If there's anything wrong, it's likely fixable through software. Do you see any background activities in your Battery summary? or anything that seems to be showing a LOT of activity that makes no sense to you?
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iPhone 14 Pro Max 14 pm battery w/o aod is getting good
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I see 30% of the battery goes in background activity of Photos. I guess its 2 weeks since got the phone and the indexes should have been rebuilt since then. I have AOD off, b/g refresh off, turned off haptics.
That’s interesting. I saw that briefly, but disappeared after day 1-2. How many photos do you have, are they mostly of people? Maybe it’s scanning for faces?
There’s two categories of disabling things.
One would be something like always on display or optimized battery charging. These are things that came with the phone and Apple intended the phone to be used with. I mostly agree with you on this point because I try to use a device as its intended because that’s the most frustration free way to do it.
Background, app, refresh or location permissions on apps are totally different. These are restrictions on apps that app developers had intentions for. This has nothing to do with Apple. A good example would be Facebook. The developer of that app has designed it to gather your information and sell it to advertisers. Having it use your location and run in the background the app will do that effectively. I don’t think it’s bad if you want this but you should always consider this as a choice not just it’s meant to be that way thing.
I just used Facebook as example because so many people have it. There are multiple apps that fall into this category of running in the background just to gather information for advertising purposes. I don’t think it’s bad to disable this to save some battery.
I’m not trying to tell you how to set up your iPhone obviously because it’s your iPhone and you need to have it the way you want it. I’m just saying maybe look at it a little bit differently 😄
True.
Also it’s impossible for Apple to test a phone for battery performance with every app they every user may have.
There are app that use every day and app that I need ready to go when I need them. Then app that are just hanging out probably taxing the battery.
Also it’s impossible for Apple to test a phone for battery performance with every app they every user may have.
There are app that use every day and app that I need ready to go when I need them. Then app that are just hanging out probably taxing the battery.
It has, kinda? Hard to say since right now, but it does feel better. Got around 8 hours of SOT last night. Will report back in a few days!
Totally agree with you on the separation of features vs. things developers can do baked into iOS. I've always just wanted to use my iPhone out of the box, no tweaking required, which is what I'm trying to do now. Seems like a fun challenge!
I think I use my iPhone very close to how it comes out of the box, except of course adding bunch of apps and accepting or denying permissions. I really don’t even bother with background app refresh except with Facebook because it seems to be a battery hog. I temporary uninstalled it because of that. I hope they patch it soon.
I think a more fun challenge would be trying to use a Mac with all of the default settings and configurations. It seems like the more you can customize something the harder it is to use at default settings 😂
yeah mostly people. It keeps on scanning for faces even in 13 PM, but never this bad.
I’ve seen multiple mentions of this in the forums, and I have the same problem. I’m guessing it’s some sort of glitch in the app.
Camera does a million calculations every sec it’s on even when you’re not actively using it. Then there’s GPS usage too.
So yes, Camera will always drain the battery more than any other typical app.
Have a replacement coming for mine.
I did not feel like it was acting right and Apple confirmed that.
Yep. Took me almost 10 days for it to settle. Weird. But then i remember doing a full iTunes wipe and restore on day 2 of ownership n
I’ve heard some horror stories of iTunes backup/restore.
The best things to do now are device to device transfer or iCloud backup/restore. Since those are the more modern methods and probably gets more developer attention.
After a few days, looks like my battery life is getting to the level that will last 2 days easy. Will update what I get when I reach 24 hrs since last full charge later today.
The best things to do now are device to device transfer or iCloud backup/restore. Since those are the more modern methods and probably gets more developer attention.
After a few days, looks like my battery life is getting to the level that will last 2 days easy. Will update what I get when I reach 24 hrs since last full charge later today.
I never do iTunes restore. Only reason I did that was because one app was causing kernel panic restarts on my iPhone. Initially i had performed a iPhone to iPhone transfer on launch day. Prior to this, I’d always use iCloud to restore.
I’m getting silver, when? at this rate it maybe when the 15 is announced lol
Coming from the iPhone 12 Pro the 14P its a massive improvement. However, as much as i love the AOD it really does get really bright. Just went out on a cycle with the phone in the holder and the AOD was way too bright, almost like the screen was on, surely can’t be good for battery life.