I think I've heard of an app for managing your battery life; if I remember correctly, it was called Battery Doctor. There are some things that you can do that will help reduce your battery drain. You'll want to turn on the reduce motion setting in settings/general/accessibility. You'll also want to turn on the reduce transparency setting in settings/general/accessibility/increase contrast. Another potential battery hog is the background app refresh setting; you'll want to turn that off, too, in settings/general/background app refresh. There's also some settings in settings/privacy/location services that you'll want to take a look at. iOS eight introduced some new controls for when apps can use your location. You'll have to set this on an app-by-app basis, though, as not every app supports it. The three options are to always use your location, to never use your location, or to only use your location while using the app.
As for controlling automatic downloads, you can specify what gets automatically downloaded under settings/iTunes and App Store. There's a couple of sections in there, so you'll want to make sure that you thoroughly explore everything. It's not too big of a screen, though, so you shouldn't have too much trouble. Thanks, Ari > On Jan 29, 2015, at 8:49 PM, Eleanor Roberts > <eleanor.robert...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm sure this has been discussed many times before, so apologies in advance. > Now that I have a new IPhone and IPad Mini I really want to make an effort to > maximise the storage space on them and keep them as clear from > unwanted/unnecessary stuff being downloaded onto them without me > knowing/realising. I know for the Mac there are things like Memory Clean, > Disk Doctor and Clean My Mac. But just wondered if anyone knew of a good app > which is accessible and which might do a similar thing for my IPhone/IPad?? > > Also, on a secondary point, does anyone know of any good/accessible battery > management apps for the IPhone/IPad, as I'd like to make the most out of that > too and preserve it for as long as possible. I do have an external battery, > but obviously don't want to use this unless I have to. I'm also a bit worried > if you can overcharge an IPhone/IPad? I do always try to let them run down > completely, but when I charge them I'm never sure how long to leave them on > for, and then I always panick that I mighht have overdone it so-to-speak and > ruined/reduced my battery's life. So how long should you charge one of these > devices for? Any other ideas on how I could possibly proloong/preserve my > battery? > > So if anyone has any tips on how I can do either of these things would all be > much appreciated. > > Many thanks. > > Eleanor > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
