iOS 11.2 Beta 4 Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[iSayBoourns]

Enable auto brightness, move out in bright sunlight and browse Safari or use Google Maps. Battery destroyed. EVen on iOS 10 it was still huge. Hence I always play with the setting deposing on what location I am in

That’s because you’re using maps. Constant GPS/location services (these are on full time when said apps are on running) drains the battery dude. I use and have always used auto brightness and it doesn’t drain 1% per 45 seconds when outside. Safari does now drain 1% per 45 seconds when outdoors, not even close. Stop with your over exaggerations already.

How do you even pick what’s for dinner each night? Do you deside with zero delay or does it take you a few milliseconds? If a phone stresses you out this much to warrant all your constant complaining, I can’t imagine what real day to day stuff is like.

 

[Radon87000]

That’s because you’re using maps. Constant GPS/location services (these are on full time when said apps are on running) drains the battery dude. I use and have always used auto brightness and it doesn’t drain 1% per 45 seconds when outside. Safari does now drain 1% per 45 seconds when outdoors, not even close. Stop with your over exaggerations already.

How do you even pick what’s for dinner each night? Do you deside with zero delay or does it take you a few milliseconds? If a phone stresses you out this much to warrant all your constant complaining, I can’t imagine what real day to day stuff is like.

Which phone do you have?

 

[iSayBoourns]

Which phone do you have?

6, 7+, 10

All on 11.2 beta 4.

 

[Radon87000]

6, 7+, 10

All on 11.2 beta 4.

The 6 and 10 can be ruled out because 6 lacks the auto brightness boost mode and 10 is an oled screen. If you are not seeing a drain every 45 seconds on 7 Plus it must be something to do with the cell signal as well. Disabling auto brightness saves a lot of battery outside for me.

 

[sbailey4]

Because if I keep auto brightness enabled, when I move out of a building the brightness ramps up to a level beyond the max level of the brightness slider and destroys the battery. If I disable auto brightness and keep it on max and move out, the brightness is 555nits. If I keep auto brightness on, the max brightness becomes 705 nits. That extra 150 nits will empty the battery fast. 1% for 45 seconds as opposed to 1% for 70 seconds.

When I am indoors its much more useful and saves battery

Have you tried to calibrate it? When auto is turned on go to brightest place and let it adjust then move the slider to what you want it to be. Then go to darkest place and let it adjust, then set the slider to what you want for dark environment. That should set it automatically from then on.

Other variations say to set to min while in total dark room then set to max when in bright light or shining a flashlight on display. That is supposed to calibrate and set the range.

 

[SumYoungGai]

So a solution for the phone app issue might be to force close the phone app, place the phone in airplane mode, then open the phone app and go to the voicemail page. You should see all your voicemails instead of a "call voicemail" button, and then disable airplane mode.

 

[0004986]

The 6 and 10 can be ruled out because 6 lacks the auto brightness boost mode and 10 is an oled screen. If you are not seeing a drain every 45 seconds on 7 Plus it must be something to do with the cell signal as well. Disabling auto brightness saves a lot of battery outside for me.

How are you still alive with all that paranoia?

 

[Andreas00]

I was on ios 11.1.2 and were getting tons of app freezes and hard resetting, restarting etc didnt solve the problem. So thought to give this beta a chance but its exactly the same. It can go on for a while and then suddenly it all works again.

 

[mrcrlee]

I was on ios 11.1.2 and were getting tons of app freezes and hard resetting, restarting etc didnt solve the problem. So thought to give this beta a chance but its exactly the same. It can go on for a while and then suddenly it all works again.

I was getting hard freezes (almost always while on WiFi) and seemingly an inability to reboot the phone in 11.1.2. And then I reset the network settings and that fixed the issue and I no longer have freezes.

Another symptom of the crashes caused the WiFi to be seemingly permanently disabled. I couldn't toggle the Wifi back on, either in the drop down gesture window or in the settings app. This made me try the full network reset.

 

[Banglazed]

Finally a battery fix for Youtube

 

[Feenician]

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Finally a battery fix for Youtube

Finally indeed. Had to have my friend and gf, both heavy YouTube users, uninstall the app and use Safari before. They were both under the impression that iOS 11 was at fault but both had normal battery life after uninstalling this crap app. We’ll see if they’ve actually fixed it...

If only Google weren’t so lawyer happy and restrictive in their license, I’d have had them both use ProTube. RIP ProTube.

 

[Radon87000]

Finally indeed. Had to have my friend and gf, both heavy YouTube users, uninstall the app and use Safari before. They were both under the impression that iOS 11 was at fault but both had normal battery life after uninstalling this crap app. We’ll see if they’ve actually fixed it...

If only Google weren’t so lawyer happy and restrictive in their license, I’d have had them both use ProTube. RIP ProTube.

You can sideload ProTube IPA using Cydia Inspector if you are comfortable with it.

 

[Radon87000]

Spending the entire day on LTE and didn’t use my phone at all till now and it’s only then I reach that vaunted 10 hours

 

[reyalP]

Anyone notice with reachabiltiy that when you swipe up from the bar at the bottom of the screen to exit reachability mode that it makes a clicking sound and has a small vibration, but if you swipe up above the bar to exit reachabiltiy mode that it makes no sound or vibration. Is it supposed to do that? If so, was it in the last beta?

 

[JM]

Spending the entire day on LTE and didn’t use my phone at all till now and it’s only then I reach that vaunted 10 hours

So, the beta you're on has good battery life now? (or is this sarcasm... just making sure )

 

[Andreas00]

I was getting hard freezes (almost always while on WiFi) and seemingly an inability to reboot the phone in 11.1.2. And then I reset the network settings and that fixed the issue and I no longer have freezes.

