iPhone tip: Save battery by changing email settings — or change your email app

On the iPhone, you can choose how often the phone should check for new emails. You can control this per account or generally for multiple accounts if you use more than one. Thus, it comes to the iPhone’s Mail app, which constantly retrieves emails. If you want to avoid this, you can choose to download only manually, or limit downloads to every quarter, half hour, or hour. The settings for this can be found under Settings – Mail – Accounts – Download new data.

If this still doesn’t help, an alternative might be to not use Apple’s Mail app, but instead try, for example, the Gmail app or Microsoft Outlook app, both of which work with Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Icloud, Yahoo, and more.

This tip for improving iPhone battery life was previously published exclusively for Plus members on Mobil.se. Here you can become a Plus member and thus have direct access to all articles on Mobil.se and also benefit from favorable offers and discounts. As a plus member, you’ll get aggregate tips and many other in-depth how-to articles. The tip was originally published at the beginning of February along with nine other tips on how to better control your iPhone’s power consumption and extend your phone’s battery life yourself.