iOS 16 iPhone Battery Tips That Truly Work

[@RealJoseph123]

I think we shouldn’t turn off everything that is in iOS 16 and the iPhone 14 Pro in order to get the most battery life when we are paying for these features but it helps for people like me who panics on my battery life. Love the yearly videos!

[@theunknown_747]

Yes, i was wondering about that too. You buy this expensive featured packed phone and then turn off all the features which make it unique and you are left with a regular phone experience? Why didn't apple think about this in the first place?

[@asafblasbergvideographer]

@@theunknown_747 Agree. Let's face it. iPhone 14 Pro Max has worse battery life than iPhone 13 Pro Max. I had iOS 16 with my iPhone 13 Pro Max and definitely had more battery life left than the 14. It's a smaller battery, nothing that software will fix.

[@thetechlibrarian]

I’ve been using haptic keyboard on Gboard for years, and never noticed a substantial battery hit.

[@rozatoza]

@@theunknown_747 No one of these things is bound to help battery life TOO much. I think it would be safe to say the notifications being confined to the notification centre (so they don't light up the screen), along with background app refresh would be the best improvements. I definitely think if you use a combination of these things, you're still getting what you paid for while pro-longing your battery life as much as you can. For example, not all of us don't NEED every notification to light up the screen and show us a preview, only the ones that matter; Messages/Telegram/Whatsapp/Slack. Not everyone will need all the location services set to "Always". You still have ALL the performance you want/need, WHEN you want it, but your screen is off more, and your GPS is being hit less often. Things not every individual needs

[@xreborncjayy5810]

I turned off aod on my 14 pro max battery life way better than 13 pro max but aod is nice feature people complain to Apple for aod all these years and now complaining about battery life

[@zollotech]

How do you customize your iPhone for battery life or do you just leave everything as default and what iPhone are you using? Thanks for watching, it is always appreciated.

[@debbiebridygham9230]

I’d love to see the Auto Lock settings have more flexibility, it seems likely many would benefit from ½ minute intervals, such as 1½ but that isn’t a choice offered

[@nazaretjunior]

I set every notification to only Home Screen when unlocked so my Lock Screen is never goin on and off only calls and stuff like that saves so much no need for any notifications on Lock Screen tbh

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

Great video Aaron these are some great tips. Thanks for sharing! If you turn off location services for Weather, how do you get the widget to work on the lock screen for Weather? also for battery widget if you tap on it when setting up your lock screen widgets, you can have it come on automatic or you can set it to check certain devices only . precise location with GPS if you turn that off does it save any battery? I disable a lot of stuff and system services I only have SOS on and find my on and I don’t notice any difference by having them off versus on all the others. those turning off reduce motion in accessibility make any difference with the battery life? What about increasing contrast? Does that make a difference in light and dark mode with battery life?

[@idkidk5747]

I already did everything you mentions except the pro motion and my Bluetooth is off most times when I’m not using it

[@artfartzy]

I have mine set to lock after 4 minutes, 30 secs is way to short, like how can you do things with such a short time? Reading a text and not being able to finish before the phone is locking, that would really annoy me.

[@poknut69]

still running on 15.7 with 13 pro max, and all the bad feedback of ios16 is making me stay on the older version.

[@kevinrebollo]

Same here!! Gon stay for 15.7 until ios 16 stabilize some features/program

[@Braden12]

I feel like no one is getting good battery life on iOS 16

[@moloono1]

Seriously…I was getting way better battery life on my 13PM.

[@ChuckyRileyCarter]

No one is

[@ChuckyRileyCarter]

@@moloono1 my 13 pro went from 99 to 93

[@SolarArts_]

@@moloono1 Same, if I could downgrade I would. (If there’s any possible way please let me know).

