Increase iPhone Battery Life for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus or S Series iPhones

Many iPhone users complain of fast battery drainage or short battery life. This is a problem for iPhone 6, 6s, 6+, and 6s+ users, and it's not always easy to fix. While there are some very complex steps you can take to conserve battery life on an iPhone, the fact is that you also limit the functionality of your iPhone. With extremely limited functionality, what's the point of even having an iPhone? In the article below, we will show you some quick and easy ways to conserve iPhone battery life anywhere and anytime. We've left out tips that disable your phone and just focused on things that conserve battery life or limit background application battery drainage on your iPhone. Also, have a look at our article on how to fix iPhone battery percentage problems if your battery isn't displaying the correct percentage or suddenly loses charge for no reason.

Adjust Display Brightness

Your iPhone offers a very modern system for determining the appropriate level of screen brightness. However, often that level of screen brightness is more than it needs to be. In such cases, you will want to disable the automatic screen brightness and set something that is more suitable to you. If you plan to be spending a long time in an office, then set your screen brightness to an appropriate level for your office. Likewise, if you're going to be out in the bright sun, then adjust your phone brightness accordingly.

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   To adjust display brightness on your iPhone manually, swipe up from the bottom of the screen

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   You will see a brightness bar that you can slide left or right.

   

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   To disable automatic brightness, open the settings panel

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   This is done by tapping once on the gear-shaped 'Settings' icon.

   

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   Once you have tapped on 'Settings', scroll down to 'Display & Brightness'

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   When you find 'Display & Brightness', tap on it one time.

   

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   After tapping on 'Display & Brightness', you will see a button for 'Auto-Brightness'

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   Tapping one time on this button will change it from green to gray or white and disable automatic brightness.

   

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   You may then press and hold the brightness icon, sliding it to the left to decrease brightness or to the right to increase brightness

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   This will allow you to set the brightness of your phone to a level that you are comfortable with.

   

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Enable Low Power Mode

The low-power mode is a great iPhone battery-saving feature that automatically shuts down many of the common iPhone power-hogging features. It only takes a moment to turn it on. The feature automatically turns itself off once your phone reaches 80 % or more in the battery charge. This is a useful feature for people who forget to disable the power-saving mode after charging their phones. If you always have a battery-saving mode on, your phone charge will last significantly longer.

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   To enable the low-power mode, tap once on the 'Settings' icon

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   This will open the settings panel.

   

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   After tapping on the 'Settings' icon, scroll down to the 'Battery' option

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   Once you find 'Battery', tap one time on the battery icon.

   

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   After tapping on the battery icon, you will see the battery menu

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   In the upper-right area, there is an icon for the low-power mode. Tap one time on 'Low Power Mode' to enable the low-power mode.

   

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   Once the low-power mode has been enabled, the switch will turn green; and you will notice that the battery percentage is shown in yellow instead of green

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   This indicates the iPhone is now in the low-power mode.

   

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Check App Usage

Applications use battery differently. Some, like Facebook, are notorious battery hogs. We recommend uninstalling these applications completely. That's discussed a little farther down in this tutorial. You can easily check which other applications are using the battery the most. If you find that an application you don't normally use or an application that you do use is using up too much of the battery, you can disable or remove it. Read on to learn how to check application usage.

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   From the battery menu indicated in the steps above, you can scroll down to see the applications you have used recently and the amount of power consumed by them

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   To receive detailed information about these apps, tap once on any application to see a detailed list of what's been used and how much of it was used

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   For example, you can see that that the WhatsApp iPhone application was used for 21 minutes and worked for eight minutes in the background. This used 7% of the battery.

   

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   At the top of the battery usage menu, you can also see applications used in the last 24 hours or last seven days

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   This is also helpful in determining where battery life has gone over time as opposed to the last 24 hours when you may have been chatting more than usual.

   

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Disable Background Application Refreshing

Many applications are set to automatically update information and refresh their newsfeeds. If you do not need up-to-the-minute information or if you may not benefit from these services, then you can disable applications that automatically refresh themselves on your iPhone. This may be when you are at work and your iPhone is constantly updating a Facebook feed that you are not looking at more than a few times a day.

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   Disabling background applications is very easy to do

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   If you already have the low-power mode enabled, then background application refreshing has automatically been disabled. If you do not have the low-power mode enabled, then simply navigate to the 'Settings' option on your phone by tapping once on 'Settings'.

   

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   After tapping on 'Settings', scroll down to the 'General' option

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   When you find the 'General' option, tap on it one time.

   

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   After tapping on 'General', scroll down to the 'Background App Refresh' option

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   When you find it, tap on it one time.

   

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   After tapping on 'Background App Refresh', you will be shown a window with all of the applications

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   Green indicates that an application is allowed to refresh itself and anything not green indicates that refreshing has been turned off. You may tap once on the 'Background App Refresh' option to turn it off, or you may tap individual applications to disable them.

   

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Uninstall Facebook and Messenger

The worst application on the iPhone for draining battery is Facebook. This is because the application tracks almost everything you do on your phone and constantly maintains connectivity, even when you have disabled these features. Most of the time, you will see a 15 % to 20 % increase in battery life by using the Facebook Web application as opposed to the built-in Facebook application.

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   To delete Facebook or the Facebook Messenger application, locate the application on your phone screen and then press and hold the application icon until all of your icons begin shaking

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   You will discern a small X in the top corner of the icon.

   

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   To delete Facebook or Facebook Messenger, simply press and hold the application icon

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   It should start to shake, as indicated above.

   

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   After pressing the application icon you will see a circle with an 'X' appear in the top-left corner of the icon

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   Press the 'X' one time to delete the icon.

   

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   You will receive a pop-up menu asking if you wish to delete the application

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   Tap 'Delete' to continue.

   

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   After tapping on 'Delete', you will see that the icon has been deleted

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   Repeat this process for the Messenger application.

   

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   When you have finished, press the home button one time so that you are no longer in the deletion mode

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   This will return you to the normal iPhone mode. You have now deleted Facebook and Messenger. You may open your web browser to access Facebook now. You can still send and receive messages, except that are now doing so when you want to. You can even leave the web page open and check it as often as you like.

   

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• There are many things that can cause your phone charge to quickly go down. Some of the steps listed in this tutorial may not work for you but others will. Try them all.
• Always remember to update to the latest version of iOS, as updates often fix battery drainage issues.

If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.

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