Rob Help! My iphone 5 is using battery power like a drunken sailor! I even run thru 50% in my sleep.
And you already called it... There are no Lightning cables available yet, so I have to drag my only cable everywhere I go!
Please give us some help in your next show.
Regards,
John P.
Ok - So this is actually similar to emails I see with each new iPhone and update of iOS. There are added features - and that means added ways for better drain.
So lets go through a list of 13 different ways you can save on your battery life with your iPhone or iOS device. Some are oldies but goodies - others are new and more specific to iOS 6.
1. Turn the brightness down on your iPhone and turn off auto brightness. Do this in the Settings app under Brightness and Wallpaper.
2. Turn off bluetooth - this is another battery drainer - if you don't need bluetooth turn it off. This is now in the Settings app - in the top section.
3. Turn off wifi if you are going to work or driving in your car and don't expect to be somewhere where you plan on using Wifi - just turn it off. This is still near the top of the settings app.
4. Turn off Raise to Speak with Siri - in settings - for Siri - turn off Raise to Speak option - unless you actually use it - no reason to have it on.
5. A big Battery drain is Location Services - this is the one in iOS 5 that caused the most issues on battery life. In iOS 6 the controls for location services moved - go to Settings App - then Privacy - then location services. Then scroll down and select System Services. Other than Traffic I would say turn all of them off - and if you don't use traffic in the maps app - turn it off to.
6. Staying with Location services - when you first got to that page you could see services for Camera, Maps, Weather, and Find My iPhone. For most - just turn off Weather. If you are not using the maps app - you can turn that off as well. I would highly recommend keeping on find my iPhone. That one is important.
7. A new one to turn on actually is Settings App - General - About - Advertising - and Then Turn on Limit Ad Tracking - ok not really sure that will help on battery life - but it is something Apple should have had turned on by default - and we are just getting that set up correctly now. Plus if you are limiting ad tracking that does mean less data sent from the iOS device - so yeah it should help in battery life.
8. Next Settings App - General - About - Diagnostic & Usage - Select Don't Send - which will keep your error messages and data from being sent to Apple - yeah you are not doing your part to help out the community - but enough others are that it does not matter - hows that for narcissistic community spirit.
9. Mail - set it up to manually update. Settings app then select Mail, contacts, calendars. Then Fetch new Data - then Turn off Push and change Fetch to Manually. While you are at it you can also click on Advanced then iCloud and change that from Push to Manual. Especially if you don't use iCloud much or at all.
10. In the settings App - podcasts - turn off use cellular data.
11. Also in the Settings App - General - Auto-lock - change that to 1 or 2 minutes. That will put your screen to sleep quicker.
12. In the Settings App for Notifications - look to see what apps you have set to get notifications / pushes - do you really need to be able to get notifications from your games - I mean do I need messages from Tron or Trucks & skulls - nope - so I turned them off.
13. Finally - close out all your open apps. For those that don't know how to close out apps - double tap on the home button - you should see a tray open at the bottom of the screen - tap and hold one of the apps - the apps in the bottom tray should start to wiggle and in the upper left corner of the icon there should be a red circle with a minus sign in it - tap on those red circles until there are no more open apps.
