I don't use VPN. I downloaded the app you mentioned but I don't see anything major.
To be honest my use case hasn't changed for years now, it's been the same, the same apps all the time.
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iOS 26 battery life thread.
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To be honest my use case hasn't changed for years now, it's been the same, the same apps all the time.
Reverend Benny
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That time I think it was fairly known it was a bad batch of batteries, but who knows. Might be the same in your case since you have had the issue for so long and nothing that you do seem to help.
Would bring it in to Apple to have a look at it. I remember when I had a iPhone 6s that were only a few months old that all of a sudden had horrible battery time. They ran a diagnose and established that the battery was faulty and swapped in on warranty. Same thing happened a year later. Got a new battery without having to pay for it.
That time I think it was fairly known it was a bad batch of batteries, but who knows. Might be the same in your case since you have had the issue for so long and nothing that you do seem to help.
Glad I came here to see I’m not alone. 26.5.2 has brutally murdered and dismembered my Air’s battery life. I’m charging multiple times a day on light use and getting terrible stutter and lag everywhere. It feels like there’s a memory leak somewhere.
James6s
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It’s pants! Burning through charge cycles isn’t good. Crazy we’re so late into iOS 26 releases that still can’t sort out performance and battery drain issues! I doubt 26.6 will be any better.
Reverend Benny
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I was under the impression that the latest update gave your Air better battery time? Was it only initially and then it went downhill?
James6s
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Initially it seemed to have improved along with the software bugs & glitches, it since went downhill like previous 26.x.x updates in both areas.
Reverend Benny
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Ah what a shame. Seems like some 17 pro and air users hasn't seen much improvement over the last few updates.
16 Pro here and its feels like its getting better after every update.
Funny enough the regular 17 or 17e hasn't had many reports about bad battery performance. The only major HW difference between the air/17 pro vs 17/17e is the memory size.
26.6 beta 4, 100% LTE only, 17 Pro (Nano-SIM)
Updated to beta 5 yesterday in the evening so will see how’s it compared to previous builds.
Updated to beta 5 yesterday in the evening so will see how’s it compared to previous builds.
FeliApple
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Usage pattern? That looks beyond poor. Not even 5 hours for a full cycle?
Heated quite a lot the first 2 weeks. though i have to say its a pretty warm summer in my country right now so that adds to it. Since last week it suddenly went quite a lot better, in terms of heat and battery. It kind of returned to ios 18 ish levels.
But one thing stays and its that it lags far to much than i have ever had in the last 10 IOS. Hopefully this is not the case anymore with ios 27. But im definitely waiting for a x.5 release or march-may build.
Reverend Benny
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Was playing around with an iPhone 13 on iOS 26.5.2 that had 76% battery health and man what a difference in terms of performance from a usability perspective. The phone was lagging quite a bit and was from time to time not a very good user experience.
Sure, the phone will throttle the CPU and other components but never thought it would be so noticeable. Have messed around with a good few iPhone 13 with a healthy battery on iOS 26 and that was a completely different experience.
Not saying the CPU/GPU throttling feature is a bad thing but it was very noticeable when it was active on device with below 80% battery health.
Sure, the phone will throttle the CPU and other components but never thought it would be so noticeable. Have messed around with a good few iPhone 13 with a healthy battery on iOS 26 and that was a completely different experience.
Not saying the CPU/GPU throttling feature is a bad thing but it was very noticeable when it was active on device with below 80% battery health.
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Safari, messages, instagram, camera, photos app. Mostly safari and camera.
Yeah, it's poor. It's been like that since 26.4
I feel the same, but my 15 pro didn't have awful hot flashes than the other time .
Yeah ios 26 is giving me some instances were it just gets hot as if i was playing a demanding game when im actually not by just using safari, instagram or just any other app. This specially happens when using cellular but not as much in wifi
I felt the same way when I was just doing browsing or viewing stuff. Like this was absurd. This years iOS 27 beta didn’t have this abnormal behavior.
James6s
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Two days in a row now my Air has wanted to ignore the charge limit and charge to 100%
This behavior occurs only when my iPhone charges from a very low level, such as below 30 percent.
James6s
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Mine was between 30-40% both times this occurred. I’ve let it charge to 100% for the last few days, surely it won’t want to do another one tomorrow 😃
I don't even do charge to 100 every single day. That'll be too much.
James6s
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Day 3 of my Air (now on 26.6 RC) ignoring the charge limit and doing a 100% charge.
James6s
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Yep! 3rd say straight that it wants to do a full charge with a charge limit of 90% set. Usually it’s once a week, if that! Not sure what the problem is that’s causing it.
James6s
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Down to 99% after 1hr of screen active time plus much better idle drain, this does look promising!