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Apple built its reputation on making lean mean smartphone computing machines but as iOS has grown and become more robust users might not always get the best runtime from their sleek iPhones for folks not making it through the day whittling back on some convenience features might make the difference between going the distance or needing to find a charger here are 9 tips to help maximize that battery number 9 don't quit out of your apps it might seem counterintuitive but constantly quitting apps actually makes your phone work harder once the app is cleared from RAM the phone has to completely reload the whole thing the next time you open it we got to get away from this notion of phones looking all nice and clean with no apps in the multitasking view instead start thinking unused RAM is wasted RAM number 8 limit background activity while letting an app live in RAM is a good thing if it's working a lot in the background we might want to limit that activity look in your battery stats to see which apps are using the most juice then go to general settings and background app refresh to shut them down I always disable Facebook for example because well it's Facebook this point runs double for location services if an app is pulling your location frequently shut that down to number 7 turned down the screen brightness auto brightness is convenient but if you push the backlight lower you'll save more juice just swipe up that control center to make a quick adjustment we want to find that happy medium between completely unusable and mildly squinty that's how you know you're doing it right number 6 set a shorter auto lock we'll never understand people who just leave their screen on after using their phone just hit the power button now for those of you who can't be bothered to manually turn off the screen setting a shorter auto lock will reduce some of the power draw from your laziness our iPhone 6s defaulted at 5 minutes of inactivity 5 wasted minutes of electricity drop that down to like 30 seconds and your phone will last longer during the day number 5 radios when you need them yup it's super convenient to leave Wi-Fi on all the time and when you're on Wi-Fi you'll use less power than connecting over LTE but when you're not connected to Wi-Fi that radio is still drawing power looking for something to hook up ditto your Bluetooth it connects to so many useful accessories like speakers headphones and cars but if you're not using it you're wasting battery disable these radios when you're not using them and while you're at it if you never use airdrop you can toggle that off from the control center to number four good vibrations pulses and vibrations for alerts are delivered via a tiny little motor if you don't need the buzz turn it off to save a little extra juice hit up the sounds category in your settings to toggle this it's not going to be a tremendous battery saving but every little bit helps right number three disable the eye candy sure took Apple a while to deliver animated wallpapers and sure it's fun to look at but that fun feature is probably killing the last couple minutes of your phone's battery iPhone home screens are basically just an app drawer anyway right keep it simple and save some juice likewise the parallax effect looks cool as your phone moves around but it also subtly taxes the GPU of your phone head to your accessibility settings to switch this off to number to manage your iCloud a lot of info is backed up to the cloud these days if you lean on your iCloud a lot it might be reducing the amount of time you can use your phone for other things check out the iCloud settings and disable everything but your most mission-critical needs and the number one tip low power mode is your friend throttling back the power of your phone will noticeably extend your run time if you don't want to manually disable stuff then this one switch in your battery settings will act as a catch-all disabling background activity and turning off some of the eye candy give it a try if you're not a power user low power mode might be the right fit for you bonus tip by big or by little one additional tip for folks shopping an iPhone buying the larger plus or buying the smaller se might be the way to go for folks wanting the best battery life in general lifestyle testing the medium sized iPhone might be the poorest performer of the bunch even though it has a slightly larger battery than the smaller iPhone it also has a bigger higher resolution screen at the phablet end the larger battery capacity of the 6s plus more than makes up for the increase in screen size and resolution and there you have it folks nine ish tips for maximizing that iPhone battery now seeing as how our phones are increasingly centerpieces of our mobile lifestyles we totally understand why some people might be looking at chargers and batteries instead of disabling features it has got to keep those lightning cables handy and we want to hear from you what strategies do you use to get the most out of your phone's battery any apps or services you think other people should know about drop us a comment below as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more tips and tricks like these and hit that thumbs up button for a little extra positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video you