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How to Save Battery Life - iPhone W/ iOS 7

Complete Guide
This tutorial is meant to provide suggestions for saving your iPhone's battery life on iOS 7. It provides step by step
instructions on how to turn o unnecessary, battery hungry features.
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Brightness & Wallpaper

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Go to: Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper - The lower the brightness
the better battery life. Turn on auto brightness for optimum
brightness in every scenario.

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Go to: Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper - Don't use a dynamic

wallpaper to save battery. Use a static image instead.

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Control Center Options

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Swipe up from the bottom of your screen to access control center. 1.

Turn bluetooth o when not in use. 2. Turn airdrop o when not it
use.

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Noti cations

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Go to: Settings > Noti cation Center - Turn o all noti cations for
unnecessary applications.
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Location Services

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Go to: Settings > Privacy > Location Services - Turn o location access
for unnecessary applications.

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Turn O System Services

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While still in location services, scroll to the bottom and open System
Services. Turn o "Diagnostics & Usage" and "Location-Based iAds"

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Limit Ad Tracking

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Go to: Settings > Privacy > Advertising - Turn on Limit Ad Tracking

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Turn o Diagnostics & Usage

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Go to: Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage - Choose
Don't Send. This will save battery by not sending diagnostic
information over the Internet.
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Reduce Motion

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Go to: Settings > General > Accessibility - Turn on Reduce Motion. This
reduces the movement if you background which requires extra
battery.

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Turn o Background App Refresh

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Go to: Settings > General > Background App Refresh - Turn

Background App Refresh o . This will disallow apps from
automatically updating in the background.

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THAT'S ALL!! The combination of all of these things should signi cantly
improve your battery life. THANKS FOR VIEWING!

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179 COMMENTS
Dianne Tajudar
Thank you!
11 months ago

Joy Zhang
Thx a lot!!
11 months ago

Jaden Harper
I can already see a di erence!
11 months ago

Lynn M
Thank you! Very useful.
11 months ago

LaShun Williams
Very helpful for new iPhone users.
12 months ago

Cheryl Carter
I ultimately found that after 4 days, my battery life mysteriously started working better. On day
1 and 2, I had already tried every tweak I could nd, including the ones you list. I think, in my
case, since I have a LOT of data, perhaps this additional information may be useful here:
Remember that after you upgrade, the iPhone or iPad will run a full "spotlight" ( search ) index,
which takes some time and the device will be slow until it completes this. Also, the rst time
you "swipe" or open an application or group, the animation is generated. The second and
subsequent times, it is taken from "cache" which is much quicker. I've been running iOS7 for
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some months on my iPhone and feel it is probably slightly faster and battery life slightly better
overall than iOS6. On my iPad, I upgraded recently, and initially thought "this is slow" until I
remembered it has these jobs to do. Give it a bit of time.
12 months ago

Seth Carlton (author)

For everyone disagreeing with shutting down background apps, i agree with you. If you
continually shut down your background applications it can actually drain more battery to reload the applications. I have removed this step from the guide.
12 months ago

Dantes Bermudez-Calix
Thanks!
12 months ago

Mitch Cox
Video on increasing battery life with iOS 7 http://youtu.be/9tjrFRzHFlY
12 months ago

Axee Khan
The battery issue is quite annoying in the older iPhone and iPad version, e.g my older iPhone 4
has been signi cantly hit by this iOS7 and the battery draining even quicker now and it won't
last for 12 hrs even if the phone is in stand by mode. Then I found these amazing tips
http://axeetech.com/2013/09/25/top-10-battery-saving-tips-for-iphone5-and-iphone-5c/ which
really saved my iPhone 4 battery and the phone worked longer than ever.
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