iOS 11.2 Beta 4 Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Radon87000]

That is not bad battery life. Your expectations are totally messed up.

15 hours standby time is more than enough time OFF the charger to get through a day. For example say you take it off the charger at 6am. 15 hours since the last charge puts that at 9pm, with 19% battery left. Which could easily last until midnight with some use. That’s pretty much a full day. You’re confusing time since last on a charger vs actual on screen usage time. You’ll never get 15+ hours of on screen usage time.

Your expectations are off, not the battery life.

I was getting 10 hours of usage and 15-20 hours of standby time on iOS 10.

 

[AeroZ]

Yeah it is. It means you haven’t needed to charge your phone for nearly a day and a half. With 17% still to go...on a two year old device.

Your expectations are far too unrealistic of what typical battery life should be. Go watch any YouTube review about any smartphone. The benchmark is generally if it can last till the evening when taking it off the charger in the morning. Your screenshot blew past that benchmark and almost halfway into the second day, with 17% to take it easily to halfway into day 2.

My expectations are fine. The battery optimization in iOS11 is crap. I got my battery replaced in spring so the battery itself is fine.
If right before switching to iOS11 I got 3h of more usage and 40h+ standby then it’s not my hardware’s fault but the software’s.

 

[NBKindaGirl]

I had enough of the resprings on this beta so I went back to 11.1.2 and my battery life has improved. No it’s not perfect but it’s better than it has been. I’m only having to charge once a day, if that. (Unfortunately I forgot to get a screenshot of the upper part when I got this one.) iPhone 7 Plus

 

[Radon87000]

I had enough of the resprings on this beta so I went back to 11.1.2 and my battery life has improved. No it’s not perfect but it’s better than it has been. I’m only having to charge once a day, if that. (Unfortunately I forgot to get a screenshot of the upper part when I got this one.) iPhone 7 Plus

That’s much much much worse than mine. It’s beyond horrible

 

[Mr$tone]

On iPhone X with 11.2 beta 4 there’s the same delay on the power button (single click) as the home button on earlier iPhones WHEN assistive touch is enabled on iPhone X. After a single click on the power button the phone waits a short moment to see if there will be more clicks or if it was a single click. When assitive touch is disabled, the delay is gone and the power button locks the screen without delay.

This pretty much illustrates that the home button delay is normal since the system waits to see if there’s going to be more clicks or if it was a single click.

 

[Radon87000]

On iPhone X with 11.2 beta 4 there’s the same delay on the power button (single click) as the home button on earlier iPhones WHEN assistive touch is enabled on iPhone X. After a single click on the power button the phone waits a short moment to see if there will be more clicks or if it was a single click. When assitive touch is disabled, the delay is gone and the power button locks the screen without delay.

This pretty much illustrates that the home button delay is normal since the system waits to see if there’s going to be more clicks or if it was a single click.

That delay will be fixed on a priority basis.

 

[JM]

Battery is still pretty bad on 6s.

What's your number one app in usage? Is it a game?

 

[AeroZ]

What's your number one app in usage? Is it a game?

I don’t game. It probably was safari.

 

[Radon87000]

Battery is still pretty bad on 6s.

Just downgrade to iOS 10. It's available for 6s users. Problem solved.

 

[AeroZ]

Just downgrade to iOS 10. It's available for 6s users. Problem solved.

Tried twice. First problem is that it’s not possible to restore iOS11 backup to iOS10. Second problem is that iCloud tabs don’t work for me on iOS10 anymore.
“It just works” doesn’t seem to apply to Apple anymore.

 

[JM]

I had enough of the resprings on this beta so I went back to 11.1.2 and my battery life has improved. No it’s not perfect but it’s better than it has been. I’m only having to charge once a day, if that. (Unfortunately I forgot to get a screenshot of the upper part when I got this one.) iPhone 7 Plus

It's okay, we know you're making this all up.

 

[Chazzle]

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What carrier? Wondering if this is a carrier update issue or a specific carrier etc. Or just a flaky version of the phone app itself. I am on Verizon and had the issue with b3 from the get go requiring a reset all settings. B4 only required an initial AP mode toggle and has been fine since. Hoping the next beta fixes it 100%.

Gotcha! I’m on Verizon as well. I never had the issue in beta 3. Early in beta 4, I encountered the voicemail bug, which AM toggle fixed. Now, I encountered the unresponsive phone app, fixed by the same method. Maybe a carrier update is needed to smoothen this out.

