About battery usage on your iPhone or iPad
Find out how to check the amount of battery used by each app on your iPhone or iPad.
Check battery usage
To see an overview of your battery level and activity for the last 24 hours and up to the last 10 days, go to Settings > Battery.
The bars in the Activity chart show how many minutes you’ve used your device during that hour or day. Dark blue indicates onscreen usage, and light blue indicates idle or screen-off usage.
Tap a bar to see activity and usage by app during that hour or day.
To see how long each app has been in use onscreen or in the background, tap Show Activity. Battery usage is unique to each app. Graphically intensive apps, such as apps that stream video from the internet and games, can use a lot of battery. Under each app, you may see these usage types:
Background Activity: most of the app’s battery usage – such as playing music or tracking location – happened while the app was active in the background. You can improve battery life by reducing your use of the app.
No Mobile Coverage and Low Signal: Your iPhone was searching for a Wi-Fi or mobile signal or being used in a low signal environment, and this affected your device’s battery life. To improve battery life, if you can, use your iPhone in a place with a strong signal. If you know you’ll be in an area with no coverage for some time, enable Airplane Mode.
Connected to Charger: the app was used only while your iPhone was charging, so the battery wasn’t used.
You can also see when your device was last connected to a charger and the last charge level. With iOS 16 and later, you can see if charging paused because of Optimised Battery Charging, Clean Energy Charging or temperature.
Find suggestions and Insights about battery life
While viewing your battery usage, you may receive a suggestion such as Enable Auto-Brightness or Adjust Display Brightness. This is because the software has determined that changing these settings could improve your battery life. You may also see an Insight, such as Ongoing iOS Setup or Ongoing Device Setup. Insights inform you of activities happening in the background that can affect battery life and thermal performance for a while.
Find out about improving battery life
Use Low Power Mode
Turn on Low Power Mode to extend battery life. This reduces power consumption until you turn it off or charge your iPhone to 80 per cent. When Low Power Mode is turned on, certain settings and features, such as app updates, downloads of new TV programmes or podcast episodes, email fetch and some visual effects, such as True Tone, will be reduced or disabled.
Find out more about Low Power Mode
Learn more
With iOS 11.3 and later, you can see your battery health and if a battery needs to be replaced. Find out more in iPhone Battery and Performance.
