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iOS 8 Users Seeing Issues With Battery Drain, Slow Wi-Fi

kalafalas said:
I've said this before and I will say this every year with a new major update: I've never had any major problems or bugs with new releases. Why? I always, always RESTORE AND SET UP AS NEW. new OS? Let's make sure your data was created in that environment to work. Most specifically with battery drain issues.

Set up my iPhone 6 as new and synced all my stuff over iTunes/iCloud and downloaded my apps manually, I've been seeing about 2 day battery.
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Yeah, unfortunately this is not the answer. I'm sure many do the same thing. I certainly did. Fresh install as a new phone, downloaded only synced contacts / etc from iCloud, manual app re-download.

I'm not sure that I'm having battery issues per se (though battery life on my 6+ is "not better" than the 5 I was using before). However I've seen many of the other bugs described here, including getting stuck in landscape mode, "pausing" or appearing to lock up for ~30 sec in several applications (notably settings, safari), weirdness with the status bar appearing or not appearing in various apps, etc. I'm certainly running into more bugs and flakiness than I did with previous ".0" releases.
 
Blue Fox said:
Perhaps people are seeing a drain on battery because they are using it more often because there are new features? Everytime a new version is released, or a new iPhone, people seem to complain about the battery. I drained my iPhone 6 today because I can't stop using it, not because it has battery issues.
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Everytime people have issues, other people on this site dismiss them as if Apple products are not prone to legitimate bugs.
 
How can't they see these issues during beta testing? Seems like every iOS release has this battery drain/WiFi issue.
 
cbcc1119 said:
Just did test running over 60 meg down 20 up and my battery is way better. I assume some issues are with apps not optimized or have bugs.
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I think you're right - it seems to be an app-related thing. Last night Alien Blue (reddit client) was slow as hell, but when I went and did a speedtest I was getting 125Mbps down / 20Mbps up over my wifi (802.11ac).
 
farewelwilliams said:
a problem with every major release.
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Pretty much. Based on the history, iOS 8.1 will be a good update.

The problem is that we shouldn't expect 8.1 to come out until Jan-Feb. Which means only 7-8 month of good battery life until it loops back again with iOS 9's release.

Blue Fox said:
Perhaps people are seeing a drain on battery because they are using it more often because there are new features? Everytime a new version is released, or a new iPhone, people seem to complain about the battery. I drained my iPhone 6 today because I can't stop using it, not because it has battery issues.
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No because we've seen the same thing over the past 3 years. It is just a buggy iOS x.0 release not fully optimized.

I saw the same thing back in iOS 6, 7 and now 8. Every single time, the battery life was down 2-3 hours until the later iOS updates restore it back a bit.

Zxxv said:
We're doing a better job than the beta testers
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Louder yes but that's because of more users reporting the same issue. It does not mean the beta team didn't do a good job.

Apple's notorious for ignoring bug reports for several months and knowingly shipped stable updates with bugs intact.

gim said:
My iPad Air's WiFi lags really hard sometimes since updating to iOS 8, hope they provide a fix asap.
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Yea, it's been a problem since beta 2. I had to disconnect the Wi-Fi several times a day to get it going right.

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ElTorro said:
How can't they see these issues during beta testing? Seems like every iOS release has this battery drain/WiFi issue.
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They did see the bug reports during the beta phase but they can't release a beta version on iPhone 6/6+, so they shipped an early build as GM and will ship fixes in a follow-up.

These are common complaints during the beta test.

iOS release schedule is set by the hardware, not the other way around.
 
OriginalClone said:
Everytime people have issues, other people on this site dismiss them as if Apple products are not prone to legitimate bugs.
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So one of the things that I noticed is that if you do a restore from iCloud backup (my wife did this) it seems to download "something" for a long time, even after it appears the phone has been fully restored (like all the apps are there, content is there, etc). My wife's phone showed internet activity for like an hour or more, even after it looked like it was done with the restore, and during that time it was way hot and was chewing through battery.

I wonder if some of this is first-day iCloud restore. Maybe people with slower internet connections are experiencing longer "restore" times, where the phone is initially using a lot of horsepower doing what ever magic thing it does in the background for an iCloud restore (which, as far as I can tell, is largely nothing except using internet / battery juice).
 
My battery on my 5 is now significaly worse. 100% at 6am down to 68% by 11am. The phone was in my pocket pocket the whole time and never touched. Wifi and Bluetooth were off. The day before it shut down at 30% after 10 minutes of using wifi while looking at weather radars.
 
Guess I've been having good luck. Battery was a issue the first day day,but now it's gotten a lot better. This is the battery conditioning I end up doing every year. Let it go all the way down to 20% then charge to 100%. After a week my battery is usually perfect. So far I've been doing well. It's already surpassed what my iphone 5S would be at around this time.
 
In order to improve the battery life for my iPhone 5 I disable Background App refresh for all Apps, i used to have some apps working fine previously with iOS 7.
Also deleted Facebook App, what a piece of crap. Now accessing it via the web.

All location services disable too.

Still not as good as with iOS 7.

I used to work all day and when coming back home need to charge in the car.
Today I had to plug in after lunch...

The Wi-Fi slow down might be due to all the background traffic taking place.

:apple: press release next week...:mad:

Who will be the new Forstall....
 
I'm getting 70Mbps (N 2.4GHz/20MHz Wide) and 240Mbps (AC 5.18GHz/80MHz Wide) on the Speedtest App.

As for battery usage; I currently have 2 1/2 hours usage (mostly Safari) and 1.7 Days standby with 65% Battery left.

Not sure whats up but everything seems normal on my end.
 
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AustinIllini said:
Performance testing is one of the most difficult parts of software testing, IMHO.
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I think to do performance testing you simply have to stress the test into extreme conditions and you get it done. The difficult part is having optimized solutions to pass testing. If the test criteria are overlooking behind the scene background processes that :apple: and all the other "partners" are data mining the testing will always be a crippled one.
 
wish I could downgrade back to iOS 7. iOS 8 is nice, but runs sluggish on my 5S. Just seems a little "Clunky".
 
I've found a lot more obvious and easy to reproduce bugs in iOS 8 than since iOS4.

Apple must have been under time pressure to release the new iPhones / IOS8 'on time'. These bugs, are an annoyance rather than critical / show shoppers.
 
itjw said:
Rule #1 of getting more than you are supposed to is to NOT TELL THE PEOPLE YOU ARE GETTING MORE FROM ABOUT IT!!! Especially when they are trying to convince you to upgrade it so they can make more money =P

Your speeds are about to get throttled, and you have only yourself to blame!

Next time someone asks you how their service is, say: I would always be happy were it a little FASTER. Never, ever, say it's faster than you pay for lol...
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this was a while ago, and i haven't noticed any slow downs. chillax
i always have the last laugh with Verizon anyways since i use between 30GB-50GB a month on my grandfathered VZW unlimited data plan
 
McGiord said:
In order to improve the battery life for my iPhone 5 I disable Background App refresh for all Apps, i used to have some apps working fine previously with iOS 7.
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I always turn off Background App refresh. I don't see a need for it, what with how good background notifications are. I don't want an app updating itself unless I'm looking at it.
 
If you paying top dollars for a phone especially apple products they shouldn't be any bugs especially all them high end techs they have acquired to do the math.
 
Battery life is fine, but my iPad 3's wifi performance has dropped. Also, my iPhone 6 will sometimes just disconnect from my Wifi.
 
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