[@Quayyy463]

@@SolarArts_ 15.7 is the lowest iOS downgrade you could get

[@---nv4fz]

We just need 16.1 to come out and hopefully fix battery life

[@wp1225]

I'm with you on this one. I paid the extra money to get a 14 pro max so I didn't have to worry about battery life and to be able to use whatever settings I want to. I think too many people get so wrapped up in trying to get the most battery life they fail to enjoy their phone

[@Skeezitts]

Right? No sense in buying a 14 pro max my as well stay with their 8 year old iPhone 6

[@poodleguiderpeyes7388]

Thanks, Aaron, those were good tips.I toned down the notifications on my lock screen, turned off App refresh and tweaked system analytics. I've been pleased with the iPHone 14 Pro Max battery life. I upgraded from the 12 Pro Max & there's not a huge difference but better screen brightness is a big plus. Enjoying the tweaked Magnifier app too. Apple is accessibility!

[@cloudy-nx9hw]

thanks for all the tips! I have one question. If i want the best off my batery, can I turn on airplane mode or does airplane mode do nothing if you want better battery?

[@sureshrnair8440]

Thanks a ton for the valid tips. My 12 Pro battery, my wife’s 13 battery and my Son’s 11 pro max battery, all are draining very fast after ios16 and subsequent upgrades. Eagerly awaiting ios 16.1 stable version release and hoping that it will help in resolving the ‘battery drain’. I am giving a 70% charge in the evening using 20Amp charger, and a full charge using a 5 Amp charger over night. I keep my battery saving mode ON below 60% charge.

[@Douglas-1994]

IOS 16.1 is out now

[@GrandJOELLIVE]

Do you actually use Auto Brightness? I feel as if sometimes it squeezes out more battery rather then save more sometimes.

[@winter12ca]

Very good video. What I like the most is that you gave good tips on saving power without pushing it on us. Most vids out there tell you that you’re crazy if you don’t turn them all off. Might be better turning off the phone completely. You gave us options, but at the same time you’re telling people to use their phone. I really appreciate that. Thanks

[@Skeezitts]

Literally have background app refresh turned off and I’m using crazy background activity 😂😂😂😇

[@MoonchildTerabite]

Hi, Aaron! Are you facing the issue with Apple Music when it suddenly stops for a few seconds if you skip forward the song or jump to another song? This is such a persistent bug that they still haven't fix....

[@docatv6712]

Hey ! i have a question, do turning off significant location affects my battery optimisation since i am still not seeing my iphone will fully charge at what time like it is not working ? And also customisation location please reply me thank you !

[@GenX.Bigfoot]

Why would the Maps app work in the background if you shut off "Background Refresh?"

[@yestoES355]

Yeah I think it’s an iOS 16 issue. I do clearly noticed that my iPhone 13 Pro Max had about 10% more battery in my daily use. I find my 14PM worse even with AOD off and 0 widgets and background refreshes.

[@southerncritic9090]

Battery life sucked. I returned my 14 Pro and waiting for the iPhone 15. Heard they'll have USB-C and Ultra zoom!

[@shashankverma11]

I was having battery drain on my iPhone 12 but I just turned on battery saver and it helps alot. I haven’t changed anything else.

[@elvisyoung2282]

I’ve basically turned off everything on my phone yet I’m having the same issue what now should I turn the phone off too and not use it to save battery

[@thevacdude]

I've always turned off backround app refresh, I don't ever use it, because theres' nothing that needs to constantly update in the back round. Thanks for the video, Aaron.

[@mike.elimelech]

Background app refresh is one of the most perplexing features of iOS in terms of how it’s executed and how the end user is benefits from it being on… There’s simply no telling if an app has “refreshed in the background” because the moment you go into an app be it from the Home Screen or the app switcher the app will either reload because it got bumped out of memory or the app will refresh its content right then and there… I always thought apps would somehow have a dot or something in the app switcher to indicate that content has been recently refreshed in the background, however that would be a bit of a clusterfudge of a mess because you’d then constantly be checking the app switcher to see if an app has done any refreshing… Apple provides a very vague description of what it does, and quite frankly since its introduction back in iOS 7 I’ve yet to notice if it does what they said it’s supposed to achieve, partially because of implementation and partially because it’s supposed to be “seamless” and just “doing its thing in the background”… Side bar, remember when apple was testing a grid layout for app switching back in iOS 4 internal betas (I think it was iOS 4…) I wish iOS had the same grid layout on the iPhone (or at least an option to enable it) I personally find a grid layout to be more intuitive, and while we’re at it how about those thumbnails be live thumbnails and be spring loaded so you can drag and drop content into apps, and extent it further by being able to quick look live thumbnails of an app i.e When you need to peek at an app without switching to it to obtain a small piece of information say a phone number for a business that you already had pulled up on another app… Thanks for attending my Ted Talk.

