Your Best Way To Save Battery...

**iCollin** · 10-26-2012, 10:11 AM

What's your best way to preserve battery for the iPhone 5 when needed?
Mine would have to be to turn off Wifi/LTE (only when in 3G areas). I also turn off my Bluetooth but that's all the time.

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**tekjunkie28** · 10-26-2012, 02:59 PM

Keep wifi on and locations off bluetooth off, LTE off. Reason I say keep wifi in is that your 3g has to ping the tower every now and then so it will use slightly more. But the biggest is setting screen brightness low. About 2 times a month I try to completely drain my battery and then fully charge it. This is just good for the battery, whether is calibrates it with the software is unproven.

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**mtavenger55** · 10-26-2012, 03:04 PM

I use wifi whenever I can. Also I make sure to close all of my apps whenever I'm done using them. I do that on my iPad 2 as well.

**smileyboy** · 10-26-2012, 03:30 PM

Turn auto brightness off, notifications for apps you don't use off and same for locations, bluetooth off, limit ad tracking ON. My battery life is good

**iCollin** · 10-26-2012, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by tekjunkie28

Keep wifi on and locations off bluetooth off, LTE off. Reason I say keep wifi in is that your 3g has to ping the tower every now and then so it will use slightly more. But the biggest is setting screen brightness low. About 2 times a month I try to completely drain my battery and then fully charge it. This is just good for the battery, whether is calibrates it with the software is unproven.

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What does the limit ad tracking mean?

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**p2kart** · 10-26-2012, 08:52 PM

The biggest thing for me is LTE off, bt doesn't use much power and its not worth turning off if you use it a lot ie headset or car. The other thing is making sure I completely close apps I'm not using..

**agentmobile** · 10-26-2012, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by iCollin

What does the limit ad tracking mean?

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Ad Tracking

iOS 6 introduces the Advertising Identifier, a non-permanent, non-personal, device identifier, that apps will use to give you more control over advertisers’ ability to use tracking methods. If you choose to limit ad tracking, apps are not permitted to use the Advertising Identifier to serve you targeted ads. In the future all apps will be required to use the Advertising Identifier. However, until then you may still receive targeted ads.

**andykan** · 10-27-2012, 02:42 AM

I turn off mobile data whenever I'm home and survive on Wifi. This really helps me in conserving battery. Facing an issue though, Wifi seems to be turning off whenever my phone is in sleep mode.

**p3t3rPan** · 10-27-2012, 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by andykan

I turn off mobile data whenever I'm home and survive on Wifi. This really helps me in conserving battery. Facing an issue though, Wifi seems to be turning off whenever my phone is in sleep mode.

WiFi turns off after 30 minutes of inactivity to conserve battery

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**TaliZorah** · 10-27-2012, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by tekjunkie28

Keep wifi on and locations off bluetooth off, LTE off. Reason I say keep wifi in is that your 3g has to ping the tower every now and then so it will use slightly more. But the biggest is setting screen brightness low. About 2 times a month I try to completely drain my battery and then fully charge it. This is just good for the battery, whether is calibrates it with the software is unproven.

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And Wifi will constantly have to be connected to Wifi while your cell chip is still talking to cell towers for service. This whole "Wifi on saves battery" is BS, it causes extra processing. And obviously leaving wifi on when you aren't anywhere near wifi causes HUGE battery drain because you phone is constantly searching for wifi that it doesn't have access to.

**ALborntoride** · 10-27-2012, 07:44 AM

I usually close out any apps that i'm through with and completely drain my battery once a month.I leave my LTE and WiFi on and still only charge my phone up every other day.

**Lechuga1975** · 10-27-2012, 08:32 AM

Keep all Apps Close Every Time You Used Them!!

**smileyboy** · 10-27-2012, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Lechuga1975

Keep all Apps Close Every Time You Used Them!!

Originally Posted by ALborntoride

I usually close out any apps that i'm through with and completely drain my battery once a month.I leave my LTE and WiFi on and still only charge my phone up every other day.

That actually doesn't save any battery life.... There was a thread on that a little while ago. Its a iOS myth.

**SaberSerene** · 10-27-2012, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by p3t3rPan

WiFi turns off after 30 minutes of inactivity to conserve battery

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Wifi turns off after 30 minutes being in idle? Where is the info to back this up?

**mikells43** · 10-27-2012, 03:03 PM

didnt you ever see when you wake your phone and look at the top and its in 3g. then switches over to wifi. or if you have the iphone 5 its in lte then switches over to wifi if your at home on your network. try it. mine does it all the time.

**LocoStrange** · 10-27-2012, 03:39 PM

To preserve battery life? As long as it lasts through an entire day, I am happy. Even with heavy usage, I have yet to see close to 30% in 24 hours so it is good enough for me

If anything, I am probably hurting the battery by charging it daily regardless of the current battery percentage.

**p3t3rPan** · 10-27-2012, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Lechuga1975

Keep all Apps Close Every Time You Used Them!!

Myth

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**p3t3rPan** · 10-27-2012, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by LocoStrange

If anything, I am probably hurting the battery by charging it daily regardless of the current battery percentage.

Myth

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**p3t3rPan** · 10-27-2012, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by mikells43

didnt you ever see when you wake your phone and look at the top and its in 3g. then switches over to wifi. or if you have the iphone 5 its in lte then switches over to wifi if your at home on your network. try it. mine does it all the time.

Exactly

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**p3t3rPan** · 10-27-2012, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by tekjunkie28

Keep wifi on and locations off bluetooth off, LTE off. Reason I say keep wifi in is that your 3g has to ping the tower every now and then so it will use slightly more. But the biggest is setting screen brightness low. About 2 times a month I try to completely drain my battery and then fully charge it. This is just good for the battery, whether is calibrates it with the software is unproven.

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You cannot calibrate a battery, only the software that reads it
Once a month is usually plenty.

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**kch50428** · 10-27-2012, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lechuga1975

Keep all Apps Close Every Time You Used Them!!

Originally Posted by p3t3rPan

Myth

Not entirely. Apps that actively use the GPS receiver in the phone will cause the phone to consume battery resources at a faster rate than when those apps are closed.

**Vanti** · 10-27-2012, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Riften

And obviously leaving wifi on when you aren't anywhere near wifi causes HUGE battery drain because you phone is constantly searching for wifi that it doesn't have access to.

That is not 100% true i leave me wifi on where i go but i simply turn " ask to join networks " Off and i have great battery life all day and on heavy usage i come home with at least 30% and thats with my brightness at half

**jerome g** · 10-27-2012, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by p3t3rPan

Exactly

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Not 30 min though. Mine turned back to 4g after about 1-2 minutes

**smileyboy** · 10-27-2012, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by kch50428

Not entirely. Apps that actively use the GPS receiver in the phone will cause the phone to consume battery resources at a faster rate than when those apps are closed.

Those apps finish there tasks and then go into a suspend state. So that puts us back to myth.

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**walkerswilly** · 10-28-2012, 09:53 AM

I always turn off 3g unless needed and knock the brightness down a little, And i set mail etc to manual to stop the phone from keep trying to pull data all the time and draining the battery.
Suppose you could also turn off location services unless you need them but i would say the most important and the one that seems to have the most effect is turning down the brightness.