- 99% Of iPhone battery issues are caused
by the software, not the hardware.
These settings will help improve your iPhone's battery life.
- We promise.
- [Lynch] Open "Settings" app.
First one, tap on "Battery."
Seems like a pretty good place to start.
Tap on battery health.
Then lets make sure this switch
next to "optimized battery charging" is on.
- And after you do that,
give this video a thumbs up, if you enjoy it,
just a thumbs up.
- Yeah, quick thumbs up. - It's not much to ask.
- Quick tip, quick win here. - Yep, quick win.
Reduces battery aging.
- There you go. - Easy.
The next thing we want to talk about
is rather controversial, as far as you know,
Apple spaces go.
Closing out of apps.
- Right. You should never have to close out of your apps.
iPhones work perfectly.
We live in iPhone utopia,
but we don't. - We don't.
- In fact, apps crash.
Apps have problems.
They start running in the background,
they don't stop running, drains your battery life.
You don't want that. - You don't want that.
So... - Close them out.
- Good idea to close out of your apps.
If you have an iPhone with the home button,
double press that home button.
If you're like me, iPhone no home button,
swipe up to the center of the screen,
and just swipe your app up and off the top of the screen.
- Yep. DraftKings. - DraftKings.
- See you later.
- DraftKings see you later.
Let's go back to the main page in the settings app,
and tap on "Privacy."
We're going to do a whole bunch in here,
so get comfortable.
- Put on your seat belts.
- [Lynch] So, first thing, we're going to scroll down,
tap "Analytics & Improvements".
Just turn off that switch at the top of the screen.
- Right, let apple improve their own gosh darn products,
you don't need to do it, - Yep.
- 'Cause they're not paying you.
- Yeah. Those analytics, they get sent to Apple,
burn batteries, a little bit of cellular data...
- Exactly. - ...too.
- [Lynch] Tap back, upper left-hand corner of the screen,
scroll to the top of the screen,
and tap on "Location Services."
Look through this list of apps.
The primary word you're looking for is "always."
- "Always" means that that app can use your location
all the time, even when you're not using it,
which uses the GPS on your phone,
which uses a lot of battery life.
So... - Yep. SEFCU.
- "Always." We don't want that.
- SEFCU is a bank in upstate New York.
Does my bank needed my location
- All the time? - All the time?
- No it does not.
- I don't think so. - I don't think it really
ever needs my location,
but pretty much anything other than "always"
would be pretty safe in terms of battery life.
It's just that those "always" can get really out of control,
especially "always" plus "precise location."
- That means, do you want your battery to last
more than 10 seconds? - Yeah.
- Turn that off.
- [Lynch] So precise location, make sure that's off,
we'll do "never" because it's here.
- Yeah. I know where the bank is, thank you very much
- Yeah, know where the bank is,
know where the ATM's are.
It's fine. - Yep.
We got it. - Yep.
Let's tap back again, scroll down
and tap on "System Services."
We've got a lot of things on here,
we need to turn most of them off.
- What do we like to keep on, David?
- [Lynch] Emergency SOS.
- [Payette] Right.
- [Lynch] Find my iPhone. - Yup.
- [Lynch] And networking and wireless.
So, let's just go ahead, - Let's do it.
- While I turn these switches off, you will say something.
(crickets chirping)
- Look at him go.
(crickets chirping)
- Rounding out the bottom. - So,
setting time zones- - Oh, was it supposed,
was it supposed to be about the battery?
- Yeah, I was hoping it could be
about, like, the stuff we're talking about.
- That's a lot to ask.
- [Lynch] So, setting time zone, for instance,
unless you travel across time zones frequently,
you don't need to turn this on.
I recently traveled to Greece, I didn't have this on,
I got landed in Greece, turned it on,
time zone changed, turned it off.
Great. - Yup.
- [Lynch] But when all these switches are on,
these things are using location all the time,
and drain your iPhone's battery, and you don't need it.
