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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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Standby Time.
Under 16.6 it was eating a lot of battery each night with no indication what it was.
Under 17 it is showing ... none? Scrap that thought and try again tonight. It stayed at 100% all night long.
Reboot, Repeat test. Feels like a shampoo commercial.
Standby Time.
Under 16.6 it was eating a lot of battery each night with no indication what it was.
Under 17 it is showing ... none? Scrap that thought and try again tonight. It stayed at 100% all night long.
Reboot, Repeat test. Feels like a shampoo commercial.
Pulled my 14PM from it's charger at 18:00 last night - still on 100% at 07:00 this morning. I know I haven't used it, but at least there doesn't seem to be any baddery drain - yet!
iPhone 12 here. My battery life was noticeably worse than iOS 16.5/16.6 for the first two days and a half. Not terrible, but still bad enough that it could only barely last the full day, while before I always had at least 30-40% before going to bed.
A hard reset seems to have improved things this morning, let's see how long it last.
Same for the Ultra on watchOS 10 btw, noticeably worse battery life during the first two days or so, a hard reset this morning seems to help, so far.
A hard reset seems to have improved things this morning, let's see how long it last.
Same for the Ultra on watchOS 10 btw, noticeably worse battery life during the first two days or so, a hard reset this morning seems to help, so far.
This is a solid opinion. First 36hrs or so the battery life was abysmal for me, but today it has settled.
Same here, first 36 hours was abysmal. Here's hoping battery life will be better here on out. 🤞🏼
It seems to have stopped. It’s been at 96% since yesterday. Hopefully everything has indexed and settled.
To be clear, battery life still isn’t great, just better than it was during that indexing period. It’s not bad for beta 1
I think I found the culprit for my battery drain: the Home widget in my widget stack.
iPhone 14 Pro Max here.
Battery Health no change.
Battery drain is awful. Down too 5% as I type. Just counts down as I type/look at it. Can’t find the culprit yet.
Yes yes I know it’s a beta , but this is the worst beta drain I’ve experienced & been testing since iOS 15.
Battery Health no change.
Battery drain is awful. Down too 5% as I type. Just counts down as I type/look at it. Can’t find the culprit yet.
Yes yes I know it’s a beta , but this is the worst beta drain I’ve experienced & been testing since iOS 15.
When did you install it? It was like that for me the first day or two, then got better.
Been watching the battery on a new iPad Pro 11.
Battery is pretty poor.
SOT of 5HR 50MIN down to 17% left.
Not a real surprise for a beta 1.
Battery is pretty poor.
SOT of 5HR 50MIN down to 17% left.
Not a real surprise for a beta 1.
Seeing the same behavior as several others, seems Apple Mail is the culprit keeping the phone arm and consuming the battery. I am not using Apple Mail at all and it has 60% battery usage of all my apps and all in background activity. We will see if that will be fixed in the next beta ...
The only way I found to resolve this was to delete the Apple Mail app from the phone and since then battery life is back to normal. Another nice side effect, the phone is no longer constantly hot, so definitely the stock mail app is having issues and constantly running in the background.
The only way I found to resolve this was to delete the Apple Mail app from the phone and since then battery life is back to normal. Another nice side effect, the phone is no longer constantly hot, so definitely the stock mail app is having issues and constantly running in the background.
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Batteries been amazing for me.
I plugged my phone into the car for CarPlay and used maps all the way to Wales.
Still had 100% battery when I arrived after 6.5hours 😂😆
I plugged my phone into the car for CarPlay and used maps all the way to Wales.
Still had 100% battery when I arrived after 6.5hours 😂😆
Were you using wireless carplay? Whenever I used wired carplay, my phone always charges.
How long you been running beta? If less than 4 days, then that’s not unusual. If more than 4 days, see what apps are hammering it.
Could be due to an app being slightly incompatible with the new version of iOS, or all sorts of other reasons.