that “stop obsessing over battery life” tip was soooo helpful for me because i always freak out and worry about my battery so much. turning off my battery percentage does help my mental health a lot!!!
I have the opposite: when the charge is less than half, I always think it's less by looking only at the icon than it really is (percentage level). I feel uncomfortable when I can't see the exact percentage. I'm very glad that I finally don't have to look at Control Center to see the exact charge value.
the truth is your battery health is getting worse every time you use your phone so it's no use worrying or stressing about it. It's just like us humans, we're dying everyday and it's inevitable so just live life and dont worry about it haha
I love your videos. They're concise and straight to the point. No lame jokes or visual effects to entertain the viewers, just simple facts and clear information. Keep it up.
Thanks, Brandon. I paused my iPhone 15 Pro Max during each of your tips to locate the feature. After adapting most of your suggestions, the battery is phenomenal -- a "10" on a "1 to 10" scale. Most appreciated.
correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe that the focus mode doesnt disable notifications, it just hides it from you in the period the focus mode is on, because as soon as you disable that focus mode within half a second you get all your notifications presented. So I'm assuming that in the focus mode the apps do keep running in the background, refreshing, but just avoids sending the notifications to avoid distractions.
Correct, but the notifications lighting up your screen + the sounds/vibrations also have negative effects on battery life. Disable notifs for unneeded apps, then take it a step further with focus modes to mute the notifs you do get daily. Guess I needed to verbalize that better in the video.
The shorcut I’m using to get to the location service turned off or on is I always swipe down the search bar and simply type two letter : PR , and it will automatically show privacy and security
i hope the consensus amongst users is that auto brightness should always be left enabled. it is the only way to get all 2000 nits out of the display on 14 pro and 15 series, when the ambient light sensor detects sunlight (or very bright light) it will crank up the display to reach this. but if auto brightness is disabled, the manual brightness slider does not top out at absolute max output to help display performance over the long-term.
I have to say I have watched many battery tips videos but this advice was not only really precise but makes so much sense!!-Thank you so much Brandon-These are things I never thought about for battery but hopefully now I can improve my own battery life because of this-Keep up the insanely informative and enjoyable videos Brandon!
I agree about the battery % thing, I prefer mine to not show the number, or else I would be looking at that all the time and see how the number goes down and worry about how much battery I have left. Just by looking at the battery animation I know roughly how much I have left anyways so thats good enough.
I've done practically all that you said here, Thank you, but I charged my battery 100% and since this video has been running it hasn't moved yet. At this rate it'll last a few days.
Does anyone else’s device get hot when charging? And why does this happen? I only use Apple chargers, my phone only gets hot when I use the Apple brick charger, when I was the old triangle 5W, the charger gets hot, but not the phone. But using the more wattage block charger, it gets hot + my phone? Any reason why?
I really don't want to go below 20%. And I also don't go beyond 85%. But I sometimes forget my plugged phone, so what helped me was this battery limiter called Chargie. I use this for my iPhone but it can also be used on Android phones, tablets, iPads, and more. Thanks for your content!
Great video Brandon, thank you. Is there any trade off on battery life/maximum capacity when using magsafe or wireless chargers vs a charging cable? Thank you in advance
I've studied this for the past couple of years and honestly have not noticed a difference in battery health after 1 year, despite wireless producing more heat
My battery is bad, losing 10% on idle drain over night....I have AOD off yet home and lock screen consume so much and barely have any notifications if anything on...same with background refresh...apple music also consumes a lot, something that didn't happen with my 14PM, very disappointing
My camera was working perfectly this morning and then when I try to take a clear picture it comes all blurry. I just noticed this problem just now is there a way to fix this problem?
With charging how can it be avoided when using Apple CarPlay as it needs to plug into usb to use CarPlay even if my phone is at 78% can’t avoid intermittent charging 🤔
17:36 - do you know anything about the experimental features? There’s so many toggled on but seems intentionally confusing. Which I suspect has to do with how I somehow get ads about food or dish soap as I’m washing dishes despite disabling all personalization features. There’s plenty more reasons but too much
In less than 1 year, my battery health for my iPhone 14 tanked down to 88% even after taking precautions like charging it to 80%, removing the cover while charging, charginf it in a colder room, and now after updating it to ios 17 the battery life is even worse for me...
