By now you’re either in love with iOS 5, Notification Centre and vastly improved page rendering times – or you’re banging your head against a brick wall wondering why your device no longer lasts a day without a charge. Apple has acknowledged that some (particularly iPhone 4S owners) are experiencing issues, and for severe battery drain you might want to try re-installing iOS 5 again. However, as with each new update your device is now doing more than ever and that’s bound to suck up more juice than ever before.
After much tinkering, scouring and charging we’ve come up with a plan for those with unforgivable battery drain.
Disable GPS-Based Time Zone Detection & Others
This is a very useful feature for those who travel, or are thinking of travelling and don’t want to miss that all-important connecting flight. For anyone else who doesn’t regularly switch timezones it’s a fairly useless feature that (according to iOS 5’s settings) regularly queries for a location fix.
Use of GPS on any device is going to drain the battery, that’s why if you’re using navigation software in your car it’s always best to keep your phone charging via an in-car adapter. If you don’t do this you might find that when you reach your destination you’re going to have a fairly flat battery.
You can disable this setting in Settings, Location Services and then System Services. In this menu you will notice a few other services that you might like to disable, such as Location-Based iAds (oh Apple!) and Traffic data. The less your phone, tablet or media device uses GPS, the more battery you’ll have at the end of the day.
No comments:
Post a Comment