Pulled the trigger and updated. So far so good. The speed is obviously there, promising battery too from what I can say for several hours.
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Battery life on 18.4 iPhone 13 mini
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Hmmm..it seems the battery really last longer on 18.4 than 18.3.2….
I have some tactics to recognize it early and it seems pretty impressive at the moment.
I have some tactics to recognize it early and it seems pretty impressive at the moment.
I received a Release-Day 12 Mini, then upped to a 13 Mini 29 July '23
Had an 8 for a looong time before that, and it was semi-decent.
My 6 was a dog (real turn-off, IMO).
The 5 was so-so.
That's as far back as my iPhone usage goes.
This 13 Mini is a beast
Carriers really tout their 99%-ish coverage, but it's the little things that make, and break.
Hmmm..it seems the battery really last longer on 18.4 than 18.3.2….
I have some tactics to recognize it early and it seems pretty impressive at the moment.
Never fear: 18.4.2 will fix that
That's true, I brought the 5W (from SE) and 20W along (DE-AU). Off course the aircraft had USB ports but transit-ing airports with the MagSafe was brilliant (also for charging the APP2) whilst many sat tethered at the lounges...waiting. Used quite the old car at the destination also that had no USB.
I’m on an iPhone 12 mini and running iOS 18.4, and I haven’t experienced any problems - or changes in that regard. I wouldn’t hesitate updating.
I'm currently in DE whose coverage, service and pricing is very poor and incrementally held back to price gouge severely. The Telekom monopoly is unaffordable but the dynamic tower sharing amongst the other telcos makes it difficult to pin point any issue with an actual contracted provider or the device itself as it's not displayed on the phone.
Matter of fact (in my case) it became obvious why I lost 1/3 of the signal strength everywhere when 5G was provided. But this only after digging with ph support for 3/4 hr what they changed w/out transparency but were also unable to revert back to. Thankfully I was past my 2 yrs and could look at another provider going from sub 50 Mbps to 300 +. Also interesting, they (new provider) offered unlimited GB for the first month BUT signal was quite weaker and slower until past that time.
Telco criminals
I'd never put a charging cable with data wires still active into a public usb-port at an airport/airplane, though. That would be a prime spot for intelligence gathering and dropping of mal-/spyware, APTs for state actors (which will probably also affect battery life at the least)
Is this what is meant by MVNO?
Aye; but, when you need to use that sweet, sweet cellular
Yes; I have a carry-brick for extended jaunts
I use an Otterbox on my Mini, so a lot of accessories just won't work.
Good point. Cannot recall if the a/Ports had usb hubs or universal power points, as I just breezed past the tethered bodies.
I’m not sure how USB is more likely to have zero-day exploits than Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/cellular. Remember how Apple planned to do OTA software updates for new iPhones in their sealed boxes?
Anyway, one way to lessen the likelihood is to stick a power bank between iPhone and outlet.
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They didn’t just plan to, they actually do.
Apple's in-box iPhone software update system arrives in April
Updating the software on a just-bought iPhone could become a thing of the past, with a new system rolling out to Apple Stores in April that will update the software on devices still in the packaging.
I remember reading that was canceled, but can’t find it now.They didn’t just plan to, they actually do.
Rolled out to all Apple stores almost a year ago.Apple's in-box iPhone software update system arrives in April
Updating the software on a just-bought iPhone could become a thing of the past, with a new system rolling out to Apple Stores in April that will update the software on devices still in the packaging.appleinsider.com
A proper one, yes. I use their (then available) clear case+MagSafe and it's fantastic. I won't lie, the teal clear case + blue Mini are a match made in heaven. Initially bought Apple's iteration and hated it being so slippery and having the exposed lower section didn't instil much confidence.Yes; I have a carry-brick for extended jaunts
I use an Otterbox on my Mini, so a lot of accessories just won't work.
I did learn from the, then, winding down of SE OG accessories, and bought two blue Apple silicon cases also.
Absolutely, even though I admittently had to look the acronym up
Here, there's only Telekom (that owns everything) and Vodafone, that managed to have shocking reception but did gobble up the company Kabel Deutschland, to lay their own glass fibre lines for home use. And it's basically what happened to my provider. They used the company O2 network for LTE whilst trying to put their own 5G towers up. Their LTE switched to Vodafone and suddenly I had little to no reception, with no explanation why. Fibre optics are not yet even widely distributed as the apartment blocks are often from the early 1900's. They reckon last quarter this year to my building, but then the price will be higher vs an already very stable VDSL line.
Germany is quite backward with tech in this regard and still swear by fax machines. The bureaucratic machine is slow, heavy, and soul eating. But now I digress.
This is absolutely true. I've owned iOS devices for well over a decade and I've been burned too many times by iOS updates to not have identified a pattern (also true for macOS but I digress).
And as if there was any doubt left on the table, my mother recently had her iPhone 7 Plus battery replaced at the Apple Store. Battery life stayed nearly identical. Yes, really. What does that tell you?
Yeah, we all learn about it at some point. I was burned twice. I updated an iPod Touch 4G from iOS 4 to iOS 5 (because I didn’t know better) and an iPad 4 to iOS 7 (for compatibility and because I still didn’t know better and hadn’t learned). 2013. That was the last time I updated willingly. Apple forced my A9 devices out of iOS 9, but that wasn’t a deliberate update, Apple literally bricked my devices and I had no choice. And both devices were, of course, significantly affected, with a significant performance decline and a massive battery life impact.
Apart from that, I’ve never updated anything from their factory-installed version. I’m surprised that people keep complaining about this. It’s been almost twenty years!!! You still haven’t learned by now that updates kill devices? Unless you’re a new iOS user, there’s no excuse, imo. If you keep getting burned, it’s on you. Especially considering that there’s no way back.
One of the (many) draws, for me, to the Mini is that it's incredibly svelte.
I understand that the idea that I might choose to carry an external battery-pack can--in the aggregate--negate such svelteness, but 'The X-Pack' definitely has other uses