You're here because you love iPhone photography...but your iPhoneography habit is kicking your poor little iPhone batteries behind, and leaving it on the curb for dead. Look, iPhone photography is addicting...its fun...it just takes so much darn power! So what's an addict to do? Well, we're certainly not suggesting you give up iPhone photography altogether, but rather learn how to live in a world of app moderation and software trickery so you can extend your iPhone battery life, and ultimately, take more photos. It's like the 80/20 rule for iPhones...sorta. 

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Here's a few useful tips on how you can prolong the battery life of your iPhone (without any additional gear) when you are out and about taking photos: 
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<li><strong>Turn off push notifications. </strong></li>

iPhone’s alert feature is one of the biggest culprits for zapping your battery. The apps which utilize this feature monitor your iPhone activities all the time, when your phone is on, your push notifications are using energy that you could be using to take photos.

To make sure your push notifications are off, Go to Settings > Notifications and switch off all the alerts, sounds, and badges you rarely use. 

<li><strong>Turn off email notifications.</strong></li>

Set your iPhone’s email app to manual instead of directing your iPhone to check for new emails every 15 minutes. As above, this constant searching for new emails and sending notifications is a large drain on your resources. 

<li><strong>Enable the LCD auto-brightness.</strong></li>

You don't need your full beams on all the time, do you? Enable your iPhone’s Auto-Brightness so that the LCD will automatically adjust to the lighting conditions, thus saving your battery. 

To do this, go to Settings > Brightness and set Auto-Brightness to On.

<li><strong>Shut down background tasks</strong></li>

The iOS 4 has the ability for multitasking, that is, the ability to have one or more apps running in the background such as Skype, or Pandora, while you use another app, play a game, or read your emails. This does however dry out your battery, especially if you’re running apps which use the Internet in the background. 

All you need to do to shut 'em down is double tap the home button, hold your finger on one of the apps in the bottom row that appears, and close them by tapping the small x in the left hand corner of the icon.  

<li><strong>Turn off the communication hardware</strong></li>

3G, WiFI, Bluetooth, and GPS are all tremendously power-hungry and if you are in an area where you have little signal, you probably don't need them anyway. Turning them off, or even switching your iPhone into Airplane Mode will definitely extend your iPhone battery life allowing you to take more photos!

If you've done all of the above and you still need more power? Check out our post on <a href="http://thebeginnerslens.com/iphone-photography/boost-your-iphone-battery-life.html" title="Boost The Life of your iPhone Battery">battery extenders!</a>   

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