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Battery issues since update?
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Right, but now you're not getting push notifications, fetched emails, etc unless you get them manually, and more. It's not much of a fix as it is reducing the functionality of your phone, unless you don't care about the features listed.
Here's the support document on what else happens: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205234
I understand it limits the phone but having the battery die during the day is a bigger issue for me. It will have to do until Apple fixes the issue.
Aside from my battery usage being in the range of about 20% lower compared to what it was like before iOS 11 (it remains to be seen if iOS 11.0.3 is any different), one thing that I've been noticing is that certain percentage drops are faster than others--basically most of the time it takes a certain amount of time for battery percentage to go down 1%, but often enough, even while doing the same thing, it will take some minutes to go down 1% and then the next 1% drop will take less then a minute, while the next one will be back to taking some minutes again.
I spoke too soon. After a couple of days after the clean install of iOS 11, battery usage on my iPhone 6s was tolerable - about 5.5-6 hours. But then it plummeted to just about 4.5 hours without any changes in settings or how I use the phone. I don't think that clean install is a solution.
I finally gave up and rolled back to 10.3.3. Looks like my 6s will be staying on iOS 10.3.3 without ever upgrading, which is too bad since I really liked some of the new features such as documents scan in Notes and Family Sharing of iCloud storage.
Apple support was useless. My phone passed the hardware tests with 84% of the original battery capacity, which certainly does not help my battery life. Apple also refuses to replace the battery even though I'm still on AppleCare+; they told me to wait until I lose 4% more. (I have serious doubts I'll be buying AppleCare again.)
They only advised me to turn off a couple of location settings, which made absolutely no difference. But I can see how stopping using my phone will greatly improve its battery life.
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I noticed battery percentage dropping in large increments, sometimes 5%.
I don't know how relevant this is, but I have both the iPhone 6S and the latest iPod Touch. I upgraded from 10.3.3 on my iPod to 11 (and 11.02), and the battery life absolutely collapsed. Disaster - I used to be able to use the iPod for several hours 5-6 of surfing the web, and reading. Now I get about 2 hours and then the battery is critically low.
I'm on 10.3.3 on my iPhone 6S - no way in heck am I going to upgrade to 11 unless they solve the battery issue. I really hope they do, because from using 11 on my iPod, I really like it, I think it's a big improvement over 10.3.3, but of course the battery life is a deal breaker.
So this is just one person's experience - iPod Touch, the latest generation, a battery life disaster on iOS 11. YMMV.
I'm on 10.3.3 on my iPhone 6S - no way in heck am I going to upgrade to 11 unless they solve the battery issue. I really hope they do, because from using 11 on my iPod, I really like it, I think it's a big improvement over 10.3.3, but of course the battery life is a deal breaker.
So this is just one person's experience - iPod Touch, the latest generation, a battery life disaster on iOS 11. YMMV.
I haven't seen something like that. There were times in some earlier releases of iOS 10 where there were some percentage drops where a percent was skipped (basically dropping down by 1%), but that's about it as far as the type of things I've experienced in the past (as compared to seeing uneven usage at times with iOS 11).
Thanks man. I’m on an iPad Air 2 here but this just keeps happening. About after every day of use the indicator screws up.
On 11.0.3
7+ - Since migrating to 11.x I have not gotten beyond 6 hours of use
IPP 12 g2 - Biggest issue seems to be standby. During the night it drops approx 25% - that's with the TB cleared.
iMini 4 - Seems to be doing okay. It drops about 5% or less overnight. Battery usage seems the same excluding video.
Overall since moving to 11.0.3, my battery descent is jerky - @C DM coined it well. With 11 I am back to sipping via charging cables when possible especially with my 7+ to get through a day. Disappointing at best.
Update: 7+ at 88% and I plugged it into my cable. 5-6 minutes later it is now reading 100%. Huh?
Something strange is going on.
7+ - Since migrating to 11.x I have not gotten beyond 6 hours of use
IPP 12 g2 - Biggest issue seems to be standby. During the night it drops approx 25% - that's with the TB cleared.
iMini 4 - Seems to be doing okay. It drops about 5% or less overnight. Battery usage seems the same excluding video.
Overall since moving to 11.0.3, my battery descent is jerky - @C DM coined it well. With 11 I am back to sipping via charging cables when possible especially with my 7+ to get through a day. Disappointing at best.
Update: 7+ at 88% and I plugged it into my cable. 5-6 minutes later it is now reading 100%. Huh?
Something strange is going on.
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OK, I've been quietly waiting and watching, hoping for some improvement over a week of rebooting and recharging nightly.
Nope. Put me down as having horrible battery life (well, indicated life anyway).
Invariably 30% or less by evening and I am a very light user. By that I mean 2-3 short phone calls, check twitter a few times, maybe log into my bank's app.
The 'battery' settings tells me I've had 37 min of phone, 17 min of twitter, 6 min of safari and 4 min of mail (background). That's 80% of my usage. Battery is at 43%
I'm at 35% already. By 9pm (3 more hours), probably back to 30% or less.
As long as someone keeps complaining I'll stick with iOS 10 in the IPP 10.5 I received today.
I did the procedure described before (clean install for iOS 11.0.2 - updated to 11.0.3 a day after) in my other iPAD (Pro 9.7 from 2016), and I believe nothing changed substantially. Still having the same battery problems, I am sure.
I did the procedure described before (clean install for iOS 11.0.2 - updated to 11.0.3 a day after) in my other iPAD (Pro 9.7 from 2016), and I believe nothing changed substantially. Still having the same battery problems, I am sure.
Surely I’m not the only person here having constant battery indicator (inaccurate reading) problems? Resetting only seems to work for a while :/.
Like my battery is showing stuff that is too good to be true. Like not draining at all overnight. I guess I could run it to 0. Perhaps my battery is THAT good but I doubt it. This is an iPad Air 2. It’s 2 or 3 years old
Like my battery is showing stuff that is too good to be true. Like not draining at all overnight. I guess I could run it to 0. Perhaps my battery is THAT good but I doubt it. This is an iPad Air 2. It’s 2 or 3 years old
11.1b2 is a clean iTunes install if it makes a difference
First one was last night and the second one was just before this post
With today’s one the top 3 are snapchat, messenger (both have 1 hour usage and 1 hour background) and 1 hour of Apple Music (downloaded music)
Having some battery drain overnight.. why??? I already clean installed iOS 11 without backup, reset all settings... in 11.0.3 I lost 15-20% overnight (8h sleep) so I decided to try the 11.1 PB2 and I’m still getting battery drain. 1% per hour. In iOS 10 I was losing like 2-3 over a 8-12h sleep
iPhone SE with 98% design capacity in coconutBattery.
iPhone SE with 98% design capacity in coconutBattery.
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It’s absolutely worse with iOS 11. My 6S+ is due for a battery replacement (30-40% wear apparently) as with iOS 10 I could get 6-7 hours out of it but now I can’t even get 5. Things like app updates I have to be cautious with because if I run them I notice a huge drop in battery. I even restored the phone to see if it’d help but nothing changed. I really hope this gets fixed but honestly I kinda doubt it, Apple has this tendency to screw things up and not fix them from past experience.