At some point within the past few months, the cumulative tasks that my iPhone was doing throughout the day was causing the battery to run down faster than I wanted. Previously, even when I was using it fairly intensively, I could get a full day out of it. But often now I was having to nurse it along in the evening, and sometimes it wouldn't make it to the end.
After looking at various suggestions of how to correct the problem, I decided to try turning off a lot of the 'push' notifications that have the phone communicating with email servers and social media sites throughout the day so that the information is always current.
This seems to have brought me back to the good old days - when I could get a couple of days of normal use out of a charge. The only difference I notice is that it takes a few seconds to connect and download the latest messages when I do connect. But that's well worth it.
In this respect, the phone is a lot like me. It has more energy when there are fewer things being pushed at it, demanding attention on a continual basis. That's true for me, too. I think I'll see about turning off (or at least down), some of the sources that push things at me.
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