[@OccupiedMuffins]

seriously, ive never been more confused by a "feature". its crazy how divisive it is

[@jellieman1]

It seems to deliver notifications for some third-party apps more quickly, other than that I’ve never noticed a difference.

[@zayirmohammed3475]

you suggest 14 pro or pro max for a new purchase

[@brianbrino4310]

Great tips for our batteries! Thank you so much Aaron!

[@JacknifePowerbomb]

Aaron, are you still thinking about changing your videos aspect ratios back to 16:9? It’s annoying that half the the Dynamic Island is always visible with your current aspect ratio. Enjoy your vids!

[@lanternofthegreen]

13:00 About notification lighting up the screen: You can leave your phone on the desk facing down. This way, the screen won't turn on when you receive a notification, just like when it is in your pocket.

[@STORMIE.]

underrated comment

[@Jayden-lr2mm]

There were indeed some complaints about the battery life draining in iOS 16 thanks for letting us know with the tips to improve the draining problem

[@shankarch8640]

Hi Aaron, how to set dark mode like yours. The grey area is unnoticeable.

[@KMKKM007]

Lucky mine at 15.7. Awesome battery. Gonna stay until the last version of 16.X comes out next year Aug/sept.

[@abhinavtiwari9591]

which device and battery health?

[@rakeshkumarmishra5685]

Thanks for your nice information. Please tell us how much we should charge the battery . People generally mentioned to charge the iPhone battery till 80 % only . Is it true or we should go beyond.

[@aussiebobb]

I agree that you can customise to save some but if you have a max size phone then it won’t matter too much. Saying this ,I use my 14 Pro max constantly with average 7hrs to 7.5 on and a couple left ,My days are long so I change I’m the van and at times top up with a MagSafe battery. I normally turn those app locations settings because most don’t need to know where I am.They can pay me if they want me to give them my personal data

[@kevanmcnay3079]

I’m not keen on Dark Mode , but I let Apple set it from sunset ….I’d prefer non Dark Mode all day long , on a 13 would the battery saving/use be much ?

[@artfartzy]

Auto brightness is one thing I will never turn on, for me is is so annoying how it changes screen brightness all the time often to something I dont like. I tried going into a dark area with little to almost no light and it turned the screeen brightness so low that I could barely read text on the screen. Then I would have to go and turn it up and down myself all the time, so I dont see the point.

[@avenged110]

12:45 I've always had background app refresh off (that is, it's _never_ been enabled) and many of my installed applications still list background activity (no idea how to stop that), so I don't think those are necessarily related.

[@Cwoiisant]

Ive always had the same issue where my apps say they are working in the background it makes no sense

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

I'm on iOS 16.1 Public Beta 4 on my iPhone13 Pro Max. The battery life IS NOT great. Hopefully this is fixed in the next go around.

[@Y-raise]

Where can I find your wallpaper?

[@wolfsonryan]

This hands down is the best battery saving tips video I’ve seen! THANK YOU! My battery has been a lot worse since installing iOS 16. (iPhone 13 Pro)

[@MuscularMan008]

Which phone you have?

[@natanwashere]

same lol, even if i am not using, the battery percentage drops really fast (also 13 pro here)

[@Harschism]

I would highly recommend to turn on “Reduce Motion” in Accessibility as well. This way you don’t just save some precious battery power, but you also reduce the likelihood of running into animation bugs early in an iOS cycle. Additionally, the iPhone feels even snappier. These excessive and in my opinion unnecessary animations always made me feel slightly dizzy anyway.

