Earlier this week I covered 5 Ways to Conserve your iPhones Battery Power, I’ll call those 5 ways for battery conservation the low hanging fruit of power saving. They are the quickest and they save the most power of all the ways to do it. If, however, you are going green and looking for even more ways to reduce your iPhones carbon footprint, don’t worry here are 7 more ways:

1. Boot Bluetooth
By default this feature is off. However, if you are one of those extremely cool users who always wear a Bluetooth Headset…you might want to trade back down to a pair of wired earbuds. Or, maybe you tried to be one of those people, but didn’t make the grade, and you did use the Bluetooth feature at one point in time. Don’t worry I hear white earbuds are just as cool as a blue blinking headset in one ear. Here’s how to turn it off:

1. Open “Settings.”
2. Select “General.”
3. Select “Bluetooth.”
4. Flip the “Bluetooth” switch from “Off” to “On”

2. Put your iPhone on Ambien.
As beautiful and energetic your iPhone’s touch screen is, it can use a little help in falling asleep sometimes. Why not help it out and prescribe it a does of Ambien? Or if you are having a hard time getting a doctor to give you a prescription for your phone, why not just set the Auto-Lock feature to a shorter time? 

1. Open “Settings.”
2. Select “General.”
3. Select “Auto-Lock.”
4. Make sure “1 MInute” has a check mark next to it. If not select it.

3. Turn a deaf ear.
That great Kayne West ring tone that you just downloaded is great and all, but the person the next block over doesn’t need to hear it. Turn it down. 

1. Open “Settings.”
2. Select “Sounds”
3. Move the slider to the left under the “Ring” section.

4. I’m Getting This Vibe.
Yes, when your phone is in your pocket vibrating away, you want people to call you again and again….the problem is that, that little vibrating engine that could is a pretty good consumer of juice. In silent mode, vibration is necessary, I’ll give you that. When the standard ringtone is on though….I’m not buying it. Turn that thing off and let Kayne sing without kicking you.

1. Open “Settings.”
2. Select “Sounds.”
3. Flip the “Vibrate” switch from “On” to “Off” under the “Ring” section.

5. Create a Rollover Email Account.
You know those 13 email inboxes you are watching on your iPhone? Do you really need all of them? Having your phone connect to and check multiple emails, takes a lot of energy. Why not set up a rollover email account and then have all your other email accounts automatically forward their incoming emails to the one rollover account? 

1. Determine which account is your Rollover Email Account.
2. Go to all the other emails accounts and set up auto-forwarding to your Rollover Account.
   (For instructions on how to forward contact your email provider.) 
3. Open “Settings.”
4. Select “Mail, Contacts, Calendars.”
5. Select the email account that you no longer require.
6. You don’t need to delete it, just flip the “Mail” switch from “On” to “Off.”

6. A Level Playing Field
Turn your iPod App’s Equalizer Setting off. Next time you are blasting Britney bast your middle ear and deep into your Cochlea, why not let Brit-Brit’s original altered vocals shine through without letting your iPhone alter them yet again.

1. Open “Settings.”
2. Select “iPod.”
3. Select “EQ.”
4. Select “Off.”

7. Ditch Big Brother
Turn the “Locate Me” feature off. It’s clearly always telling the man where you are and the direction you are going. In fact, I hear that your boss was supplied an application that will allow him/her to instantly find your location. Okay that last bit may or may not be true, but are you willing to chance it? At the very least it will save you some juice. On an iPhone 3G, this essentially turns GPS off.

1. Open “Settings.”
2. Select “General.”
3. Flip the “Location Services” switch from “On” to “Off.”

You may or may not want to implement all 7 power saving tips (or the 5 from earlier this week), but when considering which features to turn on, turn off, or adjust, ask yourself this:

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

Let us know how much power you are saving in the comments below. Why not do it on your iPhone? You should have plenty of power left.

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