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MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
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I'm so happy to see this thread active. My phone drained by 15% with less than half an hour on this site this morning. Then I remembered to STOP accessing this site on safari because of the phone drain.
I decided to avoid MR on my phone for the rest of the day to figure out if MR has been the culprit of why I hate my iPhone 12 Pro's battery...
Can you try it in Debug mode:
MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
If anyone is still having problems, Here is something that will help me isolate it. 1. Scroll to bottom of page, and pick a theme "MacRumors Light" or "MacRumors Dark" depending on your preferences. "MacRumors Autodetect" won't work. 2. Visit: https://forums.macrumors.com/mr-utils/debug.php...
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arn
Does the paid membership guarantee battery savings? Right now for me it is draining battery like hell!If you like Macrumors and appreciate the timely articles and helpful community, consider becoming a Contributor ($25.00 / year). One of the perks of contributing is the removal of ads.
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What exactly is draining battery in this site? There are plenty of sites with ads... this site, as much as I like it is a monster.
You can help figure that out!
MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
If anyone is still having problems, Here is something that will help me isolate it. 1. Scroll to bottom of page, and pick a theme "MacRumors Light" or "MacRumors Dark" depending on your preferences. "MacRumors Autodetect" won't work. 2. Visit: https://forums.macrumors.com/mr-utils/debug.php...
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OK fine, I did what is there in the instructions now what? What do you need as feedback from me? Or are you saying it is caused by the auto detection of light / dark theme?
No, but once you have debug mode on, let me know if you see the battery drain or not.
Debug mode turns off many of the scripts that might be causing it.
You can help figure that out!
MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
If anyone is still having problems, Here is something that will help me isolate it. 1. Scroll to bottom of page, and pick a theme "MacRumors Light" or "MacRumors Dark" depending on your preferences. "MacRumors Autodetect" won't work. 2. Visit: https://forums.macrumors.com/mr-utils/debug.php...
OK, got it. Tell me one thing - if I subscribe to paid membership, then is that all turned off, i.e. No more tracking And battery drain?
While that has helped for some people, it hasn’t helped everyone. It also seems to happen with ad blockers, so it’s not the ads that seem to be causing the problem.
If you do subscribe and it doesn’t fix it, I’m happy to refund.
The debug mode is disabling scripts that are associated with addons and the theme (like the auto detect) and some other misc things… things beyond the stock xenforo installation. Doing so will end up breaking some functionality on the site, so that’s why I don’t want to disable them for everyone. If we can isolate the script that is causing it, then we can either investigate that further or see about removing it specifically.
But I don’t think it’s just an poorly written script. I believe it is trigging a bug in iOS/WebKit. Or it’s some weird conflict between two scripts we have. It doesn’t happen to everyone, so it’s hard to track down.
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For users still having issues, I recommend to delete Macrumors data from Safari. You wiil need to login again. Also update to iOS 15.1.
I was experiencing the problem as well, and after the changes made by Arn yesterday everything is working fine on my side after several hours of browsing on my iPhone.
I've been getting this repeatedly since the Monterey and Safari update. I came here to see if anyone else was getting it. Mac Rumors can only be open for a minute or so before I get a memory warning and then I need to force reload the page.
I suspect this is different from the iOS battery drain, but it's hard to say. Can you try the debug mode mentioned above.
Arn, it seems the debug mode helps with battery drain. It also has helped in macOS Safari - scrolling the site was choppy and debug improved it.You can help figure that out!
MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
If anyone is still having problems, Here is something that will help me isolate it. 1. Scroll to bottom of page, and pick a theme "MacRumors Light" or "MacRumors Dark" depending on your preferences. "MacRumors Autodetect" won't work. 2. Visit: https://forums.macrumors.com/mr-utils/debug.php...
Question: what is the persistency of debug mod? Per session, device, user? While it get switched off?
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