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In todays world, it’s easy to feel lost without our smartphone­s by our sides, between checking emails, sending text, making calls and searching for informatio­n on the Internet to mention a few. One of the biggest problems facing smartphone­s is battery life. This is one of the shortcomin­gs all smartphone­s have in common.

Smartphone­s are equipped with powerful blazing fast processors, which are designed to handles different task simultaneo­usly, this in effect takes a toll on the battery making it hot or most times drain the battery faster.

Battery technology is always improving, of course, but not nearly fast enough to offset the various new technologi­es that drains the juice from our smartphone­s.

Take the iPhone by Apple for example, the Apple’s iPhone 5s lasts longer on a charge than any iPhone model that has come before it, but when it comes to battery life more is always better.

While there’s no way for active smartphone users to avoid having to charge their iPhones once a day, using the right setting you can stretch the life of your iPhone’s battery by 15%, 30% or even more depending on how far you are willing to go to extend it.

In today’s tips we will be focusing on iPhone, the following is a list of things you can do to squeeze as much life as possible out of each iPhone charge.

Follow them all for the biggest impact, or just do as many as you can if there are some features you can’t bear to be without. Lower your display brightness as much as possible and disable “Auto-Brightness” (Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness) Disable Siri’s “Raise to Speak” option (Settings > General > Siri, then disable the Raise to Speak) Automatic Music/ Motion Control Disable automatic music downloads, automatic app downloads and automatic applicatio­n updates (Settings

> iTunes & App Store) Check to see if you Enable “Reduce Motion” (iOS 7’s parallax effect drains iPhone batteries — disable it in Settings > General > Accessibil­ity) Vibration Turn off all vibration (Settings > Sounds) Location Services Disallow frequent location

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