It isnt necessary to turn any of this off. No more necessary than with any prior version of the OS.
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iOS 15 Battery Drain: 29+ Tips to Make Your Battery Last Longer
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Why would I do that? A real compass doesn't need battery. The marks even glow in the dark, so you don't need a screen, a subscription or anything else.
I understand that the smartphone is a device trying to be everything, but after using it for a while and let the hype wear off, I am using it less for the big stuff and I feel what Steve Wozniak said about the Watch taking over is making sense. You get the important notifications on the Apple Watch and you may be able to call if it is an emergency, but you don't waste time on a small screen unlike you do with an iPhone refreshing your feeds and consuming endless strings of entertainment.
On a watch I am able to get stock quotes, read important email and messages, and be able to call if it needs urgent care. With more privacy settings, JS popups and fullscreen commercials I feel the small iPhone screen is making less sense than ever before. I still use it for a wide array of stuff, but both my iPhone and iPad are less tempting to use with the increase of advertising and settings being pushed to both the iOS interface, the apps in the App Store and the web generally.
Safari is also facing less support from webpages, and more often than I want need to change browser to get full support for certain sites. The three finger copy and paste movement has worked some time, but I still hate it for not working smoothly. So much stuff is added, and I don't like to be a hater, but I don't like to adapt bugs and other annoyances.
The interface to change all the settings are starting to look like a drawer filled with too many tools, but I understand it from a business perspective, make it easier to mine data and keep people from changing stuff they don't understand. If only Uber would let me get a quote on a certain route on the Watch app I would buy one.
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Doubt all you want, but there are more than "one" that don't need or want all that stuff turned on. And I don't use Uber.
I love love love my iPhone X, but this is my first iPhone in a while that has a battery degraded like crazy in just 2 years of usage. Will be changing the battery soon, it's showing at 84% yet it's telling me to "Service". Like no ****, I can't last till evening that the phone decides to die unless charged.
Getting the Plus version of iPhone this year if I upgrade, I hope those last 3 years at least.
Getting the Plus version of iPhone this year if I upgrade, I hope those last 3 years at least.
Then your reply was meaningless. He said he wanted nothing but Uber. I said he was the only one. You said I was wrong, and pointed to you and your message board friends. Now you are saying you don’t want Uber.
So what were you even talking about?
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Somebody miss the sarcasm? :eyeroll:
I don't have a sense of humor, I guess it ran out of battery.
I don't have friends on this message board either, I used to find them in the taxi line, but now that I use Uber I no longer meet new friends.
I guess joining this message board was a bad idea. Ironic ideas and shills. Deleting my account to find some friends that are not in my iPhone.
Damn! I'm sure it was Tim Apple himself who's responsible for this. I'm glad I bought two!
Many of you are totally misunderstanding the point of this article. It has nothing to do with how by now a phone should be able to use every option and not get maximum battery life. That’s just not realistic. Everything uses a certain amount of energy. It’s like a car if you run at full throttle 100% of the time it’s not going to get the Max MPG. But if you drive reasonably and do a few thing you get better MPG. No difference with the phone. Same with the argument of updates and older phones and battery. You are adding options and features that was not available or it was not fully intended to do. So the results are it works harder. So less battery life. Calm down and enjoy and take steps to make it run it’s best.
I use my iPhone SE mostly as an iPad. I carry an old flip phone and remove the sim and put it in my iPhone as needed. I find that my iPhone even as an iPod will battery faster than I like so, after charging it I shut it off until I want to use it; usually a few days.
I appreciate all the tips in this article! Thank you.
I appreciate all the tips in this article! Thank you.
Please do post a Speedtest result. I really want to see your “5Ge”speeds. This is my fastest LTE speed.
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I already have done a fair few of these and find my battery life to be pretty good on an XS Max. I don't feel my experience is hindered, but actually enhanced. But I also don't have apps I've only used once or might use in the future stored on my phone. If there is an app I only use once a year, then it gets deleted and reinstalled with I need to use it.
Sorry, didn't realize you were one of those people. Carry on without me. And just for your edification, I never said "message board friends" what I wrote was "user group members". There is a difference.
I don't usually use low-power mode but generally speaking it should give you around 20-30% more battery life with certain use cases.
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Don't they have the same A11 chip?
There seem to be numerous comments of the form, "if you have to do all these things, that's proof that the iPhone sucks". That's not paying attention to what the article says.
The idea is, that if the battery performance of your iPhone isn't reasonable for you, these are some steps you can take to improve the situation. It doesn't mean that you have to take all of these steps - it doesn't even mean you have to take any of these steps, if you find the current performance sufficient.
Also, a number of the suggestions don't involve any impact on usability - it is prudent to go look in settings to see what apps have bluetooth access, or background processing access, even if you don't care about improving battery performance - if you don't want, say, your calculator app to have bluetooth access, then shutting that off is a win/win - it lowers battery usage and makes an app less (potentially) creepy/privacy-invasive.
The idea is, that if the battery performance of your iPhone isn't reasonable for you, these are some steps you can take to improve the situation. It doesn't mean that you have to take all of these steps - it doesn't even mean you have to take any of these steps, if you find the current performance sufficient.
Also, a number of the suggestions don't involve any impact on usability - it is prudent to go look in settings to see what apps have bluetooth access, or background processing access, even if you don't care about improving battery performance - if you don't want, say, your calculator app to have bluetooth access, then shutting that off is a win/win - it lowers battery usage and makes an app less (potentially) creepy/privacy-invasive.
Not my experience at all, see post #9. 6 months 100% capacity still. Did you have Apple replace the battery?
There are a lot of privacy settings that aren't enabled by default as well, contrary to Apple's messaging. Like what proportion of people actually want location-based Apple ads (beyond what they can get from your IP) anyway? We shouldn't have to manually disable settings like that.
Add to that the fact that Siri has basically become the Cortana of iOS and macOS; and it's a PITA to curtail its "Suggestions" tracking because you have to do it on a per app basis. Ditto Shortcuts. It gets harder and takes longer to tone down the settings of iOS with each new version.
These days, our devices spend so many resources trying to predict what you want them to do (I call it the Clippy mentality) instead of just getting out of the way and letting you tell it what you want. At best I find this behaviour annoying, and at worst downright creepy. I always turn off as much of these tracking, suggestion and location-based services as I can, and only enable what I want and need on a per app basis. That and I don't use the main offending social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and I seem to do ok. I'm getting pretty good battery life from my XS Max, but it's still relatively new and the battery health is still at 100%.
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Here’s some Speedtests from my 6s, I’ve done somewhat better than you on up and down (separately). Though I’m on AT&T now, the test are from when I was on Verizon. Done later at night when the tower is lightly loaded. (Ignore the WiFi tests.) I’ve hit as high as 114 down and 31 up.
I’d like to know the fake 5G (5Ge which is really only 4G/LTE) speeds too
Exactly this.
Apple has the power and knowledge to do the above.
They deliberately choose not too.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a brainless hopeless lost cause.
I hate oligopoly so much.
Shaking my head at people who think you can create a device and run unlimited apps and features and have outstanding Unrealistic battery life. Nowhere does Apple or any manufacturer have that technology. Nor does anyone offer a guaranteed battery life. It’s always up to or possibly XX hours. There’s to many variables to have a precise battery life.
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