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[Teknofil.no] The new operating system for iPhone, iOS 7 is now available for everyone. While the new phones iPhone iPhone 5S and 5C probably is tailored to use the brand new OS one can possibly users of the older iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPad experience problems with performance and battery life.

site ExtremeTech has therefore thrown together six quick tips on what you can do to possibly increase the battery life of your old iDingser.

Here are some simple tricks to give longer life to the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S :

Turn off 3D effect

iOS 7 has a fancy effect that makes the icons to “float” over the background, but this costs system resources. You turn off the power by going into Settings? General? Accessibility and pressing the “Reduce Motion.”

Turn down the brightness

The screen is the biggest battery bandit, and you can turn down the brightness by going into Settings? Wallpaper & Brightness and turn off the “Auto-Brightness”. Thus, you have full control.

Turn off radios

Radio Functionality also draws power, so you need to turn off what you do not use. “Airplane Mode” in the control center turns off all radios, and you can also dabbling with individual settings (PS: turn off Bluetooth also).

Turn off background refresh

Applications can update itself automatically in the background, but this requires energy. You can choose which apps are allowed to do this under Settings? General and “Background App Refresh”.

Screw the search function

Spotlight search function is a relatively powerful engine for iOS 7, but it is also hungry for resources as the need to search through and list all the files on your iDingsen. You can turn the whole thing or individual categories in General? “Spotlight Search”.

Turn off the “Raise to Speak”

voice assistant Siri has a feature called “Raise to Speak”, which means that you can lift up the phone to speak – rather than holding a button. The sensor that detects this stifles the battery, so this feature you can turn off in the settings menu to Siri app.

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(Source: ExtremeTech)