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Apple Releases iOS 15.4.1 With Fix for Battery Drain Issue
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Hopefully this improves my Air4's battery. Seems to drain faster than it should. Also, not sure what effect my Apple Pencil 2 is having here.
I guess I'm in the minority, honestly 15.4 seemed to improve my battery. I kinda of fear updating because it's been so good personally. ??♂️?
Same here, I don't have any battery drain issues with my 13 Pro Max.
My Apple TV and iOS devices have been somewhat chatty on the network since 15.4 when not being used. Here's a graph of what it looks like. It would make sense that this chattiness, on a portable device, would waste battery, so maybe this update will stop that chattiness and that's the battery drain they're talking about.
It makes a lot of sense to allow people to install OS updates over cellular.
There are an increasing proportion of people who don't have any sort of home Internet, and rely entirely on their phone's cellular connection. They may not have access to WiFi often enough to update their devices and stay secure. Allowing updates over cellular is useful for such people.
There's no reason to disallow it as long as the OS is clear about the size of the update and that will use your data plan.
And by updating to this version, will I still receive the next beta? Or do I lose beta privilege by updating?
You can't install it without deleting the beta profile first and once you do that you will not receive betas unless you reinstall it. Just wait for the next beta, this does not seem to be that big of a deal. My battery is better than ever.
Yes I (we all) know.. and my thought is that this is a great thing ofc..
I work in a goverment where Wi-Fi-networks is strictly not allowed. We have been relying on 4G mobile broadband-routers (that does not have access to our internal network) for employees to update their phones and then stay secure.. and lets say it's been a struggle... so this will make our update pace significally faster for our iPhones.
I'm curious why you're still using this feature? It's been deprecated, and iCloud Photos is superior in pretty much every way.
I remember Photostream being crap even when it came out, then Apple finally did iCloud Photos which "made it right".
yes because it was a real issue , most battery drain complaints are old phone and/or you are on your phone way to much
I was having more heating problems than the battery on the iPhone X with 15.4. This problem existed in 15.3.1, it continued with 15.4. I updated to 15.4.1 and hopefully, the overheating issue will be fixed. I don't know if I'm using a heater or a phone.
Thanks mate. And that's really weird. Wondering why apple have done it this way. We're supposed to be the Guinea pigs lol
It's not a beta and the patch wasn't pushed through the beta program. The version of 15.4 you have now was pushed through the beta program even though it was a final release. This is why we got it a few days earlier than the public. It's been a while since the last beta, so that has to be any day now and it will include this 15.4.1 code. Usually, something like this 15.4.1 would have been in a beta of ours weeks before the release. This is just an anomaly.