I am absolutely grateful to you! You are sharing the screenshots and trying to help. I was upset with Apple because with this it seems like they keep regressing, not with you. You’ve been nothing but absolutely helpful and I’m grateful!
But wait… the segment is super unclear then. That screen-on time number is since last full charge, and not since 00:00? That’s not what I’ve seen.
The problem with SOT for the day is that I don’t unplug at 00:00. I might use the phone plugged in, which destroys the number (the SOT number increases snd the percentage consumed stays the same, which is misleading). I might start at 100%, in which case 1% from 100-99% lasts about eight times longer than other percentage, or not. I might charge it and use it while charging many times throughout the day, which would make the number irrelevant.
What I don’t understand is what this new system is trying to achieve. I want to know SOT since last full charge, how is that not the only relevant aspect?
This is showing SOT in a 24-hour day (from 00:00 to 23:59), and battery used in that period, if I interpret it correctly. How is that helpful? I might charge in the middle, I might not charge at all and just use a cycle throughout several days, charge multiple times a day, or any other combination. I can’t know what my battery life is like with that.
Let me show the screenshot that
@goldmac2006 shared, it will help explain this:
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This shows that they used 92% from 00:00 to 16:23. This cannot show SOT since the phone was unplugged, as it was unplugged at 13:00, about 3.5 hours before the screenshot was taken. Therefore, it has to show SOT since 00:00, it’s the only indication I have. It does show that, right?
@goldmac2006
Therefore… from that screenshot, how do you know battery life since last full charge?
You see why I call Apple’s new method garbage?
Apple’s system back on iOS 6 through 11(!!!!!!) was infinitely better, with one massive drawback
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This is a screenshot of an iPhone 6s (Plus) running iOS 9. It shows usage time since last full charge. Perfect, right? Well… no. This stored all usage in the same bag. On-screen usage, off-screen usage with practically no power draw, background tasks, and system usage. Result? Heavy music listeners would have insanely high “usage times” that, if they didn’t clarify that “I was listening to music for 10 hours”, would be misinterpreted as “how do you have 15 hours of usage and still have 70% remaining?”.
iOS 12 added SOT, but we go back to the problem: it shows SOT of the last 24 hours and not since full charge, which meant that you have to add bars individually, hour by hour, and you have to write the time down if you have a cycle that’s longer than one day, but you can do it.
What can you do with this? What is this showing?
