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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greetings All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A nice post from Melanie regarding the ios 7 battery life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Todd <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nfbk [mailto:nfbk-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Melanie Peskoe<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 21, 2013 9:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nfbk] iOS 7 Battery Life Draining Too Fast? It’s Easy to Fix<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here are some battery saving tips for the new iOS 7 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Melanie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img width=620 height=350 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ios-7-battery.jpg" alt="iOS 7 Battery Life"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Some users are finding that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/18/ios-7-update-now-available-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/">updating to iOS 7</a> seems to have reduced the battery life of their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Battery issues are often reported with major iOS updates, but this time around the culprits of newfound battery drain are easier to identify, because much of it relates directly to some new features and new control mechanisms built into the new iOS release. Fortunately, this makes for easy identification and easy remedies, so if you’re encountering any issues with battery life not living up to your expectations, you can probably resolve the draining issues quickly with a few settings adjustments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>1: Turn Off Motion and Parallax<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The motion features of iOS 7 sure look fancy and provide some nice eye candy, but they also use system resources to function. Turn it off:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion – ON<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=620 height=401 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/reduce-motion-effects.jpg" alt="Reduce motion effects"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Note: these motion features of iOS 7 are likely to have much less of an impact on battery life with the iPhone 5S and other future devices that have the separate M7 motion chip. In the meantime though, motion sensing is done by the primary CPU, thus potentially impacting battery life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>2: Don’t Use Dynamic Wallpaper<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dynamic moving wallpapers certainly look neat, but like other eye candy it uses more resources. Thus, disabling the moving wallpapers can help with battery life:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness > Choose Wallpaper > Stills > Pick anything that doesn’t move<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=620 height=664 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/avoid-dynamic-wallpapers.jpg" alt="Avoid dynamic wallpapers "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A bit off topic, but the overall appearance of iOS 7 depends a lot on your wallpaper choice, so keep that in mind when setting wallpapers too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>3: Disable Background App Updates<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>iOS 7 allows apps to continue updating while in the background, similar to how apps on a desktop computer work. That means some apps running in the background will no longer pause themselves to conserve battery when they aren’t in focus. As a result, turning this feature off helps battery last longer:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Settings > General > Background App Refresh > OFF<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=620 height=440 id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/disable-background-app-refresh.jpg" alt="Disable background app refresh"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Outside of saving your battery life, turning off this feature won’t be noticed by most people since it returns app behavior to how it was in prior versions of iOS, meaning apps in the background are basically halted until in the foreground again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>4: Disable Location Services<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Location Services have always been battery hogs, so this is nothing unique to iOS 7. The solution is to disable as many location services as you can put up with:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Toggle everything OFF that you don’t use<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I generally leave locations enabled for things like maps, weather, and Siri, but not much else needs to know your location. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>5: Turn Off Auto App Updates<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Having your apps automatically update sure is convenient, but it also causes activity on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch when it’s not in use, and that means it’ll drain your battery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Settings > iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads > Updates to OFF<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=620 height=397 id="_x0000_i1029" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/turn-off-automatic-app-updates.jpg" alt="Turn off automatic app updates"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Turn off the other Automatic Downloads in there too if you don’t find them useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>6: Turn Off Frequent Locations<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Frequent Locations is what allows the “Today” view in Notification Center to provide estimates of things like how long it will take you to drive to work. It does this by periodically retrieving your location to see where you are most often, and like any other Location Service, it can impact battery life. This one is buried a bit further in settings so it’s going to be overlooked by most people:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Frequent Locations > OFF<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If you like this feature more than you like a slightly longer battery, go ahead and leave it on. But you’ve probably commuted to work a few hundred billion times by now, do you really need an estimate for something you already know? Your call.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>7: Quit Power Hog Background Apps<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Quitting power hungry apps like Maps and GPS can help to improve battery life, though this is less important if you have Background App Refresh turned OFF. Nonetheless, you’ll want to learn how to quit apps anyway because it’s <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/18/four-essential-ios-7-tips/">different now</a> in iOS 7:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Double-tap the Home button, swipe up on any app preview panel to quit it<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=328 height=581 id="_x0000_i1030" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/quit-apps-ios-7.jpeg" alt="How to quit background apps in iOS 7 "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Focus on closing out mapping, GPS, directions, fitness trackers, etc – things that are designed to follow you around or follow your movements all hog battery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>8: Turn Down Display Brightness<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Keeping your screen nice and bright may look great, but it also uses a lot of power. This is nothing new to iOS 7, but it’s one of the single most effective tricks at prolonging battery life for just about any battery operated device, and your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is no different. Fortunately, adjusting brightness is much easier now thanks to Control Center. Swipe up from the very bottom of the screen and so keep it low to preserve your battery as much as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=620 height=560 id="_x0000_i1031" src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/display-brightness-adjust.jpg" alt="Adjust display brightness to preserve battery"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Setting it around 1/4 of the way or less will have the best results. Having it at or near 100% will result in a very quickly draining battery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>More Battery Saving Tricks<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We’ve covered more generic battery saving tips several times before, you can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2013/05/20/extend-iphone-battery-life-tips-that-work/">read more for the iPhone here</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/19/iphone-battery-life/">here</a>, or more <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/18/ipad-battery-life-tips/">iPad specific adjustments here</a> if interested, but the general advice remains:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Disable Bluetooth</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Turn off unnecessary Notifications, and don’t allow Push</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Use Fetch for Mail rather than Push</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Lock the iPhone when not in use to reduce the time the screen is on</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Disable keyboard clicks</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Disable LTE and use a slower data network</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Reset to factory defaults and restore from backup – extreme but can work in some scenarios<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>None of these more general tips are unique to iOS 7, but they can help to extend the battery life of just about anything, even if you’re still running iOS 1.0 on an original iPhone.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=mbGUlfnMUBs:-aP39fz_h7k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><span style='tex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