[@Skeezitts]

Did I a test on this. Only saves 7% over a 24 hour day.

[@Harschism]

@@SkeezittsWow that's huge. Thanks for testing. Cheers!

[@synzogurung6786]

Hey aaron, i forgot my iphone passcode and i reset it thru itunes by downloading software and installing in my 13 pro max, and my iPhone’s battery health is degrading too fast. It’s 89% in one year. It was 100% till 5 months of usage. Is it because of that software or it’s normal?

[@twizzy_2002]

How do you get battery percentage like yours. I don’t wanna Swipe up every time

[@jeffraymond9375]

Thanks!

[@zollotech]

Wow, thank you!

[@bhavya5180]

can you also tell me which charger should I use with my iPhone 14 pro max as can use up to 27watts so should I get the apple's 30watt adapter?

[@Ogi1508]

11:00 i was very confused to what this does even after trying to look it up, turns out it does nothing, it only works for a specific type of notification method that most developers tend to avoid anyway

[@TheLastDon215]

I need to know how auto brightness saves battery if i keep the screen on 10 percent all day

[@antoniomechev]

Haptic feedback keyboard is one of the things I don’t like and use. The rest I use ON just like you have. I don’t want to minimise the overall performance just to get extra %.

[@harshgawali5154]

Pls tell when will the 14 pro max be available in india in stores ?

[@adnankabbani6091]

Battery life on the 14 not looking good at all

[@RolandKoller90]

I’ve had the same battery saving tips since the iPhone 5 days. All locations off unless I manually turn it on for gps. When you turn on gps, go into system services at the bottom. All of them can be turned off. Don’t question it, turn them off. Go into Siri and search, turn off every app. And last I turn off all notifications on apps I don’t need notifications from.

[@jvberganio4174]

I usually charge my phone between 40 - 80 % to prolong its battery life also I use dark wallpaper to decrease battery consumption.

[@jacquicleijne9525]

If my iPhone 13 is on wifi, the battery only last hours not a day. Turned off it lasts three days with little use. I'll try these tips. Thanks.

[@m4st3rm1nd9]

What about Wi-Fi calling? Leave it on or off?

[@mayniepavilando4288]

I charge my phone before i go to sleep to 100 percent, in the morning I checked it and the battery goes down from 100 to 91%. Checked my email afterwards and the battery drops to 87.. how efficient lol. Nice one apple

[@user-yu1ec5yu4c]

I had to downgrade buch of times because on other betas the battery life was awful on my iPhone 12, but on iOS 16.1 beta 4 has improved drastically, i dunno about other model but for me is great; I hope it will be even on final release!

[@theunknown_747]

I have the 12 and battery is the same i don't see much of an improvement. Android phones lasted me two days easy this one can't do more than a day and a half without me worrying to charge next.

[@xeon2k8]

@@theunknown_747 the 12 is not a 2 days battery phone, also which android phones you had? you should compare same battery size phones

[@theunknown_747]

@@xeon2k8 my previous was a samsung m31 and before that a lenovo note. You have a point in the size of the battery. I went on twitter too and the apple people replied to my message and said you gotta lower your expectations..lol. Then it sunk in my bones that okay this isn't what i had in mind. Now everytime i touch the phone i'm like okaaayyy gotta expect a few percent drop...that's completely normal...:D

[@presc_G]

Ttyg huh

[@JoshuaF88]

Aaron, do you use True Tone on your iPhone or leave it off?

[@comarcg3088]

hello what is the best wallpaper to have a better battery? Black Wallpapers or not ? thank you

[@eymendovme4082]

Hi ım taking just 6.30 screen time or 5.30 on my iphone 14 pro max is it normal?

[@LevanBibilashvili]

Does bacground app refresh really matters?

