iPhone 4S iOS 5 battery life tips and tricks

If you are a proud owner of iPhone 4S or if you have recently upgraded your device to iOS 5, perhaps you have noticed some issues with your device battery lifetime. According to latest rumors, a number of iPhone users have reported shorter battery lifetime after upgrading to iOS 5. Whenever a new iOS version hits the real world battery lifetime becomes a hot topic. Here are some tips and tricks which could help you to some degree if you also encountered the some issue with your device’s batteries.

Rule number one: check your iPhone usage! This may sound obvious, but this often falls bellow the radar. Many users get excited because of their new iOS capabilities and spend much more time using it than usually. IOS 5 has a plenty of new, power hungry goodies to explore including Siri, Location Services, iCloud and many others. Before you start experimenting with your device, leave your iPhone for some time and see how long does it take for the battery to drain out. If your iPhone simply continues to dry out too quickly, here are some advices which could help.

iOS battery life tips and tricks:

1. Restart your device especially if you haven’t done so for a longer period of time. There is a chance some unnecessary process is still active and wasting your precious battery power. A simple restart will solve this issue.

2. Every once in a while you should drain your battery completely out and then charge it up to its full capacity.

3. Restore your device and choose to restore it as a new device. Clean installation is always a good idea whichever OS you use. This rule includes iOS too.

4. If nothing else helps pay a visit to your local Apple Store. Apple products are wonderful and of great quality but sometimes your device will simply stop working properly.In such cases only an Apple technician can help you by repairing or replacing your device.

Tips for improving iPhone energy frugality

To conserve your iPhone battery you can simply disable or completely turn out some apps or settings on your device. The usual way to achieve this is to navigate to Settings app and check out the active apps. Normally the more functions you disable the longer will you battery last. This is something everyone has to choose for himself as each iPhone user has different needs and priorities. Here are some ideas.

Disable Location Services
Turn of Siri
Use headphones
Turn off power intensive apps like Skype, TomTom and similar
Get rid of Ping.
Disable Wi-fi if not necessary
Disable 3G connection
Disable Push Notifications

You can also try to use Airplane mode for some time just to check how much energy you can spare that way. Whatever the cause of your problems one simple advice is: recharge your device whenever possible. Modern cloud computing which iPhone 4S is all about, offers fabulous capabilities but unfortunately it will be quite heavy on your iPhone batteries. You will note that your older iPhone which is not upgraded to iOS 5 will last somewhat longer. The reason is quite simple: iCloud isn’t really integrated into previous iOS versions.

Let us know did this tips help you with your iPhone or iPad battery lifetime. Also if you have some other great tip for increasing battery life on iPhone, iPad or iPod please let us know!

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