iPhone has become an integral part of our daily life and smartphone usage. But using the device to access the internet, browse and also access social media has become a drain on internet data and iPhone battery as well.
If you have less budget on internet data plans or looking for ways to cut down on data consumption on your iphone or to extend your iphone battery life then the following 10 iPhone tips and tricks will help.
The following tips will help you save data or reduce data consumption on your iphone. These tips will also help reduce the drain of your iphone battery.
1. Always turn off your mobile data when not in use.
This tip is the first and foremost trick which helps control data consumption on iphones or saves battery drain. It's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of cutting down mobile data consumption or save battery.
2. Turn off Background App Refresh.
( Go to settings> General> Background App Refresh> Select off)
Turning off Background App Refresh for certain apps helps to reduce mobile data usage and battery drain because the apps selected won't have to refresh everytime in the background sucking data secretly or draining battery unnecessarily
3. Turn off mobile data for selected apps that you don't use frequently or often.
(Go to settings>mobile data>scroll down to uncheck mobile data usage for selected idle apps or less frequently used apps) Turning off mobile data for idle apps helps to save data and iPhone battery.
4. Use the web version of certain apps instead of their dedicated mobile apps example Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
Your iphone saves mobile data and battery when you use the web versions of some social media apps through your mobile web browser like safari or chrome.
Web browsers don't have to be refreshing continuously in the background when in usuage unlike social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc which have to be refreshing continuously when in usuage or idle.
5. Bookmark your favorite sites and webpages for quick access or use offline mode for your favorite sites.
Instead of going through google everytime to access the same information or visiting them through a web address everytime, bookmarks or offline mode help cut down the data involved especially if the information you are accessing never changes overtime example articles or static pages and posts.
This trick also cuts down on the usage of the iphone processor reducing its activity if you will have to load a webpage everytime hence also saves iphone battery.
6. Reduce your usage of Instagram and Snapchat
(If you use these apps frequently, turn off their mobile data access if their not in use.
These apps are data and battery suckers or if possible don't use them on mobile data plan, only use them when you have access to wifi.
8. Turn off Notifications for social media apps on your iphone.
(Go to Settings> Scroll down and tap Notifications> select app> turn off Notifications for selected app)
9. Turn off Siri.
Some features of Siri requires internet connection to work. Besides these features and commands drain mobile data. If you don't find it necessary to use it turn off Siri. It will cut down unnecessary data and battery drain.
10. Turn off your cell phone data when you’re going to sleep.
This is to to avoid the temptation of checking your phone for every beep of new notifications which will force you to use your iphone for unnecessary iphone addictive habits.
Leaving your iphone mobile data on whiles asleep reduce the battery life over time. It also drains data as well.
You can turn off the iPhone when going to sleep or turn off the data to extend the battery life in the short term and long term, and additionally saves data.
Bonus Tips:
A. Try as much as possible to belong to fewer whatsapp groups. Whatsapp groups drain data and battery because of frequent group posts and notifications. If necessary exit unimportant WhatsApp groups.
B. To save battery use a dark theme wallpaper or dark lock screen saver and also remember to keep the brightness level of your iphone screen at the barest minimum. Or use dark mode feature on your iphone or the dark mode feature on some social media apps.
C. Try as much as possible to subscribe to fewer Telegram Channels and Telegram groups to cut down on data consumption and battery usage. Or turn off auto media download in Telegram.
D. Turn off auto download of photos and other media in Whatsapp>>
The following steps will help you turn off auto download of photos and other media in whatsapp on your iphone (which will help reduce data consumption)
1. Launch the whatsapp App on your iphone
2. Go to settings
3. Tap Data and Storage Usage
4. Tap photos
5. Select Never ( to turn of auto download of photos in your whatsapp messages)
6. You’re done turning off auto download of photos.
7. You can also turn off auto download for other media type like videos and audio and also for documents. Just tap on the media type you want to turn off auto download for and select “Never” to turn it off.
Hope these iPhone tips and tricks help to reduce the draining of mobile data and battery on your iPhone.
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