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Nice OS, shame about the battery drain
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It's slightly worse for me, but nothing drastic as you are describing. I am also using my iPhone ALL the time now, playing with the new UI, and still am getting through most of a work day with 20% remaining. I'm using an iPhone 5.
It seems about the same, to me. Or at least, so close that I can't tell?
Especially since I'm playing around with it more, since updating to the beta.
Especially since I'm playing around with it more, since updating to the beta.
Why is this so surprising to you guys? It's the first developer beta...
It's not a public release so this shouldn't be surprising.
It's not a public release so this shouldn't be surprising.
funny thing with betas, beta 2 or 3 could become worse. thats the price of putting a beta on your phone...ugh
I tested this today and purposefully didn't charge my 5 while using it. I got 5 hours and 55 minutes of usage with mostly using LTE, streaming radio, visiting websites, refreshing Tweetbot and some gaming. That's about the same I was getting with iOS 6.
It's a beta. You're a dev, you should know this and be running it on a test device for the strict purpose of updating your applications for iOS 7.
I can understand that. It's just the degree of the problem that took me by surprise. I wonder if that's primarily due to the different multitasking design.
I've already switched off location services, data, LTE, background update, and Bluetooth. I'm primarily just listening to music and checking Facebook occasionally in my test.
Did you restore from an iCloud backup? That will severely drain your battery until it finishes. If you, like me, have tons of photos and media, that can take days.
It's simply because it's a beta. Apple doesn't intend for it to be used on a device daily I would think so it's likely not the top priority over bug fixes. Plus, there's probably extra things running like debug code and diagnostic stuff because it's a beta. There also could be bugs with new features that are causing the drain. There's a reason they have betas.
Please know that I'm not one of those people who hates non-devs using betas. I'm merely pointing out that the reason the beta has bad battery life is because it's a beta and there are still things to be worked out.
They're acting so surprised as though it can't possibly have bad battery life.
I'm sorry. I originally put how, then saw that someone else did too, so I took the instructions out. I'm glad you were able to shut yours off. I am seeing a difference with mine.