Top tips for saving iPhone battery life

It may be a great phone with fantastic features, but, like most smartphone which run the latest apps and features, the iPhone series is notorious for having a poor battery life. Yet, with a few simple changes to the way you use your phone, you could save considerable juice.

Familiar picture at all? It’s annoying that, despite hardly using my iPhone during a working day, I still find I’m having to charge it every night. But what can I do?

Multitasking on iOS 4 is the quickest way to drain your iPhone 4 battery, but having extra features which you simply don’t use or need is also a huge battery killer. Read the following tips, courtesy of Recombu.com, to help keep your iPhone alive for longer.

1. When you first got your iPhone 4 chances are that you were a little ‘app happy’ and downloaded more apps than you will ever need, let alone use. Kill off the apps you no longer use by double-pressing the home button and holding your finger on the app you want to delete and tapping the red icon.
2. Turn off the iPhone 4′s camera flash. Simple yet effective.
3. If you don’t use an awful lot of mobile data then turn off 3G and cellular data until you actually need to use them. This will save some serious battery power.
4. Keep Bluetooth switched off when you’re not using it.
5. Push notifications mean that most applications will run in the background, keep this slider switched to ‘off’ and the battery will last longer.
6. Auto-Brightness will stop you draining the battery with an unnecessarily bright screen.
7. If you are underground or in an area without reception for a long time, simply turn on Airplane Mode. Without any of the phone functions running the battery has some time to recoup.
8. Don’t use Wi-Fi unless you’re in range of a network you know you can access. While it is switched on the handset is continually searching for available networks, which inevitably drains battery life.