It's about as close to final release as it can get, soooooo yeah.
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iOS 10.3 Beta 7: Changes, Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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I have the most stellar battery life with this beta. Since I bought it when iphone 6+ first came out it never passed 10hrs of usage time for me. But my new record is 12 hrs of usage with 48hrs stand-by time. I am also quite happy with this betas performance. Phone is really smooth ios 10.3 gave me great hope for ios 11
It's always amazing how different people report opposite things with each beta. For me on my Air2, I've definitely gotten much better battery life than beta 6. No new apps installed and same use and B7 is getting nearly twice the life of B6. I also havent' noticed any change in performance, all the 10.3's have worked very well on my air.
The battery life at the battery level of 40% is very less as compared to the life when the level is at 70-80%.
Any ideas.
Its too hard to diagnose battery issues. There are literally dozens of variables that affect battery life. Screen brightness, service, one rogue processor. If you notice that the battery life is significantly worse with a new build, it could be something went wrong in the install. Reset all settings should clear up the issue; and this way you don't lose your data, only settings/preferences.
I am highlighting a different issue.
Its about battery life in one installation, but at different power levels.
I meant- when the battery power level is at 40%, when you observe the rate of power consumption and decrease in battery level, it is very fast as compared to the rate of power consumption and decrease in battery level when the battery level is at 70-80%.
You are implying that battery drainage is not linear? I don't mean to be rude I'm just not enitrely understanding.
Yes.
I meant that the rate of decrease of battery level and the power consumption varies with the level of battery level remaining.
That's not entirely true. Battery drainage is linear. I've verified this dozens of times using CoconutBattery and measuring mAh discharge rates. The only variable is battery health. But still linear.
Then why did i experience the non linear drainage- consumption at 40% not same as that at 70%.
Unless you are using a mAh reader, there is no way for you to truly know if it's linear or not. I can with 100% certainty say that the battery drains linear and the iOS percent readout is linear as well. But it's more complicated than that. I will slightly explain here but I've posted more thorough explainations in other threads.
iOS percent states 100% until the battery itself reaches 95%. After that it's completely linear.
iOS readout vs actual % remaining:
100% = 100% -> 95% actual
50% = 47.5% actual
10% = 9.5% actual
5% = 4.75% actual
1% = .95% or 1% actual
This is because the battery meter is merely an estimate. It should not and cannot be used for scientific purposes. The only way to know is when using a mAh reader. Unfortunately as of iOS 10 you can no longer get this on iOS devices to measure discharge. But if you use CoconutBattery on Mac, you can do the reverse and watch mAh charge rates and you can then calculate that it is linear.
So because I am assuming you are merely looking at the percent remaining that is given by iOS, you cannot truly calculate that it's lot linear as you state.
@BigMcGuire Can attest to these numbers as well.
The Apple battery meter is not linear and is an estimate at best. Typically you will see 100% for a long time then bam starts going down fast. Sometimes even sitting at 1% for quite a while. That is normal and has been that was since beginning. What you are seeing is completely normal.
Kind of true. The percent is an estimate, but it is still linear in comparison to the remaining mAh of the battery. Thats the key point that everyone should remember, its an estimate based off of the remaining mAh.
Since iOS 10.2.1 isn't really anything "old" doesn't seem like there's much in the way of not logical or logical about that aspect of it one way or another. In any case, seems like https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-ios-10-x-x-beta-speculation-thread.2027218/ is a better place for all of that.
No way. Developers don't even have the final release yet unless beta 7 is the final but other posters have said that it's not the final version @Mlrollin91
Would anyone say battery that battery life is better on this version of 10.3 than 10.2.1 on iPhone 7?
After using the beta 7 on iPhone 6s for last few days, I would say the beta is fine on some points and bad on others.
All the results below are after resetting the iPhone and then updating the latest backup from iTunes.
Pros:
1) Smoother than all the earlier beta's.
2) less app crashes
3) stable 4G network
4) faster processing in apps. ( I have edited a 124mb .csv file on the phone)
5) sync with iTunes on PC is more faster.
Cons:
1) Worst in battery life.
2) battery usage time and standby time is same ( pic attached)
3) iCloud sync from phone takes more time
4) switching over from mobile data to wifi is problem. It shows connected to wifi, but only connects when you enter settings app.
Smoother and faster than 10.2.1 on 6s ?
