One of the most frustrating aspects of owning a smartphone is the battery life. No matter how advanced iPhones or Android phones become, their constantly dwindling batteries remain an inconvenient nuisance. Apple has just released a new setting as a part of the iOS 8 system update that allows users to track their phone's battery usage.

This means that you will be able to keep tabs on how much of your battery each app and feature you have installed on your phone uses, so you know which take up the least and most amounts of power. This will, of course, depend on the apps that you use most frequently. For example, somebody who spends a lot of their time on Twitter or Facebook will see the power drain from their phones much more quickly than those who avoid social media.

In order to access this new iOS 8 setting, simply follow these steps:

• Open the Settings tab in your phone
• Then click on the General tab, followed by Usage
• This tab will give you all of the information you need to know.

What is wonderful about this new setting is that it easily breaks the battery use down into an easy report, listing the features that you use most frequently on your phone. This will help you adjust how you interact with your phone on a regular basis, if you are concerned with extending the life of your battery between charges. In addition to letting you know which power-hungry apps are using up the most battery, your phone will tell you how long it has been since the last full charge was completed.

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