I am in an area where 5G UW (AT&T has it as 5G+) has some coverage. Usually in an area with more than 2-3 bars. I do have cellular enable for photo/backup. I have 5G Auto turned on. I will try and see if turning cellular enabled turned off will help in the next few days. I am having issues photo icloud not syncing since I’ve gotten this new iPhone 15 Pro. Very frustrated with this phone and iOS 17 in general.
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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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Hoping a fix will come soon to all of our phones! Right now, the drain is simply unpleasant!
"iOS 17 reduces the battery life of an array of older models. The result: Users of the iPhone XR, iPhone 13, etc., running the latest operating system version need to charge up their handsets more often.
It is not normal for a new iOS version to universally reduce battery life. But a fix may be on the way."
"iOS 17 reduces the battery life of an array of older models. The result: Users of the iPhone XR, iPhone 13, etc., running the latest operating system version need to charge up their handsets more often.
It is not normal for a new iOS version to universally reduce battery life. But a fix may be on the way."
It’s not just you: iOS 17 has a battery life problem
iOS 17 reduces the battery life of an array of older models, which is not normal. But a fix is apparently on the way.
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Just got a iPhone 15 Pro and battery drain is terrible, day 3 of using it and I’ll be lucky to make it to 7 hours before I have to charge it, hoping the next update has a fix
Background App Refresh helps apps run more efficiently, using less resources. It gives them a chance to update their content while in the background. Not all apps use it. I keep it on for all my apps.
I always had this on since picked the phone up, not once I seen phone charging postpone due to iPhone temperature, fast charging or slow charging, on previous iOS when I was on WiFi phone always lasted longer and once switched to 4g/5g battery would last about 1-2 less. Which is normal and to be expected. Now iPhone 12 what I would call normal usage 100-50 you get 2h SOT. Is not acceptable. Also what’s up with charging postpone due to iPhone temp 🤨 phone wasn’t even warm to touch. There is definitely bugs in iOS that effects not just new phones and most of time when you on cellular network. I strongly believe is nothing to do with apps and backups ect. When I’m on call for 10min I can see the battery just drops % every min. This morning at home connected to WiFi 10 min on WhatsApp and 17min chrome and battery didn’t even drop a 1% yet. The min I get out of house it will just start to drop even when not using phone.
I always keep significant locations turned off and optimized charging works. At least on iOS 16.
This is not how app management works. Your statements make no sense, “more” and “less” efficient are vague statements and must be justified. As a OS kernel engineer, when an app runs in the background, it is allocated cpu and network resources, which consume battery . On the contrary, when an app is “frozen” it is not allowed to interact in a way other than push notifications. What “efficiency” has to do with these?
Cellular kills my 13 mini very fast as well. It has never been like this with any iPhone in past.
Yes, this is what is probably causing major battery drains on my 13 Pro Max either.
I am out of the house everyday but this weekend I felt sick so I stayed home and I was kinda shocked when my battery life was a lot better than I used to get since installing 17.0 beta 7 (I'm at 17.1 B1 now). It's still not iOS 16 level and it's pretty obvious cellular data eats battery faster than WiFi but iOS 17 definitely drains a lot more battery on cellular compared to iOS 16.
Oh, and I'm 100% LTE only, 5G is like 80% of the time slower than LTE in my area so it's not worth it for me at the moment.
Do you use wifi calling? On my 13PM I have found that wifi calling uses a lot less battery than 5G/LTE.
Because updating in the background with BAR is more efficient than updating without BAR, when the app is launched. That uses more resources. This is why Apple implemented Background App Refresh to begin with. Why else do you think they did? Most apps don't run in the background or use Background App Refresh. They're just "Frozen" there with no activity. But some do need to run in the background. And will do so with or without Background App Refresh. Background App Refresh makes it easier for them to run in the background using less resources.
Another day gone another graph for iPhone 12 😬, as IOS display battery over certain time you can see total SOT 5h57min from which 1h47min SOT is from previous charge, so as you can see from full charge down to 21% I’m able only get 4h10min SOT. iPhone reporting last charge to 99% because I plugged in to car charger for apple CarPlay but phone was charged this morning to 100%.I won’t post anymore as things won’t improve until apple sort this or I go back to IOS 16. Very disappointed is understatement been honest.
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In that case is fair return very similar what I get if I’m on WiFi most of day, unfortunately things are lot different when away from WiFi.
Freezing the app is something different than relaunching the app. Don’t confuse these terms.
Its not terrible but far from great is it lol. Running 17.1 beta 2 now so will report back with how this update performs…
17.0.2 has absolutely decimated my battery life on the 13 Pro (91% BH). I gave it over a week to stabilize, but it’s not showing any improvement. I used to make it through the day easy on 16.x, never had any issues.
Very frustrating, I would downgrade to 16 in a heartbeat if I could do it on my AW too.
Very frustrating, I would downgrade to 16 in a heartbeat if I could do it on my AW too.
I'm not sure how one go about downgrading, I'm sure it wasn't sort of straightforward job, is been a while since I even looked in to as I didn't need it before. I do hope there will be fix soon or at least update with some improvement, I'm not in position to drop 1k on new phone specially when I belive this is ios and not hardware.
Not light usage 14PM 17.1 b2, over 8 hours and 35% down now.
