It’s not just your mind: Your iPhone’s power doesn’t last as long as it used to. That’s because every device’s battery  slowly loses its ability to maintain a fee. But even if your phone is a few years old, you shouldn’t have to maintain it in Low Power Mode  all time. By making a few little changes, you can offer your battery life a huge boost.

Whether you’re using your telephone to find information, supply music  or take that one final word, the last thing you want is for it to locked down at the worst possible time. Instead of scrambling for a cable or switching on Low Power Mode every couple days, take a minute to assess your phone options. Turning off a few power-draining capabilities could be the correct your power sorely needs-and it only takes hours to complete.

You can also keep an eye on your Battery Health menu  — it’ll tell you your battery health percentage ( 80 % or higher is considered good ), as well as show you how many times you’ve cycled your battery and whether or not your battery is “normal. “

We’ll discuss three iphone features that put a strain on your iPhone’s power to varying degrees, and demonstrate how you can turn them off to help preserve battery life. Here’s what you need to know.

Turn off widget on your phone switch panel

All the widgets on your switch panel push your software to immediately run in the background, frequently fetching data to update the information the widgets display, like sports scores or the conditions. Because these applications are continually running in the background credited to your widgets, that means they constantly drain energy.

If you want to help preserve some battery on iOS 18, the best thing to do is simply avoid widgets on your lock screen ( and home screen ). The easiest way to do this is to move to another switch panel report: Press your hand down on your existing switch panel and then click around to choose one that doesn’t have any widgets.

If you want to simply replace the widgets from your existing switch camera, press down on your lock screen, hit Customize, choose the Lock Screen option, tap on the app box and then beat the” —“ button on each app to replace them.

Reduce the motion of your iPhone UI

Your iPhone user interface has some fun, sleek animations. There’s the fluid motion of opening and closing apps, and the burst of color that appears when you activate Siri with Apple Intelligence, just to name a couple. These visual tricks help bring the slab of metal and glass in your hand to life. Unfortunately, they can also reduce your phone’s battery life.

If you want subtler animations across iOS, you can enable the Reduce Motion setting. To do this, go to Settings >   Accessibility  >   Motion and toggle on Reduce Motion.

Switch off your iPhone’s keyboard vibration

Surprisingly, the keyboard on the iPhone has never had the ability to vibrate as you type, an addition called “haptic feedback” that was added to iPhones with iOS 16. Instead of just hearing click-clack sounds, haptic feedback gives each key a vibration, providing a more immersive experience as you type. According to Apple, the very same feature may also affect battery life.

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According to this Apple support page about the keyboard, haptic feedback “might affect the battery life of your iPhone. ” No specifics are given as to how much battery life the keyboard feature drains, but if you want to conserve battery, it’s best to keep this feature disabled.

Fortunately, it is not enabled by default. If you’ve enabled it yourself, go to Settings >   Sounds & Haptics > Keyboard Feedback and toggle off  Haptic to turn off haptic feedback for your keyboard.

For more tips on iOS, read about how to access your Control Center more easily and why you might want to only charge your iPhone to 95 %.

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