- You just don't need it.
- "I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it."
- [Lynch] Share my location. - [Payette] Oh look at him go.
- [Lynch] Sharing framework,
system customization, - [Payette] Look at the bottom
- WiFi calling. So, we recommend turning the switch off.
We've had some- - Turn it off.
- We've had some comments saying this,
you know, breaks my WiFi-
- It's gonna break my WiFi calling
No, it's not.
I'm going to interrupt David a thousand times in this video.
- If it does, if it does break WiFi calling,
come back to us.
- Yeah, no, no, it's just,
It doesn't. The reason it exists is that,
if you go to a different country,
sometimes different countries
have WiFi calling set up differently.
It has nothing to do with WiFi calling in the U.S.
If you live in the U.S, if you live in your country
where you live, and you're not going to a different country,
you don't need to have this on.
- [Lynch] Here under product improvement.
Apple can improve their own...
- They're own gosh darn- - ...products
- Yeah, yeah, and "improve maps" is just in there as a joke.
- Lost cause - Obviously, leave it off,
because, you know,... - Never. No chance.
Next, tap on "Significant Locations."
Face ID, turn off this switch at the top of the screen.
If this has been on for a while, you'll see a whole bunch
of places that you've been recently.
It's weird. - A little creepy.
- It's weird, and it also drains battery using your location
- Yeah, it just does not need to be collecting this data.
It's kind of dumb.
- We've got one more privacy setting to talk about,
and there's more tips, so don't leave after that tip.
Back to "system services," back to the main page of privacy,
Tap on "research sensor and usage data."
This is kind of like iPhone analytics,
but for a different part of the settings app.
- Yeah, yeah, so turn this off.
Can we get to a fun one, David?
- I love fun tips.
- Let's go back to the main page of settings.
Let's get out of this boring ol' privacy section.
Go down to mail. - Mail. Very exciting
compared to privacy. - Yep.
And let's tap on accounts, and then on "Fetch New Data,"
and turn off "Push" at the top.
With push mail on, your iPhone maintains a connection
to the email server, and it's always asking...
- "Is there mail? Is there mail?"
Constantly draining battery life.
- "Is there mail? Is there mail? Is there mail?"
Yeah, right, exactly.
- Why would you do that if you could just
have mail fetch every 15-30 minutes, or hour,
or manually anytime you open up the mail app, it'll fetch
your new mail for you - For the love of God,
and, I mean, look at, we've been saying this for years,
but Apple recently adds this little footnote,
- Oh.
"For better battery life,... - Interesting.
- ...fetch less frequently."
- Who was saying that in 2015?
Not Apple. - We were saying that.
I was saying that at the Apple Store in 2011.
Whoa. - Whoa.
- As an Apple Tech.
- A decade of good battery advice,
Apple is finally catching on.
That's why you gotta watch these videos,
subscribe to this channel,
join this channel - They, I can't believe
they let me get away.
It really- - You could've revolutionized
the, uh, - I had ideas there.
- You had ideas? - And they were like, "Dave,
go fix the phones."
- Yeah, we're, we don't need-
- We're not paying you to think.
- Yeah. "We're not paying you to think.
That's why we're a trillion dollar company."
- Right, right. Yeah, look what happened after I left.
- [Narrator] This stunning architecture sprawls across
176 acres of land.
(distorted laugh and crickets chirping)
- Okay.
- Another classic tip is up next: background app refresh.
This allows apps to download new content
in the background of your iPhone,
even when you're not using them.
So, to get there, back to the main page of settings,
scroll up, and tap general,
then tap "background app refresh."
- And then subscribe to our channel,
and then tap background, I'm trying to sneak it in there.
- Yeah. So well. - Under the radar.
Did that work? No, probably, but please subscribe
to our channel. Please. It helps us a lot.
We're trying to, you could be one of
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- [Lynch] Scroll down this list of apps and see,
do you want these to download new content
in the background of your iPhone?
