Turning off 5G on your iPhone When You are Trying to Conserve the Battery

Rick McBride
2 min readMar 27, 2022

Saving your battery when 5G is unavailable

Photo by Grant Ritchie on Unsplash

I was recently in the Chihuahan Desert at Big Bend National Park in Far West Texas where wireless coverage is spotty at best and is mostly unreliable. The whole area is really remote and rugged. When you can find coverage, it is certainly not 5G. I should have either turned off my phone or changed…

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Rick McBride

I am a news junkie, writer, software developer, artist and dog dad. I have a wide variety of interests and have written for various media sites.