Unlock Hidden iPhone Battery Killers: The 3 Settings Apple Won’t Tell You About—and How to Fix Them Now

Most iPhone users will tell you the most frustrating thing about these phones is the battery life.

While most iPhone batteries start out pretty good, once you’ve owned the device for a year or two and loaded it with dozens of apps and thousands of photos, it starts to flag.

It’s something we’ve come to accept with Apple products, but one tech expert has revealed one thing we can do to savour that precious battery life just a little bit longer, and it all comes down to your device’s current settings.

As it turns out, according to Digital Joe George, there are three major iPhone settings buried in the apps that could be draining your battery without you even realising it.

But the good news is, you can do something about it right now.

These secret settings could be draining your battery more than you realise (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

All you need to do is go into your settings app and tap on Siri, or Apple Intelligence and Siri, depending on which iOS version your phone currently has installed.

Then you just need to scroll down to the bottom and click on apps.

Then, you’ll find a list of all the third party apps you have associated with Siri, and you’ll need to go into them all individually.

“Now this is especially important for third party apps. I want you to click on an app like Facebook, and it’s highly recommended you turn off ‘learn from this app’, ‘suggest app’ and ‘suggestion notifications’,” Joe explained in the clip.

“There is absolutely no reason why Siri should be learning from this app, let alone allowing suggestions to appear in search and in widgets.

“All these three unnecessary settings actually do is burn through your battery and you can imagine how much this can auto compound depending on how many apps you have installed.”

In the caption, the tech expert said these particular settings ‘do nothing but spy on your habits and eat up your battery life at lightening speed’, adding that turning them off ‘will instantly boost battery performance and make your iPhone run smoother’.

The ‘learn from this app’ setting allows Siri to learn your usage patterns within a specific app and use that information to provide personalised suggestions.

While for some people this is a nice touch, for many it is wholly unnecessary so the choice is yours as to whether you’d rather get the personalised experience or savour that precious battery life.