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Facetiming and Battery
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I don't usually FaceTime for more than 20 minutes or so. But, based on my experience, I would say my battery drain would be about the same as yours if I went for that long. FaceTime is definitely a battery hog...
40 mins if definitely not normal, the most I have ever gone on a call is something around 1.5hrs (unplugged) and I still had plenty of battery remaining, but I do make it a point to fully charge my phone if I know I will be making a FaceTime call.
Activity Monitor claims (at 70%) I should be able to FaceTime for 4hrs 12mins
Activity Monitor claims (at 70%) I should be able to FaceTime for 4hrs 12mins
I guess it depends? For me when I do FaceTime, I usually talk for 30 minutes and I only lose 10% from that 30 minute.
40 mins if definitely not normal, the most I have ever gone on a call is something around 1.5hrs (unplugged) and I still had plenty of battery remaining, but I do make it a point to fully charge my phone if I know I will be making a FaceTime call.
Activity Monitor claims (at 70%) I should be able to FaceTime for 4hrs 12mins
7:00 is it 7 hour or 7 minutes , if 7 minute that drain so fast
That app is inaccurate anyway. It recognizes the 4S as a 4 and it displays 300 hour stand by battery time on 100%.
It all depends on:
Read through them and you'll get your answer as to whether or not it was normal
- How many apps you had running in the background
- Screen brightness
- If notifications were on
- If push e-mail was on
- If Location Services was on
- How strong/weak the Wi-Fi signal was
- Your volume
- Whether iCloud was on
- Whether 3G was on
- How strong/weak 3G was
- Whether Ping was on
- Whether you chose to send diagnostics to Apple or not
Read through them and you'll get your answer as to whether or not it was normal
i dont think iphone 4s could facetime 4 hour and video 5 hour with 70 % left , battery iphone has limit bro ......
I could be wrong but I don't think it's an "and" situation but rather an "or" one. Meaning, you can do any one of those things for as long as is specified given the current battery life remaining.
Correct.
If you want to watch Movies from the Videos.app, you can for up to X hrs/mins, if you want to web browse over 3G, you can for X hrs/mins. Its an "OR" situation.
The app is called Activity Monitor and its sells for $.99, but they also offer a lite version (though I don't know what the difference is, I have the paid version).
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/activity-monitor-touch/id385619152?mt=8
I can ft all night without my phone dying if i have no apps and my notifications are off
Things have probably changed a fair bit since 9 years ago.
Oddly, my M1 IPadPro reports battery usage from FaceTime … even though I’ve never used it?
Your input/opinions are welcomed and encouraged but in the meantime I deleted FaceTime.
Additionally, No one else has access to my computers. No one that I’m aware of.
Your input/opinions are welcomed and encouraged but in the meantime I deleted FaceTime.
Additionally, No one else has access to my computers. No one that I’m aware of.