iPhone and iPad battery life can be seriously increased with a simple trick that absolutely anyone can use and that will provide you with up to a few additional hours of daily use of your terminals.
Everything is based on the automatic screen brightness control system, that is, the function Auto Brightness, self-lighting, she controlling the light level of the screen iPhone, iPad or iPod Touches, the screen being the biggest consumer of energy.
The bigger the screen, the higher will be the energy consumption of your terminals, so in the case of iPad tablets we are talking about the highest consumption, iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6S Plus consuming the most energy among iPhone terminals of Apple.
How to GUARANTEED increase the autonomy of the iPhone and iPad battery
The automatic brightness function is natively activated by the operating system, iOS, but it is also partially controlled by the user who can set the minimum brightness value that the screen will have when the ambient light around it is not high.
The automatic control of the brightness of the iPhone or iPad screen is based on the ambient light sensor, it changes the brightness according to the intensity of the light around us, so outdoors you will have the brightness set to maximum, while in buildings you will have the brightness set to medium or lower.
Normally the minimum brightness level of the iPhone or iPad screen is set to 50% by Apple, but you can lower this limit to a lower value to save even more energy, the change being extremely beneficial for the eyes when using the terminals in dark rooms, the emitted light being much lower.
To control the brightness of the screen in iOS you must go to Settings > Display & Brightness, Settings > Display and brightness, there the function Self-Brightness, Auto-brightness must be activated.
With this function already active, drag the slider luminosity, Brightness, to a minimum acceptable value for you, and each time the terminal is unlocked, it will adjust the brightness of the screen starting from that value.
A limit as low as possible will ensure that the screen will not be illuminated too strongly at night when there is no light around you and will not consume a lot of energy, protecting your eyes at the same time.
Although you save energy, the quality of the colors displayed on the screen will not be as good when the brightness is set to a lower level, so you have to weigh very carefully what you receive and what you lose.
How much does this function increase autonomy? From a few tens of minutes to 1 hour of extra use, everything depends on the brightness level set and the ambient light.
What do you think about this trick?
I calibrated its minimum level - so on Auto, in total darkness, the slider drops all the way down.
So do I.
I thought you know what trick you're telling us zaone:))) this with the brightness is like that.... But you're right, I think that in most cases the battery lasts better if the software is good, for example 9.2 beta 4 is much better than 9.1
This setting makes a big difference, no software update can improve the autonomy like the decrease in consumption.
The difference between setting the screen to high and low brightness is huge.
I use it all the time 🙂 I'm a maniac with battery saving.
March to hell with your 0log!
When do you start writing a serious article? Have you studied the impact of screens on health? Vision no. 1, headache and last but not least the decreasing level of concentration power over time. For a maximum of 30% of the battery…. Value life and use objects, don't change their role.
Wasn't everything obvious? Handy? Where's the trick?
@cristi: No, few people know what to do there so the slider works. If you set it to a high value, the automatic brightness is useless.
The problem is that most of us use the iPhone and the iPad during the day. So I don't think this "trick"! It helps too much!
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Hello. Let's not get drunk with cold water. Let's try to recognize some disadvantages of iOS and I think there are many. I don't think there is a trick to help you with the battery, a trick to help you with wifi or a trick to help you charge on airplane mode. These are legends. iOS is made so that we don't make other fireworks compared to what is given to us. When setting the brightness, it does its job by itself exactly as the sensor sees. That much. There is no trick. The trick is the sensor that makes the transition from minimum to maximum. The ios is made to work well, without studying it or delving into it so much that the ios is not a mystery or a mysterious existential condition of life that is difficult to decipher, it simply works based on sensors. Yes, he also takes us with apple sugar and obliges us with some products, but that does not mean that we have to buy them. Will it not suit? Buy something else with a better battery.
Manually setting the brightness to thresholds below what the "auto" function sets for maximum is more practical!
I don't understand why on all the specialized forums there is so much talk about the battery. I keep the brightness at max. It looks more beautiful. An external battery solves the problem.
or take your 6+..the battery lasts until the next day
Or an even better solution would be to switch the display to black and white mode, obviously with the lowest possible brightness
It depends on the software, I have iOS 6 on my iPhone 8.1.1 and it's been holding me for almost two days now, I don't even think about ever switching to iOS 9