iPhone X Battery Life

Upgrading to an iPhone X has obvious advantages, with battery capacity among the many bonuses.

However, new iPhone users, or users who are coming over from Android phones, know their handset’s battery lasts a bit longer than the 21-hour average of the iPhone X.

While Apple has slightly shaved away some components that dominate more battery than in the iPhone X, there are a few internal bells and whistles that not every user will need or want to make use of.

Investigating the settings for these types of features is always a must when acquiring a new phone, as it may earn you a few extra valuable minutes or even hours when it comes to iPhone X battery life.

Doing so is also an excellent way to begin navigating your new device.

What To Expect From the Battery out of the Box

Apple’s own iPhone X specifications page details the life of the device in a few different scenarios, all of which assume the phone is on its default settings:

• Music and audio playback – The iPhone X lasts for around 60 hours when simply playing music or other audio.
• Talk time – When using the iPhone X as simply a phone, you can expect approximately 21 hours of battery.
• Video – You can expect about 13 hours when watching videos.
• Internet – Battery life while on the internet is what most people will experience, as the average user is connected to the internet for most of the day, whether it is through their carrier or on Wi-Fi. With moderate to heavy use, you can expect the iPhone X to stay in operation for 12 hours.

For many users, 12 hours of operation will be more than sufficient, but for those who need every last bit of juice that the battery has to offer, there are a few tips and tricks that may be able to help.

Your Daily Battery Consumption

With 12 hours of battery life during daily use, you might be wondering what that entails.

Your iPhone will be able to last through countless Face ID recognition, playing games intermittently in downtime, using the phone as a hotspot, streaming music and listening with Bluetooth-enabled headphones, snapping pictures. Even watching a show or two on Netflix — throw in a few emails, texts, and calls, and you have a full day’s use before needing to charge back up. For lighter users, expect to drain about ¾ of the phone’s battery by midnight.

Iphone x Battery Life

The iPhone X also manages to power through approximately 30 minutes of video with only 5 percent battery remaining and low power mode on.

Just as impressively, it will only lose about 5 percent during the night if left from its charging cable.

The new OLED display is one of the steps Apple has taken to reduce battery draw, and the iPhone X proves this by using 15 percent less battery than other iPhone iterations, including the iPhone 8 Plus when displaying the same 90-minute video in full HD with the phones’ brightness on the highest setting.

How Long Will The iPhone X Have a Full Battery

If your phone happens to power down in the middle of the day, your iPhone X can have a full battery in about 2 hours and 15 minutes.

But in emergency situations, the device can obtain a 20 percent charge in 15 minutes, which will give you more than enough charge to take care of most immediate issues, and can possibly even last through the rest of the day.

Apple also has faster charging through wireless pads, which can now achieve around 15 percent battery charge in around 30 minutes.

Apps To Use Sparingly

There are likely apps that are using much more of your phone’s battery life than others. Identifying and monitoring your use of these applications can help extend the life of your iPhone X’s charge cycle. In iOS 8, there’s a feature to aid in identifying apps that heavily control your battery usage.

You’ll see it by tapping on your Settings icon and then finding Battery in the menu. On the bottom of this page, you will see a list of your app activity from most to least usage of the battery.

Next, to each app’s name, there is a percentage that indicates the app’s draw on your iPhone’s battery.

You can even toggle between the apps’ usage from the last 24 hours or the last 7 days.

Power-draining Application

If you aren’t frequently using a power-draining application, deleting it is the best way to ensure that it no longer takes a toll on your battery life.

Otherwise, if you will keep using the app, it may help to force close it after use by swiping up from the Home indicator.

When each of the apps appears in a stream, tap and hold one of the app cards. Red minus bubbles will show in the upper left of each card.

Force-close the app

Swipe up on a card to force-close the app. While Apple’s phones generally handle apps in the background, it is possible that apps that stream content may wake to fetch content, which means draining your battery even when you think it isn’t in use.

However, force-closing all of your apps could have the inverse effect on your battery, so reserve force-closing for the worst offenders.

Battery Health Monitor

Additionally, Apple has also now has a beta version of a Battery Health monitor to help you keep track of the actual lifespan of your battery.

This compares the current capacity of your battery with that of the battery while it was new. Like all things, batteries do degrade over time, and this feature can be of service if you like to use your phone for as long as possible before upgrading.

Pinpointing when your phone is no longer operating at peak capacity can prevent frustrations when trying to keep in sync with the introduction of operating system updates and new advancements in technology.

Power-Saving Settings

While 12 hours of battery life isn’t particularly impressive when it comes to handset batteries, it certainly can get the average user through the day.

For an Apple model, this may be more than fans have experienced with past iPhone iterations, and it will be a much-welcomed surprise.

As Apple fans know, there are always settings that can be reduced or turned off entirely in order to squeeze a little more precious time out of your phone.

Of course, the extent of each individual’s use of the phone through the day is also a variable to be considered, as those who find themselves thumbing through their feeds and skipping through playlists more throughout the day will experience much shorter battery life than those who only occasionally pull their phone out to check a text, send an email, or quickly Google something for the answer to a burning question.

Identify the Apps that consume most of your Phone’s Battery

Once you identify some of the apps that consume most of your phone’s battery during the day, it may also be worth reviewing if these apps also have access to things like location service.

At some time or another, all of us have hurriedly gone through permissions or terms of service without looking closely when downloading apps.

Take the time to ensure the apps that absolutely need this information are the only ones who have it.

Disabling location services on infrequently used apps can drastically increase the life of your battery.

Disabling Location Services

Some apps also have an option for using location services while you’re actively using the application.

Similarly, Apple’s Background Refresh allows inactive apps to fetch data.

While Apple has taken a great deal of measures to minimize battery consumption by apps refreshing in the background, disabling this feature for applications that don’t require real-time updates is advisable.

It is also possible that the feature can be used by poorly developed apps that significantly lower the iPhone X battery life. For individuals who use Facebook, it is worth knowing that the app is a known offender for heavy battery use as the result of Background Refresh.

Dark Mode Setting

One last feature to check for in your most used applications is Dark Mode setting.

As the white borders disappear around your favorite apps’ content, the replacing darkness is genuine.

The iPhone X’s OLED screen simply does not illuminate pixels that are dark, rather than creating a black shade using RBG technology.

Naturally, when fewer pixels are illuminated, the phone’s display requires less draw from the battery.

Is It Necessary To Go Through the Trouble?

Right out of the package, the iPhone X battery life is considerably longer than many other past versions of the iPhone, and for users who intend to use the device with light to moderate frequency, there may be no need to go to great lengths to lengthen the time you are able to spend on your phone.

Limiting your Interaction with Power-draining Apps

However, for moderately heavy to heavy users, limiting your interaction with power-draining apps, disabling location services or limiting its permissions, and carefully choosing which apps are allowed to refresh in the background can greatly increase the intervals from each unplugging to the phone’s next recharge.

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