{"id":7094,"date":"2026-01-28T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naeemzafar.com\/staging\/3170\/?page_id=7094"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:37:33","slug":"blog-the-power-struggle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.naeemzafar.com\/staging\/3170\/blog-the-power-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog The Power Struggle\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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There are a lot of things that I love about my iPhone 4S \u2013 but one thing that I really would love to see change is the battery life. Despite a brand new phone, these days, \u00a0I barely get through a whole day before I need to hook it up to the charger.\u00a0 I am determined to understand the issue or swap the phone. But one hour at the Apple store with a \u201cgenius\u201d is all it took to solve this problem.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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My iPhone 4S battery issues disappeared once I limited location services, turned off Bluetooth when not needed, and kept email Push only for my primary account\u2014now even heavy-use days end with battery to spare.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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There are a lot of things that I love about my iPhone 4S \u2013 but one thing that I really would love to see change is the battery life. Despite a brand new phone, these days,\u00a0 I barely get through a whole day before I need to hook it up to the charger.\u00a0 I am determined to understand the issue or swap the phone. But one hour at the Apple store with a \u201cgenius\u201d is all it took to solve this problem.\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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1)\u00a0 \tBiggest culprit: location services.\u00a0 Of course you need the location service turned on for Siri, maps etc. But I was shocked to see that I had 30+ applications with location turned on.\u00a0 Some of these apps I had used over a year ago and only once. \u00a0 If you want to turn off all of the applications that use location services, here is the path:\u00a0 Settings \u00e0 Location Services \u2013 action: turn off.\u00a0 I now only have location services activated for the ones that I really mean to use \u2013 just Siri and Maps.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This was my main message as I attended and spoke at the TechWadi event at the presidential summit on entrepreneurship in Washington DC this week.\u00a0 This was a follow up from President Obama\u2019s historic speech in Cairo on June 2009 when he promised a new beginning on how US communicates with the muslin majority countries in the world.\u00a0 Obama asserted that a new chapter in US foreign policy that is based on mutual respect and dialog will usher a new era.\u00a0 Well this was the follow up and it was a great week. We had the opportunity to hear so many stories from entrepreneurs from 55 countries on how they innovated and created compelling companies.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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2)\u00a0 \tBluetooth is the next offender\u00a0 for battery life consumption.\u00a0 I do use Bluetooth to link with my Blue Ant hands free in the car, but I don\u2019t always have a need for Bluetooth (for example when I am travelling). So I turned this off:\u00a0 Settings \u00e0 General \u00e0 Bluetooth .<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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3)\u00a0 \tGetting your emails: there are 3 ways that iPhone receives your emails. Push, Fetch and Manual. Here is the difference:<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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1. Push is the fastest \u2013 email is checked constantly \u2013 several times a second automatically and obviously takes the most power as CPU is active<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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2. Fetch is when iPhone seeks and checks at an interval chosen by you if any new email has arrived at the server and then downloads it.\u00a0 You can chose a setting to fetch every 15 minute, 30 or 60 minutes<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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3. Manual is when the iPhone checks the email server for a new email only when you tell it to or when you open the email client by tapping it<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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So my iPhone was set to get emails from my 9 or so email accounts almost all using the PUSH setting \u2013 oh boy! This must be draining.\u00a0 Obviously from the power consumption point of view you would want all of these email accounts to be Manual but we need speed.\u00a0 So what I did was to set my work email to PUSH and all others to MANUAL.\u00a0 So when I get a work email (or whichever one is most important to you) and you will open the email client when you hear the beep.\u00a0 All other accounts will be checked \u2018manually\u2019 and I will see all of the new emails at once. Path:\u00a0 Settings \u00e0 Mail, Contacts, Calendar \u00e0 Fetch New Data \u00e0 Advanced\nWell I have to report that modifying these 3 issues did fix my battery drainage problem.\u00a0 I can now end the day with heavy use and still have ~15% left by midnight.\nNow I must work on improving my relationship with Siri.\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The Power Struggle\u00a0<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Above all, celebrate failure. Silicon Valley has entrepreneurs who got lucky on their first try. But more succeeded on their second or third attempt.\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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