I'd recommend a Raspberry pi3b or pi4 running Wireguard and piHole. That will solve all of those issues and will work with as many devices as you need and cross-platform as well.
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iPhone 13 Pro Short iPhone 13 Pro Battery Life
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I exclusively browse MacRumors on my laptop. Phone is used primarily for Spotify, Twitter, Instagram, Messages, Gmail, and occasionally Tik Tok/Youtube.
Nice.
I only have Apple stuffs(safari) and Wipr worked for that, but I'll check those out too. (it's a miracle I've survived without installing Chrome on my MacBook Pro... I'm a Software Product Director for a web-based application. haha)
Congrats on surviving without Chrome! haha! I stay away from it as often as possible.
LOL!
I've had it on all my other iMac/MacBooks but got a new one and was like "eff it, I'm all-in on Safari only." I've held strong for over a year and not installed it yet.
(not sure my team has loved all the safari related bugs I pointed out to them though... but made our product better)
Yeah Safari has amazing battery life, and I really like the tab groups feature it has now. I'm also Safari only.
13 Pro here. Got it on the 24th and still haven't seen the battery life improve much. I'm going to look at the whole day today and see what kind of screen on time I get. Overall, battery life hasn't been good, and it doesn't seem to be from excessive overheating.
Try Tapatalk for this site. For whatever reason this site hurts your battery on your phoneWhat kind of battery life are people seeing on their new iPhone 13 Pro?
I’ve lost 50% of my battery life in barely 2 hours (it also it quite warm to the touch). All I’ve been doing is looking at the MacRumors website.
can you let us know how that effects? I turned mine to direct lte. I suppose even automatic 5G has bigger impact on battery.
yeah, will do. I was down to like 77% today with 80 minutes screen on and an hour screen off. Not great.
This seems perfectly normal, 7 and some hours of screen time and some % lost at night
Gives me solace to know that I wasn’t just going crazy re: the battery life. I’m going to contact Apple today and see what can be done.
Yeah, 10 hours after taking it off the charger I was at 30% and that's with 3h or Screen on and about 2.5h of Screen Off, which doesn't seem great at all. You might be right on even auto 5g taking up more battery. If I went all the way down to 10%, maybe I'd get to 5h. Either way, doesn't seem great.
Or I can pay $0.00/year for AdGuard and not have the phone run hot.
Why would I pay for a website not to cause my device to run hot and degrade my battery life?
If you are not using a ad blocker. I use AdBlock, my 13 Pro Max does not even get warm browsing MacRumors.
If the website for many years has provided you with valuable content and insight, it's not that bad of an idea to pay for it if it provides value to you. Of course you can pay $0.00 for AdGuard, I even suggested above using a Raspberry pi equipped with WireGuard + piHole... that solution pretty much will remove any sort of tracking and ads from all sites on every device you own, on demand. Just was recommending a way to remove ads that benefits you and MacRumors.
My 13 pro was activated and restored from backup three days ago and last night over 8 hours of sleep it lost 20% battery… I am so tired of this.
I see the point. But I just don’t use the forum much to make it a value to me to be honest.
On another note, what it is about the website that makes peoples phones run hot? Is it ads? I know the point of ads and don’t have a problem with them as long as they are not obsessive and overwhelming, which they don’t seem to be here…but I’m pretty sure having ads shouldn’t heat up phones like that. To me that says something is broken, and I don’t pay for broken things.
The problem is partly ads and lots of JavaScript and underlying trackers that constantly analyze where you move your mouse, what you click on, on every single page. It’s really lame. I get why they do it but that’s what causes lots of the heating and constant cpu cycles.
I use AdBlock Pro and I was having issues until MacRumors patched a temporary fix.