You do know that the drop is not linear right? You can’t extrapolate a couple hours usage to a 100% battery. Not how it works.
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iPhone 13 iPhone 13 - battery life thread [MEGA THREAD]
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It’s misleading when the battery life ends up being a whole hour or more less than your estimate. Adding to that you tend to add the words of the sort “that’s good battery life” or “your battery estimate is in line with mine” which doesn’t help whoever’s asking for a solution.
The best thing is to reduce the amount of heat during charging. Using the 5 watt charger is fine. I use a 12 watt charger. Personally, I am sticking with slow charging, no fast or wireless charging. I use the 80/20 rule.
If you are looking for a recommendation for a smart plug, I use the Wemo WiFi smart plug. I chose it because it is HomeKit comparable. I have been using it for several months and it seems to work well so far.
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I have not noticed any regression is battery life using iOS 15.3 for my 13 Pro Max.
The consensus is that getting 12 hours, or more, of battery usage is good battery life. That means you would need to average 8.3%/hr not including periods of standby or charging.
If you apply that to your battery usage how does it look?
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Battery life still horrible will do one final test on WiFi only and will do a reset if its still bad
I have used Recovery Mode Update to fix some issues I have had. It refreshes a fresh copy of the latest iOS on your phone without touch your user data. I always do a backup as a precaution.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone or iPod touch - Apple Support
You can put your iOS device in recovery mode, then restore it using your computer.
I have used Recovery Mode Update to fix some issues I have had. It refreshes a fresh copy of the latest iOS on your phone without touch your user data. I always do a backup as a precaution.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone or iPod touch - Apple Support
You can put your iOS device in recovery mode, then restore it using your computer.support.apple.com
I’ve just done a full reset so will see the differences today.
I’ve been getting 2-3 hours screen on time. I got 4 hours yesterday but I had to put it in charge for 30 mins
Is anyone having issues with Standby battery drain? When I first got my 13 Pro it was great. Would easily get 2-3% drain at night if I didn't charge it.
But what's really bugging me now is that my phone is draining like 10% over a 6 hour span at night. Find My and the Home app are the only items which show up as being used.
I've tried a ton of things - unpair AirTags, turn off Find My, recreate my Home, reset all settings, etc. Nothing is working.
But what's really bugging me now is that my phone is draining like 10% over a 6 hour span at night. Find My and the Home app are the only items which show up as being used.
I've tried a ton of things - unpair AirTags, turn off Find My, recreate my Home, reset all settings, etc. Nothing is working.
The reset appears to have fixed my issues
Off charge at 10.00 it’s on 70% left with 2 hours, 30 mins screen time
Off charge at 10.00 it’s on 70% left with 2 hours, 30 mins screen time
Off the charger at 8:00AM, it’s 9:41PM now with 3h of screen on time, I have 60% left - presumably alright I guess.
Maybe try doing a Recovery Mode Update. It sometimes corrects issues. All it will do is refresh a new copy of the full OS. Make sure to do a backup as a precaution.
I don't have a usb-c or an adapter for my laptop to make the restore atm. I will give it a few days, have read that the first days after updating, the battery drain is normal; and slowly will get better. Health is still at 100%. Is just that since 15.1, every update was fine. Except now 
I hate to open this can of worms, but there are conflicting posts about this. Is my understanding of DFU and Recovery correct?
Both Recovery Mode + Update and DFU Update mode update the same thing... the iOS software image. The end result (update process and software installed) is the same, with exception of DFU allowing older software images. Recovery+Restore results in the same state as erasing the device and using either Update method. Both updates are equally thorough, and both "restore" approaches are equally thorough.
So there is no particular advantage to one or the other for installing the complete iOS software to troubleshoot battery issues? After doing an Update of iOS image without improvement, the next step is of the Restore approaches.
Does this match your understanding?