Beta is beta, next release could be a breaker or not but it feels pretty good on both devices. Also beta on my Mac Studio but did encountered some performance issues there but those seem to be resolved in 3 (different partition though).
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iOS 18 Battery Life Thread
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Why not just try it, first do a proper backup of everything and then install the beta and test it out for yourself for a while.
Ok so I’m wondering how much SOT you guys get with 15 PM - I am now on my second charge this day and I am from 80% down to 43% in 4 hrs SOT.
How was it on iOS 17?
I got my phone two weeks ago and I installed right away the beta of iOS 18, that’s why I am asking, I didn’t wanted to stay on 17.5.1 because it was such a bad experience for my last iPhone.
So yeah anyone wants to share their experience? Would be nice.
Edit: and do you use the 80% charge limit ? For myself I use it right of the first boot.
How was it on iOS 17?
I got my phone two weeks ago and I installed right away the beta of iOS 18, that’s why I am asking, I didn’t wanted to stay on 17.5.1 because it was such a bad experience for my last iPhone.
So yeah anyone wants to share their experience? Would be nice.
Edit: and do you use the 80% charge limit ? For myself I use it right of the first boot.
If you have to charge your phone more than once a night, the 80% limit seems like a waste. It's like going to the buffet and grabbing the smaller plate, but making twice as many trips to the line.
I guess. To go back to the food analogy: I would never say I was going to cook 80% of a recipe. If I only end up eating 80% then that's fine, the other 20% becomes the dog's portion.
The question becomes: would a single cycle from 100% gotten you through the day or did you need to put 1.6 cycles on your battery (80% x2)? At least, that’s how my brain works.
The question becomes: would a single cycle from 100% gotten you through the day or did you need to put 1.6 cycles on your battery (80% x2)? At least, that’s how my brain works.
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Charging past 80% isn't the "main" problem. What is the most stressful for the battery is being fully charged AND under load/stress. Like for example gaming with your phone plugged in. Or using the GPS/music in your car with the phone charging. I feel like the 80% charging limit has been designed for these kind of situations.
I believe the main metric that will affect your battery wear over time is the number of cycles. And there is little to nothing you can do about it.
I believe the main metric that will affect your battery wear over time is the number of cycles. And there is little to nothing you can do about it.
For me, the Calendar app used 53 min over 10 days. 🤷🏻♂️ Do you have a lot of shared calendars or subscriptions to constantly update?
It's not like they get to two weeks before launch and then hit the optimize battery button. It's more of squashing bugs with runaway processes, bluetooth stack issues, and wifi and cellular connectivity issues. It's a constant process and certainly does not stop at 18.0.0.
It's actually quite possible the battery life will get worse with 18.0 GM because the Apple Intelligence beta will start doing all kind of background NPU stuff that isn't being done at all now.
It's actually quite possible the battery life will get worse with 18.0 GM because the Apple Intelligence beta will start doing all kind of background NPU stuff that isn't being done at all now.
I apologize---what's the proper back up? iCloud? Or on my Macbook? I'm asking because I have restored from iCloud before but usually "phone to phone".
In my eyes proper backup is cloud or Mac - just backup everything important to you, thats what I wanted to say
I use an iCloud calendar and public holidays calendar (fed to you by Apple automatically for your country). No issues there. So it is either your Google calendar (more likely) or birthday calendar that might be draining your battery so much.