So, do you recommend iPad OS 15.4.1 over iPad OS 15.5 on an iPad?? I’m still on iPad OS 15.3 with good battery life on my 2018 11” iPP
Yeah, I want to do that as well, but I want to be sure iPad OS 15.4.1 doesn’t have battery life issues
Unless you have a specific issue 15.4.1 has been outstanding on our 4 devices as far as battery life. On my 13 Pro Max, which does have a bigger battery than smaller models, I normally don’t even bother to connect it to a charger when using Apple Maps for navigation on trips around my area. And with that and extensive usage during the day I don’t know that I’ve ever been below 50% battery at the end of the day when going to bed and connecting the phone to a charger.
It should have been Wifi Assist (not wifi calling). Try that instead.
Hard to say. Apple did publicly acknowledge a bug affecting battery performance has in fact been fixed in iOS 15.4.1. With that said, watching reviews show that the bug may still be present.
There's an additional setting for 5G-capable iPhones and iPads under Settings -> Cellular Data -> Cellular Data Options named Allow More Data on 5G that, when enabled, may cause the device to prefer 5G over WiFi if it thinks that would result in a better data connection — you might try turning that off if frequent switching between 5G and WiFi is what might be causing your issues.Tried turning off WiFI Assist and it had no apparent affect. Well other than losing my wifi walking to the mailbox
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Turned it back on.
I don’t. But I heard it usually helps out with extending the battery life but I’m not a big fan of turning off the location services.
Just the three options under System Services > Product Improvement. Most everything else has location enabled, but nothing in the app list is set to ‘Always’; they’re either set to ‘While Using the App (or Widgets)’ or, occasionally, ‘Never.’ I think the weather app/widget was pretty constantly accessing location services when set to ‘Always’ (so that I’d receive background precipitation notifications; while the feature is nice battery life did seem to improve after disabling it).
I have almost nothing turned off. The weather apps are set to always as is another app that provides locations and emergency monitoring while driving for my wife and myself. As far as system services I don’t think anything is turned off. Why would I pay for an expensive phone just to turn things off??♂️ Fortunately battery life is extremely good. Now if I were still using an iPhone 5 or 6 with the original batteries I might turn a few things off but more likely just understand that I’ll have to connect to a charger more than once a day.
I believe I’ve read a few posts mentioning this, and there is certainly no reason to have it enabled when at home but I do believe it’s the default setting. Mine has been enabled from the get-go on both my phone and ipad on my home WiFi network with no discernible issue. I’ve not turned it off simply because there has been no issue and I don’t want to stir the pot. But I’ll keep it in mind if something should develop. If I were traveling and connect to an outside network I would definitely have it enabled.
said: