Defective indeed. Many of us had the same problem. It's likely the battery manufacturer shipped some defective batteries to Apple. I took mine to Geek Squad and they suspected the same thing. I decided to let them change the battery and that solved my problem. It's been two months so far and I'm still at 100%. My original battery was at 97% after 2 months.
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All iPhone 13 Models Feature Significantly Improved Battery Life, Up to 2.5 Hours Longer for iPhone 13 Pro Max
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Same, the only problem i have with my xs is the heating problem when browsing with safari.
Just another botched rollout for Timmy, another line of phones that don't work in a pandemic with COVID masks that are now mandated in many places again, including California. Putting "Designed in California" on it almost sounds like a running joke now.
Apple really can't figure out TouchID under the glass or some other way like others have?
Winning Timmy, just like Charlie.
Apple really can't figure out TouchID under the glass or some other way like others have?
Winning Timmy, just like Charlie.
Just another botched rollout for Timmy, another line of phones that don't work in a pandemic with COVID masks that are now mandated in many places again, including California. Putting "Designed in California" on it almost sounds like a running joke now.
Apple really can't figure out TouchID under the glass or some other way like others have?
Winning Timmy, just like Charlie.
You think TouchID under the glass is something they can just add in randomly and fast?
It's incremental, but lots of horsepower - new Macro camera capabilities.
Longer battery life and brighter and better all over the place.
Certainly an improvement over last year - they will sell a lot of them as per usual.
Was considering just upgrading to a discounted 12 Mini from my 7, but the battery life really makes it seem like the 13 is worth the extra money.
If you’re coming from a 7 then the 12 Mini’s battery life will probably be just fine for you.
I can't wait because my 11 Pro's battery life is atrocious. It dies in about 6 hours in my pocket doing nothing.
Here are 2 separate days of my phone dying. it was where I have WiFi this is the case at home and work?
I would just take it to work and have it sit next to my MacBook Pro all day and not touch it. I hope the 13 Pro improves things for me. Not touching your phone all day and having it dying is a daily occurrence now. I was on a plane yesterday for 7 hours in airplane mode and lost 40% of my battery.
Here are 2 separate days of my phone dying. it was where I have WiFi this is the case at home and work?
I would just take it to work and have it sit next to my MacBook Pro all day and not touch it. I hope the 13 Pro improves things for me. Not touching your phone all day and having it dying is a daily occurrence now. I was on a plane yesterday for 7 hours in airplane mode and lost 40% of my battery.
There’s always has to be that person that just HAS TO complain about something. Always
I'm the same way, I used to upgrade every year. Then every 2 years. Now I'm still using my iPhone X and while the battery life isn't great, I still feel like it's fine. Don't get me wrong, I'd love all the new goodies, but when you're looking at probably over $1K, doing frequent upgrades (especially for multiple family members), plus phone cases, Macs, iPads, Apple TVs, Home Pods, monthly iCloud charges, etc., it really starts to add up.
The biggest problem with your battery drain is that you don’t have cell coverage or it’s very weak. So it’s just burning thru the battery looking for a signalI can't wait because my 11 Pro's battery life is atrocious. It dies in about 6 hours in my pocket doing nothing.
Here are 2 separate days of my phone dying. it was where I have WiFi this is the case at home and work?
I would just take it to work and have it sit next to my MacBook Pro all day and not touch it. I hope the 13 Pro improves things for me. Not touching your phone all day and having it dying is a daily occurrence now. I was on a plane yesterday for 7 hours in airplane mode and lost 40% of my battery.
i was perfectly happy with my xs until i bought my wife the 12 mini and it got jealous. it's been a bit slow since then)
@ work on Wifi? @ home on WiFi?
I have WiFi both places and yet the phone chooses to burn through battery looking for a cell phone tower?
My town doesn't have cell phone service but at both locations, I have WiFi & WiFi calling enabled.
Note, I have WiFi Assist turned off.
But either way, I was on a plane in airplane mode and the same thing happened 40% loss in a few hours with nothing but bluetooth listening to music I have downloaded.
I was camping all weekend in an area w/o WiFi and here's how that looks (Thursday - Saturday) you can see I used over 100% of my battery having to charge every few hours despite very little usage. that's what you'd expect to see in a zero wifi, bad service area:
My point is, I'm looking forward to 2.5 more hours of battery life. that would be awesome!
for the Pro models I'm guessing ProMotion is a big contributor to the increases in battery life. The screen can actually reduce the refresh rate to match the content. most video will be running at 30Hz which would be half of the old 60Hz refresh rate of the screen.
Your battery issues might be more due to the 70% "no cell coverage". That will drain any battery quickly.I can't wait because my 11 Pro's battery life is atrocious. It dies in about 6 hours in my pocket doing nothing.
Here are 2 separate days of my phone dying. it was where I have WiFi this is the case at home and work?
I would just take it to work and have it sit next to my MacBook Pro all day and not touch it. I hope the 13 Pro improves things for me. Not touching your phone all day and having it dying is a daily occurrence now. I was on a plane yesterday for 7 hours in airplane mode and lost 40% of my battery.
Truly turn off your phone once, then turn it back on.@ work on Wifi? @ home on WiFi?
I have WiFi both places and yet the phone chooses to burn through battery looking for a cell phone tower?
My town doesn't have cell phone service but at both locations, I have WiFi & WiFi calling enabled.
Note, I have WiFi Assist turned off.
But either way, I was on a plane in airplane mode and the same thing happened 40% loss in a few hours with nothing but bluetooth listening to music I have downloaded.
I was camping all weekend in an area w/o WiFi and here's how that looks (Thursday - Saturday) you can see I used over 100% of my battery having to charge every few hours despite very little usage. that's what you'd expect to see in a zero wifi, bad service area:
My point is, I'm looking forward to 2.5 more hours of battery life. that would be awesome!
Dunno whether anyone has mentioned this yet
I do a hard restart of it every week every Monday morning just an old habit. I'm happy to start a new thread about this but I only posted here because I'm excited about the battery life increases.
Do you think and surely I'm wrong here that Apple just doesn't test their software in areas with no cell phone coverage? Like do location modeling where they write to software that if it's an area with no cell phone service based on Verizon's coverage map, it doesn't endlessly search for service and just knows "we know your location, we're not going to bother" that'd make life a lot easier.
But I have WiFi at home and work, Cisco @ work, Ubiquiti at home with 8 access points and have WiFi assist turned off yet my phone is constantly telling me the culprit is no cell coverage.
Yes. The cellular radio is still on and searching for service.
I'm curious what the file size per minute will be for this new format, I'm betting that's what the new 1TB option will be good for.
Also I wander if that is a "Protecting the user" so they don't use too much storage, or if the 128GB option is a slower SSD?
I'm not a fan of this behavior. Apple should let us manage our own storage space. I have 2TB cloud storage. I should be able to leverage that for the 4K Oscar winning movies I'll be making.
Seems like a flaw, no? If I'm home with WiFi that works perfectly and WiFi calling, my phone doesn't need to care about where a cell tower is.
My point still above was that this happens even when I'm traveling. I'll keep the phone in pocket all day at a conference, nothing is running and get home to a dead phone. Let me find a screen shot.;