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a new version of iOS means a fresh new look handy new settings and a boatload of features that have good intentions but really just stuck up your phone's battery life so if you noticed your phone is draining faster since updating to iOS 7 or you want to know how to get more juice out of it here are some tips background app refresh is a feature that lets background apps stay active while you multitask the problem is that by default all your apps are unable to refresh in the background which is a huge battery hog head on over to settings general then background app refresh here you can disable the feature entirely or you can disable just the ones you don't absolutely want to refresh iOS 7's automatic updates aren't generally a problem but the last thing you want is 15 apps to start updating when your battery is at twenty percent so turn that feature off just go to the iTunes and App Store settings and disable this updates option now you can update your apps whenever it's best for you one of the biggest battery drains is always location tracking usually that applies to using mapping apps but hidden in your settings menu are a whole bunch of new settings that sneekly track your location under privacy go to location services then scroll all the way down and choose system services some of these settings are designed to improve your experience for instance popular near me tracks your location to give you a pre commend ations based on where you are go ahead and disable any features you don't absolutely need including this frequent location setting at the bottom spotlight is super useful because it lets you search for almost anything on your phone and the way it works is by constantly crawling your phone for new data and indexing it that's a huge battery drain back in settings go to general spotlight search and uncheck the items you don't absolutely need indexed with that and all the other adjustments you should see a nice boost in your battery life if you have any questions or tips of your own hit me up on Twitter and check out how to cnet com forum or iOS 7 tips for cnet I'm Sharon Vaknin