KI did some research on this today because I’m not plugged in on Tuesday, and noticed a steady battery drain with nothing running. No apps on.
According to one website, there was a number of things I could do to fine tune my phone’s power management:
- Fix push mail to fetch (make your phone only check for mail periodically, not constantly)
- Turn Off Unnecessary Location Services (turn off Settings that send out your location beyond what is necessary for your phone to function)
- Turn off Analytics (up to you)
- Turn off extra notifications (wow, there were a lot of these!)
- Turn off unused Background App Refresh
- Turn ON auto-lock (to keep from wasting power on the purty purty screen)
- Disable unnecessary visual effects
There were other items that I was already doing (swipe apps closed, power down phone once a week, keep phone cool but not cold, etc etc). I made the above changes today and am testing the results. So far, I am cautiously optimistic (the battery isn’t draining like a sieve now)!