After I learned that the battery heat management is the key technology in EV cars, I started putting something cold onto my phone while charging. I even bought a beautiful cube made of glass that i take out of the fridge and put it on the phone while charging. Did I go too far - maybe, but the battery capacity was at 92% when I started doing this, and the good news is - it is still at 92 after several months. I'm using both wireless and wired quick charging. I'm also constantly using iPhone for navigation in my oldschool car - so the screen is almost always on, close to full brightness, and the modem is always on (online music and podcasts + bluetooth), which is considered as harsh conditions in summer heat. But the iPhone is placed in a stand in aircon vent and is always cool. As I've read, the top safe temperature level for the battery is around 40°C, so if it feels warm, then it's already close to the upper temp limit. Gotta avoid that, and everything will be cool.
Hi Brandon, I just got the iPhone 14 pro yesterday and wondering is it a good idea to turn on Optimized Battery Charging and just charge it when I’m going to bed no matter what it is about to die or not?
I charged my iphone 15 pro max at 18 percent yesterday it was hot didn’t know that would affect battery, and since it was my first time charging it at 18% cause I just got the phone is that ok?
great tips and a couple I did not have implemented. I held off switching to 17 on my 13 that I bought last year based on the battery life comments. And sure enough it drains much faster than 16 did. Hoping some of these help.
Some say it's fine to keep, apps in the background, that it will not drain, but I do not trust this and have seen some drain when running in the background. So I always close my apps after im done using them.
@BrandonButch my wife’s battery chart shows 30% usage for No Cell Coverage. Mine doesn’t have this issue. Any tips? Her phone is always dying and 30% seems high
Auto brightness is one thing I will never turn on, every time I go into a dark room it turns the brightness down so low that I can barely read the screen, and if I sit under a lamp or something it turns it up because it thinks I need more brightness like when you are outside in the sun, but no need for more brightness when sitting inside under a lamp. So again this is not an option I can recommend turning on just to save a little bit of battery. It's just gonna be more annoying having to adjust brightness manually all the time when auto brightness gets it wrong.
19:26 battery life sure.. but its gonna warm up ur phone? damage the speaker ? bro what are u on about .. do u really think that playing the audio on max volume is gonna damage the speakers ?? do u just start bullshitting to increase video length? i dont know if i can trust u as much now
After 25mins of watching this video and making note of everything carefully, that's when Brandon says "Stop being obsessed with your battery percentage". The moment he said that, I was thinking, that's NEVER-ENDING SIRR 😀
iPhone 13 Pro here and I’m on 87% battery health and i unplugged my phone at 6 am,it’s now 11.53 pm and I’m on 51% with 4 hours screen time,that’s good considering this phone is two years old in December
My iPhone XR dropped from 100% to 96% in 1 week of using it 😢 I charge it from 20% to 85% everytime (running IOS 17.2.1) I’m charging it 3 or 4 times a day sometimes
@@Cjmboo I noticed that my Outlook Hotmail is on push also my iCloud email, but none of my Gmail will go on push. They only give me fetch or manual for those.
I keep my battery percentage number off cause it’s hideous and it honestly does help with not worrying about it. Side note: pro battery life is way worse than pro max :(
Is there an option to somehow get an alert or notification that phone needs to be charged? For example, battery level drops below 30% and my phone makes a sound signal and text notification that it’s time to charge the phone.
I have to use cellular in my house because the internet company. Internet goes in and out if a download is slow I turn off wifi. And use lte to update all my apps. Gotta do what ya gotta do.
This is great but apple needs to optimize the OS stat. Nothing against this video in anyway, but users shouldn't have to go through this much just to maintain the longest battery life when Apple should be optimizing the OS from the start.
You're in the right headspace but still somewhat wrong. These settings are all on by default generally for convenience. These features are useful for many but comes at the risk of losing battery life.
