John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...

Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

If your iPhone battery drains faster after updating to iOS 26, wait 24–48 hours for background tasks to settle. Then update to iOS 26.1, restart your iPhone, check and update battery-draining apps, ...

THE real reason your iPhone battery life is draining might be tucked away in the Settings app. There are loads of explanations for why you might be running out of ...

Although the life of an iPhone battery can fade over time, Apple users who want to get more use on a daily basis should try turning off settings like background app refresh and location services when ...

Not that it was super sucky before. The one glaringly sucky thing about it has been de-suckified, however. From Google’s blog: The app now fully supports background app refresh, which means your Gmail ...