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Solver

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Jan 6, 2004
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3,192
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It is like night and day. I'm getting twice the battery life on my iPod Touch 5 after the iOS 8 beta 2 update. Before this, I never got more then two days of standby use with one full charge. I already have three and a half days of standby time and the device shows it is still over 25% charged.
I only use the device for maybe two-three usages hour per day.

In beta 1 the battery usage screen in settings was broken. Beta 2 fixed this. From this I found the apps that had been sucking up the juice and made adjustments. There were a few of them. Podcasts is one of them that comes to mind.

For battery efficiency on this device, iOS 8 beats (hand down) iOS 6 and iOS 7.
Maybe the is hope for others too.
 

Yakibomb

macrumors 6502
May 13, 2014
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60
Cape Town
It would be great if these battery management enhancements made it through to their other devices by the GM. I always welcome a few more minutes between charges
 
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