Hi! This is my second day, I've reviewed the applications and none of them have strange behavior yet... I'm going to wait then, Thank you!
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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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Wired. Thats the joke.
Hi! This is my second day, I've reviewed the applications and none of them have strange behavior yet... I'm going to wait then, Thank you!
There you go. Up to the first 3-4 days, the device is indexing, etc, which takes up power, meaning device drains battery faster. We see this all the time. After that period, should see it settling down.
My two cents after the first couple of weeks…battery seems fine generally for a beta. My only issue has been when doing some “consistent” working like spending an hour creating a playlist in music.
Normally this would be no big deal for me…tapping through songs, adding to a playlist, starting another song, adding to a playlist.
Phone gets warm and “slow” to the point that even plugged in it will not charge ahead of the drain rate. And then maxes out at 80% since it says it is too hot to keep charging.
No major drain for me though outside of that very specific usage.
Normally this would be no big deal for me…tapping through songs, adding to a playlist, starting another song, adding to a playlist.
Phone gets warm and “slow” to the point that even plugged in it will not charge ahead of the drain rate. And then maxes out at 80% since it says it is too hot to keep charging.
No major drain for me though outside of that very specific usage.
This is the fourth day with the iOS 17 beta and battery performance is my only problem. It is not associated with any application apparently, I do not see strange consumption. The battery lasts 60-70% of what it used to last. Let's see what happens with beta 2, (I hope it's next week?)
Just wanted to chime in that the extreme drops in battery health for the iPhone 14 series doesn’t seem to be exclusive to iOS 17. There’s discussions on the Apple support site and all over Twitter with users seeing large and sudden drops in their battery health on iOS 16 as well as iOS 17.
My battery health was 97% in May and then plummeted to 91% over a two week period which prompted me to get it replaced. It’s unclear whether newer iOS versions are misreading the battery health or if something is actually frying these batteries.
My battery health was 97% in May and then plummeted to 91% over a two week period which prompted me to get it replaced. It’s unclear whether newer iOS versions are misreading the battery health or if something is actually frying these batteries.
Same happened to me, dropped to 99% upon installing the beta. Then a few days later I did a hard reboot and it dropped to 98%. 😔
Couple of weeks? It has not even been out for 2 weeks
10 days is well into week 2…so…
Your iPhone was never at 100% nowadays to begin with. Batteries degrade with every charging cycle, it‘s a normal progress. The battery health percentage is flawed as heck cause it only calibrates during rare key events like after certain iOS upgrades or unexpected shutdowns.
Having a 10% drop in the first year is very normal with normal to heavy use. Rule of thumb is: if your iPhone is hot to touch, say goodbye to your battery health (as that‘s what exponentially increases degradation).
And yes, your iPhone probably also isn‘t at 99%. The percentage introduction was one of Apples biggest mistakes. They should‘ve opted for a more generic visual indicator like macOS had („good health“ etc).
iOS 17 beta 2 🪫🪫🪫
My phone is on fire. Hah!
But maybe that’s just from the update?? I mean…the phone working to update…
No burn, no bugs, but very VERY poor battery performance on my 13PM