Well I installed it, let it do its thing during the night on the charger, been tinkering whole day, took lots of photos etc and battery seems just like on 16, which is pretty good for a prerelease software.
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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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Same issue here on regular 13 Pro. Battery life has been as poor as on Beta 8 so far and I'm not using my phone for some extremely battery draining stuff. Only messaging, emails, web-browsing.
Wow which phone is that?
Here on my iPhone 14 pro Max it still sucks with the developer RC.
I leave Background App Refresh on. It helps apps run more efficiently, using less resources. BAR does use a little battery itself, but it balances out. I've tested it ON and OFF. And didn't notice any difference.
My battery was poor on my 14 pm on beta 8 and the rc, reset my settings, battery was still poor and my phone was super hot. I reset my network settings and went back to iOS 16.6 battery life. No more overheating and my battery life drastically increased. Happy now.
4 days later after updating to RC, I can surely say that battery life has imporved. It's still not as good as it was on iOS 16.6, but I'm sure that with future updates it will stabilize. (iPhone 13 Pro)
Yes. iOS 16.6 battery life is much much better! Hope they will fix it in the RC asap
iPhone 12 Pro Max, just reached 79% today-
5 days before I get my new iPhone lol
5 days before I get my new iPhone lol
After a year of disappointing battery life, I’ve never had as good of battery life on my 14PM as I have the iOS 17 RC release. So happy to see it. I hope it’s only better on my 15 Pro Max!
iOS 17 RC has the best battery life compared to the betas. Not a lot of drain on standby. Watching IG videos drained a lot of battery, but is fixed now.
So is for me on my 13 Pro Max, nothing has changed since updating to RC, I’m getting 6h SOT MAX when I used to get 10+
Maybe it helps: Last year with iOS 16 I had huge battery problems. Anytime in airplanemode without WiFi I noticed, that the battery life was very good. By chance I discovered, that in the files App from Apple it was "Syncing..." all the time (you can see that on the bottom in the app). But anything was synced. So I deinstalled the App right on the Homescreen and reinstalled it from the Appstore. This solved my battery drain issue. Problem was: I wasn't able to see, that the files app used that much battery in the battery settings of the iPhone. It was like a "phantom usage". And of course - if it's not the files app - maybe there are other apps using the battery that much without showing it in the battery settings.
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That's what I think, too. I think it's kind of admitting these iOS versions just use more battery and that's why bigger batteries and a more efficient chip don't translate into a gain in battery life. The battery iPhone 13 Pro Max was getting on iOS 15 hasn't been matched yet. The 14 series wasn't worse on paper but iOS 16 in real usage made them last less than the 13 series.
13 Pro user here. I updated to the RC a week ago today and I’m consistently getting around 5 hours of usage when I could get 7-7.5 on iOS 16. Quite a massive drop that hasn’t gone away, like you. Shame.
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OMG what is up with the battery life!!! iPhone XS Max, new'ish original battery (at 92% capacity). This morning it went from 100% battery to 90% in like 8 minutes almost just holding my phone. I put it on charge and it wouldnt go up and got stuck at 90% charge. Never had such bad battery drain!
after charging my iPhone 14 pro before bed (10pm last night) it was still on 100% this morning, pretty impressed, hate iOS 17 though its like a cartoon show. Battery still at 100% capacity launch day model.