I don’t really care for the rest of the iOS features but why did they have to change how pdf works am so frustrated like if u have pages of different sizes in a pdf you can’t zoom in anymore fully and u can’t double tap like it was working perfectly fine I am so annoyed right now
@@WertyTT4 my battery health has been draining drastically after ios 17. I was on 97% just 2 weeks back and now I’m at 93% And, I don’t charge my phone over 80% and don’t let it go below 20%
Curious after changing all of these settings how much percentage of battery are folks getting at the end of a day? Seems to be an obsession for some. What kind of battery life are people expecting from these devices? Serious question and I’m not being snarky to those who worry about this at all?
I'm not really into Apple's Ecosystem / apps, so I disabled many of these settings for when if need them if at all. I routinely get around 3 - 4 hrs at 60% if my battery life. I'm able to get usually about 1 & 1/2 days of use on a single charge for my 13 Mini (8hrs+)
Thank you so very much I really appreciate it your content n I learned a lot from this but there’s some things I don’t use but I’m going to check to see if some things are turned on or off mostly my battery lasts me until I go to bed most every night ❤😊 thank you again Brandon oh if you charge to follow you on X I can’t afford to pay for that bc I don’t know if I’m going have a home to live in next month n if I’m to have to move somewhere else or be just homeless but I will not for long hopefully
Rate your iOS 17 battery life on a scale of 1-10 🪫🔋
after 17.0.3, 10. amazing. and i can’t even get it to overheat, when it used to overheat by just looking at the news lol (iPhone 15)
bad 😢
It’s pretty good, for the most part at least
6-7
-1 I'm there at X complaining every day
that “stop obsessing over battery life” tip was soooo helpful for me because i always freak out and worry about my battery so much. turning off my battery percentage does help my mental health a lot!!!
I have the opposite: when the charge is less than half, I always think it's less by looking only at the icon than it really is (percentage level). I feel uncomfortable when I can't see the exact percentage. I'm very glad that I finally don't have to look at Control Center to see the exact charge value.
the truth is your battery health is getting worse every time you use your phone so it's no use worrying or stressing about it. It's just like us humans, we're dying everyday and it's inevitable so just live life and dont worry about it haha
I love your videos. They're concise and straight to the point. No lame jokes or visual effects to entertain the viewers, just simple facts and clear information. Keep it up.
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Jam pack full of really useful advice! I kept pausing to change these settings on my phone. 😂 Thanks Brandon!
haha that's the way to do it!
Me too!
Thank you man. I feel like i get full controll over my phone! You are great - Keep up the good work. Greetings from Germany.
Thanks, Brandon. I paused my iPhone 15 Pro Max during each of your tips to locate the feature. After adapting most of your suggestions, the battery is phenomenal -- a "10" on a "1 to 10" scale. Most appreciated.
After 3 years of using iPhone, only today I changed the toggles in the the Background App Refresh. Disabled more than 50% apps. TY Brandon.
did it help you ?
The low power mode automation is clutch, thanks!
correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe that the focus mode doesnt disable notifications, it just hides it from you in the period the focus mode is on, because as soon as you disable that focus mode within half a second you get all your notifications presented. So I'm assuming that in the focus mode the apps do keep running in the background, refreshing, but just avoids sending the notifications to avoid distractions.
Correct, but the notifications lighting up your screen + the sounds/vibrations also have negative effects on battery life. Disable notifs for unneeded apps, then take it a step further with focus modes to mute the notifs you do get daily. Guess I needed to verbalize that better in the video.
Also why is when I go and turn off wifi assist, it’s greyed out as on? I can’t turn it off?
You have to be on DND constantly in focus in order for those notifications from apps to work.
Yes it’s here!! I’ve been waiting for this on my iPhone 15 Pro black titanium!
The shorcut I’m using to get to the location service turned off or on is I always swipe down the search bar and simply type two letter : PR , and it will automatically show privacy and security
Thank you for this video!!
Excellent video! Thank you so much!
i hope the consensus amongst users is that auto brightness should always be left enabled. it is the only way to get all 2000 nits out of the display on 14 pro and 15 series, when the ambient light sensor detects sunlight (or very bright light) it will crank up the display to reach this. but if auto brightness is disabled, the manual brightness slider does not top out at absolute max output to help display performance over the long-term.
