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iOS 11.2 Beta 4 Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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C DM said:
No listening to anything really, mostly Safari usage (as in browsing and using sites/forums), with phone usage (mostly conference calls so the screen was even on for most of those), some TV streaming, and some other apps. To be fair, this was above average although for a fairly average day.

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Hmm that still seems too good to be true. Can you do a test for me?

Screenshot your battery and then lock it and leave it overnight. (Don't plug it in) First thing when you wake up screenshot the battery stats again. I'd like to see how much the usage time went up when it was sleeping doing next to nothing.

I do this every once and awhile to see and usually overnight (about 8hrs) my usage will tick up 8-15 minutes over that time on my 7 running 10.3.3.

I'm just curious to see if maybe something is going on in the background more often when your phone is asleep in your pocket and racking up the usage times and you are thinking you are getting this illusion of ridiculously awesome battery life when actually you probably aren't and there is a process running racking up those minutes more often in iOS 11.
 
imagineadam said:
Hmm that still seems too good to be true. Can you do a test for me?

Screenshot your battery and then lock it and leave it overnight. (Don't plug it in) First thing when you wake up screenshot the battery stats again. I'd like to see how much the usage time went up when it was sleeping doing next to nothing.

I do this every once and awhile to see and usually overnight (about 8hrs) my usage will tick up 8-15 minutes over that time on my 7 running 10.3.3.

I'm just curious to see if maybe something is going on in the background more often when your phone is asleep in your pocket and racking up the usage times and you are thinking you are getting this illusion of ridiculously awesome battery life when actually you probably aren't and there is a process running racking up those minutes more often in iOS 11.
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I pretty much always charge overnight as I start using the phone right after I get up and don't really have much of an opportunity to charge it for a decent period of time throughout the day. I'll see if I can do that at some point.
 
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Doest it still lags? I am on 11.1.2 and sometimes there is a lag. Settings, home button, apps... I accept to have a slower phone but i dont accept to have lag. It feels like i have an android phone. Iphone SE here.
 
C DM said:
Well, as a similar anecdotal example, here's my regular 7 (with iOS 11.1.2) from a few days ago with the same 3% remaining:

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Haven’t used my 7 Plus on WiFi much today but the battery drain is lesser when WiFi is used. I think I could get this battey life if I stayed on WiFi all day. It’s not possible to achieve this on LTE which was possible on iOS 10.
 
Anyone notice that when you swipe up from the bar at the bottom to close reachability that there is a click sound?
 
I’m wondering what the best way to try to fix my issue would be, my mail app won’t update using cellular data since installing this update. Should I try reinstalling this current beta? Is there any way to revert to the last beta? Or should I just go back to 11.1.1

If I do that last option and don’t have a backup from 11.1.1i can’t use any of the 11.2 backups I have, can I?
 
NBKindaGirl said:
Yes, I realize this. :rolleyes: I can’t figure out how to fix it, I’ve changed settings and shut off a lot of app notifications and it’s still bad.
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[doublepost=1511406362][/doublepost]Here it is now. :confused:
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What device is this? Couple of things you can try. settings> general>reset>Reset all settings. That will default all your settings and change your wallpaper and dump wifi networks but otherwise all data will remain intact. You have to go back through and set up as you like it including any wifi networks. Then let the phone run until it totally shuts itself down. Wait a few minutes then plug in and let it charge unattended/unused for maybe 30-45 minutes after it reaches 100%.

This has been a proven solution for battery issues (and other odd issues) in the past. The calibration of battery and iOS gets off after updates sometimes whereby the actual battery capacity and whats being reported by the OS is not in sync. One other thing I see is FB is your top offender and that is a known battery hog as well from time to time. You may want to try and force close it and leave it closed and use safari for FB for a few days and see if that helps. Background refresh could cause some battery issues as well. You can make sure and turn that off for all apps you don't really need constantly updating in the background when you are not using the app.

[Edit] Guess I should have read further :) I see others have responded as well esp regarding FB app. Even if you don't go with the reset all right now, do the battery calibration at least at the first chance you can.
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WhiteHawk said:
I read somewhere here that on this beta some are having sound pops/breaks in the YouTube app, I wonder if it’s related to the issue I’ve had on my X since I installed 11.1.2. Since then in YouTube and Netflix every now and then the volume slider at the top of the screen will appear without any input, not even holding the phone, same with other controls appearing in the Video app.

Unfortunately the 11.2 beta 4 doesn’t fix this. I just timed the volume slider appearances in the YouTube app and it’s every 2 minutes and I do hear a slight break in audio at the same time.

