Trying to cut edges on the 12 apple did? I hope they don’t repeat this for the 13.
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iPhone 12 Battery dying faster on iPhone 12
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I also want to see how the 12S/13 series work with their batteries. I’m in no rush to upgrade this year.
My 12 Pro is still reporting 100% on the battery (101% on coconut), which is certainly fine with me. My XS only reported 98% when it was new, and I should have just swapped it under the 14-day return period but didn't. After two months of it dropping more, they wouldn't replace it under warranty, saying it was acceptable. I think that phone is on like 76% now.
That’s crazy, honestly. My iPhone 11 base model is at 92% and ive had it since it launched.
I will have to wait out until we get the 13 since I don’t have a huge upgrade need, but I feel awful for the iPhone 12 users whose batteries are going to go kaput within a few years.
that’s planned obsolesce (?) on a WHOLE new level and is pretty scummy.
I will have to wait out until we get the 13 since I don’t have a huge upgrade need, but I feel awful for the iPhone 12 users whose batteries are going to go kaput within a few years.
that’s planned obsolesce (?) on a WHOLE new level and is pretty scummy.FYI.... to anyone who finds Safari high up on their battery usage list:
Are you using MacRumours on your device? If so, stop that and report back.
Some JS code running on the MacRumours forum is VERY CPU intensive. I got an iPhone 12 Pro a few weeks ago and was convinced my battery was a dud. If I used Safari (browsing these forums, it so happens) for 30 mins, half my battery would be gone. It was MacRumour's fault. With that out of the equation, my battery life is fine. I am very hesitant to use these forums on my phone as I don't want to wreck the battery health prematurely (the back of my phone gets extremely hot after 5 mins on here, too).
Are you using MacRumours on your device? If so, stop that and report back.
Some JS code running on the MacRumours forum is VERY CPU intensive. I got an iPhone 12 Pro a few weeks ago and was convinced my battery was a dud. If I used Safari (browsing these forums, it so happens) for 30 mins, half my battery would be gone. It was MacRumour's fault. With that out of the equation, my battery life is fine. I am very hesitant to use these forums on my phone as I don't want to wreck the battery health prematurely (the back of my phone gets extremely hot after 5 mins on here, too).
Do you know the specific processes used on JS that do this? You could submit a help ticket to the admins and see if they can do anything about it w/their host. I’d imagine the more complicated codes have to be run in a website, the more battery power is eaten up because it’s loading so many complex things.
IT seems the 12 series batteries have bad chemistry and there are still to small. I hope with the iPhone 13 and SE 3 we see better batteries.
My launch day 12 Pro Max battery is on par with 18 month old XS Max in terms of battery life, which is sad, and don’t make no sense.
The phones definitely have wors battery life than then our previous X in the same timeframe. My wife and I both are at 89% with launched Pro Max. Our usage and charging patterns are different. I use the phone mostly on WiFi while she on cellular and I charge with MagSafe while she charge with a 30W cable.
My battery life was at 93% when I first visited this thread a few days ago and now it’s at 92%. Something is definitely wrong.
I just noticed this the other day. My 12 Pro Max was at 98% before the iOS 15 dev betas and it’s now down to 93%. I confirmed with coconutBattery that it’s at 93.7% too so the health readings aren’t totally inaccurate. That seems like a lot of wear for a 10 month old device when my XS Max which I had to charge 3 times a day because the battery life was always awful was only at 85% after 2 years of that and I’m not even using a rapid charger with my 12 Pro Max.
I was getting 10-12 hours screen time between charges with iOS 14 and iOS 15 dev beta 4 right now I’m lucky to get 7 so that has been felt too.
It’s not 5G in my case because my MVNO Tello doesn’t have 5G access until Apple fixes the carrier bundle hopefully in the fall.
I was getting 10-12 hours screen time between charges with iOS 14 and iOS 15 dev beta 4 right now I’m lucky to get 7 so that has been felt too.
It’s not 5G in my case because my MVNO Tello doesn’t have 5G access until Apple fixes the carrier bundle hopefully in the fall.
Could be. Maybe those cheaper batteries are causing the the health to deteriorate quit fast for some in combination with buggy 5G antenna tech causing more daily drain...I guess only Apple can say for sure which I doubt they will.
Do you think Apple will fork out the cost for the 12 series users of a new battery?
Launch day 12 PM with latest 14.7 battery still has 100% health with to 212 charge cycles and battery consumption aren’t too bad with 3.5h SOT with 1.8h of screen-off-time using about 25% battery from full charge. It should last to about 12-13 hours of SOT plus an additional 7 hours of screen off time giving a total of 20 hours to 23 hours of total runtime at this rate which is close enough to launch day 12 PM battery test on YouTube vids
Some relevance in how you charge your unit at what battery % level do you often charge on average and how long you’ve had your 12 series helps a lot.
Just been lucky with the battery lottery. I exclusively use the Magsafe charging and I rarely to never use the phone while charging (as it helps with heat output especially with Magsafe). Also, my phone barely gets warm with my everyday tasks, including hours of Messenger video calls on 5G and LTE (mostly defaults LTE inside the building, setting is in 5G Auto). Low overall CPU activity helps with those nice battery runtimes. So far, my all apps, including the notorious Reddit iOS app are behaving perfectly leaving no excessive battery drain when screen is off. Also, I have location settings on every app set to "while using" with most apps allowed for precise location settings