Another symptom of the crashes caused the WiFi to be seemingly permanently disabled. I couldn't toggle the Wifi back on, either in the drop down gesture window or in the settings app. This made me try the full network reset.

Tried doing that today. Issues remained throughout the day

 

[Radon87000]

So, the beta you're on has good battery life now? (or is this sarcasm... just making sure )

Basically the only way I can get that iPhone X battery life is by not using the phone at all yet the usage time racks up for some reason. Here’s what I did today. Charged my phone to 100% at around 12am and kept it on low power mode. Then went to sleep. Woke at 7:30, disabled LPM and used the phone only at 5 minute intervals. Nothing major yet it’s at 7 hours of usage.

Not to mention I am now below 50% and it’s dropping fast.

 

[JM]

Basically the only way I can get that iPhone X battery life is by not using the phone at all yet the usage time racks up for some reason. Here’s what I did today. Charged my phone to 100% at around 12am and kept it on low power mode. Then went to sleep. Woke at 7:30, disabled LPM and used the phone only at 5 minute intervals. Nothing major yet it’s at 7 hours of usage.

Not to mention I am now below 50% and it’s dropping fast.

Mmmmmmmmm... iphone x. Maybe the face scanner counts as usage?

I remember there was weird usage times on one of the iOS version with my 5c... So iOS 7 or 8.

 

[sbailey4]

Basically the only way I can get that iPhone X battery life is by not using the phone at all yet the usage time racks up for some reason. Here’s what I did today. Charged my phone to 100% at around 12am and kept it on low power mode. Then went to sleep. Woke at 7:30, disabled LPM and used the phone only at 5 minute intervals. Nothing major yet it’s at 7 hours of usage.

Not to mention I am now below 50% and it’s dropping fast.

You are saying the device is showing 7 hrs use and you haven't really used it? Something not making since. Its showing on screen usage for Safari and a few others so the phone had to be being used not laying around. Also I see YouTube background usage. That is known to cause battery issues and they released an update today to address it. Curious, why are you obsessed on making any other device be like the iPhone X? Just get an iPhone X and you will get iPhone X battery life

Sorry but I fail to see where there is a problem. You have 19+ hrs standby, 7+ hours of use and 54% remaining. What exactly are you expecting to get?
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Spending the entire day on LTE and didn’t use my phone at all till now and it’s only then I reach that vaunted 10 hours

Here is you a formula to try out to see where you stand according to Apples spec. You have to get the amt of usage for each type to get more accurate. Here is a sample based on 19.5 hrs stdby and 2.5 hrs wifi use. Note Apples spec is UP TO and that is in lab perfect environment so don't expect to get the max for all areas. Also these are OR values. They are not saying you will get that use for each one so if ONLY standby then 384 hrs. Or if ONLY talk time used 21 hr, etc. They are not saying you are going to get 384 hr stdby AND 21 hrs talk AND 15 hrs wifi, etc.

iPhone 7 Plus Apple Specs
Talk time (wireless): Up to 21 hours on 3G
Standby: Up to 16 days (384 hrs)
Internet use: Up to 13 hours on 3G
Up to 13 hours on LTE
Up to 15 hours on Wi-Fi
Wireless video playback: Up to 14 hours
Wireless audio playback: Up to 60 hours

19.25/384=.05 (5%) stdby use , 2.5/15= .166 (16.6%) wifi use, so 100%-(5+16.6)= 78.4% should be remaining

 

[0004986]

Basically the only way I can get that iPhone X battery life is by not using the phone at all yet the usage time racks up for some reason. Here’s what I did today. Charged my phone to 100% at around 12am and kept it on low power mode. Then went to sleep. Woke at 7:30, disabled LPM and used the phone only at 5 minute intervals. Nothing major yet it’s at 7 hours of usage.

Not to mention I am now below 50% and it’s dropping fast.

Are you using a VPN?

 

[SafariX]

Out of the blue, my visual voicemail started working again after not working on either b3 or b4 on my iPhone X on Verizon. Didn't change a thing (and the toggling airplane mode never worked).

 

[sbailey4]

Out of the blue, my visual voicemail started working again after not working on either b3 or b4 on my iPhone X on Verizon. Didn't change a thing (and the toggling airplane mode never worked).

Did you happen to receive a new message? Or call it to check VM? Sometimes that would trigger it too.

 

[SafariX]

Did you happen to receive a new message? Or call it to check VM? Sometimes that would trigger it too.

Nope. No new VM and didn't call.

 

[NBKindaGirl]

So, I ditched FB and along with that, I also ditched Messenger because they both drain my battery. Did the battery recalibration thing and I also jumped back on the beta train. My phone is running much better this time (the lags I had recently are gone and no more resprings for the time being) because I reset everything and set the phone up as new prior. Now I’m just using safari way too much now that I got rid of FB. Need to cut down on that. This is today’s battery use. Not TOO bad but my phone was used pretty heavily today. iPhone 7 Plus.

 

[imagineadam]

Basically the only way I can get that iPhone X battery life is by not using the phone at all yet the usage time racks up for some reason. Here’s what I did today. Charged my phone to 100% at around 12am and kept it on low power mode. Then went to sleep. Woke at 7:30, disabled LPM and used the phone only at 5 minute intervals. Nothing major yet it’s at 7 hours of usage.

Not to mention I am now below 50% and it’s dropping fast.

That's weird.

Must be something happening in the background on iOS 11. Charge to 100% force close all apps, screenshot the usage at 0 then leave it overnight wake up and screenshot again and see what you get.