Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3

[ice29]

i hope they finally fix the mac dark waking every hour when it's on standby to do who knows what. dark wake means it wakes up but the screen stays off slowly draining the battery. (calendard, alarmd, etc with nothing set and all wake options disabled) this has been a long time problem. you wont notice it until your battery starts aging. even when you override and clear waked events, it puts them right back. when in standby, it should be on standby, meaning ram powered only!

lol, this has been going on for years and they don't care, I guess it's considered a feature of MacOS... sadly... I don't believe this will ever get fixed

 

[Mamherst]

Any sign of Mail categories in macOS or iPadOS?

 

[spazzcat]

For me, on my iPhone 14 it says that my Clicks keyboard is draining overnight. However, it's not connected during the night, so the battery page is displaying the wrong information. In which case I have no clue why the battery is draining so much, as all of the other apps listed are within relatively normal ranges.

Did you try removing the keyboard, why are you assuming battery page is wrong?

 

[icerabbit]

What about battery drain for 15 pro max?

Mine solved itself after over a week. I went through every recommended tweak and setting from at least half a dozen articles; to no avail. All the usual backgrounding, location, … My battery usage was a linear slide, even when not using my phone. Like one or two hours of actual phone use, and I would drop below 20% by evening.
Home and lock screen would consume the most. I can only think it was AI analysis of the photo and video library.

 

[matrix6028]

Is anyone also having audio issues with iPad OS? My volume is not functioning on my iPad 7.

 

[djcode24]

Does this update bring back the ability to control apple music and itunes libraries on macs and PCs? watchOS 11 removed that remote control function which I am very upset about.

 

[Parowdy]

So I just asked Siri what’s new with new HomePod OS. She asked if she can use chat GPT this. Is the response I got View attachment 2463729

Did you check that singular source?

 

[Parowdy]

18.2.1 you mean? How can this even be called an 18.X update is beyond me.

Let’s see how this comment ages.

 

[robfoll]

Its been a rumor that its part of 18.4 that wraps up April
footnote of Apple Intelligence web page

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[klowy79]

Did you look to see what is draining your battery?

For me there is a lot of "background activity". A podcast that was already downloaded chewed up 40% of the battery in one hour. Other apps, including Mail, did the same thing in the background. I reported it to Apple. Big mistake downloading it.