hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech & iOS 13 has a bunch of battery
optimizations already built in but I wanted to share with you some tips to
help you better refine those optimizations and get the most battery
life possible and these tips are directly from Apple there are a lot of
tips out there but these come straight from Apple and will save you the most
power possible now the first thing is to use auto-brightness but in in tandem
with auto brightness you also want to use brightness control in the control
center so leave auto brightness on which will actually adjust the brightness
based on the ambient light so if you're in a very bright room or maybe you're
outside it will turn the brightness way up but if you're inside it will bring it
down however if you leave that on and then also control it yourself you'll get
the best battery life possible your screen actually uses a tremendous amount
of power that's probably one of the most power hungry things so if you can bring
that brightness down a little bit when you're inside just control it here and
let Apple handle the rest that is what they suggest and I've found that to be
true as well now something a lot of people don't even think about is your
phone locking itself after not using it for a little bit so we want to make sure
that we have this setting adjusted properly for auto locks so if we go into
settings and then we go down to display and brightness under display and
brightness you'll see it says auto lock now I have this set to never just so the
screen doesn't go dark or lock my display while I'm making this video but
as soon as I'm done making this video I set it to 30 seconds if you don't have
it set to 30 seconds I would recommend 30 seconds or a minute so that it
actually shuts the display off as soon as it can when you're not using it true
tone and this end night shift really don't use a whole lot of power so you
can leave those on I tend to like them some people don't it doesn't use much
power at all so you can either leave it on or turn it off but before we go to
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with OLED displays is dark mode and while you can use dark mode on older
phones dark mode only really helps battery life on phones with OLED
technology displays so OLED is on the iPhone X the XS the XS Max and the 11
Pro and 11 Pro max it uses a different type of display and where there is a
complete black part of the display those pixels are actually turned off so it's
saving power by turning those pixels off so if you're using dark mode for example
and you go into settings any area where it is completely dark or black the
pixels are just completely off as opposed to having to light the whole
display like an LCD as you have on some of the other devices such as I as an
iPhone 8 or 7 or any of those devices so just keep that in mind so that will help
you a little bit on those OLED displays now something that uses a lot of power
is location services and you can adjust these in settings so if we go into
settings and go down to privacy under privacy we have location services under
location services we can adjust each app individually or turn it off altogether I
don't recommend normally turning it off all together unless you don't want to
use things like maps because Maps needs to know your location so that it can
function properly so if you're using Google Maps or Apple maps or something
else you'll need to actually use it to to use that app but you can tell what
apps are actually using your location based on these little arrows here and
these arrows indicate the time in which they've actually used your location so
Instagram has used my location within the past 24 hours
now I allow it to use my location while I'm using the app but never
any other times so you can adjust this specifically to what works for you Maps
for example while I'm using the app it can use my location otherwise you don't
need to know my location so you can adjust this on a app by app basis you
can also tweak system services and if you don't use some of these services I
would recommend turning them off for example if you don't use homekit to
control your lights turn it off or location-based alerts or location-based
Apple Ads I don't really need those so I'll turn them off or a motion
calibration and distance things like that if there's certain apps you don't
use I would turn them off and also significant locations turn that off
unless you want it to know your location what it does is it's not sharing it with
Apple but it's keeping it on the phone where it's been to significant location
so I would recommend going into this you'll see it's kind of creepy it will
show you all your last locations you can leave that on or turn it off but again
it's going to use power now if you have a purple arrow here that's hollow it's
kind of using it in the background or if it's filled that used it recently you
can get an explanation for the arrows at the bottom of the settings page for
privacy and location and it will tell you exactly what they mean one way you
can save more power is to use Wi-Fi whenever possible as long as you're at a
safe location such as your home and you're using Wi-Fi that's going to save
you more power than if you're on cellular data and the reason for that
you can think of it like this if you're on Wi-Fi your wireless router is
probably within a hundred feet of you whereas a cell tower could be within a
couple miles of you and it has to transmit further distances so it needs
to use more power to do so that's one way to look of it look at it to
understand that it's actually using a lot more power than Wi-Fi now another