Airplane mode underrated. If you know you wont use/need your phone for a long period of time, the battery it saves is crazy
I could need this kind of video for my Apple Watch too. The new Watch-OS seems to drain the battery of my Series 6 very fast :(
I have to say I have watched many battery tips videos but this advice was not only really precise but makes so much sense!!-Thank you so much Brandon-These are things I never thought about for battery but hopefully now I can improve my own battery life because of this-Keep up the insanely informative and enjoyable videos Brandon!
Thanks!! 🙏
Thanks, and now we need a video like this for Apple Watch 10.0.1. I can't make it from morning to night on one charge anymore.
My battery is great on my 15 pro. Got the full AoD with wallpaper and everything.
I agree about the battery % thing, I prefer mine to not show the number, or else I would be looking at that all the time and see how the number goes down and worry about how much battery I have left. Just by looking at the battery animation I know roughly how much I have left anyways so thats good enough.
yes, same :(((
It's actually good, makes you be more optimized, and stops u from using ur phone when u don't rly need to.
This was the video I was waiting for. I remember the one you made for the 13PM years ago and it was a game changer.
I just wanted to thank you for these tips. They have dramatically helped me with the battery life on my new phone. I truly appreciate these tips.
I've done practically all that you said here, Thank you, but I charged my battery 100% and since this video has been running it hasn't moved yet. At this rate it'll last a few days.
Does anyone else’s device get hot when charging? And why does this happen? I only use Apple chargers, my phone only gets hot when I use the Apple brick charger, when I was the old triangle 5W, the charger gets hot, but not the phone. But using the more wattage block charger, it gets hot + my phone? Any reason why?
Best battery saving video ever ... AND I'VE SEEN EM ALL 😅 ... Im sending this to EVERYBODY
This last tip just cracked me up 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks so much. I fiollowed along.
I really don't want to go below 20%. And I also don't go beyond 85%. But I sometimes forget my plugged phone, so what helped me was this battery limiter called Chargie. I use this for my iPhone but it can also be used on Android phones, tablets, iPads, and more. Thanks for your content!
Be careful with switching off significant locations as it will prevent optimized charging from working.
Great video as always from Brandon
Good tips. I changed all the settings and now I have battery for days even though my phone might as well be a jitterbug!! 🤣
My iPhone 15 Pro Max iOS 17.1.1
I don’t have that USB-C accessories settings under battery?
My iPhone 14 plus gives me 10hrs+ screen time on ios 17. But sometimes the screen freeze happens.
Great informative video
Finally! I've been waiting for this video so I can maintain my battery health as high as possible!
Brandon you still don’t recommend fast charge to keep battery life?
My phone drained by 3% just watching this video! Whats the problem on mine iphone 13 pro max?
where can we get the wallpaper you have on your phone? thanks
Nice and helpfull video. From where do you get that wallpapers. Thank you
Great video Brandon, thank you. Is there any trade off on battery life/maximum capacity when using magsafe or wireless chargers vs a charging cable? Thank you in advance
I've studied this for the past couple of years and honestly have not noticed a difference in battery health after 1 year, despite wireless producing more heat
@@BrandonButch Thanks mate, can you recommend and good magsafe stands or brands to use or to stay away from?
My battery is bad, losing 10% on idle drain over night....I have AOD off yet home and lock screen consume so much and barely have any notifications if anything on...same with background refresh...apple music also consumes a lot, something that didn't happen with my 14PM, very disappointing
My camera was working perfectly this morning and then when I try to take a clear picture it comes all blurry. I just noticed this problem just now is there a way to fix this problem?
With charging how can it be avoided when using Apple CarPlay as it needs to plug into usb to use CarPlay even if my phone is at 78% can’t avoid intermittent charging 🤔
My phone gets hot when in my Tesla and wireless charging. Is there any way to disable the wireless charging?
