Also I have to say, battery life is TERRIBLE on day 1 of beta 3
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iOS 17 Beta 3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Mine has also gone down 5 points. It was 100% since October, then dropped upon b1 install, and has been gradually dropping. It’s 95% now.
It will always be terrible the day of installing a new OS
I understand, it's not my first rodeo. But comparatively, worst battery drain I've had on day one of a beta.
Upon further review though, it says "no cell coverage" has used up 11% of my battery. So I guess that explains it.
I thought I read in the b2 thread that people were having issues with 5G but maybe it was just a one off?!
They took the keyboard bug from safari and put it into iMessage
If anyone’s having issues with Instagram heating up their phone after a few minutes, like really hot, it’s not fixed in this beta.
I have this same problem. When I installed first beta I had 88%, now I have 84%… this is weird. On my Apple Watch battery lose 2% in this same time.
Battery is very hot.
Off-the-cuff guess: iOS 17 might have an updated method/algorithm for determining battery health that might be more conservative than whatever was used in iOS 16 and earlier versions.
As for why there are large variations right after installing a new beta — is anyone checking battery health periodically while running a given beta, or only immediately after installing the latest one? Large step changes (2+ percent all at once) seem unlikely if a device is operating normally — what might be happening is that the health percentage has been decreasing steadily (and unnoticed) over a number of battery cycles as it is recalculated during operation, but the change is being noticed only after upgrading to the next beta.
Alternatively, newer betas may themselves use different algorithms than previous betas, and are simply updating the displayed battery health — which hasn't actually changed from a physical battery capacity standpoint — using the newer algorithm.
As for why there are large variations right after installing a new beta — is anyone checking battery health periodically while running a given beta, or only immediately after installing the latest one? Large step changes (2+ percent all at once) seem unlikely if a device is operating normally — what might be happening is that the health percentage has been decreasing steadily (and unnoticed) over a number of battery cycles as it is recalculated during operation, but the change is being noticed only after upgrading to the next beta.
Alternatively, newer betas may themselves use different algorithms than previous betas, and are simply updating the displayed battery health — which hasn't actually changed from a physical battery capacity standpoint — using the newer algorithm.
Finally jumped on the beta train with my 14 PN and installed beta 3 OTA. So far so good. Battery drain doesn’t seem unusual, the heat went away after 20 minutes of indexing and I’m not seeing any bugs as of yet. YMMV but I’m satisfied with this performance so far, other than the default iOS 17 wallpaper not showing up.
Edit: my current lockscreens are no longer working. They show up correctly but once activated they all just show a black screen. Odd.
Edit: my current lockscreens are no longer working. They show up correctly but once activated they all just show a black screen. Odd.
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I figured it out, turn off live voicemail
Make sure to report this via the feedback app.
B2 had that issue, solution was to change your region and back, you can try it out:
send-from addresses. I have my own domain and use many versions of <name>@mydomain.com
This is the beta 3 thread, not the beta 2 thread. Where have you been?
Think they’re talking about the bug where crossfade didn’t work correctly…not the bug within the crossfade settings.
definitely new for me - didn't get the hint poping up in the older betas ... and I like the "flow animation"
100%>99% takes ages then it seems to go quicker
Saying that my 12 Mini has been suspiciously stuck on 81% for almost a year now which makes no sense - Apple trying to avoid free replacements?
No issues here on AT&T now or on prior versions.