These 2 iPhone Apps Are Useless ‘Battery-Suckers,’ Experts Say

What are your options when your phone battery stops holding its charge as well as it used to? It becomes more important than ever to change settings that are taxing on your phone’s resources, for starters. This means disabling Background App Refresh, Push Notifications, and lowering your screen brightness as much as possible. These three changes alone can go a long way toward boosting your battery power and speeding your phone along.

Another important reminder from tech experts is to stop manually closing your apps. This can take a toll on your battery — and there’s no benefit to doing it:

You can also look at the apps on your phone with a more critical eye to try and decide which of them you can afford to delete for the sake of a better running phone. If you’re not sure where to start, these two apps are known as “battery-suckers” that take up tons of phone resources. The cherry on top is that they aren’t necessary apps.