Or maybe your battery is starting to wear out. Every thought of that before blaming Apple? I have an Air 2, which is 2 years older than the iPhone 7 and my battery life is 3x on iOS 11 than iOS 10.
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Do you work at the "genius bar" because you seem to have all the answers.
Of course, that is so obvious that it was the first thing I checked and ruled out.
I am also getting half battery life and Coconut Battery rates my battery health at 97-98%
Whats with the attitude? The vast supermajority of people are not having issues otherwise there would be a lot more posts about the issue. So just because a few people on MacRumors notice the issue, it means its a widespread issue?
Everyone I know with an iPhone is complaining about bugs, silly behaviour of the Bluetooth/WiFi toggle and battery life since installing iOS 11. None of them are the "post on forum" types though, they're just normal, non tech-geeky people.
For me it's mostly ok on my SE but battery is worse than before. I got the SE because, coincidentally a new iOS update seemed to instantly screw my battery with flaky behaviour on my iPhone 6.
Congrats on Apple being perfect for you, it's not everyone's current experience though.
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Majority dont talk about on forums and there are already many complaining around internet about the bad battery life with ios11. That should tell you something... and even if inside macrumors, do tou really think that our devices will break at the same time?
And for example, i dont think that three of my devices would be broken at the same time (two iphone and one ipad), but all of them run ios11 and that the common for all of them. It wpuld be very bad luck that batteries of the three devices would be broken at the same time...
I would agree with your conclusion 5 years ago, but not nowadays. Tech websites are gaining more and more users every single year. The amount of new accounts in the last 2 weeks on MacRumors is substantially high than last year at this time. And the same could be said about last year.
Typically when there is a battery issue, it gets picked up by major sources, even local news starts reporting it as a PSA. That has not been this case with iOS 11.
As I have said in many different threads, people love to complain and have their voices heard, people never come to praise. A couple hundred people tech enthusiasts is not a proper sample. In addition to it not being a proper sample, no one is conducting scientific tests to actually verify its worse. Its all about what it "seems" and there is no evidence to actually support there is an issue.
Restored to iOS 11.1 on iTunes and set up as new. Battery life is still the same. 4 hours of usage at 50%.
That’s the usage I used to get with iOS 10.3.3, I would kill for this type of usage again...
You probably use your phone more than me. I remember when I using it a lot (4G, using google maps for navigation etc), it would be down to 50% after 4 hours of use. A similar day on iOS 11, at 50% I’ll have 3 hours of usage.
On iOS 10.3.3, at 50% my usage was around 5 hours. Same usage patterns with iOS 11.1 is 4-4.5 hours. Same story with iOS 11.0.2 (what the phone was previous on).
We are seeing similar behavior, our numbers just look different. I use to get 4 hours before 50% with usage on 10.3.3, but with 11.0-11.1 I am lucky to get 3 hours at 50%.
Yeah I lost around the same amount of battery life when I updated to iOS 11. What device are you using? Did you restore it using iTunes and set it up as new?
16GB Verizon SE. I haven’t restored as new yet, was trying to avoid that seeing as I shouldn’t have to do that with every freaking update. I deleted YouTube and am seeing if that may be the culprit as I have heard others having problems with that app and battery life.
If that doesn’t work I am restoring as new and installing apps one by one. This is ridiculous that I have to do this every single major update and has me eyeing a Pixel. Problem is they’re still extremely expensive right now because they’re only a year old.
It could be. Try disabling background app refresh for all the apps you rarely use. I only keep WhatsApp on.
Restoring does help. Problem with updating is that sometimes something gets corrupted. That’s why people experience horrid battery life. It’s a lot better after restoring. However, whatever battery life you get after restoring and setting up as new, that’s as good as it’s ever going to get. Because you basically have a fresh install with new apps. If the battery is still bad, then it’s purely down to OS optimization/issues.
I’ve pretty much done almost all of these things, however, it was with 11.0.3. After ppl installed 11.1 and instantly reported better battery life I had hoped I would see the same without having to do all these steps because the people saying they had better battery didn’t have to.
With iOS 11.1 now I'm still keeping an eye on battery usage and actual usage and standby numbers, but one thing that still seems to be present is some inconsistency when it comes to battery percentage use/display. Most of the time each percentage will last a certain amount of time, but every once in a while a percentage drop will be much quicker even while doing the same thing.
Question: what is a good capacity for an iPhone 6 that has been used since release. Initially I thought the iOS update borked the battery, but my capacity has dropped to 63% of the initial capacity.
I also wonder if battery capacity fails gradually or in big chunks, as the lack of capacity was noticeable all of a sudden. Unfortunately, I don’t have a history of checking the capacity.
Note: I will try out Coconut Battery later added].[
Why is it saying my manufacture date is 2015 (this is a 6 purchased on release)??? I did have the screen replaced at some point.
I also wonder if battery capacity fails gradually or in big chunks, as the lack of capacity was noticeable all of a sudden. Unfortunately, I don’t have a history of checking the capacity.
Note: I will try out Coconut Battery later added].[
Why is it saying my manufacture date is 2015 (this is a 6 purchased on release)??? I did have the screen replaced at some point.
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I've been seeing drastic drops on my iPad Mini 4 since 11.0.
It might say 70%, for example, for a while then suddenly it's 55%.
Something like that almost sounds more like a battery issue in most cases. In my case there are no jumps that skip some percentages, just that some percentages drop much quicker compared to other (like I'll be browsing forums using Safari and the percentage will be at 75% for let's say like 8 minutes, then it will drop to 74% but then it will drop to 73% just about a minute or two later, and then will stay at 73% for a more typical longer period of time).
It’s definitely software related for two reasons. First, the overall battery life hasn’t changed that drastically, even though it has diminished somewhat on iOS 11. So even through the percentage may drop 15-20% in the blink of an eye I’m sure that the battery isn’t actually discharging at that rate. Sometimes when I plug it in it will also jump in a blink too. Second, this only started happening with iOS 11. So I’m sure that the battery is fine. The software that reports the percentage is what’s having issues.
3 years? I’d say it’s not that bad but I would have replaced that battery a long time ago if had lost almost half of its capacity. I don’t think a device should have a decrease superior to 10% in each year, and this only if it’s been used a lot. Remember to not let the battery down to 0% without recharging and subjecting your device to heat, which contributes a lot to this degradation.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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