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iOS 8 GM battery life
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The latest version, Tweetbot 3? Have you enabled background refresh?
I have disabled background refresh for Tweetbot since my last full battery charge, I will see if it help.
With my last full recharge on my 4S (and background refresh turned off for Tweetbot, which now seems to use less battery) I had ~5 hours of active battery usage with more than 24 hours of idle battery usage. I think this is respectable.
Not necessarily a drain... If that's what you're using most of the time, it's natural that Safari will be the highest percentage of total usage time.
It would be an abnormal drain if you weren't using safari all that much, yet it showed up as a high usage item.
I'm a little sad that the GM was the Final build (as it usually is) because on iphone5 the mail app, and to some degree safari, but specially mail app kills my phone.. never had a problem before, ever. Now if I open mail and enable the 15min fetch which ive used for years.. I see my battery start dropping within minutes..
Currently I am using chrome as my browser and gmail mail app for mail, and I have an insane battery life.. unplugging from power at around 8.20 in the morning, then a full day of work 8-9 hours with normal use, check news, messages, fb messenger all on wifi I still have around 45% left when I leave work at 6pm, usally when I go to bed around 12.30 - 01 am I still have ~ 23% or so the last few days.
anyway my point is, something is REALLY off with the mail app currently. specially since the gmail mail app syncs my emails faster too.
I am getting an iphone 6 delivered tomorrow and I really hope it won't have this issue.
Currently I am using chrome as my browser and gmail mail app for mail, and I have an insane battery life.. unplugging from power at around 8.20 in the morning, then a full day of work 8-9 hours with normal use, check news, messages, fb messenger all on wifi I still have around 45% left when I leave work at 6pm, usally when I go to bed around 12.30 - 01 am I still have ~ 23% or so the last few days.
anyway my point is, something is REALLY off with the mail app currently. specially since the gmail mail app syncs my emails faster too.
I am getting an iphone 6 delivered tomorrow and I really hope it won't have this issue.
iOS 8 GM battery life
I installed iOS 8 on 2 iPod 5th gens and they seem to be working fine. They were just a little laggy on iOS 7 but they are no worse now on iOS 8. I'm pretty sure they are the same hardware as iPhone 4s.
Sorry, I think I replied to the wrong thread.
I installed iOS 8 on 2 iPod 5th gens and they seem to be working fine. They were just a little laggy on iOS 7 but they are no worse now on iOS 8. I'm pretty sure they are the same hardware as iPhone 4s.
Sorry, I think I replied to the wrong thread.
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It's different or at least can be different for everyone, so hard to say what you can expect or will see. Plenty of people haven't seen their battery usage change much one way or another, some have seen it get worse, a few have seen it get better (again, based on just anecdotal observations essentially).
I have an iPad4 which I downloaded and installed IOS8 when it came out. I have been getting consistant 10hrs plus until last week. That's when I decided to retrieve my backup from icloud. What I find very strange is from that backup with a full charge until yesterday I got well over 13plus hrs of use with 6day and 2hrs of standby. Last night I recharged over night and my battery life is still looking great. I have never in the past gotten more than about 11hrs use. Now I just hope that it will continue. One more thing... When I check my battery usage Safari shows it taking 68 percent. other things were much less.