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iPhone Health Tips
How to Turn off screen time and Fitness tracking
Disable Screen Time and Fitness tracking to reduce background battery use.
How to Turn on dark mode and turn brightness down
On devices with an OLED display (iPhone X, XS, XS Max, iPhone 11, and iPhone 12), Dark Mode can save quite a bit of battery life, so it's worth enabling: 1.
Keeping a log of your momentary emotions and daily moods can help you identify patterns and reflect on what impacts your state of mind
Keeping a log of your momentary emotions and daily moods can help you identify patterns and reflect on what impacts your state of mind.
Remap the emoji picker to the Fn key
This makes it much easier to show emojis.
Take clinical assessments for anxiety and depression to determine if you need to discuss issues with a doctor
Take clinical assessments for anxiety and depression to determine if you need to discuss issues with a doctor.
Place iPhone face down
When you're not using your iPhone, place the handset face down.
How to Turn off Siri suggestions
Siri makes suggestions based on your activity.
Turn off “Hey Siri” to save battery
Disable the always-listening wake phrase to reduce power drain.
Only turn on WiFi when you know you have a connection
WiFi uses less power than a cellular connection, but detecting WiFi nearby uses a lot of battery.
Reorder System preferences alphabetically
Tired of not finding anything in System Preferences?
How to Find a file in Finder from Spotlight
With a Spotlight search open find the selected file by clicking Command + R.
Resize a window while holding down the Option key
Resize a window while holding down the Option key to resize the window from the center Press Shift to keep the aspect ratio.
How to Switch between multiple windows of an app when ⌘ + Tab-ing
While ⌘ + Tab-ing, hold down command (⌘) and press the arrow up or arrow down when an app with multiple windows open.
How to Share health data
Share your health data with others or check if your closest ones have taken their medicine.
Zoom in to anything with your mouse / trackpad
- Open System Preferences - Go to Accessibility - Click on Zoom - Enable "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom" - You can now zoom by holding Cont
Disable automatic downloads and app updates
Downloading apps and updating them in the background uses a lot of power.
How to Enable low power mode automatically before your battery reaches 20%
Low power mode is automatically enabled when your battery reaches 20%, but you can turn it on earlier to save more: 1.
Cut down on notifications
Every time you get a new notification and your screen lights up and vibrate you drain battery quicker.
Get rid of that U2 album from your iPhone
Step-by-step guide to delete the U2 Songs of Innocence album from your iPhone
Additional menu items or alternate menus
Holding Option (⌥) while having menus open or clicking items in the menu bar will give you additional menu items or alternate menus.
Don't close apps using the App Switcher
Many battery life guides suggest quitting apps, but this doesn't save battery life and can in fact drain more battery.
Only make phone calls available when your battery goes lower than 5%
When your battery is close to empty, your phone quickly dies.
How to set medication reminders in the Health app
Log medications and set reminders so you never miss a dose.
Limit when and how often apps access your location
Apps accessing your location is a major source of battery drain.
How to Turn off Background App Refresh
Apps pulling down data in the background drains battery.
Drag windows around without clicking your trackpad
- Open System Preferences - Go to Accessibility - Click on Pointer Control - Click on Trackpad Options - Check Enable dragging and select "three finger dra
How to Change which app that defaults open a certain file type
- Right click on a file - Click on Get Info - Click on Open With - Select the app you want to use from the dropdown menu - Click "Change all"
Cycle Tracking lets you log your period and can also help predict when your next period or fertile window will begin
Cycle Tracking lets you log your period and can also help predict when your next period or fertile window will begin, as well as estimate when you likely ovulated.