Clubhouse? Definitely not, I haven't used Clubhouse
in forever. It was just...
- Right, it got to be a little much after a while.
- I see, a lot of these, a lot of apps,
you don't need them to download new content.
- They let in the riffraff on Clubhouse.
- Yeah. - Exactly.
- It used to be exclusive. One thing I will say is that,
for messaging apps especially, you'll probably want
to leave background app refresh on
because you want those new messages to come in
even when the app's not open.
- Right. - No brainer there.
Next up another classic battery tip,
we've played all the greatest hits today.
It's reduce motion.
Let's tap back, upper left-hand corner of the screen,
back to the main page of settings.
Tap on "accessibility," then tap "motion."
"Reduce Motion." You turning that switch on or off?
- [Payette] I would turn it on.
Reduce the motion of a user interface,
including the parallax effective icons.
Now you're sacrificing the parallax effect here,
- "What did you say?"
- but it's going to save your battery life
because it's going to use less GPU power,
graphics processing unit,
which uses a lot of battery life.
- Yeah, and you'll get used to the lack of animations
or parallax, whatever.
- Yeah. - Pretty quickly.
These are all little battery savers.
Some of them are bigger, like the location services stuff
and the push mail.
This is a little one, but they all add up.
- Little ones add up to big tips.
- Right. - [Lynch] Let's head back
to "accessibility." One more accessibility setting
we want to talk about
is reduce white point.
So, if you tap on "display & text size" and scroll,
- You're getting ahead of yourself here, David
- I know. - You're tapping,
you're free tapping.
- It's one above. - They're, they're, yeah.
Go ahead and leave a comment,
"Slow down. You're going to fast."
- "Yeah, slow down. You're an idiot."
- "Yeah, geeze, if these guys would just shut up
and slow down. Why is the blond guy so hot?"
I don't know, okay, anyway.
- [Lynch] You tap on "display & text size,"
"reduce white point." Turn that switch on.
This allows you to make your iPhone actually dimmer...
- Yup. - ...than the lowest setting
on the brightness slider.
- Right? So I like 50%.
And then, you can still go up into "brightness"
in the upper right-hand corner and bump it up,
and it's still going to be bright enough.
The reason we have it lower right now
is that we're recording a video.
It's not going to look lower to you,
but it needs to be sort of the same brightness
as the table. Ish.
- [Lynch] Yeah.
- That's a little behind the scenes tip for you.
For when you subscribe and join.
- Speaking of brightness and darkness, "turn on dark mode"
is a good battery tip.
- Yeah. I mean it makes sense, right?
It's kind of a no brainer.
- [Lynch] Let's get back to the main page of settings,
tap "display & brightness," just tap on dark.
- Ooh. - I think it looks better too.
- I think it does too.
- It took them forever to actually put dark mode on iPhones
and, you know, it's...
- It didn't disappoint though. - It did not.
- And then turn off that switch next to automatic,
so that it just remains dark.
- [Lynch] But we'll leave it on light
for the rest of this video.
Back to those inside tips about video recording,
- Video recording. But, yeah.
I'm too lazy to turn it off,
that's why all mine are dark mode.
- Updating your iPhone is another a good tip.
Can resolve a variety of software problems, you know,...
- Right. Your battery dying fast? Check for an iOS update.
- Yeah. So, back to the main page settings,
tap general, tap software update.
- Wow. - iOS 15.
We're up to date. We're running the beta.
- Yeah. This is exciting. - Yep.
- Next.
- Restart your iPhone once a week.
I feel like a lot of people don't do this.
Where they just don't turn off their iPhone,
- Ever. - And they'll go weeks
and weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and weeks,...
- "Week!" - ...and it never turns off,
and some of these software crashes
can build up in the background
of your iPhone, and just a simple restart will fix it.
- Yeah. It's essentially a way to
start from scratch. What David said. Eliminates problems.
- Yes. So, thanks for watching this video.
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