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Question

How do I get more battery life from my iPhone 4S?

by Jan 24, 2012 11:21AM PST

How do I get more battery life for my iPhone 4s?

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More is relative . . .
by Jan 24, 2012 9:52PM PST

Turn off wi-fi until needed. Bluetooth also. Cut down on downloading. Cut down on playing movies. Cut down on sending pictures with messages.

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by lantern22 Jan 24, 2012 11:30PM PST

Thanks. I did kill the wi-fi. Really using it for work ,mostly emails/phone. Still Battery power is lousy compared to other phones I have used.

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A couple of things you can try.
by Jan 27, 2012 6:01AM PST

2 things that are notorious for killing the iphones battery life:

The display brightness and push notifications.

Try turning your display brightness down to the lowest one that you can live with and turn off Auto-Brightness.

Turn off all push notifications that you could careless about.

Give those two a try and see if battery life increases.

Good luck!
-Lee

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