I think you are over exaggerating the battery power usage because the competition is able to handle it.
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Preliminary Reports Suggest iOS 13.3 Fixes Multitasking Problems
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The A13 is Apple's first with sophisticated Clock Mgmt, & is the #1 reason Battery Life has improved in the 2019 iPhones.
By extension, I believe Apple's Software Team decided to try something similar with DRAM Mgmt, starting with iOS 13.2.
They clearly got it wrong with their first attempt, but at least now it's a priority.
IMO, the Timer addition in 13.3 may end up being a great compromise !
E.g., backgrounded apps get purged from DRAM after 5 minutes or so.
It's a BIG benefit when running High Perf apps, as well ! ... potential Game Changer to Extreme Perf Camera Apps !
By extension, I believe Apple's Software Team decided to try something similar with DRAM Mgmt, starting with iOS 13.2.
They clearly got it wrong with their first attempt, but at least now it's a priority.
IMO, the Timer addition in 13.3 may end up being a great compromise !
E.g., backgrounded apps get purged from DRAM after 5 minutes or so.
It's a BIG benefit when running High Perf apps, as well ! ... potential Game Changer to Extreme Perf Camera Apps !
Whats this timer addition you speak of?
And yes my battery life is better under 13.2 compared to 12.4.1. I’m on an iPhone 7 too.
Wouldn't the battery size have quite a bit to do with it?
On second thought, I think they may have addressed the severe app closing bug.
It’s 10 PM and I just went on my phone and on Amazon and Safari and they did not relaunch, and I last opened them in the afternoon.
When the bug was present, the relaunch was rather instantaneous the moment I would leave the app.
hopefully this addresses my main issue with YouTube closing in the background the moment I pause the video in Control Center
It’s 10 PM and I just went on my phone and on Amazon and Safari and they did not relaunch, and I last opened them in the afternoon.
When the bug was present, the relaunch was rather instantaneous the moment I would leave the app.
hopefully this addresses my main issue with YouTube closing in the background the moment I pause the video in Control Center
So I take it you’re not going to switch platforms because of one bug in one OS release then?
Its no use, I am tired of this cat and mouse game where every release fixes something and breaks something else. I am told this is just the nature of software today because its so complicated.
I wish Apple would at least let us run the OS+Software we find stable enough until we decided to upgrade when there are features we really would like to have instead of sending nagging notifications daily to upgrade to the latest buggy release. Pulling support on older OS's from Apple and 3rd party party do not allow us to do this.
I wish Apple would at least let us run the OS+Software we find stable enough until we decided to upgrade when there are features we really would like to have instead of sending nagging notifications daily to upgrade to the latest buggy release. Pulling support on older OS's from Apple and 3rd party party do not allow us to do this.
How on earth does two forum posts and a Tweet justify an article? I know SEO is important but come onnnn.
I thought iOS RAM management was “much better” than Android... at least that’s what the religious fraction of this forum is thinking
The non-religious fraction of the forum seems to think this as well. (Well not the entirety of the non-religious fraction)
seriously. something like this should be take care of with a quicker .0 update.
It’s only one of many bugs in iOS 13 (such as the web page preview when long pressing a link that now shows about 1 inch of the top of the page only).
I am pretty convinced that iOS 13 is going to be one of those bad memory releases where it never gets it right. Time to write this one off, hunker down and wait for iOS 14
I am pretty convinced that iOS 13 is going to be one of those bad memory releases where it never gets it right. Time to write this one off, hunker down and wait for iOS 14
Battery life improved roughly in line with the battery size increase. I believe Anandtech did not find much in terms of efficiency improvements in A13 compared to the predecessor.
Nope... Multitasking and controller support is what made me switch.
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This whole issue shows the dangers of relying on the internet for TECHNICAL explanations and understanding.
There was a real problem, yes, but as far as I can tell (my experience and reading what others say) it was NOT an "iOS 13.2 multitasking" problem, it was a problem with web-type stuff. "Non-web" multitasking (ie apps that weren't presenting web pages or web page wrappers) worked, IMHO, better in 13.2 than before (in the sense that apps stayed alive without being killed or losing state) for longer, and in the face of more other apps being launched, than in 13.1 or earlier.
Does this difference matter? Well it doesn't matter if your only interest is complaining to Apple to fix it. But it does matter if you want to understand what is going on (or at least want to present yourself as such...)
Not sure about that. Playing a downloaded episode in Prime Video and pausing it for a bit to the point where the screen turns off and then unlocking the phone again would end up needing to fully relaunch the Prime Video app and selecting the episode to resume where you were before.
Isn’t that what I said? Prime video is probably a thin wrapper around a web page...
Point is, this may well have nothing to do with multi-tasking per se. It may, for example, be a security measure (perhaps rushed out...) that deliberately prevents a web page from persisting after losing focus because (somehow?) that allowed for JS to escape the sandbox. Now that Apple have been able to figure out a decent solution, such an aggressive quick fix is no longer necessary.
Is it?
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It may, or may not. It may have something web related to it, or it may not. As far as able being able to figure out a decent solution vs. an aggressive quick fix -- what particular details are known about it all?