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iPhone 13 iPhone 13 - battery life thread [MEGA THREAD]
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1. How many minutes how usage?
3. sad to hear, which metro system are we talking about?
No idea, probably it uses less battery the physical sims.
My previous phone had a quite bad case of "mobile network" battery drain, I had 2 physical sims
So Apple should optimize daily use of popular apps like FB, Messenger, Instagram - not only videos
Apple is giving us the power to optimize those cluster**** ourselves by giving us option to disable their tracking, background activity, location services and so on...
Compared to how bad they are on Android, on iOS they probably use 1/5
Part of the game 😆I like devices produced by Apple but there is always a problem with whatever
We seem to have similar performances.
I use 5G and Google Maps is quite expensive on the battery, maybe the new app update or ios 5.0.2 helped, today it looked smoother.
I knew you were in London since you complained about no signal in the underground lol
For me it’s okay to get 5:30-6h SOT when nearly everytime nacigation + 65+% brightness etc.
Well, I may have to take a look at my phone, settings again. OR perhaps roll back to 15.0.1 - before it becomes "unsigned"
I updated to this new update last night (15.0.2). Took a few photos, brief clips this morning and it sucked up 7% battery in about 8-9 min.
May not seem a lot, but in the same time frame on launch day iOS 15.0-15.0.1, it would have drained 2...maybe 3% at the most.
No idea, MAYBE it's still indexing??? After 13 hours though?
I updated to this new update last night (15.0.2). Took a few photos, brief clips this morning and it sucked up 7% battery in about 8-9 min.
May not seem a lot, but in the same time frame on launch day iOS 15.0-15.0.1, it would have drained 2...maybe 3% at the most.
No idea, MAYBE it's still indexing??? After 13 hours though?
I have had the 13 Pro Max for about 5 days now and while the battery is good it's not near what others are reporting. Even with light - moderate use I end up with around 30% by end of day. I have heard for the first few days it may be indexing or whatever background process goes on but it's been five days now so kinda curious.
I am not getting 6-7 hours of screen on time with 50% left like others have reported here. How long did it take for the battery life to start stabilizing for you guys and when did you notice you reached the maximum battery life?
I am not getting 6-7 hours of screen on time with 50% left like others have reported here. How long did it take for the battery life to start stabilizing for you guys and when did you notice you reached the maximum battery life?
It’s 4G the problem. In Wi-Fi I can double my autonomy basically
‘People like myself were getting the best performance when the phone was first released . It seems 15.01 has significantly effected performance.
I watched YouTube for almost two hours and consumed approximately 9%. Plugged in while getting ready, by the time I got out of the shower and dressed, using the optimized battery charging mode, 40 minutes later completely topped off. The charging time could have been less as I picked up my 13 Pro Max after getting dressed.
Another update. It has been 42 hrs 30 mins since I started the low power mode hyper-mile extreme battery test.
Right now I have 10 hrs 42 mins, with 62% battery used. The estimate right now for 100% usage, is 17 hrs 15 mins. For far I have been using 3.97%/hr battery. And I still have 3% left battery before I end the experiment. Overnight, the battery only drop about 4%. Today I used maps twice, for 20 mins or so each time and I only ended up using about 6% battery using 5G. I think I have just proved that this years 5G modem is pretty power efficient by only using 6% battery total. I find it really impressive how much I can do with my 13 Pro Max with such little battery usage. The A15 in low power mode is only using 3 watts of battery. That is staggeringly amazing.
I am really curious how much further I can go on the next 3% battery. Using iOS 15.0.1.
Right now I have 10 hrs 42 mins, with 62% battery used. The estimate right now for 100% usage, is 17 hrs 15 mins. For far I have been using 3.97%/hr battery. And I still have 3% left battery before I end the experiment. Overnight, the battery only drop about 4%. Today I used maps twice, for 20 mins or so each time and I only ended up using about 6% battery using 5G. I think I have just proved that this years 5G modem is pretty power efficient by only using 6% battery total. I find it really impressive how much I can do with my 13 Pro Max with such little battery usage. The A15 in low power mode is only using 3 watts of battery. That is staggeringly amazing.
I am really curious how much further I can go on the next 3% battery. Using iOS 15.0.1.
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Not sure what’s causing those brief early AM 1 minute bursts as I’m not doing it, I’ve got scheduled down time on and do not disturb enabled. It’s not coming from things I’ve allowed through either. Something to do with the auto shutoff cable it’s attached to maybe?
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Not sure what’s causing those brief early AM 1 minute bursts as I’m not doing it, I’ve got scheduled down time on and do not disturb enabled. It’s not coming from things I’ve allowed through either. Something to do with the auto shutoff cable it’s attached to maybe?
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It can always get worse. I might just wait for 15.1 to be released. Right now I am getting stellar battery life.
You seem to be getting 10 hrs battery life with about 35% battery left. I think you are seeing that iOS is not correctly calculating battery usage. There was another person who has a 12 Pro and their battery graph was showing them getting 20 hours of battery life on 100% battery usage. That is not possible, as that would be better then the 12 Pro Max and even the 13 Pro Max.
Your battery graph indicates that you would be able to get 15 hrs on 100% battery usage. That is not possible on a 13 Mini. I think maybe that iOS 15.1 will fix the battery usage issue. I say there is an issue because the battery percentage does not get updated correctly. This is people see the battery percentage hanging at a value for hours. And this has been verified against Coconut battery where iOS is always showing a battery percentage higher then actual.
I'm definitely not having the issue where the battery indicator is getting stuck on a certain percent. I agree something isn't likely being calculated right there. If it helps clarify I unplugged it at 100% at 6:30-35AM and it hit 20% at about 6:30PM, so about 12 hours in actual real time. The biggest user was Audible running in the background for a good 6hrs with Safari in second place with around 2.5hrs, will double check the figures if you're interested?
Its also been in low power mode too.
13 Mini usage by app. I’m not sure why things like torch, wallet etc are displaying when I haven’t used them either, background app refresh is off. I did open and close them after I noticed them on there in hopes that might remind them they’re not supposed to be doing anything. I’m wondering if they’re not completely erroneous results too?
