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iPhone 12 Pro Does this seem like normal battery behavior? Steep decline and fast recharge.
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I don’t know if it’s normal or not, but my older phone has in the past suddenly jumped up 10% in battery charge the moment I plug it in.
Post that battery usage again. This time make sure to select "Show Activity" and as many apps as possible. You seem to have a lot of background activity that might be unexpected. "Show Activity" will give you an idea on what is running in the background draining the battery.
By the way, what phone are you using? What iOS version are you running?
Same here. I went through two batteries on a 6s. Each battery did the above after 18-24 months of use.
12 Pro on iOS 15.0.1. 99% of the shown apps aren’t even open or been used recently.
The Fitbit and Hidrate apps account for over 17 hrs of background activity. You might want to tale a closer look at those 2 apps. Do you have background app refresh enabled? If you do, maybe loo at what you have enabled in background app refresh. I have turned off background app refresh completely.
Well isn’t the point of those apps to continually track your activity? Maybe I misunderstand but I’d think the purpose of those items would be defeated without having them run in the background? Or is there a way to have them still track without running in the background?
I will take a look but I’m also certain my partner has the same apps on the same setting and gets far better battery performance than I do.
Same habits, same charging habits except I have to charge during the day. Her battery health is 96% mine is 92%.
I checked my partner’s device. Same device, and both apps run in the background on hers too. Here’s her battery usage:
It looks like your partner is getting about 10 hrs with 60% battery used. I had to calculate it several times to make sure but that is really fantastic battery life.
She’s not on WiFi at work and I was all day at home today and I still fall short with my battery.
Alas, I suppose sometimes you win some and sometimes you lose. I’m going to give the 13 pro max a whirl for it’s better battery life and hope it’s not too big. If it is, I’ll try a different 13 I think and trade this “lemon” in. It’s not really a lemon, but it’s falling short of its potential and my expectations.
Do a hard reset
Volume up, down, press and hold sleep/wake button until Apple logo appears.
I think your culprits are the hydrate and Fitbit app. They’re probaby poorly designed apps in regards to power efficiency.
To put it bluntly: your iPhone is fine, your apps suck.
Volume up, down, press and hold sleep/wake button until Apple logo appears.
I think your culprits are the hydrate and Fitbit app. They’re probaby poorly designed apps in regards to power efficiency.
To put it bluntly: your iPhone is fine, your apps suck.
I have thought about this more. Your partner has a 12 Pro? There is no way that a 12 Pro could even come close to getting 20 hrs usage on a full charge. That is better then the 12 Pro Max and the 13 Pro Max. I think what I am seeing is what I thought, iOS is not correctly keeping tracking of the usage times of apps in iOS 15. I have noticed that the battery, after after being fully charged, does not drop for several hours in some cases. I verified this with Coconut Battery app.
Yes she also has a 12 pro. So you think her battery usage isn’t reflecting correctly?
She’s still on iOS 14, while I’m on iOS 15.
iOS 14! Still does not make sense that your partner is on track to get 20hrs usage on a full charge. Something is not correct. There is no way that a 12 Pro can get the battery life that your partner seems to be getting. The only thing I can suggest to the both of you, is do a Settings->General->Reset->Reset All Settings.
Seems of the two 12 pros in the house I got the underperforming one and she got the over performing one which makes mine seem even more underwhelming.
Same two apps run on hers, same settings. Different battery performance.
Could be the culprits for sure but still.
Delete both apps and reinstall them
if that doesn’t work, restore your iPhone as new and download all your apps again from your purchase history from the App Store. Do not restore from backup.
I should probably backup before doing that though just in case. As I’ll lose all my photos and all that on the phone, correct?
It’s always wise to backup your iPhone to your Mac, and then archive said backup.
As long as you have iCloud enabled, all your photos, contacts, iMessages, and saved app data (for example, from your iOS games) will re-download onto your phone.
Your apps, however, will not, so you’ll need to re-download each app individually from the “purchased” section on the App Store. It’s annoying to do, but super easy. I did it a few months ago with my iPhone 12 Pro Max after i was having issues with my touch screen not responding. After doing a clean iOS install and setting my iPhone up as a new phone in Finder on my Mac, the issue was resolved.
If he does a iCloud backup and restores from that, all the apps will get redownloaded automatically. The same for backup to the computer. I know this is the case because 2 days ago I had to restore from backup and all the apps where re-downloaded for me.
Backup to your computer and restore the backup from the computer. This will be faster than restore from iCloud backup. All your apps with be re-downloaded automatically.
What will restoring a carbon copy of my existing setup from backup accomplish? Won’t all settings just go back as they are now and time will March on? I apologize for my basic questions.
What a restore will do is not restore anything that might be corrupted in the OS. Maybe do a DFU and then a restore from backup from the computer. This will ensure a complete erase and install of a clean iOS 15.0.2 and a clean install of all your apps.
Per apple, restoring from a backup can reinstall corrupted data onto your iPhone putting you back at square one.
But do what you want.
But do what you want.