T-Mobile here.

 

[Demovx]

Just downgrade to iOS 10. It's available for 6s users. Problem solved.

U can’t. Time up 17.11

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

On iPhone X with 11.2 beta 4 there’s the same delay on the power button (single click) as the home button on earlier iPhones WHEN assistive touch is enabled on iPhone X. After a single click on the power button the phone waits a short moment to see if there will be more clicks or if it was a single click. When assitive touch is disabled, the delay is gone and the power button locks the screen without delay.

This pretty much illustrates that the home button delay is normal since the system waits to see if there’s going to be more clicks or if it was a single click.

I'm not seeing this. I have assistive touch turned off and there's definitely a delay on my power button.

 

[C DM]

That’s much much much worse than mine. It’s beyond horrible

It's definitely pretty bad, but what's "beyond horrible"? What would 3 hours of usage and 6 hours of standby, for example, be on that scale?

 

[hansenc]

anyone notice the screenshot tool is gone? taking a screenshot now on my iPhone 8 Plus it goes directly into the camera roll.

EDIT: Restart seems to resolve the issue for now. Seems one other has reported this issue in the forums. Not sure how widespread it is.

 

[Sharkoneau]

anyone notice the screenshot tool is gone? taking a screenshot now on my iPhone 8 Plus it goes directly into the camera roll.

EDIT: Restart seems to resolve the issue for now. Seems one other has reported this issue in the forums. Not sure how widespread it is.

This happened to me too recently - reported it to Apple. It also went away with a reboot.

 

[bcharleson]

One thing I've noticed just in this beta, when recording your screen, you no longer need to crop out the pop up "Stop Recording" at the end. Before you used to have to crop or at the end of the recording it would show up on the video.

 

[Mountaindla]

Twice now I have checked and discovered Find My iPhone off. Turned back on both times. Is this a bug or due to some action of my own?

 

[hansenc]

Twice now I have checked and discovered Find My iPhone off. Turned back on both times. Is this a bug or due to some action of my own?

Checked and mine is on

 

[Mountaindla]

Checked and mine is on

Probably just a fluke

 

[Radon87000]

It's definitely pretty bad, but what's "beyond horrible"? What would 3 hours of usage and 6 hours of standby, for example, be on that scale?

That shoudnt even be an option. You do realise that this is a Plus iPhone. These things are supposed to outlast all Android flagships by a mile. Anything below 6 hours is horrible. This is whats mentioned about iPhone 8 Plus battery on an Android website

" I've learned that despite claiming "up to 12 hours" of internet use on both the iPhone 8 and X, and 13 hours on the iPhone 8 Plus, the iPhone X falls somewhere in the middle of those legacy designs. I usually get to sleep with 10-15% battery left, which is what I'd have remaining from a Galaxy S8, and slightly less than from the Pixel 2. In other words, larger Android flagships still wipe the floor with the iPhone X for longevity .

I've yet to find an Android phone other than, say, the Huawei Mate 9, that can compete with the iPhone 8 Plus."

According to Apple, this is the 8 Plus battery life". Note the wording is such they imply the 8Plus has lesser battery life when they say "about the same" and not "the same"

iPhone 7 Plus battery life

iPhone X battery life with 50% remaininmg

?????

 

[Mr$tone]

That delay will be fixed on a priority basis.

But what I mean is that there is nothing to fix. It’s normal as is. The phone can’t guess if you want to single click or not and therefore needs a short time to see if you click again or not. It’s very logical.

If IOS 10 handled a single click on the home button differently, then it probably caused problems which made Apple change it to how it acts now.

 

[john991]

Beta 5 next week?

 

[macintoshmac]

If I got 3 more hours of usage with iOS 10 then my expectations are realistic for my every day usage pattern.
33h of standby is nothing. If you put a phone to airplane mode and low power mode for 8-9h night which uses 1% of battery.

Why would you put your phone to low power and airplane mode in the night? Why not just DND?
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But what I mean is that there is nothing to fix. It’s normal as is. The phone can’t guess if you want to single click or not and therefore needs a short time to see if you click again or not. It’s very logical.

If IOS 10 handled a single click on the home button differently, then it probably caused problems which made Apple change it to how it acts now.

Shhh. Don't be the voice of sense and reason.

/s

By the way: excellent post.