10 tips to extend iPhone battery life

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The fear of your iPhone running out of juice is real. So real, in fact, that there’s a name for this specific type of 21st-century anxiety: nomophobia. (That’s short for “no mobile phobia,” and it also applies to losing your smartphone or not being able to get online with it for whatever reason.)

Don’t let nomophobia happen to you. Follow these 10 iPhone battery-saving tips and feel sweet relief!

Also in this edition of The Weekender:

• The new Visual Intelligence feature, available now on iPhone 16 models, lets you quickly look up things you see in the real world. Here’s how this powerful AI tool works.

• Seriously, why don’t Macs come with Face ID?

• The Apple Passwords app is great — as far as it goes. But maybe you should hold off on ditching your third-party password manager.

• The three most popular items sold by Cult of Mac Deals this month are a $30 lifetime subscription to 1minAI (an all-in-one tool that gives you access to the most popular AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini Pro, Llama and Mistral); the MagTag, an AirTag-like tracking card that slides into your wallet; and the Kodak Slide N Scan, a slide/film negative scanner that transforms fading photographic memories into digital images you can save, share and enjoy forever.

• And finally … did you see that trailer for season two of Severance? 🤯

Enjoy your weekend!

— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

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