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iOS 17 | Battery Life & Health
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Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
Sounds about right if you are an average user charging your phone once every 24 hours.
Helmsley
macrumors 6502a
Battery health seemed to drop quite quickly from 96-91%. I'm talking weeks.
Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
Had the same on my 13 pro, dropped very rapidly down to 85%, then its been stable there for more than a year. Have had the phone for 3 years now.
Populus
macrumors 604
I don’t know what the hell is happening, but my battery is plummeting. This iPhone is new (it’s a new SE 2022) and the battery health is at 100%, it should behave better than my old SE which was at just 86% of battery health… but it isn’t.
A month after updating from iOS 18.1 to iOS 18.7, this iPhone seems to consume more energy.
See, with my old iPhone SE 2022 on iOS 18.1, and a battery health of 86%, I used to achieve 7 to 8 hours of screen on time. Easily.
Now on 18.7, this is no longer the case. I’m hitting 5h of total screen on time consistently. This is the only time I made an OTA update, from 18.6.1 to 18.7 because Apple doesn’t want to provide the IPSW so they can trap people on iOS 26. Maybe I should’ve stayed at 18.6.1
I’m seriously considering updating to iOS 26 but the risk of ending up with an worse experience is high. Here in iOS 18.7 at least I’m barely experiencing bugs… yes the system drains battery faster, but at least it’s stable and snappy.
A month after updating from iOS 18.1 to iOS 18.7, this iPhone seems to consume more energy.
See, with my old iPhone SE 2022 on iOS 18.1, and a battery health of 86%, I used to achieve 7 to 8 hours of screen on time. Easily.
Now on 18.7, this is no longer the case. I’m hitting 5h of total screen on time consistently. This is the only time I made an OTA update, from 18.6.1 to 18.7 because Apple doesn’t want to provide the IPSW so they can trap people on iOS 26. Maybe I should’ve stayed at 18.6.1
I’m seriously considering updating to iOS 26 but the risk of ending up with an worse experience is high. Here in iOS 18.7 at least I’m barely experiencing bugs… yes the system drains battery faster, but at least it’s stable and snappy.
Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
Have you updated any devices that's hooked up to the phone (bluetooth, network devices such as speakers etc.)?
You using things such as airpods with devices with different OS versions? (they update automatically).
Any network equipment or provider? Has the cellular provider updated network where you are usually located (4G to 5G)?
Above is just a few examples.
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aespana
macrumors 6502
I finally updated to 18.7.1 today and my 13 Mini works really good. No battery drain for now