way to save power according to Apple is to turn off background app refresh or at
least select certain apps not to use it and what that means is if we go into
settings and then we go to general and then we go to background app refresh we
can turn it off altogether or we can leave it on for specific apps so for
example I may want to use it when I'm on maps because maps may need to use my
location information as well as data in the background just
like I showed with location you want it to maybe refresh in the background but
all these other apps if I've opened them and closed them out or swiped them off
the screen I don't want them to use this information if I'm not interested in it
so just turn those off on a case-by-case basis or turn it off altogether now when
the app is actually swiped up it's closed out for the most part you do not
need to go back and close your apps there's no reason to do that in fact it
goes into a sleep mode with the exception of some apps like music like
Spotify if it's playing in the background and you want it to stop
without just pausing it you can close that out or maps about everything else
it just freezes and it's not really using any power in the background now
another thing that can use a lot of power is if you're using the mail app
from Apple is the way it actually gets that mail so what that means is there
are multiple ways to do that you can either have the mail push to you or you
can have it fetch the mail every so often or go out and look for a new mail
now you want to adjust those settings by going under settings and then instead of
going to mail go to passwords and accounts under passwords and accounts at
the bottom you'll see it says fetch new data if we tap on this you'll see I have
it set to push push we'll actually use more power because it's trying to
regularly check for more information so that the email just pushes now I have
that turned on for iCloud and outlook but I have it set to fetch for a couple
others and fetch means it will check every 30 minutes now the best power
saving option here is to turn off push and then switch this to manually that
way it will actually not check for mail unless you want it to and you go into
the mail app that's the best option however you won't know if you're getting
any new email unless you go into the mail app itself so just keep that in
mind but that's the best way to save power as far as mail is concerned now
there are some apps that could be using your power as well so if you have apps
like Facebook and Facebook has been the number one for me I've removed it
because it was using a bunch of power and there was nothing I seemingly could
do about it so I removed that I still have messenger and Facebook page or the
page manager but I would recommend any app you're not using specifically social
media things like that I would remove them
altogether if you're not using them because they're probably using your
power in some way or another I've found that they say there they're not and
people will say they're not using it but for some reason I always find that I
have better battery life if I really tweak settings for things like facebook
or just remove it altogether now there are modes to actually help you save
power such as low power mode but I don't normally recommend this unless you're
down to about 20% and really trying to conserve power the reason for that is
not only does it optimize brightness and bring all the brightness down but it
actually slows the phone down to save power it will reduce the amount of power
that the processor is using to try and save you power and in turn slow the
phone down so it reduces animations it stops fetching mail it disables things
like airdrop and icon sync and features like continuity won't work so it turns
off a bunch of features and you've got a nice phone why not use the features
unless you're really trying to conserve power
so I recommend only using low power mode when you're down to about 20 percent or
you're trying to really conserve battery throughout the day now finally if you're
in an area where you have almost no cellular signal you have no access to
Wi-Fi and it keeps going between no signal and a signal I would recommend
turning on airplane mode as Apple does so that you can actually save as much
power as possible and the reason for that is the further you are from a cell
tower and the more power your phone has to use in order to connect to that cell
phone or cell tower so in order to connect to the cell tower it has to ramp
up the power of the phone connect to that cell tower and then communicate
back and forth so if it's constantly going between no signal and a signal I
would turn that off altogether until you get to an area where you know you have
signal unless you really really need it and you're trying to contact someone in
an emergency definitely turn it to airplane mode if you're in that
situation now as far as Bluetooth people always ask me should I turn off
Bluetooth the only time I would say turn off Bluetooth is if you're not using an
Apple watch or air pods or something like that because Bluetooth is so low
power that it almost makes no difference for most people so it's more
the display that's using power or the processor not so much bluetooth because
it's very low-power and it's fairly limited in range as well and hopefully
those battery tips helped you that's really all there is to it follow those
tips and really adjusting the brightness you'll probably see the most change
along with that background app refresh but let me know if you have any other
tips in the comments below and also if you'd like to get your hands on this
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