We’ve rounded up some tips and tricks on how to fix iPhone 13 Pro Max battery drain.
When you decided to buy the iPhone 13 Pro Max, you check for the presence of all the essentials like latest processor, HD camera, good sound, long-lasting battery…. Wait! You bought a phone with the best battery option, but even then its battery is draining very fast? Well, that happens. If you’ve been experiencing rapid battery drain problem on your iPhone 13 Pro Max, look no further. We’ve compiled a list of the best tips and tricks on how to fix iPhone 13 Pro Max battery drain problems. Lets get started:
Apps that can cause iPhone 13 Pro Max battery drain
First thing’s first. We need to learn the behavior of our battery to locate the problem and subsequently to find a solution.
It’s great that there’s an app for literally everything, but some aren’t particularly kind to your phone’s battery life. In a few cases, certain apps could be causing unnecessary battery drain without you even knowing about it.
To get a better understanding of what makes your battery tick, go to Settings > Battery and scroll down to a section called Battery Usage By App. . If you find apps on this screen that are using up a lot of battery then, think about whether you really need them. You could save iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life by removing the apps you don’t depend on. Some apps run in the background without you even knowing it, causing unnecessary iPhone 13 battery drain.
Some apps start to cause surprising battery drain after an update. The only option is to wait for the developer to fix the issue. If the battery loss is significant enough to be a problem, your best bet is to uninstall the app until a fix is available.
Check location Services settings
If you’ve ever used a navigation app, you’ll know that the GPS can cause the iPhone 13 Pro Max battery to drain really quickly. However, some apps also use location services when active or even when running in the background.
Completely disabling location services isn’t always feasible, but is ideal if you want to extend your iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life.
You should check and make sure that apps aren’t using location services without needing it. You can check which have location access by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Disable access to infrequently used apps that don’t need location services all the time.
Adjust display settings
It’s a well-known fact that the display is one of the biggest sources of battery drain on an iPhone 13 Pro Max, so managing it is crucial to its longevity. There are a few changes you can make to help you get the most battery out of your iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Don’t act all innocent. The law states you should never use automatic brightness, but you’ve been abusing it behind closed doors. Though automatic brightness is usually sophisticated enough to produce a comfortable viewing setting for each individual, it is not capable of selecting the optimal setting. How could it? iPhone sensors don’t know the strength of your and your great aunt’s eyesight, do they?
Setting the brightness level yourself will invariably provide better battery life, so long as you set it to a comparatively low value. Fortunately, the iOS makes it very easy to adjust brightness settings, and it can easily be adjusted from the control center.
To turn off Auto Brightness, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Auto Brightness and turn it off.
Be sure to check your screen brightness. Your screen is one of the most resource intensive parts of your iPhone, so leaving the brightness on full blast can definitely result in poor iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life. Navigate to Settings > Display & Brightness. You will find a Brightness slider that you can adjust. Better yet, a brightness slider is available in the Control Center for easier access.
You can also increase your iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life by switching to a Dark Mode. To do this, go to Settings > Display & Brightness. Under Appearance, choose Dark.
You can also reduce the Auto-Lock time. The "Auto-Lock" setting determines how long your display will stay awake for after it has been engaged with; if your screen remains on while you aren’t looking at it, it’s wasting precious battery life. Best to set it to the lowest value you are comfortable with in regular use, and only change it when you need to.
Don’t to worry about apps which require the screen to be on permanently while in use, like games or eBook readers, they know to stay awake no matter what your setting is. You can adjust this setting by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock.
You should also disable Raise To Wake feature.
Raise to Wake tells your iPhone to turn on when you raise it. This is helpful, but it also uses up needed battery power each time you pick up your iPhone.
To disable Raise to Wake feature, navigate to Settings > Display & Brightness and toggle off the switch next to Raise to Wake.
