Indeed I get that in both public release and beta. Ain’t matters about it though lol 😂
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iOS 27 battery life thread.
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Séamus Boyle
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James6s
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James6s
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Ain’t had time to install dev beta 5 yet lol 😂 either, just came back to work.
But ima sit out of it then !
Séamus Boyle
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Yep I’m on 17 pro. When I was on beta 1, I swear I was getting like 9 hours and 51 minutes without even low power mode. Is everyone using adaptive power?
James6s
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I really want to install it! iOS 26.6 is better but more great. Just don’t want to absolutely kill the battery life on my Air
iPhone 17 Pro Max: beta 4 was really bad, and now with beta 5 I'm back at iOS 26.5 levels. Pretty happy.
Tomas1988
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I’d definitely wait until at least 27.1. Reading about how everyone is struggling here is just sad.😢😆
James6s
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I definitely won’t be waiting until 27.1 lol
Following a guys iPhone Air iOS 27 beta journey on X
Tomas1988
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I am getting pretty good life so far on my 17 pro max. Got to midnight at 35% left usually I am at 10% on the earlier betas by that point
Same but I carefully read what goes here and there with the changes and opinions, before installing it. I learned my lesson after my MacBook Pro M4 Pro had to be downgraded from macOS golden gate beta to Tahoe due to corruption.
QuarterSwede
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That’s not saying much, 26.5 was terrible for my 17 Pro. 26.6 is a LOT better, like I was ending the day near 0% and I NEVER used to end the day below 40%. I didn’t realize how bad it had gotten until I upgraded to 26.6 and suddenly had fantastic battery life again.
FeliApple
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You’re not the first person to say that 26.5(.2) was terrible for battery life. I’ve been quite surprised by that to be honest.
Every single original iOS version I’ve run has had insanely good battery life. And I’ve run everything from the first point version (iOS 6.0 on an iPod Touch 5G or my current A16 iPad (11th-gen)’s release iPadOS 18.3 to the very final one (iPadOS 15.6 on my iPad Air 5 (M1))
26.6 has also been lauded as a massive improvement pretty frequently, especially for the 17 series.
iOS 27 DB5 is taking quite a hit on battery life on my 16P. Hopefully it settles soon. Indexing is done after ~24 hours.
Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
Is there a notification regarding post-processing stuff such as indexing going on and that it may affect battery life?
Nope. Indexing was done less than 24 hours after updating. Got the message in setting initially but went away quick this time.
Reverend Benny
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Not sure if iOS 27 differs from iOS 26, but for me (iOS 26) it was in the battery section.
Itsedstech
macrumors 68020
Still respringing on the newest beta. Maybe the 18 pro max will fix that for me
That’s iOS 18 screenshot and this is usually there from recent updates.
You’ll see it below your Apple ID name in settings. Usually when you get SIRI AI set up.