Tips to improve your iPhone or iPads battery life in iOS 8Posted by Gautam Prabhu on Sep 17, 2014 |5 Comments

Battery life is a precious commodity on the iPhone,so it is important tooptimizethe settings on your iPhoneto ensure that you can extend its battery life as much as possible based on your usage.There are couple of clever new features in iOS 8 that can be usedtoextend your iPhone or iPads battery life.1. Identify battery hogsAlot also depends on the type of apps we use on our device. One of the reasons for poor battery life can bean app that is running in the background.Prior to iOS 8, you had to depend on apps likeNormalto identifyapps that could be draining your devices battery life, but Apple has added the naming and shaming feature in iOS 8 itself, which gives you a break down of battery usage by apps. Follow these instructions to identify the battery hogs, and also find out what you should do next.How to find battery hogs in iOS 8 Launch the Settings app Tap onGeneral Tap onUsage Tap onBattery Usage

This will show you all the apps and internal services like Home & Lock screen that are consuming battery on your iPhone.By default it shows you the battery hogs in the last 24 hours. You canalso check the battery hogs in the last 7 days by tapping on theLast 7 Daystab as you can see in the screenshot above.What nextNow that youve identified the apps that are draining battery life on your device, here are some of the things you can do to extend your iPhones battery life, especially if it is third-party app: If you can live without the app then the best thing to do is delete the app. If you want to use the app, then you should seriously look atdisablingLocation Services (Settings > Privacy > Location Services) and Background app refresh (Settings > General > Background App Refresh) features for the app as they can end up consuming battery life.Use Location Only While Using the appApps that actively use location services tend toreduce battery life. So it is important to keep track of apps that use location services.Prior to iOS 7, the only option you had was to either enable or disable location services for an app.In iOS 8, Apple has added a new setting callingWhile Using the App, whichmeans that the app will only use location services when youre using the app, and wont useit all the time. This can be usefulfor apps like the App Store, which dont need to be using location services all the time.You can see which applications have recently used location services by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Apps that recently used your location have an indicator next to the on/off switch. Tap on the app, you should see the While Using the App, tap on it if you want the app to use location services only while using the app. This will ensure that the app will access your location only when it or one of its features are visible on the screen.As you can see below, iOS 8 also tells you thethe App Store app isusing location services to find relevant apps nearby.

Please note thatthis feature is available forstock apps currently, however we expect third-partyapps to offer this feature when theyre optimized for iOS 8.Heres a video walkthrough of how to customize these features toextend your iPhone or iPads battery life: