Apple's latest iPhone 16 models and iOS updates have an improved battery life, though most users' batteries still drain much faster.

Here are a few successful tips to ensure your iPhone battery lasts the day or at least minimizes wasteful battery loss, such as reducing your use of widgets and monitoring app permissions.

Delete Unused Home and Lock Screen Widgets

How to Save Your iPhone 16's Battery Power

iOS 18 offers much more flexibility in the placement of widgets on your Home and Lock screens, but too many widgets will start to eat into battery life. If you have widgets that you don't really use, consider deleting them.

To delete widgets on the Home Screen, you need to press and hold the widget, then tap the minus ("-") button.

Under the Lock Screen, you also have variations, and the one with fewer widgets may be created to conserve power when necessary.

The disablement of Lock Screen widgets at night during the testing phase reduced battery usage by 20% down to 10%.

Shut off the ProMotion Display

The iPhone 16 Pro and other "Pro" models have a 120Hz ProMotion refresh rate. This can be a power drain. Reducing the refresh rate to 60Hz saves you plenty of battery life.

You can enable Low Power Mode. iOS will automatically limit the refresh rate. Alternatively, go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion and enable "Limit Frame Rate."

Use Apple Maps in Offline Mode

Now Apple Maps is also available to be used offline, which means you may save battery, especially in places with spotty cellular coverage. Download the maps beforehand to prevent continuous location tracking, which consumes more power. In order to download an area, just search for it in Apple Maps, tap the download icon, and select the region you would like to download.

Disable iPhone Mirroring

iPhone Mirroring is a tidy feature that shows iPhone notifications on your Mac, but it's a permanent drain on your iPhone's battery when you're not using this feature much. If so, turn this off. To do this, go to Settings > General > AirPlay and Continuity and delete connected Macs.

Manage Location Access for Apps

This way, to handle applications permissions and deactivate the usage of location access as an app, you will find your settings menu, you would select Privacy & Security then click on Location Services and review what the present status is for each one on your phone.

Reduce battery usage by setting permissions to "While Using the App" or "Ask Next Time Or When I Share". Location access should be allowed "Always" only for critical apps like Maps that really need it.

More Tips to Save Your Battery

Low Power Mode: It limits background activity and reduces the brightness of the display significantly to extend the battery life.

Limit Background App Refresh: Tap on Settings > General > Background App Refresh and switch off the unwanted background activity of applications.

Dim down Screen Brightness: Dimming the screen and turning on Auto-Brightness help save power.

Implement these and you will see how much your iPhone's battery life improves, so it can be used for many hours in a day.