Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 9.3 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[chucker23n1]

I read that article and while I understand what he is saying I can't believe it causes more then a 1-5% increase in battery usage.

So don't turn on Low Power Mode.

And I'm sorry comparing fetching of twitter posts every 2 seconds

That doesn't happen. While in the foreground, modern Twitter clients use a persistent connection to stream posts. While in the background, updates are infrequent.

to changing the hue of the screen is a terrible comparison....one requires reaching out over your cell or wifi network every 2 seconds while the other should be a relatively simple on device change...

What it comes down to is the question of who's more qualified to judge what's appropriate for Low Power Mode: Sir/Madam Random MacRumors Poster, or Apple Inc.?

 

[John Mcgregor]

Hmm. I wonder if the fact that my phone was low on storage might have been the cause.

I have a lot more free space now than I did before the reset sync. Did you have plenty of free space before updating?

~15 GB on a 64 GB iPhone 6S Plus, but i also have only 2000 photos and 500 videos.

 

[KdParker]

It's been in since b3 or 4 -- don't recall for sure. Seems to work fine for me.

how did you enable it?

Nevermind...got it enabled will see how this will go.

 

[calibru_2good_4u]

On iPhone 6 animations are very slow , stutters .. A little bit laggy ... Wtf c'mon Apple ..

 

[dvd]

how did you enable it?

Settings -> Phone -> Wi-Fi Calling

 

[skinned66]

The issue on on the home screen using 3D Touch on app icons.

Ah, I'd need a 6s+ to test that out...no wonder. Sorry for being a pain.

 

[fenderbass146]

So don't turn on Low Power Mode.



That doesn't happen. While in the foreground, modern Twitter clients use a persistent connection to stream posts. While in the background, updates are infrequent.



What it comes down to is the question of who's more qualified to judge what's appropriate for Low Power Mode: Sir/Madam Random MacRumors Poster, or Apple Inc.?

I was responding to another post regarding Twitter who compared those two. And no I don't claim to know some inside facts. I just find it hard to believe it draws that much more energy. I never noticed any degradation of the low power mode feature in earlier betas when I also had night mode enabled.

 

[MrGuder]

Nope, its still disabled in low power mode. Just tested it.

This makes no sense because it's usually at night when your at 20% and it's at night when you would want to enable night shift mode. I don't get it.

 

[C DM]

This makes no sense because it's usually at night when your at 20% and it's at night when you would want to enable night shift mode. I don't get it.

And if using it makes the savings of Low Power Mode not all that effective, would it make more sense then? Would people be happy about it if they could use both but effectively not get much use out of Low Power Mode?

 

[Mascots]

Do people commonly use low-powered mode? Like every (practical) day?

I've used it maybe three times since it's introduction. It's come in handy, but not something I regularly have to take advantage of.

 

[KdParker]

Settings -> Phone -> Wi-Fi Calling

found it too....Let see how this will work.

 

[ScreenSavers]

I have it on iPad Pro and iPhone 6 Plus. Any idea what features were added?

 

[K4LK]

I've not been able to do an OTA update for at least several betas. Verification always fails. Happening to anyone else?

Yes, reboot (hold sleep/wake & home until you see the apple logo), then try again.

 

[MrGuder]

And if using it makes the savings of Low Power Mode not all that effective, would it make more sense then? Would people be happy about it if they could use both but effectively not get much use out of Low Power Mode?

So then I guess it's a choice, do you want to save your battery or your eyes/sleep? Hmm

 

[redpandadev]

32.1 mb on my 6S. Wouldn't be surprised if this is GM

the build number still has a 4 digit number and ends in a letter. Final builds always have 3 digit numbers and do not end in a letter. There will be at least 1 more.

 

[dvd]

found it too....Let see how this will work.

Been running it for about a month. It's a beautiful thing.

 

[C DM]

So then I guess it's a choice, do you want to save your battery or your eyes/sleep? Hmm

At the moment, that seems to be more or less the case (short of using the Siri glitch/workaround that seems to be there for now). Just like it's a decision to have push email or higher CPU speed vs. saving some battery using Low Power Mode. That said, we've lived for years without Low Power Mode or Night Shift, so it's nothing really drastic when it comes to choosing one over the other or even neither (I'm not saying it's great or anything like that, just that it's not horrible or anything like that).

 

[fenderbass146]

Do people commonly use low-powered mode? Like every (practical) day?

I've used it maybe three times since it's introduction. It's come in handy, but not something I regularly have to take advantage of.

I personally use it on a daily basis...its a rare day that I don't end my day wth less then 10% on my phone.

 

[C DM]

I personally use it on a daily basis...its a rare day that I don't end my day wth less then 10% on my phone.

I guess the question then would you be happy about having the effects of Night Shift at that time at the cost of Low Power Mode not really saving much battery when you might need the battery savings?

 

[Trogladite]

Well it's installed fine on my iPad Pro, not doing it on my phone as well. Can't see any changes, but at least I can find nothing borked, so I'll take it as it is.

I have had a couple of quirks. By tomorrow I guess I will find out if they were cured!

If anything interesting I lol let you know.

 

[TheDetailsMatter]

While I get that Night Shift consumes more power, it should still function in low power mode. At no point should low power mode cause controls to be greyed out — it should only directly affect behind-the-scenes things. Moreover, without a low power mode toggle in control center, the typical user would be confused and frustrated.

 

[Tycho24]

I read that article and while I understand what he is saying I can't believe it causes more then a 1-5% increase in battery usage. If it does there has to be a more efficient way to do it....Apple has to realize that its toward the end of the day the most people want both night mode and low power mode...when the sun is down and there phone is getting low from a full day of usage.

And I'm sorry comparing fetching of twitter posts every 2 seconds to changing the hue of the screen is a terrible comparison....one requires reaching out over your cell or wifi network every 2 seconds while the other should be a relatively simple on device change...

I realized almost immediately that was a horrible analogy!
Here's a MUCH better one... I like using "hey Siri" hands-free, however it is disabled when I'm in low power mode.
This makes sense. I can't sit around saying: "I like using "hey Siri" hands-free in the evening, when I'm not at work. I can't believe Apple won't let me! Obviously, people want to use this feature more at night when their battery is low!"
Once again- while this may reflect my personal use pattern & preference to how things would be in my perfect world; it does NOT alter reality- in which, more battery is used for that feature, thus it is disabled if I want to triple my battery life in the very end of its discharge.

 

[twittervanitybonet]

hope we get the jailbreak the same day as the gm ugh

 

[BlueCreek]

So then I guess it's a choice, do you want to save your battery or your eyes/sleep? Hmm

Just ask Siri to turn night shift mode on when you are in low power mode, hopefully this doesn't get taken out in the final release

 

[C DM]

While I get that Night Shift consumes more power, it should still function in low power mode. At no point should low power mode cause controls to be greyed out — it should only directly affect behind-the-scenes things. Moreover, without a low power mode toggle in control center, the typical user would be confused and frustrated.

Low Power Mode affects things that would have a meaningful effect on battery power. If Night Shift uses up enough battery to make Low Power Mode savings ineffective enough that they aren't saving as much as they should be, then it would make sense to disable those to save the power (given that that's the whole point behind it). Various options have been grayed out in relation to using Low Power Mode from the beginning of its introduction, so there isn't much new there in relation to that either.