Compass calibration I leave off too. Except when traveling with Google maps. It has nothing to do with fitness apps. 90% of those switches are for Apple tracking us.. lol.
Let me show you my setup.
I'm not sure about fitness apps, but for sure is used by the Apple Watch during the calibration process. So you want to leave it on when you calibrate the apple watch, and turn it off then. I personally leave it on as it doesn't impact my battery life unless I track activities (walks, run) on my AW.
You could be right! I don't have an over-priced Apple Watch. I just know that switch doesn't affect anything with fitness on the phone itself.
Are you 100% certain that motion calibration and distance does not actually calibrate anything? You mentioned earlier that you turned it off on your iPhone and that your device still counts your steps as it should and that fitness tracking wasn't affected but I'm still hesitant to disable it
100% sure it has nothing at all to do with fitness apps tracking correctly. At the end of today my steps count, distance travelled and flights of stairs climbed were all higher than the screenshot I showed this am. I have never claimed turning off the switch does any other thing. You claimed it would hurt the ability of the fitness app's tracking. I just stated and proved that's false. I made no other claims.
Just turn it off and try. You phone won't blow up.. lol. You can always turn it back on..![]()
Turning off Traffic only stops your data (position of you in a car) from being transmitted to Apple for other cars looking at Apple Maps. You still get data to Maps on your phone even with it off. But YOU go off grid to the rest of us driving. That button has nothing at all to do with Google Maps nor receiving traffic info. At least it didn't in iOS 8 nor 9. I haven't tried switching it off in 10.Sure thing, Thank you for the information I appreciate it,
Regarding the Traffic and Routing toggle in that system services menu, if I disable it, do I still get up to date traffic date and info in Google maps and Apple maps or does disabling that break the traffic feature? What does enabling that traffic and routing toggle affect?
Turning off Traffic only stops your data (position of you in a car) from being transmitted to Apple for other cars looking at Apple Maps. You still get data to Maps on your phone even with it off. But YOU go off grid to the rest of us driving. That button has nothing at all to do with Google Maps nor receiving traffic info. At least it didn't in iOS 8 nor 9. I haven't tried switching it off in 10.
Gotcha, ill keep it off then as i rarely use maps anyways.
Regarding the new Bedtime feature in the Clock app that was introduced in iOs 10, Do you think having it enabled uses up more battery as well or is it just a built in process?
Most amazing battery day yet. Lighter usage day - that's central to these great results. End of day 30% left. Wow! Now THIS is a battery!
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My battery life seems to be getting worse. Went to sleep with 50%, woke up with 4%.
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I upgraded from a 6 Plus 64gb to the 7 Plus 128GB Matte Black.
My battery life has been awful. I have tried everything. Restoring as new Iphone, shutting down practically everything (location, background etc...).
Here are some recent battery usage png's
Looks like you have a defective battery. Take the phone in and get a new one