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iOS 18 Battery Life Thread
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Aww and thats again..looks like its a bug. It can't be indexing so many times i think 😳
Yeah I know, but we are pretty much at the end of betas, let’s hope for a fix in the beta today/tomorrow
But this is the beta that never ends. It goes on and on, my friends. Some people started testing, not knowing how it goes. And they'll continue testing forever just because... this is the beta that never ends...
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Battery life is abysmal on PB6 on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Didn’t do much at all but it was hot and drained like crazy
Not too bad at all. Should settle down after a day or so. Interesting I haven’t had the pop up message in battery settings saying the device is finishing the update in background.
I wonder how much battery background activities such as updating Airpods, watches and so on consume and if its listed in the battery stats?
When moving from a major OS version that's usually one many things that do happen.
When moving from a major OS version that's usually one many things that do happen.
I like this message where they do state that background activities is happening and it might impact battery life, could prob be even more clear about that it might affect battery life.
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Scary pop here we go again 😀
No im never had such a message on my old grab 😀
Definitely, its not like its only applicable to new devices.
One of my test devices is a base iPhone 15 on 18.0b8 that I hardly use (only 40 cycles!). This morning went from 100% to 82% in two hours. I did backup 100 photos over Wi-Fi to iCloud, but the phone was idle for the rest of the morning. Might be a one off, but that is worse than the previous betas faired.
13 PM still a good device 😁
Since this message popped up again it’s been heating up 🙈🤣
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Resolve - this beta didn't solve your problem
Next step wait RC
Yeah, it will definitely offer peace of mind to many of us. I hope this isn’t an iPhone 15 (and onwards) exclusive feature.
The battery health indicator is smoke and mirrors. Every full charge cycle your battery dies / degrades a bit, that‘s how these batteries are made to function (they are degrading, organic material).
Your battery health was not at 100% for months on end, it started degrading right away. What you‘re seeing now is that the Beta builds / updates calibrate your battery health indicator more aggressively, so it can go down or up at times (there is no 100% way of detecting battery capacity, it‘s purely an estimate).
Apple should just get rid of the percentage altogether and replace it with a plain text indicator ("All good") because it‘s perfectly normal to have 90% after a year of use (and 80% after 2).
If you want your battery to last long, don‘t use your phone (or never charge it past 80%, make sure to never use it in sunlight so it doesn‘t heat up since heat is the deathbringer of all batteries).
That being said: battery life is pretty good on B8 compared to B7 (that was a dumpster fire).
It wasn’t on 100% for months on end, just two months lol. I know batteries degrade from the first use and it’s not linear. All these constant iOS 18 beta updates are calibrating the BH like you say, and quite aggressively.
Interestingly I had been using the 80% limit for the first few months with only the occasional charge to 100%. Since the battery dropped anyway I’m not babying it or too fussed about how I charge it now, 90-95% limit active.