[@Adem9458]

turned off almost everything on my 14 pro except notifications for whatsapp, calls, messages and livescore. dark mode enabled, 60 hz limited, either having wifi or LTE turned on or turning both off overnight/at work. my record was 85% down to 20% in 4 whole days. i am not a heavy phone user

[@LinardyLinardy]

Hello, i want to ask something Is that normal for iphone 14 promax consumed 9% battery for only full playing instagram for 1 hour in condition aod is off and other setting like advertising, apple analysis, etc also off ? Note: i just bought it from ibox 2 weeks ago and battery health still 10%

[@richdotcom8255]

Hi everyone, I'm new to apple so this question might sound dumb. But, turning off background app refresh means leaving the apps open and not closing them kinda useless. like what's the point of leaving it open if it's not refreshing and going to reload anyway ? Thanks !!

[@rehufgoerhwfr]

Iphone x on 16.1 beta 4 fairly stable

[@flynnrider4354]

I always turn on Reduce Motion. Not only it saves precious battery but it also makes me dizzy anyway.

[@01bigtrev]

In the shortcuts app in automation button at the bottom, I have set up an automation for reduce white point to 65%. This turns on automatically at 5pm then turns off at 9 in the morning. I’m out through the night so this Saves battery and your eyes through the evening and morning. Accessibility > display and text size> reduce white point

[@ElohAraphel]

Where did you get the battery widget (the one that looks like a big battery with %) on the lock screen in the video thumbnail?

[@muhammad_bahaa]

I've heard that Raise to wake feature drains some power, is that true?

[@Dreanos]

Hez Aaron, at 15:12 you use small home app icons in your control center, can you tell me how did you do it or what app you using for it?

[@nickworkman02]

I have the iPhone 12 Pro and ever since I updated to iOS 16 my battery dies very fast. I have watched so many battery saving tip videos and I have turned off/limited almost all of the things covered, but it doesn’t help. In my battery settings there is nothing in particular that is using a huge amount of battery, but when I looked at background app activity the photos app is using 7+ hours a day on average. I have not been able to find a solution to fix this. On average I get about 3 hours of screen on time before my phone gets to 30-20%. Is anyone else having this issue? 😢 Also I do not play games, the only widgets I use that use location is the weather widget, and my battery health is at 90%

[@herco2543]

What iphone model are you using in this demonstration? Great video!!!!

[@robinellis83]

I get all day battery with iPhone 14 pro and always on display. I can’t complain.

[@premgaru8556]

Thank you brother. Great tips. Before I go to bed I turn on airplane mode every single night. And I did notice better battery life doing this. Just saying. 😊

[@jawharamir5283]

I’m not getting battery life since I installed iOS 16

[@Itsduckx]

I have small hands so I went to 14 pro but the battrey life is not so good i feel bad why I didn’t go to pro max 😭 I don’t know if this is ios 16 problem or what , i did everything what youtuber tips for better battrey life for ios 16 but i just got 5-6hours screen time a day i have to bring charger everywhere

[@Goc91]

on iOS 15, my iPhone 13 pro max could get 3-4 days with normal use, now it can barely get 2 days

[@tipimarco9807]

Hello, my background app refresh is off since day1 and leave the aps open however in the battery chart by app it still shows “ background activity “ any ideea why?

[@Levi_007]

Did you got any solutions

[@miamsamaroo4116]

Hi i have a iphone 11 and the maximun capacity drop to 95% is that ok its 2 months now since i got my phone

[@4_Yaar]

Charging my iPhone 12 twice daily after iOS 16.

[@ninjaasmoke]

what about touch to awake or raise to awake??

[@Reigninsuds]

Enable voiceover in the accessibility settings manually or ask Siri to turn on voiceover and use a 3 finger quadruple tap to toggle screen curtain if you want to save battery by just listening to the audio in the background for non-KZbin Premium subs.

[@jimcabezola3051]

These are great tips! There were a few I'd never heard before. Mahalo!

