If you’re like most people, you probably rely heavily on your iPhone for communication, entertainment, and work. That means that keeping your iPhone battery alive is essential. Here are some tips to help you conserve battery life on your iPhone:

  1. Turn off notifications and alerts. Notifications and alerts can drain your battery quickly because they keep flashing until you respond. If something important needs your attention, please let us know and we will try to accommodate you. But for the most part, turn off notifications and alerts so that they only show when something important happens.
  2. Use Airplane Mode when travelling outside of the United States or Canada. When travelling outside of these countries, it’s a good idea to turn on Airplane Mode so that your iPhone doesn’t constantly search for a signal. This will save power and keep your battery alive while you’re away from home or work.
  3. Disable Location Services when not needed. Location Services are turned on by default in iOS 11 but many people don’t need them turned on all the time because they only use them for specific apps like Maps or Yelp . If you don’t need Location Services turned on all the time, disable them by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services . This way, if an app needs location information, it will ask before using this precious resource.
  4. Turn off Animoji if not in use.. Animoji are fun but they also use up a lot of power because they require a lot of processing power to create.. If you’re not using Animoji , turn them off by going to Settings > FaceTime & Camera > Show Animoji and turning it off.. ..

iOS 9 brought a useful new feature you may not have noticed yet. Known as “Facedown detection”, your iPhone can detect when it’s placed face down and won’t turn the screen on when notifications arrive. This can save a lot of battery power if you regularly receive notifications.

How Facedown Detection Works

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While the technology involved is a little more complex, the tip is simple. When you place your iPhone face up on a table, its screen will automatically turn on each time you receive a new notification on your lock screen. You can glance over at the phone to read the notification without even touching it.

If you don’t plan on looking at your iPhone’s notifications as they arrive, just place your screen face down. You’ll still hear notification sounds and your phone will still vibrate. However, when a notification arrives, its screen will remain powered off. This saves battery power.

Prior to iOS 9, your iPhone’s screen actually turned on every time you received a notification even when it was face down. There was no advantage to putting your iPhone face down aside from not seeing the notifications. The screen would keep turning on, using just as much battery power as if you placed the iPhone face up.

Which iPhones Does This Work With?

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Like many iOS features, facedown detection doesn’t work on every iPhone. This particular feature works on the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus.

It does not work on the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 4s, and other older iPhones. It also doesn’t work on any iPad or iPod Touch devices.

Facedown detection needs specific hardware because it uses the motion coprocessor, which is also used for your iPhone’s step tracking feature. In fact, it only works if that feature is on. If you head to Settings > Privacy > Motion and Fitness and disable the “Fitness Tracking” feature, facedown detection will stop working and your iPhone will turn on its display every time it receives a notification, even if it’s set face down on a surface.

This feature was introduced alongside Low Power Mode in iOS 9. Like Low Power Mode, it’s designed to help save battery power. But it will only save battery power if you know about this tip and choose to set your iPhone face down instead of face up when you don’t need to look at the screen.

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