If you feel like your iPhone battery isn’t holding a charge as long as it used to, you’re not alone. The older a phone is, the more frequently you have to charge it. Most people charge their phone once a day, but quite a few of us have found that our phones need to be charged two times, maybe even three times every day. If this sounds like you, there’s a trick you should know that can help your battery last a lot longer.
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There are a lot of reasons why your phone battery isn’t lasting as long as it used to. The most common reason is that you are using too many apps that drain your battery. For some people, the problem can be that your phone’s battery has gotten weaker with age. Regardless of what is making your battery die more quickly, you can use one simple hack to prolong its lifespan.
The iPhone has a feature called Optimized Charging, that not many people know about. Optimized charging is available with iOs 13 or later. It uses insights to help your phone achieve the best charge it can to help the battery out.
With Optimized Charging enabled, your iPhone can learn your charging habits to only charge itself to 80%, then wait to charge the rest of the way until it estimates you are about to use the phone. You can easily activate Optimized Charging by navigating to Settings > Battery > Battery Health.
There are quite a few tricks people use to best optimize their iPhone’s battery life. In addition to the Optimized Charging setting, you can try reducing the phone’s brightness, turning on auto-brightness, stop notifications from apps you don’t use, turn on Wifi calling or enabling low-power mode.
