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Is Apple’s iOS 11 Update KILLING iPhone Battery Life?
Richard Goodwin
25/09/2017 – 9:12am
Apple’s iOS 11 update has come under fire, following reports that the new iPhone and iPad update is draining battery life
Apple’s iOS 11 update is now out in the wild and, in true Apple fashion, it is up and running on more iPhones that Google’s Android Nougat update, which has been available for over a year.
All is not well, though, as multiple reports are now claiming that iOS 11 is having some pretty serious effects on iPhone battery life – and not in a good way.
iOS 11 packs in a bunch of new features, optimisations, and security features, as you’d expect, but no one was expecting the update to negatively impact their iPhone’s battery performance.
But it does – and Wandera has the proof.
“We looked at a subset of 50,000 moderate to heavy iPhone and iPad users in our network running iOS 10 and iOS 11 to compare the average battery decay rate over the past three days,” said Wandera.
It added: “Assuming the same device started with the battery at 100%, this chart shows how long it takes to get to 0% for each version. The current estimate is 240 mins for iOS 10 and 96 mins for iOS 11.”
And that is quite a shortfall, especially since iOS 11 is meant to be a battery-focussed update. This will, of course, be addressed by Apple with an update in the very near-future, as all bugs are.
If you are suffering in the interim, however, there are a couple of options available to you: 1) limit the number of applications that can refresh in the background, and 2) turn of location services for certain applications or all of them.
If that doesn’t help, you’ll have to embrace low power mode until Apple issues a fix.
Yay!