Trevor Nace puts Siri on a button in battery-saving guide
His unusually fast-starting tutorial swaps background conveniences for manual controls, while viewers compare notes on what actually drains their phones.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 75,417 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (5,408).
Turn This Off: Your iPhone Will Last All Day
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Things we can learn from the video
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- 0:08Nace recommends disabling Siri's wake-word listening and using the side button to activate it instead.
- 0:44He switches off automatic app downloads, app updates and in-app content downloads in App Store settings.
- 2:05He sets Ask to Join Networks to Off and Auto-Join Hotspot to Never.
- 3:17Turning off keyboard sound and haptic feedback removes the clicks and vibrations that accompany typing.
- 3:54He checks battery usage by app to identify heavy users, then disables Background App Refresh.
- 5:08He demonstrates restricting individual apps' location access under Privacy & Security.
Nearly 60,000 views in 15 hours have greeted Trevor Nace's battery-saving checklist, which begins with a small change in habit: press the side button for Siri instead of having it listen for a wake word.
The tutorial, titled "Turn This Off: Your iPhone Will Last All Day", is drawing an audience far beyond his usual start for a regular video. Settings checklists are familiar territory for Nace: guides about phone tracking and listening sit among his most-watched uploads.
Here, he works through the conveniences an iPhone handles without much intervention. He recommends disabling automatic app and in-app content downloads, switching off prompts to join Wi-Fi networks and automatic hotspot joining, and removing the keyboard's clicks and haptic feedback. Those last changes mean giving up something you hear or feel with every typed message.
The guide then gets more individual. Nace opens Battery Usage to identify power-hungry apps before demonstrating Background App Refresh controls and restrictions on each app's location access. That section offers a way to investigate a particular phone, rather than treating every app alike.
The comments bring that distinction into focus. One viewer questions how much several of the switches save and favors checking app-by-app battery use. Another reports seeing substantial Facebook background usage despite having Background App Refresh disabled. A more hands-off solution comes from a viewer who uses shortcuts to switch Wi-Fi off when leaving home and back on upon returning.
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What viewers say
I have a shortcut set up to turn WiFi off when I leave the house and another one to turn it on when I return.
@BreakTime10101See it on YouTubeMy Background App Refresh has been Off for all apps for a long time, and yet Battery Usage still shows Facebook with significant Background usage.
Thank you! Will be interesting to see how battery performance changes.
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Good one, Trevor. Sure learned a lot on this tutorial and turned off quite a few things. Thanks.🙂
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- Channel
- Trevor Nace
- Subscribers
- 1,570,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,993,279
- Channel views, pace per day
- 611,855 (on a normal day: 842,688)
- Video published
- November 14, 2026
- Video views so far
- 59,989 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 75,417
The numbers
The battery tutorial is running well ahead of Nace's usual opening pace for regular videos, even as overall channel views sit below their typical daily level.
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Where does Nace turn off the iPhone keyboard's clicks and vibrations?
Nace opens Sounds & Haptics to disable keyboard sound and haptic feedback.


