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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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I have an iphone 13 pro, updating with the ipsw file in all betas the day after updating by ota, and this 3rd beta is working better for me than the last stable version of ios 16 in which I was.
Battery health is currently stuck at 91%, but I'm noticing strange things, like an increase in nominal battery capacity in the logs. for this reason, apps like 3utools or imazing now tell me that the battery health is at 92 and 94% respectively. I don't know if this increase is normal.
Battery health is currently stuck at 91%, but I'm noticing strange things, like an increase in nominal battery capacity in the logs. for this reason, apps like 3utools or imazing now tell me that the battery health is at 92 and 94% respectively. I don't know if this increase is normal.
There is no increase. Health is just an estimate which can highly fluctuate based on a variety of conditions. Stop worrying about it, nothing you can do to stop battery degradation.
Battery is better for me on beta 3. Noticeably against beta 2.
iPhone 14 pro.
iPhone 14 pro.
For me, the health of the battery has not increased or decreased, the nominal capacity that ios detects has increased and that appears in the logs generated by the system. the log of June 20 detected a 2799mAh battery.
in today's log, 2848mAh. This is what is surprising me, because I searched for information, and the little I found, suggested that this value in the best of cases should remain unchanged and it is normal for it to drop due to battery degradation. It's going up for me, and it's not supposed to be like that, it's as if the battery is regenerating haha
Downgrading back to iOS 16. The battery drain is too extreme on this beta 3 for me on the 14 Pro.
Battery drain is extreme in beta 3, I acctualy downgraded to beta 2
iPhone 12, 89% battery health (original battery from October 2020, so not bad at all).
Battery life on beta 3 isn't terrible, but isn't great either. I can get around 4 hours of SoT with mixed Wi-Fi/5G usage (but mostly Wi-Fi). 5G really kills the the phone fast, but that's an iPhone 12 thing.
Phone gets hot fairly often when using some apps for a long time (Instagram, for example).
Hopefully future betas improve things.
Battery life on beta 3 isn't terrible, but isn't great either. I can get around 4 hours of SoT with mixed Wi-Fi/5G usage (but mostly Wi-Fi). 5G really kills the the phone fast, but that's an iPhone 12 thing.
Phone gets hot fairly often when using some apps for a long time (Instagram, for example).
Hopefully future betas improve things.
It’s hard to gauge especially on the 14 series because the numbers I’ve seen have been pretty poor even on iOS 16. People reported 6-7 hours, and like I said on that thread, I don’t know whether users are too heavy, but the 14 Pro Max is reported by Apple to get 28 hours. Conversely, the Xʀ is reported to get 16 hours (which I can still get on iOS 12), but users back on iOS 12 comfortably reported 10-12 hours, and here they aren’t even close. So, some numbers I’ve seen here are as poor as they ever were.
The only worry you should have is that you worry for nothing.
For my 14 Pro Max Public Beta 1 has better battery life than 160 I'm ending the day with ~40-60% left, average SOT is around 5 hours. Funny enough 16's betas were the same way on my 12.
Something weird seems to be happening - the phone was on charge all night (via MagSafe), but the % was going down, quite quickly...
I've plugged it in this morning to try to keep it up
I've plugged it in this morning to try to keep it up
Been using the Public Beta for a few days. I never had too many issues with recent beta's so I thought why not. Anyway...
When I use any fitness apps, like running, workouts, paired with listening to music and/or podcasts seems to drain the battery significantly. Example: This morning at 430am - woke up, took the missus to work and once home I checked emails etc. Went for a quick 6k run while listening to a podcast - around 35 mins in total and battery drained down to below 40%.
Its never been that bad....
When I use any fitness apps, like running, workouts, paired with listening to music and/or podcasts seems to drain the battery significantly. Example: This morning at 430am - woke up, took the missus to work and once home I checked emails etc. Went for a quick 6k run while listening to a podcast - around 35 mins in total and battery drained down to below 40%.
Its never been that bad....
If it drains while charging a restart *should* fix it.
Personally I went back to iOS 16 as battery drain was too much on beta 3, I could barely get a day with my 14 pro, back on iOS 16 I’m now getting 2 days easily. Other than that I’m excited for when iOS 17 releases!
My battery life has been horrendous - seemed like some process was stuck running constantly. Updated using the IPSW file and now my phone runs cool. Thanks for the tip! Going to do your process each beta moving forward.
I'd like to say that NO one can convince me that Apple degrades battery health intentionally. I have a 13 pro max. Last year when the iOS 16 beta came out, after my battery health stayed at 99%, as soon as I installed the first beta it immediately went down to 98%. Over the next few days it went down 1% per day til it got to 90%. After release it stayed there and did not move. I installed the iOS 17 beta and my battery health went down to 89%. Same thing, 1 percent per day.
I understand it's pre-release software that's buggy but that's quite the coincidence. My last iPhone was an 11 pro max and I had it for over 2 years and when I turned it in the battery health was 97%. and yes, I did not run betas on the 11 pro max.
I understand it's pre-release software that's buggy but that's quite the coincidence. My last iPhone was an 11 pro max and I had it for over 2 years and when I turned it in the battery health was 97%. and yes, I did not run betas on the 11 pro max.