Is your iPhone battery draining faster than expected? It’s not always because of 5G, high brightness, or too many apps. In fact, a few hidden settings could be silently consuming your phone’s power throughout the day. Here are three simple changes that can help you extend your iPhone’s battery life and keep it running efficiently.
1. Turn Off Background App Refresh
Background App Refresh allows apps to update even when you’re not using them — convenient, but power-hungry. This constant activity drains battery life and uses data unnecessarily.
How to disable it:
- Go to Settings → General → Background App Refresh
- Choose Off, or turn it off for specific apps that don’t need constant updates.
Once you switch it off, you’ll likely notice a clear improvement in your iPhone’s battery performance.
2. Adjust Accessibility Settings
Some Accessibility features quietly consume energy to enhance visual comfort. Two of them are worth tweaking:
- Auto-Brightness: This feature continuously adjusts your screen’s brightness using sensors, which can be power-intensive.
- Go to Settings → Accessibility → Display & Text Size, scroll down, and turn Auto-Brightness off.
- You can still adjust brightness manually through the Control Centre when needed.
- Reduce Motion: iOS animations and effects may look great but can drain your battery.
- Navigate to Settings → Accessibility → Motion, and toggle on Reduce Motion.
- This simple change minimizes background animations and saves power.
3. Disable “Raise to Wake”
If your iPhone lights up every time you lift it, that’s Raise to Wake in action. While handy, this feature keeps waking your display unnecessarily — wasting battery over time.
How to turn it off:
- Go to Settings → Display & Brightness
- Toggle Raise to Wake off.
Your screen will now only light up when you tap it or press the side button, helping preserve power throughout the day.
A Few Tweaks, A Big Difference
By turning off these three settings — Background App Refresh, Auto-Brightness, and Raise to Wake — you’ll significantly extend your iPhone’s battery life. These adjustments not only help your device last longer between charges but also make it run cooler and smoother.
Sometimes, it’s the small settings that make the biggest difference.