It seems turning off BB Code solves most of the problems. I just turn it on when needed (attaching a pic etc.) and then turn off again.
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MacRumors buggy on iOS for anyone else?
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I thought I was getting crazy last night when my 12 mini suddenly started getting extremely hot while browsing the forum, and lost 10% battery in the space of 10 minutes. As soon as I changed website, the phone stopped getting so hot and the battery drained stopped.
Hey, it actually worked with the double “return” press! Hopefully those other issues are fixed as well. Thanks!
Editor issues u fortunately are outside of our ability to fix. Questions about excess battery usage we are looking into.
Can you send me screenshots of your settings -> battery stats showing that
Sure, not sure how much it’ll help, here you go.
As you can see the time i posted my post yesterday, it happened around 8pm yesterday, 2 post and i lost around 9% battery.
Mainly on this forum yesterday, battery life wasn’t great, here is my usage for my iPad Pro 12.9” 5th gen for yesterday.
Thanks for replying and looking into these issues.
Another update for you, haven’t been browsing these forums on my iPad today and I’ve gotten a extra 56m usage, yesterday at 70% battery i had 2h usage, today at 70%, 2h56m Usage.
You can also see the 24h battery level graph, left side of the battery level graph was going down a lot quicker yesterday when I was on the forums most of the day, today on the right battery level is going down a lot more slowly.
Hope it helps.
I remember when we were talking about this same issue last summer:
Automatic capital letters when starting new line in thread.
If you toggle the BB code off (using the gear icon in the post), the new paragraph auto cap works every time, so it's something to do with the code.
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Good find. I couldn't remember the name of the forum member who gave me the tip back then. I see it was you.I remember when we were talking about this same issue last summer:
Automatic capital letters when starting new line in thread.
If you toggle the BB code off (using the gear icon in the post), the new paragraph auto cap works every time, so it's something to do with the code.
Oh, ha, well I didn’t remember that part but I did remember what a weird problem it was until we figured it out.Good find. I couldn't remember the name of the forum member who gave me the tip back then. I see it was you.
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It's the forum software that MR uses.
There's a thread here about battery drain
MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
Has anyone else noticed their battery draining rather quickly when browsing MacRumors on their iPad (possibly iPhone and/or Mac too)? I got the new iPad Pro and thought it was odd that my battery was draining quicker than usual. It wasn't until I came across this thread that I realized maybe it...
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Now that you point it out, I do notice excessive battery particular when commenting on MacRumors vs commenting on Reddit.
My battery is dropping fast (although it’s because my iPhone 7 battery needs to be serviced), but I can see it draining more with MR than Reddit
Strange how it's only happening on iOS/iPadOS devices and not macOS, hopefully the support staff is onto it.
Well, this thread got me wondering what might be going on when visiting MR. As it happens, I run an automotive-related forum (for the past 20 years) that also uses Xenforo. I decided to look at CPU usage difference from when I'm browsing my own XenForo forum vs MR. As you can see from the attached screen shots (first has Safari highlighted while only having my own forum. The second shows Safari while only browsing MR. There is a huge difference in CPU % while browsing MR. I don't know what all MR has installed as plug-ins (Add-ons) but it could be that some of those, and/or all the advertising with trackers they have that could be causing us use more CPU to process while on this site.
Safari with my XenForo site running is highlighted - 1.2% CPU usage.
Safari while browsing only MR - 36.6% CPU usage.
This is certainly interesting.
Again, I do wish MR used the likes of TapaTalk, or something similar...
Again, I do wish MR used the likes of TapaTalk, or something similar...