fi and cellular data but again I have it off in general unless it's something that you really
need to check regularly in the background and have it update it's going to use more power so
I typically recommend you turn that off you won't really notice a difference also something that's
a bit of a misconception is closing apps will help you save power that's actually not true according
to Apple closing apps can actually take more time to reload them which in turn can actually
use more power so according to Apple it's better to leave the apps open and I've given this tip
before and people have actually said they noticed a difference that it saved them battery and time
of course instead of closing every app that's the reason there's not an option to just close
them all at once because if you close them they have to reload everything and that can take more
power so typically leave it alone unless it's an app such as a map app that you're done using for
navigation that will use power in the background those I close out everything else I leave alone
unless there's a problem with the app closing out apps was really meant to fix issues with
an app if it's not responding it's not working properly you can close it go back into it then
it might work properly so that's the only reason I typically close apps now one thing that takes
quite a bit of power that a lot of people Overlook I think is the home and lock screen lighting up as
a notification comes in you can see what's doing this by going under your settings and then battery
waiting for it to load and give it just a moment and you can see it says home and lock screen it's
taking up 17 percent of my activity and because I had background app activity turned on before it's
actually using background activity you can see this for all of these apps I have here
so turning that off should save a ton of power as you can see here as I mentioned before but
your home and lock screen lighting up your lock screen every time a notification comes in can use
a lot of power you can customize this either by turning on do not disturb altogether and limiting
all information with a focus mode or you can go into notification applications and turn them on
or off on an individual basis so you may want notifications for say the Apple Store maybe you
have a new shipment coming but you don't want them for say Apple Books so you can either allow or
disallow them disallowing them will not allow them to light up the screen and use additional power if
you put them in scheduled summary the same is true it will only show up at designated times and then
tell you a summary of your notifications so if you have notifications you want to see throughout the
day change them according to what you use if something's important such as email of course
leave that on but if it's something such as maybe books like I showed before you can turn that off
and it will save a little bit of power instead of just lighting up the display over and over
now mail can take a significant amount of power as well depending on how you have it set mail
can be set up to actually push your email you can have it fetch every so often or you can have it
check manually checking manually uses the least amount of power because it only checks when you
tell it to so you can optimize this by going into your settings go down to mail under mail
go to accounts under accounts you'll see fetch new data I have it set to push because those are
important to me I have them push email as soon as possible or check every 15 minutes however to save
the most amount of power if you don't check email regularly go to manually then it will check every
time you go into mail that will save you a bunch of power I typically leave it on every 15 minutes
because that's something I'm in all day however it will depend on what you're doing pushing the
data will use more power as well just as fetching data will but again manually we'll use the least
amount of power now one thing Apple recommends all of the time is leaving Wi-Fi on and Bluetooth
Bluetooth is very low low power and unless you're not using air pods or airdrop or something that
uses Bluetooth I would just leave it on all the time because it's so low power you won't notice
but you need it for things such as Apple watch or different accessories but again the only time
I would turn that off permanently is if I wasn't using accessories Wi-Fi uses very little power as
well compared to 5G or 4G or just cellular data in general so typically I would leave that on
unless you're in an area where there is no Wi-Fi available Wi-Fi uses far less power than sending
signals miles away as opposed to within a home or a business where you may have a Wi-Fi access
point within say 30 feet of you so because of that you're going to use less power however again if
you're in an area where there's no Wi-fi you can disable it for the day or turn it off altogether
either way though I typically recommend leaving it on as does Apple now if you're in a reverse
situation where you're in a low signal State such as 5G or 4G you can turn it into airplane mode and
you'll save the most amount of power however you can optimize depending on where you live and your
overall coverage whether it be 5G 4G or something else so if we go into settings and then we go to
Cellular under cellular data options you'll have options for voice and data you'll see I have 5G
on I really need to have this on 5G Auto I have pretty good 5G coverage where I live and if you
do you can leave this on auto and it will switch based on overall signal strength however if you
don't have 5G available in your area at all whether that be millimeter wave or sub 6 like
I have here so let's flip it to LTE and you'll save the most amount of power as 5G modems take
more power than LTE or 4G so typically 5G Auto is great if you're in an area with great 5G coverage
if you're not disabling it will definitely save you some power of course the ultimate power saving
tip is low power mode however I never recommend people use this regularly the reason for that
and if we press and hold on the battery here or you can find it in your battery settings so if
we go into settings we go down to battery under battery we can flip on low power mode low power
mode is great if you need to get to a charger but by turning this on it disables a bunch of
different things Apple actually says it reduces display brightness optimizes device performance
meaning it slows the phone down minimizes system animations apps including mail will not download
content in the background and features like airdrop iCloud sync and continuity will all be
disabled so you're turning off a ton of features to your phone just to use low power mode if you
really need to get through the day a and you can't that's what it's designed for turn it on
if you can't get to a charger typically around 20 percent it will extend that battery get to a
charger plug it in or put it on a wireless charger and then you'll be good to go that's what it was
designed for and so I don't recommend people use it all the time as you're really limiting the
overall features and functionality of your phone altogether so typically I would leave that off
unless you need the ultimate battery savings and so those are some battery tips that hopefully help
you out I wouldn't use all of them necessarily but if you optimize a hundred percent for best
battery life you'll definitely get better battery life by following all of them let me know what
you use in the comments below what do you leave enabled or disabled I'd love to hear what you
have to say about that and how you use your phone it's going to be personalized for every single
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