Nowadays, we rely on our smartphones just like we rely on oxygen and electronic products. Naturally, this makes us have higher demand to the batter life of smartphones, and hope they can last longer between charges. However, they are just beautiful wishes. Most of us find our mobile phone and tablet battery draining fast, especially, iPhone and iPad.
Many users who upgraded to iOS 10 or just get a new iPhone 7 complain that their iPhone or iPad battery draining fast, even can’t make it through the day without charging. This issue can also happen to some users after updating to iOS 11/11.0.1 or on their new iPhone 8/X. Here we collect the top 16 iPhone iPad battery saving tips for you so that you can solve your iPhone iPad battery problems and make it last longer. And this post is suit for all the models of iPhone and iPad, including the old iPhone 4/4s/5/5s, the new iPhone 7/6/6s/SE, and the new iPhone 8/iPhone X and save battery power iphone 6 plus.
Before starting our iPhone iPad Battery Tips & Tricks, there is an important note for you: the idea isn't to performing all of them on your iPhone iPad to boost its battery life, instead, it's to start from a clean slate. So that you can figure out what had been draining the battery of your iPhone, iPad, and then follow our tips and tricks to bring your battery life back up to where you can get several days of standby, or at least get through a whole day without recharging.
Method 1: Check What Drains Your iPhone iPad’s Battery
When it comes to extending or improving battery on iPhone iPad, the first thing you need to do is checking what Apps drains your iPhone iPad battery most. For iOS 10/11 users, you can follow us with the steps below:
1 On your iPhone iPad, launch Settings App.
2 Scroll down to tap on Battery.
3 Scroll down to see which of your Apps were the biggest battery drainers in the past 24 hours, or last 7 days.
You need to remember these iPhone or iPad battery drainers, and we will take them into consideration when performing some operations. For example, Facebook eats up nearly 33% battery of your iPhone, you can choose to close Facebook's Background Refresh, or close its notification, etc.
Method 2: Enable Low Power Mode on Your iPhone
Enable Low Power Mode to Extend Battery on iPhone
If you are working with an iPhone 4s/5/5s/6/6s/SE/7/8/X, and your iDevice is running with iOS 9 and later, you must have noticed that a nice function named Low Power Mode, which will be activated automatically when your iPhone’s battery reaches below 20% percent. When Low Power Mode is on, mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, and some visual effects will be turned off or reduced automatically. This will greatly increase battery life on your iPhone.
Although this function will be activated automatically, you also can turn it on manually when necessary to make your iPhone battery last longer. To activate Low Power Mode on your iPhone which is running with iOS 9/10/11:
Go to Settings > Battery > Tap it to turn on Low Power Mode.
Once the Low Power Mode is turned on, the battery percentage in top right corner will be shown in yellow, just like the photo in the right shows. And this feature is only available on iPhones that are running with iOS 9/10/11, and iPad doesn’t have this feature.