

Stop your home screen or lock screen from lighting up every few minutes by turning off push notifications. Push notifications are an apps way of waving at you and also a huge power drain. If some are worse than others, it might be time to delete them. You can check which apps are the culprits under settings and in the battery section.

Uploading that photo to Instagram might have to wait. Dim it when you know you’re going to be away from a charger for an extended period of time. Dim Your ScreenĪdjusting the brightness of your screen can have a huge effect on your phone’s battery life. This should prolong what little power you have left. Turning your phone to low battery mode reduces the amount of power that it uses when the battery gets low.

Whistler Blackcomb does have good service range but there are some areas where your phone might work extra hard for that one bar. Switch your phone into airplane mode to prevent it from constantly searching for a signal. To prevent your phone from being exposed to cold temperatures, refrain from taking it out while on the chair and keep it close to your body for heat. Avoid Extreme TemperaturesĪccording to Apple, extreme temperatures can play a role in draining your phone’s battery while on the hill and can even cause permanent damage. Here are some tips to help you save phone battery life while on the mountain. While it’s not possible to completely stop your battery from draining, you can substantially decrease how fast it depletes. No matter when it turns off, it’s an inconvenience. It could be right before you’re supposed to meet a friend or worse case, an emergency. Your phone dies just when you need it the most.

I wonder what the power impact of night shift actually is.We’ve all been there. Incidentally, low power mode used to prevent night shift from turning on. I notice my phone drains very quickly around lunch time, because I tend to go out to eat at a place where the signal is really low and I flip through a lot of Flipboard and twitter, which load heavy gifs and web pages and ads and whatnot. Grab some data points, keep track of roughly how long you're using it, for what, and where, and see if any patterns arise. If you notice this very consistently, even though your usage doesn't vary drastically, you may want to have it checked out at an Apple Store if possible. suppose the tower nearest you were down for maintenance, your phone would have to crank up the radio power to talk to the next farthest tower, etc.) It's really, really hard to control the variables-from day to day even in the same area, your phone may have very different power requirements for talking to the cell towers (e.g. Sounds to me like it could be a bad battery or maybe some wildly inconsistent usage between the two scenarios.
