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thetechguy98

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Oct 13, 2021
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Hi,

Does anyone else also experience between 5-7% battery drain overnight? I also tried to disable the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and also activate the low power mode and I still lost 4% overnight.
 

coso

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Feb 9, 2012
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I didn't try to activate Airplane mode overnight. What happens if you let the Wi-Fi turned ON?
Problem is I don't have wifi at home (GF wants it off...). If I leave LTE on I'll lose a little more, maybe 5/6%. LTE really chewed battery
 

Wizec

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Jun 30, 2019
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More like 20% drain in just 5hr doing nothing but sitting on my night stand:
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RRC

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Nov 3, 2020
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Problem is I don't have wifi at home (GF wants it off...). If I leave LTE on I'll lose a little more, maybe 5/6%. LTE really chewed battery

Why would she want it off?!
 

Wizec

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For some reason my battery held very steady last night.

I did install a new WiFi 6 router, the Netgear RAX70. I wonder if that had any effect. I guess time will tell, if that’s the only thing that changed, maybe there really is something to WiFi 6 helping with mobile battery life.
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thetechguy98

macrumors member
Original poster
Oct 13, 2021
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The Netherlands
For some reason my battery held very steady last night.

I did install a new WiFi 6 router, the Netgear RAX70. I wonder if that had any effect. I guess time will tell, if that’s the only thing that changed, maybe there really is something to WiFi 6 helping with mobile battery life. View attachment 1868359
That’s great to hear. How does the RAX70 acting until now? What do you think about it? Is it worth it?
 

SoYoung

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Jul 3, 2015
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My 13 pro max also drop between 4-7% in standby mode for around 9 hours. It’s the same as my old XS Max. Little disappointing considering the battery is much bigger on this phone so it shouldn’t drain that much.
 
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now i see it

macrumors G4
Jan 2, 2002
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If the lithium ion battery was removed from the iPhone, it wouldn’t significantly discharge in over a year.
When the iPhone is turned OFF, it’s not really off. It’s still doing things. The clock is still running and only Apple knows what else.
 

Wizec

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That’s great to hear. How does the RAX70 acting until now? What do you think about it? Is it worth it?
So far it has been great. I'm replacing a 4 node Orbi RBK53 mesh system with it, and the coverage is actually better, which is very surprising.
 

SoYoung

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Jul 3, 2015
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Wow, today it was even more bad than my old XS Max. 100% charge and 10 hours later it was at 90% doing absolutely nothing and there's no activity on the battery settings to explain this. I'm starting to hate my new phone now.
 

baking soda

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Oct 29, 2020
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Italy
I usually switch to Airplane mode (+WiFi and BT) when I'm home and not expecting calls. This saves a lot of battery and overnight drain was minimal. I have to leave the antenna on (mobile data OFF) nowadays because there seems to be a bug with Find My where if you have airplane mode toggled, the background usage of Find my stays at 100% constantly and kills the battery. (iPhone 13 Mini but possibly any device that is paired with AirTags)
 

Wizec

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Jun 30, 2019
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So far it has been great. I'm replacing a 4 node Orbi RBK53 mesh system with it, and the coverage is actually better, which is very surprising.
Follow up after a couple of days.

Constant issues with our Apple TV’s, returning the RAX70 ?
 

now i see it

macrumors G4
Jan 2, 2002
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Uhhh, last night I completely turned off the phone (unplugged) before bed and took a screenshot of the battery % SOC before it shut off.
This morning I booted up the phone and the battery % was 3% HIGHER than what it was when it shut down the previous night.

This leads to only one conclusion:

THE BATTERY INDICATOR IS NOT ACCURATE
 

Taz Mangus

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Mar 10, 2011
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Uhhh, last night I completely turned off the phone (unplugged) before bed and took a screenshot of the battery % SOC before it shut off.
This morning I booted up the phone and the battery % was 3% HIGHER than what it was when it shut down the previous night.

This leads to only one conclusion:

THE BATTERY INDICATOR IS NOT ACCURATE
Take a look at your iPhone battery percentage using Coconut Battery app on your computer. You can see that Apple is over reporting the battery percentage as much as 5% and it drops <1%. Hopefully, Apple will this in a iOS 15 point release. Just need as many as possible to report the issue.
 
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