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Former Apple employee says you shouldn’t fully charge your iPhone

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Updated 11:55 17 Dec 2023 GMTPublished 11:52 17 Dec 2023 GMT

Former Apple employee says you shouldn’t fully charge your iPhone

A former Apple employee has detailed some 'extreme' ways iphone users can change their settings to save battery.

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

A former Apple employee has highlighted some easy tips to save battery life.

Your phone battery dying when you are out or when you really need it is understandably frustrating.

Apple users have long complained about the battery life of iPhones and one Tiktok user has outlined some ways to reduce how quickly it drains.

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TikToker Tyler Morgan (@hitomidocameraroll) said they were ‘extreme’ options but essentially get the job done.

“Hello, I used to work at Apple. This is how to save battery,” Morgan said.

“Do not charge to 100 percent, do not charge it overnight, charge it to 80 percent. Going out all day? Okay, sure go to 100 percent just don’t do it every day."

There's luckily a simple way to stop your phone charging all the way up to 100 percent.

User Hitomidocameraroll, real name Tyler Morgan, said they were ‘extreme’ options but essentially get the job done.
hitomidocameraroll/TikTok

Tyler said: “Go to settings, battery, battery health and charging, turn [charging optimization] on. If you wanna be real cautious put it to 80 percent limit.”

Morgan then proceeded to give a bunch of other tips that could reduce the rate at which an iPhone battery is sapped.

He said: “Turn off your background activity. Go to general, background app refresh. These are all apps that are running in the background, if you have them open.

“Turn it off, you won’t get your Instagram post notifications, but you’ll save battery.

“Turn off your location services for apps you’re not using. Settings, privacy and security, right at the top. Don’t turn it off, I mean we all need Google Maps and that.

Some users certainly raged at Apple for the short battery life still being an issue.
Hitomidocameraroll/TikTok

“Anything on here you don’t use all the time or you don’t feel like needs your location to function, just choose one of the options.”

The TikToker also suggested turning down phone brightness, turning off Siri and turning off Bluetooth if it isn’t being used at the moment.

He closed by admitting that doing these tips would likely ruin your phone experience, but it would successfully reduce the amount of battery used.

The video has so far been viewed over 11 million times and the comments from other social media users were more than thankful as many complained about their iPhone batteries’ health.

Some users certainly raged at Apple for the short battery life still being an issue.


“My iPhone 11 used to use 30 percent in a day, one update and it’s 80 percent or more used a day,” one frustrated user wrote.

“[With] Apple you pay so much money, but then you have this inconvenience,” another user wrote.

“Me watching all the iPhone users having to compromise a bunch of phone settings just to have a slightly longer battery life,” another joked.

Featured Image Credit: Tiktok / hitomidocameraroll

Topics: iPhone, Apple, TikTok

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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