How to Maximize Your iPhone Battery Life in iOS 11

You can't prevent your iPhone from running out of power. While if you just updated your iPhone to iOS 11 and have been experiencing the strange battery drain problem, you may need the tips here how to maximize your iPhone battery life in iOS 11.

Updated Oct 13,2017 | by Shannon

iPhone battery issue is always a thing iPhone users talk about. No matter how long the power can last, people think the battery drains too fast. You can't prevent your iPhone from running out of power, while there are a few ways you can set up your iPhone, that will make sure the phone will not lose the battery charge too quickly. If you just updated your iPhone to iOS 11 and have been experiencing the strange battery drain problem, you may need the tips here how to maximize your iPhone battery life in iOS 11.

Take a Look at Your Device and Check What’s Draining the Battery

There are third party applications working in background and may eat amount of your iPhone power. You can go to “Settings”, and scroll down to “Battery”, it will show the percentage battery usage of each app in past 24 hours and last 7 days.

If you see some Apps using a lot battery, you can limit your time or turn dark the screen when using it. Or you can disable some of its features like location sharing if unnecessary.

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Adjust Screen Brightness

iPhone has a large and pretty screen and display everything bright. We are pretty sure that the screen drains a lot power each day. It's a wise choice to turn on auto-brightness as iPhone will balance the display brightness automatically using the ambient light sensor.

Turn Off Background App Refresh

In spite of how efficient Apple has tried to make background refresh, some apps still manage to the consumer a ton of power and resources. Yes, looking at Facebook so hard... Luckily, if either your battery life or your data limit is a concern, you can turn off background refresh all together, or just for those apps, you don't consider that important.

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