Should i keep wifi on iphone

To combat this, manufacturers have turned to cell towers and WiFi access points to help get a rough location without having to listen for all those satellites. Nagy loves this feature, and who can blame him?

Ironically, one of the best ways to get your location is through identification of the Wireless Access Points around you, but to do so, your WiFi has to be turned on. Luckily, Google has a little trick it built into our smartphones and tablets. The battery impact is low, but sometimes has unintended consequences. To use it, either the company that built your phone has to add that functionality or you have to install and configure a third-party app. If so, leave your WiFi turned on.

If not, it might be advantageous to keep it turned off and save your battery. There are several gaming laptops on sale over at Amazon. The Motorola Edge 30 Ultra will be the latest device from the company to ship with the flagship Snapdragon chipset, and it'll pack a lot of features. A new patent discovery suggests that Apple may be working on its Apple Drone, and it tried to hide it from the public eye by filing it in Singapore.

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Only thing i'd suggest is turing off Wi-Fi Assist. This option is on by default, and will automatically use cellular data when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor. Oct 26, AM. The phone is really designed to function best with both WiFi and cellular on. Even if you are away from home and not connected to a WiFi network, you may well want to leave WiFi on as it improves location accuracy.

If you have WiFi on and it's connected, it will be used by default, unless the phone is locked, in which case it will switch back to cellular. Yes, Csound1 is correct, everything uses battery but that's what the battery is there for.

There are things you can do to decrease battery usage that are less intrusive than toggling settings. The biggest thing would be to turn off Background App Refresh for those apps for which you don't think you need it.

Keep your brightness turned down to the lowest level with which your comfortable. Charge your battery at night while you're sleeping so that it will be fully charged and ready to go in the morning. This has the added bonus, if the phone is connected to WiFi and the screen is locked, of backing your phone up to iCloud every night. Otherwise it uses no power.

When exchanging data it can use a huge amount of power if the cell tower signal is weak. For a strong signal it will use 60 mw. For a weak signal one bar it can use up to mw. But only when actively exchanging data over cellular. But if there is a WiFi connection 4G will automatically turn off except for "WiFi Assist" which you should turn off if you don't have unlimited data on your cellular account.

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