Another battery life extension for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch

I did a little experimenting over the last couple weeks with my older, original iPad 1 and my 2nd gen iPod Touch.

I have found that leaving Wifi active all of the time CAN really affect iDevice battery life and performance.

I charged up both devices and left both devices with Wifi off.

After a week, my iPod Touch still has approx. 85-90% of its life, with WiFi off.

My original iPad, after a week with WiFi off, its battery percentage, while reduced, is still nearly between 95-100%

Wifi is a fairly big drain on the iDevice's battery it turns out.

So, if you want to extend the life of your iDevice's battery further, whenever you are away from your iDevice for any prolonged period of time, say an hour or more or if you are not using your iDevice while charging, turn off WiFi until you are using the device again.

Same goes for your iDevices when using a smartwatch/Apple Watch.

When not wearing your Apple watch, turn off both Bluetooth on both the watch and iDevice, as well as WiFi until you are actually using one or both of these iDevices.

See if your battery performance and time on a charge increases.

I am going to start doing this on a more regular basis.

If your iDevices already automatically connect to known Wifi networks, then it is only a matter of turning on/off the WiFi switch in the iOS Settings app.

Well worth saving charging cycles by doing this, IMO.

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