I used the iPhone a bit last night and the charge this morning was at 100%, so this is the best battery life since iOS 12. Performance is really great. I have not had any problems that haven't been already resolved. I may stay on 13.6 and wait several months to upgrade to 14 as I love a stable OS.
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All Devices iOS 13.6 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Battery life has been great for me as well, I’m able to leave the my 8 off the charger and not worry about it being dead in the morning. The biggest thing I noticed was that apps that were abusing background no longer do that (notably ShopSavvy with hours of background usage while suspended and BAR completely off).
On another note, I also signed out of iCloud and signed in because of weird issues I was having after 13.6 initially. I had the famous “iMessages in iCloud are not synced” so I wanted to get to the bottom of it. After some tinkering with toggling it on/off and waiting for the sync to finish I think that may have helped also so make sure all your iCloud stuff is in order.
On another note, I also signed out of iCloud and signed in because of weird issues I was having after 13.6 initially. I had the famous “iMessages in iCloud are not synced” so I wanted to get to the bottom of it. After some tinkering with toggling it on/off and waiting for the sync to finish I think that may have helped also so make sure all your iCloud stuff is in order.
With work from home and not going out much I'm getting 2-3 days between having to charge now on my 11 Pro max. It's insanely good. I really hope iOS 14 doesn't ruin this and start using more battery!
By the way it's been a while since I've signed out of iCloud and back in. Does iCloud Photo Library still spend hours and hours resynchronizing when you do that? The last time it took over 24 hours for it to finish resynchronizing and newly taken photos wouldn't appear on my Mac so I had to transfer them manually until it finished. It was a huge pain, and ever since then I'm wary about signing out of iCloud.
On my iPhone 8 with normal Wi-Fi it doesn’t take long at all; if anything, messages may take longer to sync. I am scarred to sign out again myself lol but I may just to make sure the iMessage issue was fixed.
I’d say go for it...
I'm running 13.6 on my XS, no complains here. Runs great and battery life is good too.
I charged my phone yesterday evening. Brought it with me to sleep, went to the track to do three miles while listening to music, synced my Garmin to the phone and then checked the battery. 100%. This is the best battery performance I've seen since iOS 12.
Do you missed multi touch gesture which not available on ios 13 onward? my 6s is still on 12, but i am considering upgrade to 13 for future compatibility.
Which gestures you mean?
I have an iPhone 6S on 13.6, it works great, performance is great, the only concern is battery life, after replacing the battery it still feels a bit shorter than iOS 12.
Edit: On the YouTube channel “iAppleBytes” you can find performance/battery benchmarks of most iOS versions/ iPhone models.
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I’ve been on this release for awhile now, lately I’ve been getting a lot of resprings mostly after taking a picture in high light outside.
I've been experiencing some app crashes and even some resprings once in while as well (with iPhone 7). It's not something that happens often or anything like that, but certainly more than previous releases (where I would rarely have an app crash, let alone see an actual respring).
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Strange, this has been the most stable release of iOS 13 since release for me. I’m having great battery life and no crashes or resprings. Running on an iPhone 11 Pro, iPad Pro 11 and iPad mini 5
Yes. I have two iPhone 6s’s (and several newer iPhones as well). Upgrading them to iOS 13 has killed their battery life. I had their batteries replaced at the Apple store and it honestly didn’t really make any difference.
Sometimes about iOS 13 just blows through the battery on these phones if you use the cpu/gpu at all.
Your guess is pretty much as good as anyone else's: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-13-speculation-thread-merged.2173921/
Is there a known issue with iOS 13.6 device screens randomly turning on for no reason? I have an iPad Mini and an iPhone 11 Pro and both have an issue where the screen will just randomly turn on by itself with no notifications visible or anything. My iPad went from 72% battery at bed last night to 48% when I woke up this morning. Super frustrating.
I'm not seeing any issues with my screens on iOS 13.6 on both my iPhone XS, iPhone SE 2016 and my 2020 iPad Pro 11"
I do see that some apps (mainly FaceBook) are reloading more frequently, compared to 13.5.1.
What does your battery usage look like? I guess something is running in the background?
I have an iPad Mini 5 and iPhone 7+ on 13.6 - I have not seen this problem. It comes on but there's always something on the login screen to read. Is it possible that you have an App that isn't doing notifications correctly?
I hate having to cleanup settings after an update. I still haven't applied 13.6.1 - I don't see a need to do so right now.