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Battery issues since update?
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Always do backup, but if you reset your device as new and restore your backup you’re back where you started in the first place.
I just updated my iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 11 4 hours ago. Set it up as new and spent about an hour downloading all of my apps and setting it up just as I want them to be. Charged it up to 100% and started using it. Here’s how it looks.
Not too bad.
EDIT - I am aware that the usage and standby times are the same. That’s because I didn’t stop using it
Not too bad.
EDIT - I am aware that the usage and standby times are the same. That’s because I didn’t stop using it
Initial usage after an update doesn't say much one way or another really. It'll be a few cycles/days after an update before at least a somewhat meaningful call on battery life could be made for a device.I just updated my iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 11 4 hours ago. Set it up as new and spent about an hour downloading all of my apps and setting it up just as I want them to be. Charged it up to 100% and started using it. Here’s how it looks.
Not too bad.
EDIT - I am aware that the usage and standby times are the same. That’s because I didn’t stop using it
I just updated my iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 11 4 hours ago. Set it up as new and spent about an hour downloading all of my apps and setting it up just as I want them to be. Charged it up to 100% and started using it. Here’s how it looks.
Not too bad.
EDIT - I am aware that the usage and standby times are the same. That’s because I didn’t stop using it
Well, this goes against Macrumor’s wisdom as you clearly need to wait 4-5 days for the device to stop doing its mysterious indexing...
There’s nothing to index. I set it up as new. There are no photos. Just a bunch of empty apps.
Interesting.Taken just now. Again, same usage and standby times because I have been using it nonstop.
May well be some incompatible data lurking around?
Shame Apple makes it impossible to save just app data etc... not many people have the luxury of being able to wipe everything
Mine is better on the later PB's and now the GM version is still ok. This is iPhone 6S+
Screenshot shows the biggest hitter today with me playing loads of video clips through Facebook & YouTube.
Am happy with this days performance although at times I do agree the battery seems to drain rapidly. I have not yet tied it down to any particular app's.
Screenshot shows the biggest hitter today with me playing loads of video clips through Facebook & YouTube.
Am happy with this days performance although at times I do agree the battery seems to drain rapidly. I have not yet tied it down to any particular app's.
Can any fellow SE users report if the battery has gotten better with time while being on iOS 11? I used the GM briefly for five days, so I got my fair share of time on the firmware before downgrading, but I'm just wondering about others' experience. Screenshots would be good too. Getting that urge to upgrade back again lol...
Also, does Low Power Mode effect battery a lot? When I was on iOS 11 I would want to turn it on, but it would slow down the phone a noticeable amount (unlike iOS 10.3.3)
Also, does Low Power Mode effect battery a lot? When I was on iOS 11 I would want to turn it on, but it would slow down the phone a noticeable amount (unlike iOS 10.3.3)
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You're lucky. I lose AT LEAST 30% overnight, with airplane mode on, Wi-Fi and everything off, no open apps.
reset all settings and/or a restore and restore from icloud. sounds like an erratic app or process
With each major iOS update, there are always complaints of battery drain. I have never experienced it. That changed with iOS 11. Unplugged first thing in the morning, hadn’t touched it for 3 hours yet it drained 15%, and showed 3 hours of use. Wake lock is now a thing for iOS? My iPad pro 10.5 is fine though.
My wife just complained to me both her phone and iPad mini 4 are also draining fast.
I usually hold off for a few days, but I wanted watchOS 4 on my watch and it required iOS 11.
My wife just complained to me both her phone and iPad mini 4 are also draining fast.
I usually hold off for a few days, but I wanted watchOS 4 on my watch and it required iOS 11.
At first I didn’t think it did, but web-browsing seems to hit it much much worse now. Currently at 5 hours of usage and 13.5 hours of standby and I’m at 58%. Still great, but I feel like the SE had a bit more uuumph to the battery on iOS 10. I regret my upgrade for this new Control Center alone. If I had iTunes and a way to downgrade, I would. I can’t if I restore/erase my phone to default, can I? Which version would reinstall? Does it stay on 11? Ugh! Lol.
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I don't know if there were battery issues on iOS 10.0 like iOS 11.0, but everyone seems to be complaining about the battery life being extremely bad on iOS 11 and that's what's keeping me from updating. (I'm still on 10.3.3) also if there are battery issues with early versions of iOS (like 10.0 and 11.0) by which update are the battery related issues fixed? (like 10.1, 10.0.1)
It’s an absolute pain, but it’s worth it. Most apps back up to iCloud. The contacts appear as soon as you sign in. All I have to do is set up my favorite contacts and sign back into the apps. Sometimes I’d copy back my old photos, but I’m not going to do that this time. It sucks, but at least the phone works as intended.
I will be monitoring the battery like continuously during the entire week. I’ll keep you guys posted
There isn't really a set update or anything like that, short of some update specifically fixing something related to battery usage. Factoring in the fact that not everyone experiences the same types of battery issues or perhaps no battery issues at all, there's really no way to tell what it would be like with any update for anyone in particular.
I’m interested in whether everyone having battery problems have a big iCloud Photo Library? I have 42000 photos and videos on there. My iPhone 6S seems to be intermittently ‘uploading’ and has been since upgrading.
The first 24h the phone was really sluggish and hot to the touch. Could just watch the battery life percentage dropping holding the phone while doing nothing.
Since, my batter seems to last around 9h of pretty light use. This means it dies around mid afternoon without charging. This compared to around 17h with still battery to spare before plugging in at night.
What I’m wondering about doing is to disable iCloud Photo Library and then re-enable it so that the photos download rather than whatever is going on with this perpetual ‘upload’.
The first 24h the phone was really sluggish and hot to the touch. Could just watch the battery life percentage dropping holding the phone while doing nothing.
Since, my batter seems to last around 9h of pretty light use. This means it dies around mid afternoon without charging. This compared to around 17h with still battery to spare before plugging in at night.
What I’m wondering about doing is to disable iCloud Photo Library and then re-enable it so that the photos download rather than whatever is going on with this perpetual ‘upload’.
I’m at 95% after 20mins unplugged. Similar rate of use but I’m on a 6S so yours should be much better, not worse!
And yet, mine is still so much worse than it was.
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I’m now down at 79%, 78% (its going down quicker than I can type this!). Unplugged at 0618, now 0648.
My best guess right now is something to do with Siri/machine learning/etc - notice how the iPhone 8, 8+, and X have no issues? Those phones have a dedicated processor for machine learning. Every other device still has all of those machine learning processes in the OS, but are still having to process it all - only on top of everything else through the standard processors.
Most posts I read express a drain with standard usage - as if, something extra is churning away with every use (i.e. learning usage patterns, and constant indexing new data as it appears - and perhaps consequent re-processing of it...).
I have zero drain in standby - more so with aeroplane mode. I get all of my weird drain after using the phone for any purpose - I could send a message and will be at 90% - unlock it 5-10 minutes later, and it's at 87-88% for no reason.
Most posts I read express a drain with standard usage - as if, something extra is churning away with every use (i.e. learning usage patterns, and constant indexing new data as it appears - and perhaps consequent re-processing of it...).
I have zero drain in standby - more so with aeroplane mode. I get all of my weird drain after using the phone for any purpose - I could send a message and will be at 90% - unlock it 5-10 minutes later, and it's at 87-88% for no reason.