Battery drain on latest developer beta

[Nautilus007]

Is anyone else experiencing battery drain on the latest iOS 17 dev beta ?

Running on an iPhone 14 pro max , with the latest iOS 17.0 (21A5326a) developer beta. My phone drains to 20% mid way through the day.

My battery health is at 88%.

 

[Tomas1988]

Is anyone else experiencing battery drain on the latest iOS 17 dev beta ?

Running on an iPhone 14 pro max , with the latest iOS 17.0 (21A5326a) developer beta. My phone drains to 20% mid way through the day.

My battery health is at 88%.

Wait for stable release Yes its beta

 

[poseidondev]

Haven't noticed anything worse or better with the latest developer seed, but betas will always be heavy on the battery because of a bunch of telemetry and log collection running in the background 24/7.

 

[A Loaf]

Worse for me compared to last beta. Last beta I’d go to bed with 80% and woke up with ~73-80%. Now I’m getting ~60-70%, usually on the lower end.

 

[Maloney~888]

Yeah seeing drain here. Awaiting RC before I melt down (Safari biggest culprit).

 

[DeanL]

Same here

 

[Maloney~888]

Turned off “private relay” battery has improved.

 

[OhMyMy]

Turned off “private relay” battery has improved.

Private relay shouldn’t have any extra overhead on the battery as they’re just encrypted queries. May slow down your internet speeds depending on the server but there shouldn’t be any noticeable drain as all the heavy lifting would be on the backend.

Only Safari traffic is entirely encrypted and unsecured traffic from the device is routed thru their servers everything else flows via your ISP.

 

[Maloney~888]

Private relay shouldn’t have any extra overhead on the battery as they’re just encrypted queries. May slow down your internet speeds depending on the server but there shouldn’t be any noticeable drain as all the heavy lifting would be on the backend.

Only Safari traffic is entirely encrypted and unsecured traffic from the device is routed thru their servers everything else flows via your ISP.

Thanks. Safari has been the biggest user of battery for me since beta 7 (when I joined iOS 17) I read somewhere on MacRumours that private relay and another setting (cannot remember now 🙄) for Safari set to on may be causing issue. I turned off PR and noticed improvement. Could be coincidence!

 

[redbeard331]

Yes, yesterday I was out and noticed my phone was down to 44%, which was strange because it had only been 3 hours since I took it off the charger at 100%.

 

[Donga120]

Definitely noticed a drop last beta or two.