Does your iPhone no longer make it to the end of the day? Then it is better to disable this iPhone function for a much longer battery life!
Disable iPhone feature
Is the battery of your iPhone draining faster and faster? In that case, there are plenty of settings you can adjust to extend the battery life of your iPhone. Turning on Power Saving Mode is an easy way to make your iPhone’s battery last longer. If you want to save even more on the battery, you can disable various functions on your iPhone. One of them is ‘Tap or swipe to activate’.
With this feature enabled, you wake up your iPhone’s screen by tapping or swiping it. This way you can quickly turn on the screen, but that also has a disadvantage. If the screen is accidentally activated regularly, your iPhone’s battery will drain much faster. The display is often on unnecessarily and consumes a lot of power. Do you want to prevent that? This is how you disable the function for a longer battery life of your iPhone!
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@iphonednl Did you know that your iPhone BATTERY⚡️will last much longer if you TURN OFF this feature?! 🔴📴 The setting is called ‘Tap or swipe to activate’ — here’s how to turn it OFF!📱🔋👍🏼 #creatorsearchinsights 🪫 #iphonetips #iphonebattery #iphonetricks #battery ♬ sonido original – Taci Méndez
Tap or swipe to activate
Tap or swipe to activate is enabled by default on iPhone X and later. Apple is trying to make it easier to wake up the iPhone’s screen with the feature. You don’t need a button to turn on the display, instead you simply tap the screen. Unfortunately, this often happens unconsciously or accidentally, causing your iPhone’s battery to drain faster. Therefore, disable this iPhone function for a longer battery life:
- Open ‘Settings’ on your iPhone;
- Go to ‘Accessibility’;
- Choose ‘Touch’;
- Turn off Tap or swipe to activate.
Have you disabled the feature? Then your iPhone will no longer turn on when you tap the screen. Instead, you have to press the side button on the device. This probably takes some time to get used to, but the disabled function does ensure a longer battery life for your iPhone. The screen now turns on much less often, which means your iPhone’s energy consumption is much lower. This means you don’t have to put the iPhone back on the charger as quickly.
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Turning off Tap or Swipe to Wake is an easy way to extend your iPhone’s battery life. This is a smart option, especially for older iPhones, because the battery condition of those devices slowly deteriorates. This means that the battery life becomes shorter and shorter, because the battery drains faster. Did you find this tip useful and would you like to know more? Then sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter so you don’t miss a single tip for your Apple device!
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