17:36 - do you know anything about the experimental features? There’s so many toggled on but seems intentionally confusing. Which I suspect has to do with how I somehow get ads about food or dish soap as I’m washing dishes despite disabling all personalization features. There’s plenty more reasons but too much
amazing videoooooooo you are the best Brandon
In less than 1 year, my battery health for my iPhone 14 tanked down to 88% even after taking precautions like charging it to 80%, removing the cover while charging, charginf it in a colder room, and now after updating it to ios 17 the battery life is even worse for me...
After I learned that the battery heat management is the key technology in EV cars, I started putting something cold onto my phone while charging. I even bought a beautiful cube made of glass that i take out of the fridge and put it on the phone while charging. Did I go too far - maybe, but the battery capacity was at 92% when I started doing this, and the good news is - it is still at 92 after several months. I'm using both wireless and wired quick charging.
I'm also constantly using iPhone for navigation in my oldschool car - so the screen is almost always on, close to full brightness, and the modem is always on (online music and podcasts + bluetooth), which is considered as harsh conditions in summer heat. But the iPhone is placed in a stand in aircon vent and is always cool.
As I've read, the top safe temperature level for the battery is around 40°C, so if it feels warm, then it's already close to the upper temp limit. Gotta avoid that, and everything will be cool.
Another great video, Brandon. Especially the last tip!
😁Great video thanks for sharing the best tips 👍
Great tips! Thank you
Maybe I don’t get the point of background app refresh but I have it turned completely off. Everything still works great. 😅
Incredibly useful video, Brandon. Thanks!
Last advice is the best 👍
indeed
Please answer this but turning on battery indicator does it use any power or battery life like just a bit? Please answer
This is going to help my wife, big time! Thank you!!!
Would be nice if we could download maps more precisely by selecting county, state, or country.
Hi Brandon, I just got the iPhone 14 pro yesterday and wondering is it a good idea to turn on Optimized Battery Charging and just charge it when I’m going to bed no matter what it is about to die or not?
I charged my iphone 15 pro max at 18 percent yesterday it was hot didn’t know that would affect battery, and since it was my first time charging it at 18% cause I just got the phone is that ok?
They finally figured out how to make your battery last so long that it can power your time machine
yaaay i was waiting for this!
great tips and a couple I did not have implemented. I held off switching to 17 on my 13 that I bought last year based on the battery life comments. And sure enough it drains much faster than 16 did. Hoping some of these help.
What’s your thought about keeping apps in the background? I heard for iPhones it’s okay but I also heard it drains battery
Some say it's fine to keep, apps in the background, that it will not drain, but I do not trust this and have seen some drain when running in the background. So I always close my apps after im done using them.
i dont have that listen for option do i need to update ios?
I hope they add an option to disable battery percentage in the control center because it’s annoying ☝🏻 26:00
Depends. It depends on how old your battery is. Additionally, I don’t disable that.
Brandon Butch makes the best videos ever :)
Wonderful video! Made all the necessary changes. Appreciate you! Best, Carolyn (age 77, Long Island)
Hey Brandon! Is Check In available on all countries? I cant find it in my iPhone, I'm in Argentina
@BrandonButch my wife’s battery chart shows 30% usage for No Cell Coverage. Mine doesn’t have this issue. Any tips? Her phone is always dying and 30% seems high
Always with the 🔥🔥 THANK YOU
What’s a good battery percentage to have it set at in shortcuts that’s you’d recommend Brandon ?
Before bed I always use reduce white point and lower my brightness while sleeping.
You the best 🎉
Auto brightness is one thing I will never turn on, every time I go into a dark room it turns the brightness down so low that I can barely read the screen, and if I sit under a lamp or something it turns it up because it thinks I need more brightness like when you are outside in the sun, but no need for more brightness when sitting inside under a lamp. So again this is not an option I can recommend turning on just to save a little bit of battery. It's just gonna be more annoying having to adjust brightness manually all the time when auto brightness gets it wrong.
Amazing video of helpful tips! Great job, Brandon!
