“Are you finding that your iPhone’s battery life isn’t anywhere near as good as it was with iOS 10? You’re not alone.,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet.
“Every time Apple releases a new version of iOS, there never a shortage of people complaining that their battery life has gone from great to terrible. Sometimes this is just down to the iPhone or iPad needing a few charge/recharge cycles to recalibrate the battery charging mechanism and for things like Spotlight to finish indexing all the files on the device, other times it’s a bug in iOS or an app that’s sucking at the battery,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “It seems that iOS 11 has a problem that’s seriously affecting battery life.”
“I generally ignore these early reports, but we’re now almost two weeks on from release, and despite seeing iOS 11.0.1 being released, battery life continues to be a big problem for many users,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “[Beyond he usual tweaks], we’re all going to have to wait for Apple to push out a patch to address the problem (early indications suggest that iOS 11.1, which has been released to beta testers, goes some way to improve battery life).”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Are you having battery issues with your iOS 11 devices? Thankfully, we’re not.
Again, if you’re able to hold out, wait for the first full point release (iOS 11.1) in order to allow Apple identify any major issues and correct them.
SEE ALSO:
Apple’s iOS 11.0.1 update causes havoc for some iPhone and iPad users – October 2, 2017
I have had better
Yup, pretty bad after updating to 11. Still, I wouldn’t go back.
Nothing wrong with battery life.
1 week with an iPhone 8 and battery life is better than my old 5S, cant say how much but it is better.
Yup. Noticeable difference on an iPhone 7 here.
I disable Spotlight indexing for most non-essential apps.
I keep brightness around the 25% mark or below.
Definitely seeing worse performance since upgrading.
Yup, huge difference in battery life.
Normally, A fully charged phone and I will wake up with a fully charged phone.
Now a fully charged phone in the A.M. is down to 95% and it gets worse during the day.
I used to be able to go 2 days between charges, not anymore. Have to charge everyday now.
always wait for x.2!
It’s hard to say because I generally have my phone on charge on and off all day plus I’ve only used it on a new iPhone 8 as opposed to an iPhone 6. I’ve certainly not noticed it draining particularly quickly. In the past when iOS has been updated I have always found that a restart or two seems to fix things.
I have iOS beta installed a while at first it was bad but after few updates it is not bad, not worse that 10. Make sure you turn off lot of app which monitors activity and fetching data continuously, pick your important one. It is exaggerated more than it is.
Unless you’ve got a spare device never upgrade until at least 2 months has past from release. I’ve planned my upgrade for mid November, hopefully by then all those little bugs have been ironed out.
The new OS comes out. People spend more time using it and learning the new features… then complain that they have less battery than before. Rinse…. repeat.
I don’t know. I have a 6s and a 9.7″ iPad pro on iOS 11 and am not seeing any battery related issues at all. YMMV.
both my iPad Pro and iPhone 7 have has serious issues with battery drain. Have tweeked so many things, I can’t even list, but still bad, really bad
Simple solution that has worked for every user I’ve talked to that said they had this problem on upgrading to iOS 11. Do a forced shutdown and restart. Problem gone.