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If your iPhone’s battery seems to disappear too fast, you’re not alone. A viral claim from tech personality Digital Joe George suggests three obscure settings are secretly draining your battery. Many users are now rushing to disable Learn From This App, Suggest App, and Suggestion Notifications under Siri / Apple Intelligence settings. But is the hype real, and should you do it?
These toggles allow Siri (or Apple’s intelligence features) to observe, suggest, and notify you about app usage and behaviour:
Learn From This App: Lets Siri watch how often and when you use a specific app, to build personalised suggestions.
Suggest App: Allows Siri to propose that app in places like search, widgets, or suggested lines.
Suggestion Notifications: Lets suggestions tied to that app show up as notifications or prompts.
These features are meant to make the phone feel smarter. If turned off, your Siri suggestions might be less “helpful,” but in return, the device stops continuously watching and nudging.
Open Settings
Tap Siri (or, on newer iOS, Apple Intelligence & Siri)
Scroll down to Apps
For each third party app listed, open it and disable:
Learn From This App
Suggest App
Suggestion Notifications
Once disabled, Siri won’t build usage profiles or push suggestion notifications for those apps.
Probably, but modestly. Disabling these features removes some background overhead, which might lead to a small battery gain, especially on older or heavily loaded devices. However:
The overall battery burden of such suggestion features is likely far lower than screen brightness, cellular radio use, GPS, or background updates.
On newer iPhones and iOS releases, Apple already optimises many background tasks to reduce power use.
Don’t expect a dramatic leap. Think: a small incremental gain, not a miracle.
Still, since the downside is minimal (you just lose some suggestions), it’s a sensible tweak.
While you’re optimisng, here are settings and habits that do often yield noticeable gains:
| Area | What to Do | Why It Helps |
|---|---|---|
| Background Activity | Turn off Background App Refresh (or restrict it per app) | Stops apps from refreshing data unnecessarily |
| Automatic Updates | Disable auto-updates (App Store) | Reduces background download activity |
| Location / GPS | Limit location use to “While Using App” or off for apps that don’t need it | GPS is a heavy battery drain |
| Screen Brightness | Use Auto-Brightness or reduce brightness manually | Display is one of the biggest power consumers |
| Auto-Lock | Set a short auto lock interval (e.g. 30 seconds) | So screen turns off quickly when idle |
| Low Power Mode | Use when battery is low or when you’ll be away from charger | Suspends many high-cost features temporarily |
Apple itself publishes tips and periodically tweaks energy features with iOS updates. (See Lifewire’s battery guide for a solid overview.) Lifewire
This viral tip is worth trying it’s low risk, and you might reclaim a sliver of battery life. But don’t treat it as a silver bullet. Real gains come from managing screen usage, radios (WiFi, cellular, Bluetooth), background tasks, and app behaviour.
