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iPhone 11 Pro 11 Pro Max Awful battery??
- Thread starter Francesco Gioeli
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@Limeybastid
Was absolutely on the money about the 24hour screenshot, it’s weird because before I am pretty sure I have seen it overstating Screen On Time and so never gave it much merit since then. Thanks a lot of correcting me on that!
So here is my usage today, quite a busy day between work and getting my car sorted out and then making up time on work, I didn’t hammer the phone as much as I usually do.
It’s now midnight and I am in bed, once again I simply cannot kill the phone, over 5hours SOT, still have 38% battery lef
Was absolutely on the money about the 24hour screenshot, it’s weird because before I am pretty sure I have seen it overstating Screen On Time and so never gave it much merit since then. Thanks a lot of correcting me on that!
So here is my usage today, quite a busy day between work and getting my car sorted out and then making up time on work, I didn’t hammer the phone as much as I usually do.
It’s now midnight and I am in bed, once again I simply cannot kill the phone, over 5hours SOT, still have 38% battery lef
@Limeybastid
Was absolutely on the money about the 24hour screenshot, it’s weird because before I am pretty sure I have seen it overstating Screen On Time and so never gave it much merit since then. Thanks a lot of correcting me on that!
So here is my usage today, quite a busy day between work and getting my car sorted out and then making up time on work, I didn’t hammer the phone as much as I usually do.
It’s now midnight and I am in bed, once again I simply cannot kill the phone, over 5hours SOT, still have 38% battery lef
iPhone 11 Pro was a major step up in battery longevity for sure. Hoping the 12 pro keeps the trend alive.
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That’s not accurate. A lot of people don’t know how to read their true screen on time ( off charge )unfortunately
So how do you read it then? All I know for sure is that I use Instagram constantly and I get more than 5 hrs OST.
Is that 11h streaming music on 10% percent brightness?
Always on wifi?
Use any battery demanding apps?
Use safari a lot?
You push your phone pretty hard during them 11h?
11h sounds pretty awesome, if you're using your phone a lot.
I use 40% brightness, Auto Brightness off. I use my phone a lot Safari, Mail, Instagram etc. and the battery is phenomenal. I don't understand how some people are just getting 5 hours.
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I plug my phone in when I can. I don't obsess over my battery. You need to enjoy your phone lol
Indeed I agree. But don’t go saying you’re getting XX hours of screen on time. Screen on time or SOT is measured off the charger . Cheers.
I agree with this, if you plug the phone in then SOT measurement is useless. We are trying to measure battery life on a single charge.
It’s a mixture of WiFi and 4G throughout the day, i would say 80% WiFi and 20% 4G.
i have also iPhone pro max 64gb, i have been using it for last 3 months
i am easily getting 11-12 hrs SOT, i will post my battery usage screenshot also.
Mostly my usage is Whatsapp, youtube and Phone calls. I normally use Whatsapp/youtube on LTE mostly.
Even if i use my iPhone roughly with heavy usage on LTE and facetime video calls i still get 10 hours SOT
i am easily getting 11-12 hrs SOT, i will post my battery usage screenshot also.
Mostly my usage is Whatsapp, youtube and Phone calls. I normally use Whatsapp/youtube on LTE mostly.
Even if i use my iPhone roughly with heavy usage on LTE and facetime video calls i still get 10 hours SOT
I understand that you have found a (sort of) workaround to the issue by signing out from iCloud. Though I'm not an Apple engineer, I can support the claim that the battery drain could be caused by iCloud. From my understanding, iCloud is always syncing files between your iPhone and the cloud so that the files in both entities mirror one another. I would think there is some issues in this process and that is why your phone is losing all its juice. The files could be stuck to or from the cloud/device. It's hard to pinpoint where and what files exactly...
I once had a similar experience with my iPhone 7 few years back. From then on, I've stopped restoring my backups from iCloud. Well, you still need iCloud if you are going to use Apple Pay and sync important stuff like contacts, reminders, keychain and what not. What you can do is, sign in to your existing iCloud, and then click sign out but keep a copy of your calendars and contacts. You could create a new iCloud and then resync your app data into the new iCloud. Have you tried that?
Well it is suppose to have a 4400 battery I’m guessing for 5G and hopefully pro motion display so I’m guessing apple will want it to have the same amount of battery as the 11 pro max.
You said you have tried a few things when your new iPhone is not even a week old. Signing in and out of iCloud isn’t a good idea because there are background activities after restoring from an iCloud backup.
I think you need to give it some time (at least a week) for it to index everything such as health data, messages and photos.
My recommendation is reset the phone and restore from iCloud backup, leave It plugged in when you can. I don’t think there is an issue with your Apple ID.
I think you need to give it some time (at least a week) for it to index everything such as health data, messages and photos.
My recommendation is reset the phone and restore from iCloud backup, leave It plugged in when you can. I don’t think there is an issue with your Apple ID.
Just got a brand new iPhone. Doesn't charge past 95%. Is that normal? Should I complete drain it and then recharge it to see if it charges to 100%? This is the first time in a very long time a iPhone that I purchase came with a uniform screen and no camera dust lol
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