5tips for more iPhone 5 Battery

Just play a game while you are streaming music and your iPhone you will be automatically informed of new e-mails. Some bubbles and social media and almost unnoticed afternoon the battery of your iPhone already almost empty.

Despite the slightly better specs of the iPhone 5 compared to the iPhone 4S frolic many iPhone users with the usage time of their device. Fortunately, there are ways to some minutes to gather. With these 5 tips you just more fun with your iPhone!

1. Turn WiFi and Bluetooth

WiFi en Bluetooth op iPhone 5 (iOS 6)

WiFi and Bluetooth are super convenient, but if you’re not using them, you can disable them better. If you do not, you will find your iPhone to WiFi hotspots or Bluetooth machine to connect to. You disable WiFi and Bluetooth directly from under Settings. Choose Wi-Fi and / or Bluetooth and turn the switch off (light color and round, instead of blue and striped).

2. Adjust the brightness of your screen

Helderheid en achtergrond op iPhone 5 (iOS 6)

The iPhone screen is one of the largest energy consumers of your device. For longer be able to use the iPhone, it is wise to limit what the brightness. Go to Settings> Brightness and background and choose the lowest brightness that you find useful even pleasant.

3. Turn Location Services on the iPhone

Locatievoorzieningen op iPhone 5 (iOS 6)

The GPS chip is another energy-consuming part of the iPhone 5. Make sure the apps on your iPhone unnecessarily trying to pick your location. Go to Settings> Privacy> Location Services to indicate which apps can use GPS. The most energy efficient is to location services here completely off.

4. Limit retrieve email

E-mail, contacten en agenda's op iPhone 5 (iOS 6)

Push services like push email, reduce your battery every time data is retrieved. If you do not necessarily want to be informed immediately when an email arrives, you can push better fetch change. This saves your iPhone less data to retrieve, what significantly longer battery can provide. Go to Settings> Mail, Contacts, Calendars> Fetch New Data. At the top you can push off. Below you give or automatically every 15, 30 or 60 minutes to retrieve mail. You can also choose Manual: this brings the iPhone only e-mail when you open the Mail app.

5. Take care of your battery (and iPhone)

Besides the above settings, it is important to keep your iPhone battery healthy. The 2 most important things to keep in mind:

  1. Keep your iPhone at the right temperature. Ideally, room temperature (22 ° C), but care in each case, for a temperature of between 0 and 35 °.
  2. The lithium battery in your iPhone in good condition, the electrons keep moving. Pay in any case for at least 1 full charge cycle per month (100% full battery and go completely blank).

Do you have any tips that are not mentioned here? Let us know in the comments.