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Battery issues since update?

How's your iOS 11 battery life?

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My battery has now 12% degradation. It appears what I said here was misleading:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/battery-issues-since-update.2069726/page-26#post-25276824

And here in Oct 15, 2017:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/battery-issues-since-update.2069726/page-21#post-25226122

I said it was down 10%... meaning in two months another 2-3 % more. The 8% figure reported by apps during this period was not the real one. It was indeed the 10% from October.

Edit: returned to 10% degradation after a while. Perhaps this was an inaccurate reading.
 
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Despite initially looking good, I'm back to the same old rubbish battery.

Concerning to also see that my usage is only an hour less than standby when the phone sits on my desk unused most of the day.
 
Battery is still junk. Same drain that doesn't match how my 7 used to perform using the same apps/etc. (iPhone 8 here)
 
My SE has never been right since iOS 11, it runs fine, no major slow downs but battery life has taken a major hit, its no longer the workhorse it was, I'm a good 40% worse off on ios 11.

I think at this stage we can say its not going to be fixed. Apple don't see it as a problem.
 
Since last month now, if I let the battery drain completely on my 6s+, the phone will restart as soon as I plug it in and the battery shows 4% when its rebooted (the phone still stop at 1%)

In the past, when the battery was dead, the phone takes a good 10 minutes to boot when I plug it back. Is this a sign of a completely defect battery?
 
If it's not fixed, I think this is just a ploy to get more money out of us old iPhone users through battery replacements.
 
iPad 5, 90 hrs standby, 14 hrs of usage and battery at 23%
iOS 11.1.2
 
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IPad Air 2 down from 11 hours to 7-8 hours since updating. iPhone 7 also degraded since update. I agree, it’s probably not going to be fixed, the X and the 8 models don’t seem to be suffering battery issues and Apple have their focus on those models. If any fixes are released they will be to troubleshoot the new models
 
6S on 11.2. Yesterday was experiencing 1% drop per second with all apps closed and after restart.

Today on 11.2.1, marginally better but at least 25% loss per hour.
 
I bought a 7 yesterday, which to my disappointment came pre-installed with iOS 11. Goodbye battery life! :( Well after installing 11.2.5 the battery life is quite good - after 6 hours of usage I still have 50% battery left.
 
sampo said:
I bought a 7 yesterday, which to my disappointment came pre-installed with iOS 11. Goodbye battery life! :( Well after installing 11.2.5 the battery life is quite good - after 6 hours of usage I still have 50% battery left.
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So you actually had bad battery life with that device?
 
I did the 11.2.5 install straight away because the feedback on 11.2 was simply negative. Battery lasts much longer than my 6s with 10.3.3 - and there's no strange battery drain or drops, which I did experience with early iOS 11 versions. I don't know how well the 7 did with 10.3.3, but at least the phone is very usable as a daily driver even on iOS 11.
 
7 hours of moderate usage is normal according to Apple so there is no battery problem for iPhone 7 Plus now. What everyone is getting on their phones is the new normal.
 
Radon87000 said:
7 hours of moderate usage is normal according to Apple so there is no battery problem for iPhone 7 Plus now. What everyone is getting on their phones is the new normal.
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One anecdotal case feedback does not make for some sort of widespread Apple policy.
 
Radon87000 said:
Judging by this thread and the iOS 11 experience thread doesn't look like the situation has improved for anyone.
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Seems like there have been various people posting in different threads of having battery experiences that have been better for them. Is that fairly obviously incorrect "anyone" absolute hyperbole really needed? (Not that any of that has much to do with what that was in reply to.)
 
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