That dreaded time when you leave the house with 70% and can't charge your phone all day, so you will have a dead phone by the end of the day, we've all experienced this.
Sadly Iphones don't tend to have a Nokia style battery life so a day outing usually kills the remaining battery leaving a blank screen until you can plug yourself in.And that is unavoidable really unless we all buy those swanky charging phone cases (find them here, here and here) but for those of us that for whatever reason don't own that kind of sorcery this post gives quick, simple and easy tricks to make your Iphone's battery last that little bit longer.
Firstly the thing that some people do know and others don't: when you open an app do whatever you need to on it and then lock or press the home button the app stays active. so after a quick go on candy crush if you just press the home button candy crush is still using your 3G and battery! Here's how to fix that.
1) double click the home button which should bring you to a similar screen to this:
(Probably wont have the same mermaid background or apps open but these are for demonstration purposes)
Here you will see all of your open apps that are sneakily draining your 3G and battery! cheeky buggers!
2) put your finger on the app and swipe up this exits the app but don't worry it doesn't delete the app it just saves your precious percentage left!
Here I have screen-shotted mid swipe on the settings app.
and keep swiping up on those apps until you see a zoomed out version of your main home screen.
The slide on the left is the 'zoomed out home screen'.
3) Now that all of those apps are not draining your battery another way to save as much as possible is to turn the brightness right down (unless you really need it at full brightness). This can be done by swiping up on the screen from the bottom to about half way down the screen, this will pull up an opaque grey slide showing these options:
Lots of your phone can be controlled here e.g. music, volume, quick access to torch and camera and lots more!
4) After revealing the grey slide the smaller sun and bigger sun on either end of the line at the top controls the brightness of your screen (this is also accessible in settings but this way is quicker). Simply slide the little white dot towards the smaller sun to reduce brightness and increase your battery!
5) Also to do with brightness, on settings under your brightness there is an option called Auto-brightness which automatically increases and decreases light to be able to see the screen in varying lights. With this turned on you can still use brightness adjustments!
6) Turning your Bluetooth off also saves your precious battery life, this can again be done by getting up the grey slide and a little 'B' button along the top symbolizes your Bluetooth. Simply tap the icon until it has black lines this means it is turned off.
There's so many ways to save battery but these are the main 6 I use in a hurry to save my phones life for another hour or so. I hope this helps you when you're needing a longer battery life and saves the day!
Love Katie XOX
