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Because it obviously won't be like this in the official release. What Apple showed yesterday is probably beta 3 or something. It had the News app.
Only Apple knows how many diagnostic and logging tools are running incessantly in the background. Plus, background app refresh seems completely broken so all your (our) apps are refreshing in the background, making the phone hot and usage time seem very close or identical to standby. Essentially, the phone rarely goes into standby with this beta.
I, for one, am downgrading to 8.4b4. I will lose access to my Notes, which I upgraded, but at least I'll be able to access them from El Capitan. Which, mind you, is a fantastic beta 1. iOS...not so much.
They will have had internal builds go through thorough testing to gather those preliminary numbers on.
Developer betas are explicitly designed with development devices in mind which spend most of their time teatherd to a Mac, battery life for these builds is a non-issue.
Turning off LTE or mobile data has reportedly fixed/helped stop the draining. I'm on 8.3 right now so I'm unable to check
Wow, so disabling perhaps the most vital hardware feature of a smartphone will enhance the battery, who would have thought?!!
Well it points to the fact that mobile data is draining more battery / using more power than it should.
Development devices won't use cellular data anyway (except for testing).
You should not install this on daily drivers.
Lol tell that to 90% of macrumors users who are using it as a daily driver
My battery life has been crappy on my 6 Plus as well. I know its the first beta, and I'm always near a charger so its not big deal. I have my iPhone plugged in to a 10w iPad charger and it has taken about 40 minutes to go from 49% to 61%. I also just had it plugged in to my computer and was restoring my data (its still indexing I'm sure) and it was actually loosing charge while it was syncing. I plugged it in, it was at 60% or so and it finished at 49%.
Weird part is, on my iPad (Air 2) I just upgraded from 8.4 B3 to 9.0B1 (I know, big no-no) but its been just fine. Battery life is about the same and there is no performance degrade. My 6 Plus does seem a bit more sluggish, but not much more then the iOS 8.0 betas were on my iPad mini 2.
Luckily, when I went out for my walk this morning, it didn't use any more data then normal so I hope don't get that bug. I'm on a family share plan and that's not gonna be pretty. *Knocks on wood*
Weird part is, on my iPad (Air 2) I just upgraded from 8.4 B3 to 9.0B1 (I know, big no-no) but its been just fine. Battery life is about the same and there is no performance degrade. My 6 Plus does seem a bit more sluggish, but not much more then the iOS 8.0 betas were on my iPad mini 2.
Luckily, when I went out for my walk this morning, it didn't use any more data then normal so I hope don't get that bug. I'm on a family share plan and that's not gonna be pretty. *Knocks on wood*
I did an upgrade first; battery life hammered, so cleared it out and did a DFU. Have had one day of good battery life yesterday, and today it's gone bonkers again and has lost 30% in about 90 minutes of light use. Will persevere but hope Apple release v2 in under two weeks as per...
I just received an answer from the bug report I filled in yesterday about battery drain overnight, asking me to provide "battery logs, please". So I've installed a mobileprofile to log it!
what scares me is that they didn't close the report as duplicate or already known, just asked me for more information; maybe this drain was not expected? maybe it's not because of their logging mechanisms... and that worries me
what scares me is that they didn't close the report as duplicate or already known, just asked me for more information; maybe this drain was not expected? maybe it's not because of their logging mechanisms... and that worries me
Battery Life is really bad on my iPhone 6+ - I have to keep on the charger all day..
However, what is weird is my iPad battery is fine and doesn't seem any different than normal..
However, what is weird is my iPad battery is fine and doesn't seem any different than normal..
I had bad battery life myself. Tried to do a DFU restore and couldn't get it to get to DFU mode. Finally got it to it and installed iOS 9 but would not let me restore an iOS 9 iCloud backup. Finally got it on iOS 8.4 beta 4 and reinstalled a two day old back up. I'll wait until beta 2 comes out.
How is the battery on 8.4 beta 4? Any improvement over 8.3? I'm going to downgrade anytime soon, but I don't want to have the same battery drain again.
i get about 6 to 7 hours out of my iPhone 6 on iOS 8.4b4. Depends on what i do with it, like Spotify and Snapchat drains a lot but thats not really a fault of the OS
WHOA. iOS 8.4 beta 3 reliably gets me through the day if I don't use the phone, with 80-85% charge left on my 6 Plus. Not so with 9 beta 1 - the way it's draining my battery it may very well die today. I am conducting an experiment, to see if the phone does indeed die before I return home...
No issues on iPad Air 2, however I noticed in the new Search it continually update news items from my favourite sites in the background. Surely this has got to be the main culprit for so much data being reported used as well as battery drain?
I seems to be mobile data / a cellular connection being the culprit. I'm reading on the dev forums that disabling mobile data has stopped the drain.