100% charged at 6:45am. All apps closed just sitting in my pocket while at work. At 10am it’s dropped to 82%. Something is wrong here
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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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For the year+ I’ve had 14PM not sure if I’ve tried LPM for a full day. On iOS 16.1 after 18 hours and still at 58%. Supposedly 90% health
This is just remarkable. Not sure I wanna roll the dice with iOS 17 and it’s battery life just yet
This is just remarkable. Not sure I wanna roll the dice with iOS 17 and it’s battery life just yet
I performed a DFU Restore on a 2020 SE and got significantly better battery life on 17.0.3. Then I updated that phone to 17.1 (when the full version released) but have been having worse battery life... 17.1 is just garbage in that department.
I am hoping they fix battery life with 17.2. Hoping, but knowing apple, it will probably continue to be trash as they seem to only focus on adding shiny bs and not fixing the important things.
So idk if the battery health number is a bunch of crock or what. But I’m at 90% battery health on my 14 pro max and I was at Disneyland. All. Day. Long. I’m home now but I’ve been out for darn near 17 hours and I’m still at 45% battery. I got out of the car (only 1.5 hr drive for me to Disney) at 8 am and my battery was at 100%. It is now 12:42 am next day. Didn’t charge it at all at Disneyland and I’m still at 45%. With games and using the app etc.
Starting to think that battery health percentage is just to freak people out. My phone works flawlessly.
Starting to think that battery health percentage is just to freak people out. My phone works flawlessly.
It’s almost the latest iPhone on almost its original iOS version (if it’s on iOS 17), it’s a Pro Max, and it’s at 90% health, not 10%. I don’t know why you’re expecting it to be garbage.
Battery health is irrelevant if the device isn’t updated enough, and one major version is definitely not enough.
So the battery issues are still there... Missus has been at work since 5am and at 9am she is down to 63% without even using her phone. How is that possible?
She was not on Beta program, but signed her up last might to get a new Software to hopefully fix it.
Next option would be a full reset, which is annoying because you have to update the wallet again and all that stuff...
Is there any other alternative... other than carrying a battery pack?!
She was not on Beta program, but signed her up last might to get a new Software to hopefully fix it.
Next option would be a full reset, which is annoying because you have to update the wallet again and all that stuff...
Is there any other alternative... other than carrying a battery pack?!
Did a hard reset on my 11 and then charged to 100%. After 3 hours in my pocket it is now on 99%. Hopefully it’s sorted now then
Can you post back after a couple of days please? What are your phone models?
Posts like this keep me away from 17.
Yes. Battery is drained even when unused eg. at night.
somethings definitely wrong. The battery is drained when unused. As in my case
I have not had great success with this. I tried a reset all settings and set up as new and got ~5.5 hours screen on time (ending the day at 16%) the next day. I then DFU restored to 17.1 final, again set up as new and let it download (500Mbps WiFi), before plugging in and letting it sync all evening (around 8 hours). During this time I did toggle on Messages in iCloud and pair my watch so they could sync overnight as well.
I am currently at 63% after unplugging at 9 AM; 2 hours and 20 minutes screen on, 1 hour and 32 minutes screen off. So that’s 7 hours total unplugged, 2.5 hours use and 37% loss. At that math the battery on a fresh install of 17.1 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max will be 6.9 hours - absolutely terrible.
The 14 Pro Max that’s been in the same conditions today his 3.5 hours screen on time, 2 hours screen off, and it’s at 85%.
My 11, 13 Pro, 14 Pro Max, and I think the 12 mini got better battery than this phone.
It’s not the phone, it’s the software. My 13 pro max was perfectly fine on 16.6.1 before ruined by ios17
That’s extremely poor. 7 hours on an original iOS version... you have to go back to 4.7-inch iPhones to see numbers like those.
Are you a heavy user by any chance?
Your 15 Pro Max on its original iOS version should have no problems and should easily surpass something like this:
Not expecting it. Just general consensus (vast majority of users discussing this topic anyway) seems to equate anything less than 95percent to horrible degradation. Idk why you jumped all over my reply. I was trying to insinuate that the health meter doesn’t mean much. ☺️
No games, no music, no downloads - just safari and Apple Books, about 15 minutes of instagram, today. We’re traveling, so when I wasn’t driving I was just browsing.
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Yeah, my reply came off a little bit aggressive now that I was it again and it wasn’t my intention, sorry!
Completely agree, battery health is completely irrelevant, especially when it’s not updated.
3h 47 min of screen-on time with 38% remaining, with iBooks (the lightest on-screen app I’ve found) as the second most-used and Safari the most used is one of the poorest results I’ve ever seen, especially on a Pro Max.
I truly hope you find a solution!
I took my 15 PM off the charger at about 10:30 Monday night it was charged to 100%, last night I decided not to charge it since it was at 87%. I just put it on the charger about 15 minutes ago and it was at 63%. Granted I'm not a heavy user but I just got about the same in 2 days as I would get on my 13 Pro in one day. I'm pretty impressed.