Enable Low Power mode
Low Power Mode is a fantastic way to get a little more juice out of your iPhone 13 Pro Max battery when it hits 20 percent mark.
Go to Settings > Battery and turn on the switch next to Low Power Mode.
This mode temporarily disables non-essential services and features including the following:
- Hey Siri – This is a built-in, voice-controlled personal assistant available for Apple users. The idea is that you talk to her as you would a friend and she aims to help you get things done, whether that be making a dinner reservation or sending a message hands-free.
- Background App Refresh – This is a feature that allows apps to run in the background of your iPhone, even when you aren’t using them. With Background App Refresh enabled, your apps can download new content so the information is up-to-date when you open them again.
- Automatic Downloads – This feature allows you to automatically download content such as music, books, and apps onto every device logged in to the same account.
- Mail Fetching – If you’re worried about your battery usage, you can limit how often your iPhone checks for new email. By default, the iOS mail application is set to “Push” so it can download new email as soon as it arrives on the server.
- Some Visual Effects
In Addition:
- Auto-Lock defaults to 30 seconds.
- The iCloud Photo Library is temporarily paused.
To re-enable each of these manually go to: Settings > Battery
Your iPhone will always automatically disable the Low Power Mode when it’s charged up to 80% or higher. Low Power Mode is temporary and only lasts until the next proper charge. There’s no way to permanently enable it.
Plus, whenever your iPhone reaches the 20 percent battery mark, the “Low Power Mode” prompt will appear. At this point, your iPhone will show you what features are temporarily disabled. You can choose to “Continue” and enable Low Power Mode or “Cancel” and not enable it. However, Low Power Mode can provide anywhere from one to three hours more time before your iPhone loses power.
Disable Background App Refresh
When Background App Refresh is enabled, your iPhone has to use energy to predict when and how often you’ll be using applications, and it aims to re-load information by refreshing the app in the background.
You can save iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life by turning Background App Refresh off globally or for individual apps. You can also limit the refresh to Wi-Fi only.
Head over to Settings > General > Background App Refresh to make adjustments.
Get rid of on-screen widgets
Widgets are stone cold battery killers, mercilessly updating in the background while you go about your business. You might be under the impression that a simple news ticker and weather app won’t do much harm, but you’d be wrong, and once you start adding more and more, it will seriously take your battery to task. Keeping only essential widgets, or ideally, none at all, will help extend your iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life a bit.
Check your charger
If after a full night’s charging, you notice that your iPhone 13 Pro Max battery drains super-fast, then it’s worth checking first thing in the morning whether it actually fully charges. If not, then you’re looking at a defective charger.
Check whether your cable works with another iPhone, or conversely whether your iPhone works with another cable. If your charger proves to be faulty, remember to only buy chargers from reputable manufacturers, otherwise you risk becoming the subject of those all-too-frequent news stories about phones setting houses and people on fire. No, we’re not joking, it’s happened.
Turn off features when not in use
We know Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-fi, mobile data (and of course hotspot to share your internet) come under important features of a smartphone. But these features drain most of the iPhone’s battery. Do turn them off, when not in use, especially when you are running out of battery. Turning Airplane mode on during low battery power can help you sustain the battery for a long time.
Check your wallpaper
Live wallpapers are great, but can reduce battery life. Regular wallpapers are definitely the more battery-friendly choice. Dark wallpapers with lots of blacks is even better. This is due to the fact that the pixels in iPhone 13 Pro Max displays only consume battery power to illuminate bright colours and do not require energy to display dark. Simple logic is that less the number of bright colours, less the power consumption.
Vibration is like a battery eater! Turn it off
Vibration takes more battery power than the ring tone. You may like to keep a mild vibration while typing or while getting notified for a message or call. But it absorbs a good amount of your battery power. Going the other way can boost your iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life immensely.
That’s just some of the ways you can reduce iPhone 13 Pro Max battery drain and extend your battery life. Nothing is going to double your battery life, but every little bit helps.