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iPhone 7 battery life
- Thread starter stuey12345
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What can be causing the drain I have service location on and wifi on what should I do to fix it
a couple other things to make sure of:
- set Raise to Wake off (of course this is moot while you're sleeping)
- set Notifications, that aren't important enough, to not show on Lock Screen
well, that won't matter at all while you're sleeping anyway.
go through all these...
also, try setting off apps that don't need to refresh in the background. set off apps that don't need cellular data as well as location.
I did turn of Facebook notifications and messenger and mail I set to fetch manually
I will try that I did take it to apple last week and the diagnostic test passed
so before, my 7 used to drop ~12% over night. since I went through all those settings and updated to Beta 2 (and am now at Beta 3), it's hard to say which did it. but I only dropped 2% last night.
One thing that will help a lot is to either turn on DND at night or place the phone face down. That will keep the screen from constantly turning on.
Also if you are in a poor cell area, enable Wifi calling and/or put the phone in airplane mode.
Somehow Messages keeps using up my battery with 1-2 minutes of background usage. Have had this for a while and really don't know why this keeps happening. iPad shows the same stats.
Phone is at 40 percent after 16 hours of standby and 4 hours of usage proximately, can't show the stats because I did a hard reset for the messages problem.
Phone is at 40 percent after 16 hours of standby and 4 hours of usage proximately, can't show the stats because I did a hard reset for the messages problem.
This worked for me. Only lost ~3% overnight as opposed to the ~30% I was losing in a few hours.well, that won't matter at all while you're sleeping anyway.
go through all these...
also, try setting off apps that don't need to refresh in the background. set off apps that don't need cellular data as well as location.
I'm just wondering why the battery shows 37 min at home/lock screen. In 24 hours. I have the same.Somehow Messages keeps using up my battery with 1-2 minutes of background usage. Have had this for a while and really don't know why this keeps happening. iPad shows the same stats.
Phone is at 40 percent after 16 hours of standby and 4 hours of usage proximately, can't show the stats because I did a hard reset for the messages problem.
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to completely turn off all your radios is a bit much. are you still having as bad battery drains as before?
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woohoo!
These are my latest results on 10.0.2 and 7+. iPhone is on default settings, background app refresh on, BT on. Some Wi-fi usage. No low power mode used.
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My iPhone5 has been doing that. Worse: 100% to 80% overnight, attached to wifi, most refresh-in-background options turned off. I know I can put it in airplane mode, but like you I'm wondering what's making it drain so fast when no one is touching it. If it's not an iPhone7 thing, is it an iOS10.0.02 thing?
My wife's is doing the same thing... Gonna insist on a replacement. Even 10.1b3 doesn't fix it and often her texts (SMS only) don't work despite strong signal...
Got a lemon i think