Three iPhone tricks to extend your battery life and save your storage space

Is unreliable battery life and overcrowded storage making your iPhone more hassle than it's worth?

Try these three tricks to extend battery life and make the handset faster than before.

If your iPhone storage is full, your device won't be able to cache properly, which can slow down the speed of the handset

Unlock more storage space

To unlock more storage space, you'll need to delete some things.

But that doesn't mean your precious photos and music should be deleted.

Instead, you can try deleting the large attachments that people have sent you via iMessage.

For example, long videos of a friend's pet that were fun at the time but don't need to take up valuable storage space.

To do this, open Settings > General > iPhone Storage and view and delete large attachments.

In general, storage usage does not affect the performance of an iPhone.

But if your iPhone storage is full, your device won't be able to cache properly, which can slow down the speed of the handset.

Extend battery life

To extend your battery life, navigate to Background App Refresh in Settings and turn it off.

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According to Apple, “When App Refresh is enabled in the background, apps can check for new data and updates even when you're not using them, which can drain your battery and use up your data.

“Disabling background app refresh can help improve your iPhone's battery life and performance.

“It can also save you data if you have a limited data plan.”

reduce movement

To extend battery life and improve iPhone speed, you can “reduce” the motion of certain effects.

To do this, find Accessibility in Settings > Motion > Turn on Reduce Motion.

Then disable Autoplay for message effects and videos.

This reduces visual motion on your iPhone screen and limits effects such as:

Parallax effect of wallpapers, apps and alerts
Screen transitions
Siri animations
Type autocomplete
Animated full screen and bubble effects in the Messages app
Animated images on the web and in apps

When this feature is enabled, you must manually play iMessage effects by tapping Replay below the message bubble.