I’ve posted a thread about this but no one has replied that they have the same issue, anyone here having this happen?
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That has been reported here from several users. If I recall I read somewhere that Google is aware and working on the app.

kingston73 said:
I’m wondering what the best way to try to fix my issue would be, my mail app won’t update using cellular data since installing this update. Should I try reinstalling this current beta? Is there any way to revert to the last beta? Or should I just go back to 11.1.1

If I do that last option and don’t have a backup from 11.1.1i can’t use any of the 11.2 backups I have, can I?
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Assuming you have cellular data enabled and turned on for Mail? I would remove the mail acct, reboot, then add it back. You cannot technically use the 11.2 backups for 11.1 but there is a work around or two. You find the 11.1.2 ipsw file and shift/update then browse to it and "update" that way and it keeps your device as is. OR another unsupported option is edit the info.plist in your 11.1 backup folder and change the version and build# entries to the ones for 11.1.2. Then the backup should run. If you go that route I would def recommend a reset all settings afterwards to get the settings defaulted for 11.1.2.

You should be able to restore the previous beta as well using the ipsw file for it. But honestly I have not seen a single report other than yours regarding issues with mail in this beta so most likely it's something with your setup and a downgrade to previous iOS probably wont help.
 
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sbailey4 said:
[doublepost=1511446382][/doublepost] That has been reported here from several users. If I recall I read somewhere that Google is aware and working on the app.
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But it’s happening in the Netflix app and the Apple Videos app as well since 11.1.2, this is an iOS problem.
 
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WhiteHawk said:
But it’s happening in the Netflix app and the Apple Videos app as well since 11.1.2, this is an iOS problem.
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Ah ok. I suspect a future update will solve it. Point is others have reported having same issues so you are not alone or your device isn't the cause (hopefully) and its a software issue.
 
Radon87000 said:
Haven’t used my 7 Plus on WiFi much today but the battery drain is lesser when WiFi is used. I think I could get this battey life if I stayed on WiFi all day. It’s not possible to achieve this on LTE which was possible on iOS 10.
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My usage was from a fairly usual mix of WiFi and LTE, as I mentioned before.
 
sbailey4 said:
Ah ok. I suspect a future update will solve it. Point is others have reported having same issues so you are not alone or your device isn't the cause (hopefully) and its a software issue.
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I really do hope so but would have hoped it was fixed in this beta, just concerned this won’t be fixed for a while. Not saying it’s the worst bug in the world but rather annoying to have it with such a nice overall screen on the X too.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.
 
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C DM said:
My usage was from a fairly usual mix of WiFi and LTE, as I mentioned before.
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Well then its possible 11.1.2 has some significant battery tweak because I cant get anything close to that if I mix WiFi and LTE on 11.2 Beta 4
 
Radon87000 said:
Well then its possible 11.1.2 has some significant battery tweak because I cant get anything close to that if I mix WiFi and LTE on 11.2 Beta 4
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I think we've more or less established that there are various people/devices that have some issues that others don't or have issues to a much larger degree than others (not unlike what it's like with most major releases).
 
C DM said:
I think we've more or less established that there are various people/devices that have some issues that others don't or have issues to a much larger degree than others (not unlike what it's like with most major releases).
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Just for the record I tried to emulate your usage pattern except I was WiFi the whole day and it’s only then I can hit the 10 hour barrier. Safari just refuses to reset that 1.9 hour counter though no matter what I do. It keeps remaining high. Its not resetting every day

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sbailey4 said:
What device is this? Couple of things you can try. settings> general>reset>Reset all settings. That will default all your settings and change your wallpaper and dump wifi networks but otherwise all data will remain intact. You have to go back through and set up as you like it including any wifi networks. Then let the phone run until it totally shuts itself down. Wait a few minutes then plug in and let it charge unattended/unused for maybe 30-45 minutes after it reaches 100%.

This has been a proven solution for battery issues (and other odd issues) in the past. The calibration of battery and iOS gets off after updates sometimes whereby the actual battery capacity and whats being reported by the OS is not in sync. One other thing I see is FB is your top offender and that is a known battery hog as well from time to time. You may want to try and force close it and leave it closed and use safari for FB for a few days and see if that helps. Background refresh could cause some battery issues as well. You can make sure and turn that off for all apps you don't really need constantly updating in the background when you are not using the app.

[Edit] Guess I should have read further :) I see others have responded as well esp regarding FB app. Even if you don't go with the reset all right now, do the battery calibration at least at the first chance you can
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Thank you for the advice! I got rid of FB app last night and have been using Safari. I’ll try to reset all settings thing and look into background refresh too.
 
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