What's up everybody I'm Brian this is the Apple Bias and today we're going to be talking about how
to extend the iPhone minI's battery life because we all know this is the best phone honestly these
tips will work with any iPhone sometimes you may need a little bit more power especially with the
mini the mini does have the smallest battery on the 13 line because it's obviously the smallest
and you can actually hold it one-handed which is absolutely amazing that being said
none of us like seeing that dreaded screen you know the one I'm talking about that's right
the low battery screen especially if it happens when it's not nighttime yet and it's like no I'm
not gonna be able to make it through a day and yes they make that awesome MagSafe battery pack which
I highly recommend and I actually did a video all about that it's even got some improvements lately
some of us don't want to carry around that but we still want the mini size phones so today I'm
just going to show you how to have your phone handle everything itself like you don't have to
go through any settings to change it once you set this up your phone will just take care of
the rest this is hands down the easiest tips on extending your battery life so without further
ado let's go ahead and let's get into it so we're on our iPhone now the first thing we're going to
want to do is to launch the shortcuts app this has been around for a little while now and it's super
powerful but it's a little weird to navigate but I'm going to walk you through the entire
process my phone screen is going to be right up here you're going to be able to see everything
that I do on my phone so you can just repeat it feel free to pause rewind whatever you got to do
because these settings are definitely worth it so the first thing you want to do once you get
into the shortcut app is to go into automation this whole section is so powerful and allows you
to just do everything automatically so there's a little plus right on the top corner we're gonna
create a personal automation and now you have all these different settings that you can go through
so I'm gonna control all these settings based on battery level if my battery ever falls below
50 percent I'm gonna trigger all these actions so what are the actions well first off we're
gonna do cellular and then we're gonna want to go into set voice and data mode so here you can see
set voice and data mode to lte on primary so now in here you may have 5G enabled 5G is a battery
hog so you want to disable that when you don't need it and this will disable it when the battery
is less than 50 that way you don't have to worry about 5G taking a lot of battery 5G is amazing but
at the same time it's not everywhere so this will automatically change your phone from 5G to LTE
when the battery is less than 50 now we can set that battery to whatever we want it to be you
can make it 60 you can make it 70. you can make it 40 30 wherever you want to be you know how you use
your phone you know how long your days are so you set it to whatever you want go ahead and go next
now there there is this option that says ask before running we're going to want to turn that
off and tell it not to ask so go ahead and go done so now you can see when the battery falls below 50
percent it's gonna trigger this action so now that I have all that set up I'm actually going to go in
and add even more automation to this one action that way when the battery is less than 50 not only
will that happen but it will do some more actions as well so all we have to do is go back into that
action and we want to go to the do section and then at the bottom there's this search for apps
and actions so we click on that you want to search dark mode but you don't want to select this set
light in dark mode because that's for the apple tv there's set appearance you couldn't really see it
on the iPhone mini because it wouldn't let me scroll down but that was that next option
and you can say turn appearance dark so if you didn't know dark mode is also way less on the
battery on these new phones they have that OLED screen and anything black barely uses any power so
the more black you have the better you got it alright so next up as you can see we're still
in this screen now that we've added that one we can just click on the bottom and we can go ahead
and add another one so now I'm going to search low power all right set low power mode because at 30
that's when it normally asks you to turn on low power mode and then ask you again at 20 and then
possibly again at 10 but now we're beating it to it because now we're just gonna go ahead and
turn it on at 50. now throughout the day when I'm before I'm at 50 low power mode is off but
once I hit that 50 percent low power mode turns on and then it helps extend the battery life if
you didn't know what low power mode does it stops apps from working in the background as often and
does a lot of other random stuff that just uses less power so now we have all the actions but
what happens now now my phone's always going to be in low power mode it's always going to have 5G off
and it's always going to be in dark mode that's kind of annoying isn't it so what we're going to
do is we're just going to come back in we're going to add another automation so we're going to go
ahead and create another personal automation we're going to scroll back down to that battery level
but this time we're going to say 70 so now if it rises above 70 percent we're just gonna undo these
actions so let's go ahead set voice and data we can click on the LTE right there and say 5G auto
once again there's that ask before running we'll want to turn that off and say don't ask you also
don't need to be notified so now that has been set we go back into the setting that says when battery
is rises above 70 percent we can click back on the do and now we're going to type in dark mode
once again you notice how I have to kind of I can't whatever reason a little bug there
so now I'm going to turn the appearance light and we're going to do one more which is the low power
now the iPhone automatically turns low power mode off I believe once you get to 80 or 90
so you really don't have to re-add this one but if you want to you can so I went ahead turn low power
mode off and now I can go I can click done now I have these all set up so what's gonna happen well
now everything's gonna happen automatically when I plug in my phone and it rises above
seventy percent it's gonna turn all those features off to save battery
once it falls below 50 it's gonna turn them all on it's that simple like with these little features
your phone will have a better chance of lasting throughout the day if you got anything out of
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rest of your day and I hope to see you all in the next one God bless