[@zollotech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MrSallodESP]

Zollo, how can i restore to iOS public release. Im in the ios 16.1 beta and after i remove the beta profile, i get the cant update error. if i have an icloud backup and i force install the ios 16.0.2 public release, i will get the backup back ? i have iphone 14 pro max

[@NightMotorcyclist]

On my iPhone 13 Pro on iOS 16.0.3 I have found what has been draining my battery since the installation of iOS 16: Music with Find My running constantly in the background as I have been using the Airpods Pro 2nd Gen. Same with web browsing. Apparently something keeps utilizing the radios and A15 SoC as the left side of the phone is warm even when I haven't used it for a half hour or more. This nonsense never happened on iOS 15 even though I had Find My enabled for my iPhone and Airpods Pro 1st gen.

[@zeeom962]

guys i just got a 13 pro max and im kinda scared of the ios 16 should i do it now?

[@Cjmboo]

i shouldn’t have upgraded to this mess my 13 pro max used to have insane battery life now my battery is trash 🗑️ now

[@jarcohen123]

Note: if u turn off significant location setting it won’t tell u where u Park ur car unless u marginally out a marker there so u don’t forget like a big parking lot for example

[@someguy7657]

What background is that?

[@jwhitaker80]

Per Apple, If you turn off Significant Locations or System Customization, it disables optimized battery charging.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem74]

Surprisingly lower power mode alows me to charge whilst using my 13 mini on iOS 16 when off low power mode using maps makes it go hot and it stops charging I never had this issue on iOS 15 but iOS 16 with lower power mode works fine when charging

[@syedumerahmed9514]

thanks for this video it was really very helpful and an important one because of IOS 16 battery drain issues..

[@amanmehrotra5241]

Very informative video! Can you please make a dedicated video on some unique wallpaper customisations? Would be of great help Thanks!

[@amruthramesh354]

This is great video Aaron! I have my iPhone 13 still on iOS 15.7 and it works great! I get at least 1 and a half days of battery life. I have set almost all of the settings that you have mentioned but push mail is something that I have noticed kills battery a lot. So I recommend to set it to automatically fetch.

[@abhimanyugupta4017]

update

[@sanidhyasharma2416]

Can you please give battery tips for Android that truly work ..

[@doctorsilva1345]

I have the iPhone XS with the battery case. No need to turn off anything.

[@danielparenteau]

Hi Zollo :) tell me How si your life battrie after 3 month and how you recharge your iPhone 14 pro max because mind after 3 month already Come done to 99% and last year With my 13 pro max its was stil 100% after one year so please give me some trick for recharge the batterie thk you make vert good job ;-)

[@hwym4482]

Can charging the phone until 100% reduce battery life? Always appreciate your effort.

[@xeon2k8]

it does. keep it between 80 and 20

[@cheddar1988]

This video helped a ton. I wish the battery life was better on my iPhone 14 Pro. I charge my phone slowly over night and by the end of the next day, it's down to 20% and battery used to say 4.5-5 hours of screen on time If I'm lucky, but now it seems like I get around 3-4 hours. My battery health is still really good - 99% and I got the phone a month after it was released. I'm just using mail, safari, youtube, maps, basic apple apps (reminders/notes/etc). I did find that turning off "Exposure Notification" saves a lot of battery life.

[@armen7932]

I turned off haptic keyboard. Don’t need it. It helped. Keeping AOD on though.

[@bill6872]

Very useful tips. Some i knew and some i didn’t. Thanks!

[@LetThemKnowWhoYouAre]

sup guys! great video! but I’m really shocked is it normal that my 13 pro max having practically twice more battery life then my brand new 14 pro max ?! I’m really depressed because soon as it takes battery it will be 99 percent battery lifetime :(

[@mzamilbr]

Thank you for the advice especially the Bluetooth and wifi

[@thaminduKavinda]

My Iphone is * always on dark mode * low power mode * black wallpapers * auto brightness avg screen on time is 10hr and I charge between 40 to 80 only

[@SlavKing95]

got any cool black wallpapers?;) i charge from 20-80

[@thaminduKavinda]

@@SlavKing95 Battery Life is so good, now i'm using ios 16 default (dynamic) wallpaper.

[@rajeshr77]

I have created automated job to enable low power mode at midnight and disable by morning :)