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Conserve Battery Life On Your iPhone

Posted July 20, 2009 10:00 AM by Tanner Godarzi
Categories: Tips 

image Everyone strives to get a little more juice from their iPhones and thanks to a few quick tips, you can do just that.

iPhone Freak has compiled a quick list of 10 tips to squeeze more juice from your iPhone.

Turn down screen brightness, adjust email to check for email less often, turn off WiFi, turn on auto-lock for the screen, turn off the equalizer, get an external battery, get a mobile charger, turn off vibration alerts, turn off Bluetooth, update the phone often

Via: iPhone Freak

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  1. Okay, don’t take this personal now—but I’m really fed up with those articles that are basically suggesting to turn everything useful off in order to save some battery life…! Why not turn the whole damn device off and store it in a drawer then…?!

    Maybe it’s just that I’ve never experienced real problems with battery life with any of my previous iPhones or my current 3GS, but if I turn off push and wi-fi and what not—why would I want to have and use an iPhone in the first place…?!

    The only thing I usually have turned off is 3G, but only because EDGE is pretty fast and reliable over here in Germany so I don’t really see a need for using the 3G network…but that’s about it…!

    People need to realize that the iPhone is more than an average cell phone and that—even though they often don’t realize it—they use it much more extensive than just their cell phone or just their iPod…! So of course the battery life is going to be shorter, get used to it and just re-charge it every now and then…

    Posted by MILE on July 20, 2009 4:38 PM

  2. I agree completely. The best battery life you can get is shut it down completely. It’s got like 300 hours standby time, so it should be even longer if you just don’t use it! Unless, of course, you bought it because it’s an iPhone and does so many cool things!

    Posted by salgud on July 20, 2009 8:47 PM

  3. Turning off 3G works for me. I wish they had a “shake to turn off 3G option”, for the preference is buried in the settings.

    Posted by Mick C on July 21, 2009 1:48 AM

  4. I use my iPhone 3G alot, so of course I have to charge it. It does not other me. If you are a heavy user, if might be wise to have a charger you carry with you in your work bag, I do.

    Mick, I agree with you on that the 3G On/Off options is buried. I wish that there was a favorites settings” app or a link (1 page) just under settings, where you could add the 4-5 of your favorite settings. 3G On/Off would be my number 1

    Posted by Joel on July 21, 2009 8:14 AM

  5. Mile, your approach sounds a bit too little eco-firendly to be German.

    Your points are logical and understandable but in the long term it´s also a matter of resources optimization and energy saving..

    Posted by Paola Anima Gemella on July 23, 2009 8:30 AM

  6. I find it really good to know how to conserve battery for times where I am away from my chargers for a certain amount of time – like say I leave for the weekend and forget to bring a charger. During those times, 3g is the first thing that I turn off, and I do also wish that it was easier to turn off. Also wifi and bluetooth and dim the screen.

    PS: ‘get an external battery’ and ‘get a mobile charger’, are NOT ways to squeeze more juice from your iPhone.

    Posted by Henri on July 26, 2009 2:15 PM

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