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Eric Limer at Gizmodo has an awesome set of tips to help preserve battery life under the iOS 7 regime.

Here’s what he writes:

Many of iOS 7’s fancy new features are handy if you need/want them. If you don’t, they’re just eating away at that precious battery life behind the scenes, and give you exactly zero help for your trouble. So shut ’em down.

And here’s a sampling of his tips, each of which is accompanied in the original article by screenshots and instructions.

Turn off parallax
Parallax is fun, but it’s the definition of “extra.” And maybe it even makes you dizzy. Who needs it? Not you. You can turn it off in accessibility settings, by going to Settings>>General>>Accessibility and setting Reduce Motion to on.

Turn off AirDrop/Bluetooth if you’re not going to use it
AirDrop is great when you are AirDropping. The rest of the time it’s just fidgeting in its seat, looking for another device to play with. Turning it off is easy, just swipe up your Control Center, and hit the toggle.

This is one I’ve always liked to use (so it may be an obvious one), with all the operating systems:

Stop searching for Wi-Fi
There’s no need to have your phone searching for Wi-Fi when there’s no trusted network in sight. You’ll save yourself some trouble if you get in the habit of turning of Wi-Fi from the Control Center when you leave the house. Alternatively, you can go to Settings>>Wi-Fi and turn Ask to Join Networks to off. This way your phone will hop on Wi-Fi networks it knows, but won’t look around for more without direct orders.

Turn off background app refreshing
The brutal downside of good multitasking is running things in the background (duh). But if you go to Settings>>General>>Background App Refresh, you can disable background-runnin’ for the apps that aren’t important. Or all of them if you want to go all the way.

Gizmodo has the rest of Limer’s tips and the illustrations here: Gizmodo.

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