The battery is undoubtedly the element that suffers the most from the high temperatures typical of this season. If you’re reading us from the northern hemisphere and it’s summer, you should know a series of basics that will help you keep your iPhone battery in good condition, and therefore extend its life.
In this way, We want to give you the basic tips for protecting your iPhone battery in the summer that will help you get the most out of it. Discover them with us, because you probably didn’t know many of these tricks and now you won’t be able to do without them, are you ready?
Automatic brightness, your great ally
While most users have auto-brightness turned on, there are still many more who are wary of this feature. It never makes more sense than in the summer. Exposure to powerful light sources makes us use a power of luminosity which, as a rule, is greater than what is really necessary. In this case, we recommend that you activate the automatic brightness, in this way the brightness sensor of our iPhone will take into account the environmental conditions and avoid completely unnecessary energy consumption.
For it, we’re going to Settings > Accessibility > Display > Auto-brightness, to make sure we enable this feature. We can also use the application search engine Settings to locate this feature faster.
If, on the contrary, we appreciate that the operation of the automatic brightness is not adequate, we can always adjust or calibrate it, for it:
- Disable auto-brightness
- Go to a completely dark place and turn the brightness down to a minimum
- Now in Settings reselect auto brightness
In this way we will have calibrated the brightness so that in situations of absolute darkness the brightness is at a minimum. We will see how this feature will perform its task impeccably.
Dark mode, other basic settings
Although the dark mode is mainly designed for low light conditions, the reality is that it will be much easier for us to read the content that the device shows us in dark mode when we are exposed to fairly powerful light sources. In addition, the iPhone itself will benefit from not having to set the lighting power to maximum of the screen so that we can see something on a white background.
For all of this, our recommendation is that during the harsher summer months, we adjust the dark mode constantly. To do this, go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Dark Appearance > Auto OFF.
Thus, the dark mode will be permanently activated and we will make sure that we can display the content in the most correct way possible outdoors. This will greatly benefit autonomy since OLED screens like the iPhone turn off pixels that appear black, and therefore we will be able to maintain a much more stable temperature of use, since setting the brightness to the maximum is one of the functions that heats our iPhone the most and consumes proportionally more battery.
Avoid wireless charging and fast charging
Wireless charging is a great ally, thanks to it I leave my iPhone every day on its MagSafe support every night and I forget to do anything else. The Lightning port appreciates it, but in summer this can be an extremely negative point, especially if it comes to poorly air-conditioned rooms.
wireless charging It is undoubtedly one of the external agents that can increase the temperature of our iPhone, which is very harmful for the battery..
The same happens with fast charging in case we do not do it in properly conditioned places. For him, We recommend that you avoid using wireless charging in the car, kitchen or beach at all costs during these months, since the result can be fatal in terms of battery degradation, which we can probably appreciate with the arrival of the new operating system throughout September.
Wireless charging and fast charging are more than proven to be detrimental to battery degradation, although in many cases using them compensates us.
Customize location settings
The use of different location methods is undoubtedly one of the culprits for the consumption of the battery and also for the noticeable increase in the temperature of our iPhone. When we use the GPS navigation systems with the mobile network card, we can quickly notice how noticeably the phone heats up. Therefore, we need to use location settings correctly. To do this, we advise you to go to Settings > Privacy & Location > System Services, and customize the following settings:
- Common locations: This is a “useless” feature and the culprit of high battery consumption of our iPhone. Disable it, because it just monitors the most frequent points we visit, which in practice is not useful at all.
- Commerce ID (Apple Pay): This location system is dedicated solely and exclusively to offer us promotional content through payments with Apple Pay, which is of no use outside the United States of America since the points of sale do not have any type integration in this regard.
- Location-based suggestions: Like the previous parameter, the sole purpose of this section is to serve us advertising content, so we don’t need it at all.
- iPhone Analysis / Navigation and Traffic: Both features, focused on “product improvement”, have the sole purpose of large-scale data analysis, so this is a feature that does not give us any short-term benefit, you can also disable it.
Ultimately, remember to check all apps that appear in location services to make sure you have the “when in use” setting, that is, said application will only access location services when we use it and will not consume battery power unnecessarily in the background.
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