19:26 battery life sure.. but its gonna warm up ur phone? damage the speaker ? bro what are u on about .. do u really think that playing the audio on max volume is gonna damage the speakers ?? do u just start bullshitting to increase video length? i dont know if i can trust u as much now
After 25mins of watching this video and making note of everything carefully, that's when Brandon says "Stop being obsessed with your battery percentage". The moment he said that, I was thinking, that's NEVER-ENDING SIRR 😀
iPhone 13 Pro here and I’m on 87% battery health and i unplugged my phone at 6 am,it’s now 11.53 pm and I’m on 51% with 4 hours screen time,that’s good considering this phone is two years old in December
So u recommend upgrading to iOS 17 with iPhone 13 Pro
My iPhone XR dropped from 100% to 96% in 1 week of using it 😢 I charge it from 20% to 85% everytime (running IOS 17.2.1) I’m charging it 3 or 4 times a day sometimes
So what’s the difference in the email app between manual and fetch? Isn’t that the same? You have to get it yourself?
i love mine on push fetch and manual is the same thing
@@Cjmboo I noticed that my Outlook Hotmail is on push also my iCloud email, but none of my Gmail will go on push. They only give me fetch or manual for those.
I have a 15 pro max and I don’t have a section called USB C connection under the battery section
I keep my battery percentage number off cause it’s hideous and it honestly does help with not worrying about it. Side note: pro battery life is way worse than pro max :(
Is there an option to somehow get an alert or notification that phone needs to be charged? For example, battery level drops below 30% and my phone makes a sound signal and text notification that it’s time to charge the phone.
Basically, turn on low power mode and you should be good
Thanks
I have to use cellular in my house because the internet company. Internet goes in and out if a download is slow I turn off wifi. And use lte to update all my apps. Gotta do what ya gotta do.
This is great but apple needs to optimize the OS stat. Nothing against this video in anyway, but users shouldn't have to go through this much just to maintain the longest battery life when Apple should be optimizing the OS from the start.
You're in the right headspace but still somewhat wrong. These settings are all on by default generally for convenience. These features are useful for many but comes at the risk of losing battery life.
got the 14 Pro Max 10/10/22 so a year ago, an im on 98% now, not too bad after a year
I don’t really care for the rest of the iOS features but why did they have to change how pdf works am so frustrated like if u have pages of different sizes in a pdf you can’t zoom in anymore fully and u can’t double tap like it was working perfectly fine I am so annoyed right now
my mental health goes down after i got a iphone se2... its drain while im not using the phone...
Wouldn’t want to kill my Xs so I’m sticking to iOS 16
Wise decision
The newer phones themselves are struggling to keep up with this buggy update
Even my 12 or my girlfriend IP 11 struggles on iOS 17 a bit
@@maxwel5447 that’s wild😅
@@viveksv6531how so??
@@WertyTT4 my battery health has been draining drastically after ios 17. I was on 97% just 2 weeks back and now I’m at 93%
And, I don’t charge my phone over 80% and don’t let it go below 20%
how did you get that double wide calendar widget?
The one tip I’d add is when at home using WiFi. Shut off cellular data and use WiFi calling.
1:40 i have it in 80% limit but i got my phone lacking and it went to 81%
i didn’t know that about the spotlight search calculator thing lol wow😮
very good
Curious after changing all of these settings how much percentage of battery are folks getting at the end of a day?
Seems to be an obsession for some. What kind of battery life are people expecting from these devices? Serious question and I’m not being snarky to those who worry about this at all?
I'm not really into Apple's Ecosystem / apps, so I disabled many of these settings for when if need them if at all.
I routinely get around 3 - 4 hrs at 60% if my battery life. I'm able to get usually about 1 & 1/2 days of use on a single charge for my 13 Mini (8hrs+)
Thank you so very much I really appreciate it your content n I learned a lot from this but there’s some things I don’t use but I’m going to check to see if some things are turned on or off mostly my battery lasts me until I go to bed most every night ❤😊 thank you again Brandon oh if you charge to follow you on X I can’t afford to pay for that bc I don’t know if I’m going have a home to live in next month n if I’m to have to move somewhere else or be just homeless but I will not for long hopefully
What if my phone gets hot when I just use my phone. I’m using iPhone 11.