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MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?

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TonyC28 said:
I’ve noticed this lately too but thought it was just safari in general. Are the ads also why MR takes longer to load sometimes?
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Ads load after the initial page load so shouldn’t delay the page appearing.
 
arn said:
Ads load after the initial page load so shouldn’t delay the page appearing.
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Ok so page loads fully, then ads work on loading. This is why even with the page displayed the load “bar” still appears at the top?
 
TonyC28 said:
Ok so page loads fully, then ads work on loading. This is why even with the page displayed the load “bar” still appears at the top?
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The bar may still show loading, so that could be related. Does it happen when the ads are no longer being shown for logged in users? If so that’s not ad related.
 
arn said:
Yep. Will be talking to our ad network again this week to try to see what else we can do.
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Hope they are taking this seriously since for the last weeks this site has regularly been bringing my iPad Pro M1, our iPhone 13s (2 for sons) and my iPhone 12 Pro Max to seeming overheating status. My MacBook Pros regularly blast the fans and display the standard warning on using too many resources. Very frustrating for some time now.
 
Anyone seen an improvement with Safari 15? I just got it updated today and I am not having the issue? Maybe I am wrong??
 
arn said:
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@Alfieg

Can you let me know which theme (MacRumors Autodetect vs Light vs Dark) are you presently using (bottom right of page), and if your iOS device is in dark or light mode?

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Autodetect and the issue is present both when iOS is set to light as well as to dark.
 
cp1160 said:
Hope they are taking this seriously since for the last weeks this site has regularly been bringing my iPad Pro M1, our iPhone 13s (2 for sons) and my iPhone 12 Pro Max to seeming overheating status. My MacBook Pros regularly blast the fans and display the standard warning on using too many resources. Very frustrating for some time now.
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I know I’m telling you the obvious, but you’re going have to install an ad block. That’s what I did and it eliminated the issue from the annoying scrolling ads and overheating, plus you don’t have to pay be a contributor to avoid something that shouldn’t happen in the first place.

Also, I already mentioned it once, but I’ll say it again. Try using ‘low power mode’, that won’t stop the progression of heating entirely, but it will lower the thermals considerably.

[Yes, iOS 15 has been installed on everyone of my devices where the issue was still present before the ad-guard install.]
 
This is super frustrating. Surely this can be diagnosed and resolved by the Devs? I just tried Firefox and Chrome and the phone was actually cool to the touch. Now in Safari again and a few seconds in its roasting hot. Only on MacRumors. No extensions, ad blocker on or off makes no difference.

Needs fixing.
 
Alfieg said:
This is super frustrating. Surely this can be diagnosed and resolved by the Devs? I just tried Firefox and Chrome and the phone was actually cool to the touch. Now in Safari again and a few seconds in its roasting hot. Only on MacRumors. No extensions, ad blocker on or off makes no difference.

Needs fixing.
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Have you tried resetting Safari completely? Can remove website data from macrumors specifically in General -> Safari -> Advanced -> Website data.

That it still happens with JavaScript off and doesn’t happen in Chrome or Firefox on iOS suggests it’s not our website and is a bug in iOS/Safari itself.

Chrome and Firefox for iOS uses the same WebKit renderer for html and JavaScript that Safari does.

If it were our website code causing it, it would happen in those browsers also. It would also not happen with JavaScript disabled.

I don’t know what is causing it but in your specific case, it’s not something we have control over. You can try reporting to Apple but I’m not sure how responsive they are on those sort of reports.
 
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Scratch that, it is doing it in other browsers. Not sure why it wasn’t before but it definitely is now. 🤷‍♂️

I’ll do a complete phone restore tomorrow to see if a brand new iOS install does it.
 
Was experiencing this too and created a new thread about it last night (didn’t know this thread existed). Ironic that MR is causing issues for iOS and Mac devices lmao. Anyway I downloaded Wipr per the suggestion of one of the commenters and seemed like my problem went away. It shouldn’t be that way though? Why are they not optimizing this site?
 
I had this issue yesterday, I opened a thread because I had no idea this site could cause the problem but yeah, I sat in the sunshine yesterday, I opened this forum and straight away my screen went all dark impossible to read.. I thought my new 13 pro phone was defective
I will install an ad blocker to see if that helps
 
I was having this issue with the iPhone 12 Pro and now with the 13 Pro. Even worse, it's uncomfortable to hold due to the temperature. Playing with Call of Duty for one hour doesn't warm the iPhone near as close as while browsing the MR forum.
 
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This is worse than ever now even with Firefox Focus content blocking

Wtf is wrong with this website
 
I switched out our lazy load js library to a different one to see if that helps.
 
For me it seems solved for the moment. Surfing this site for about 20 minutes now and and my phone is nowhere near the temperatures it had in the past few weeks. Way better.
 
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For sure I thought I was the only one who experienced this issue my iPhone 12 Pro max used to burn around the rear camera and it drains the battery fast when I enter macrumors through safari started using tapatalk.
 
Definitely not fixed for me. Still overheating and battery drain only on MacRumors.
 
Relentless Power said:
I know I’m telling you the obvious, but you’re going have to install an ad block.
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Ad block doesn’t solve it. iPhone 13 Mini gets hot to the touch within seconds of opening the site. I hadn’t noticed it on my IPP, probably because of the case and size difference, but it’s obviously the reason my battery life on it is abysmal.

I don’t see this on any other site I visit.

Surely there’s a dev tool that can show what’s running, no? This has been going on for months— time to hire someone to resolve it? MR isn’t a quaint backwater anymore, it’s a for profit business. Turning features on and off to see what works can only get so far.
 
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Analog Kid said:
Ad block doesn’t solve it. iPhone 13 Mini gets hot to the touch within seconds of opening the site. I hadn’t noticed it on my IPP, probably because of the car and size difference, but it’s obviously the reason my battery life on it is abysmal.

I don’t see this on any other site I visit.

Surely there’s a dev tool that can show what’s running, no? This has been going on for months— time to hire someone to resolve it? MR isn’t a quaint backwater anymore, it’s a for profit business. Turning features on and off to see what works can only get so far.
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if it were consistent maybe.

watch this: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...s-causing-battery-drain.2298839/post-30384923

If you can ad block, reboot and run that same test and tell me how many pages on it takes to drop 1 percent battery, that might be helpful to know.
 
If anyone is seeing this issue consistently, can you disable the rich text editor for now, and see if that makes any difference? Still investigating.

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