

“The active listening feature is the one that allows you to say ‘Hey Siri’ and get an answer from your phone,” Araujo says. In addition to turning off Location Services, disabling Siri can help keep your battery running longer. “You can turn off location services completely via Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services, or even set up which apps will have access to it when not opened.” Disable Active Listening – Siri “If you want your battery to hold longer, you should leave this setting deactivated and only activate it when necessary,” Araujo says. In addition to possibly compromising your privacy, this constant monitoring will consume more battery power. Location monitors your position constantly via Wifi, your cellphone network and apps, according to Gabriel Araujo, Flutter Developer at Revelo. This is the phone setting you should never have on if you want your battery to last all day - and a few more valuable tips on how to increase the longevity of your device’s battery. The good news is that those settings can be adjusted to help minimize the effect they have on your phone’s battery. But the problem may simply be that some of the settings you use the most - and leave on - are causing major battery drainage. And as we are running around like chickens with their heads cut off searching for a charger, we may also be contemplating trading in our phones for an even more expensive model with the hope that will solve all of our charging problems. It doesn’t seem fair that a device as expensive as an iPhone should lose battery power after just as few hours, but sadly, that’s the reality for some of us.
