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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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Battery life on 17.5 RC is excellent on 12 Pro, better than on 17.4.1.
Hope this lasts on the final release...
Hope this lasts on the final release...
I am having excellent battery life with the public release of iOS 17.5. With 17.4.1 and all prior releases on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, battery was at 20% (or even less than that) by 7:00 pm. Now I am ending my day at 10:00 pm with around 40% (same use).
No bad reports from my testusers so far (around 100, iPhone 11, 13, 14 SE2, SE3) so will prob push this to all users during the weekend.
I have tried it on a few personal devices, iPad Pro 10.5, Iphone 13p and there seem to be a slight improvement in battery. Still a but to early to tell since I haven't been using it as I normaly do, but today will be a good run as I am traveling to work, lots of different WiFi networks and lots of spotify and meetings using Airpods.
I have tried it on a few personal devices, iPad Pro 10.5, Iphone 13p and there seem to be a slight improvement in battery. Still a but to early to tell since I haven't been using it as I normaly do, but today will be a good run as I am traveling to work, lots of different WiFi networks and lots of spotify and meetings using Airpods.
That's because when you take photos and videos the gps chip in your device is activated to add geotag data to your photos and videos.
Not just that. All the individual pixels are analyzed in realtime for post-processing, shots taken at different exposures for HDR and a dozen things going on in the background. That’s why you often see other apps being reloaded if you had the camera app open for even a few seconds (more prominent in pre-12 models).
Anyone with an A15 SoC and 4BG of RAM to report about battery life on 17.5 on their device? Thank you
I have a handful at work (13 and SE3) and 50+ iphone 14 that are in a testgroup trying iOS 17.5 untill I push it out to all users.
No reports from any of them so far. Its mixed usage on them, some only have company apps and some use them more or less are private devices with all sorts of crap on them.
Have a few friends that use 13 and they no complaints from them.
Most are coming from iOS 17.4.1, same as me (13P). If there would be a significant drop in battery time I would have heard it by now. But no one has commented that it has improved either. Maybe its to early to tell.
Most talk has been about the deleted photos bug.
Thank you pal. The 13 Pro has 6GB of RAM but let’s hope those of us with just 4GB are fine as well.
Any screenshots? Especially on older devices. You know, MacRumors had a cool tradition of creating battery threads for the latest iPhones every year. That tradition went from the iPhone 5s to the iPhone 7. It provided a cool baseline for each device: a mix of users with lighter and heavier usage. That allowed, like I said, a baseline: the original iOS version is the best battery life a device is ever going to get. You could see as time went by how major updates impacted them.
It was also interesting to see the difference between the models: you discovered that way that, just like Apple claimed, the iPhone 6s’ battery life was just as good as the iPhone 6, in spite of the mAh difference (1,810 vs 1,715 respectively if I’m not mistaken).
After the iPhone 8 and X were released, people pretty much never posted those threads again. I tried posting one as soon as the iPhone 11 launched (I wanted to see if, like I thought, the iPhone 11 had a similar battery life than that of my Xʀ on iOS 12), but it got exactly zero replies.
Without screenshots, saying “it’s fine” doesn’t mean much to me really. Sadly MacRumors stopped with that tradition, it would’ve been interesting, especially after the iPhone Xʀ on iOS 12, the iPhone 11 Pro Max on iOS 13 and the 13 Pro Max on iOS 15 really improved battery life.
It was also interesting to see the difference between the models: you discovered that way that, just like Apple claimed, the iPhone 6s’ battery life was just as good as the iPhone 6, in spite of the mAh difference (1,810 vs 1,715 respectively if I’m not mistaken).
After the iPhone 8 and X were released, people pretty much never posted those threads again. I tried posting one as soon as the iPhone 11 launched (I wanted to see if, like I thought, the iPhone 11 had a similar battery life than that of my Xʀ on iOS 12), but it got exactly zero replies.
Without screenshots, saying “it’s fine” doesn’t mean much to me really. Sadly MacRumors stopped with that tradition, it would’ve been interesting, especially after the iPhone Xʀ on iOS 12, the iPhone 11 Pro Max on iOS 13 and the 13 Pro Max on iOS 15 really improved battery life.
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I’m sorry to set you as an example, but this comment is a good one.
“I’ve tried it on a 10.5-inch iPad Pro and an iPhone 13 Pro and (that iOS version) seems to have a small improvement in terms of battery life”. How much? How much screen-on time do you get on those two devices? Improvement relative to what?
If iOS 17.4.1 got, say, an absolutely abhorrent 5 hours of SOT, and iOS 17.5 gets 5h 10 minutes... it’s still abhorrent to those who are running older iOS versions.
This is my gripe with the general public’s reports, that they’re never specific enough, and they end up misleading people.
Compare that with something like this: “On my 9.7-inch iPad Pro, I got around 14 hours of SOT (+- one hour, since all battery cycles may have some variation) back on iOS 9. After Apple forced it out of iOS 9 into iOS 12 back in 2019, battery life dropped to about 10-11 hours, or a 25% drop. I never updated it again, and battery life remains steady almost 8 years after purchase. I’m a light user with efficient settings and my use case is content consumption, though not as light as iBooks”.
If somebody was considering updating from iOS 9 to iOS 12, they’d have a specific idea of what to expect. Light use? Scraping 10 hours, maybe a little more. Moderate use? It won’t get to 10 hours, maybe 8.
The only time I have to charge my 15 Pro through the day is if I am taking lots of photos, which I do regularly.
I don’t think it should be but the camera is the biggest drain, I guess that there’s lots going on while taking photos with the SoC doing all the computational stuff for post processing in milliseconds.
Other than that gripe the battery is the best on iOS 17.5 vs all previous versions.
Camera use has always been heavy sadly, even on original iOS versions. Every iPhone will struggle with heavy camera use (especially if you are outdoor and henceforth need high brightness). There’s no solution for this, unfortunately.
Although the ever persistent bugs remain, I have to say 17.5 has been running pretty good. Battery life seems dare I say improved slightly.
The only solution would be to take less photos…. I love taking photos and that’s not happening with such a great camera system in my pocket lol
I tend to switch of the geotagging if I'm in one place and taking lots of pictures, it makes a significant difference.
The battery life on my 15PM is so good that I have turned off the battery percentage.
How can you get that battery life? My 15 Pro does 5h SOT in its good days and about 3h SOT in its average days