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Ex-Apple employee says ‘battery-saving hack’ is actually making it worse
If you think you’re saving your iPhone’s battery by repeatedly swiping up to close down your apps on standby, we’re sorry, but you’re actually making it worse.
Apple continues to release iPhone after iPhone with exciting releases brimming with new features. Nonetheless, most of us are still getting to grips with features that have been out for years like laundry advice to identifying a plant using your camera.
Stop closing your apps manually, says a former Apple employee
Tyler Morgan (@hitomidocameraroll) is a former Apple employee who puts his years of experience at the Genius Bar to work through helpful videos on TikTok. In early additions to his series, Tyler covered topics like useless Apple products and the trade-in process.
Earlier this week, Tyle took to TikTok once again with a video about managing your iPhone’s battery and battery health. He outlined three settings you need to change while also trashing the idea that manually swiping your apps away helps your battery.
Though most of us manually close down apps in a bid to save our battery, closing them down puts them into a sort of limbo, Tyler explained. They are “frozen in time” you could say, so opening them back up again only uses more battery power.
But the former Apple employee did acknowledge that there’s a balance to be struck. For instance, though you don’t need to close them down, you might consider doing so if you’ve got more than say 15 open.
When your recently used apps appear, the apps arent open, but theyre in standby mode to help you navigate and multitask, Apple previously said.
The three settings you need to change for better battery longevity
Swiping your apps closed might not do anything, but that isn’t to say there aren’t methods out there for making your iPhone’s charge last longer.
One example could be to stop charging your phone to 100% every single day, which we know sounds counterproductive. Tyler explained that you should turn off optimized battery charging in the settings, which should increase your smartphone’s life expectancy.
It’s also a good shout to turn off auto-brightness, which drains your battery’s health and encourages you to charge it more despite a message below the setting warning you that it could affect battery life.
Tyler’s final suggestion was to turn off background app refreshes, which naturally check for new content on your applications. Though you can obviously turn off most of them, some like your email and messaging apps should probably stay on.
