Some of this may already be obvious to most, however, I thought it might be worthwhile to lay out all the steps you can take on your iPhone to maximize its battery life for a long ride.

I applied all of these to my phone this weekend and did a 3 hour and 40 min ride, and still had 33% of my battery life left. This WHILE USING A BLUEHR HEARTRATE STRAP.....which requires Bluetooth to be enabled.

Sorry if some of this seems common sense.....and, yes, (a) I know a Garmin doesn't have battery life issues, as a phone does, and (b) an extended battery like Morph can used as well. Enjoy:


1. Turn off location svcs: Settings > General > Location Services. I only leave Strava and Maps active.

2. Turn off Push Notifications: Settings > Notifications and set Notifications to Off.

3. Turn off push mail: Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and set Push to Off.

4. Lengthen the manual data fetch time: To fetch new data manually, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Manually. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly.

5. Auto-check fewer email accounts: You can save power by checking fewer email accounts. This can be accomplished by turning off an email account. To turn off an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and set Account to Off.

6. Turn off Wifi: Settings > Wifi

7. Turn off BT: Settings > General > Bluetooth > Off (unless you are wearing/using a BT device such as a BlueHR or BlueSC from Wahoo Fitness)

8. Turn off setting time zone: Settings > Location Services > System Services. From there, it’s just a matter of turning off “Setting Time Zone.”

9. Turn off Cellular Data: Settings > General> Network > Cellular Data off.

10. Disable Ping: Settings > General > Restrictions > Enable Restrictions > Ping > "Off"

11. Turn off Siri: Settings > General > Siri > Off

12. Turn off iCloud: Settings >iCloud > Turn off all options you possibly can (I leave Photostream and Documents & Data on, as I don't want them erased from my phone).

13. Disable Diagnostics: Settings > Location Services > System Services. From there, it’s just a matter of turning off “Diagnostics & Usage”