I believe I have found the iOS 11 battery drain glitch

[madman76]

I have noticed that if you turn off "Backgorund App Refresh", if you go to Settings > Twitter, for example, it will still show It turned ON, but un-editable. This is confirmed by my battery usage stats showing "Backgorund Activity" on Twitter draining the vast majority of my battery life.

If you turn "Background App Refresh" ON, then turn it off specifically for Twitter (or whatever other app), and then the whole feature OFF; go back to Settings > Twitter and you'll see it's now off.

Summary: Turning off "Background App Refresh" feature does NOT turn it off for everything as it indicates; you still have to go in and edit it for the specific app.

Since doing this my battery is working beautifully.

 

[jrdatrackstar1223]

I have noticed that if you turn off "Backgorund App Refresh", if you go to Settings > Twitter, for example, it will still show It turned ON, but un-editable. This is confirmed by my battery usage stats showing "Backgorund Activity" on Twitter draining the vast majority of my battery life.

If you turn "Background App Refresh" ON, then turn it off specifically for Twitter (or whatever other app), and then the whole feature OFF; go back to Settings > Twitter and you'll see it's now off.

Summary: Turning off "Background App Refresh" feature does NOT turn it off for everything as it indicates; you still have to go in and edit it for the specific app.

Since doing this my battery is working beautifully.

I asked this question a while ago while on IOS 10. I will try it again because maybe background activity behaves differently in 11.0.1? I shouldn’t have to change my old settings tho every time a freaking update comes out I guess is my problem...sigh..

And to think...I left my Nexus 5 behind because of battery life and reliability lol.

 

[Just_Me_D]

I have noticed that if you turn off "Backgorund App Refresh", if you go to Settings > Twitter, for example, it will still show It turned ON, but un-editable. This is confirmed by my battery usage stats showing "Backgorund Activity" on Twitter draining the vast majority of my battery life.

If you turn "Background App Refresh" ON, then turn it off specifically for Twitter (or whatever other app), and then the whole feature OFF; go back to Settings > Twitter and you'll see it's now off.

Summary: Turning off "Background App Refresh" feature does NOT turn it off for everything as it indicates; you still have to go in and edit it for the specific app.

Since doing this my battery is working beautifully.

Thanks for the tip...

 

[Jbrown99]

I have noticed that if you turn off "Backgorund App Refresh", if you go to Settings > Twitter, for example, it will still show It turned ON, but un-editable. This is confirmed by my battery usage stats showing "Backgorund Activity" on Twitter draining the vast majority of my battery life.

If you turn "Background App Refresh" ON, then turn it off specifically for Twitter (or whatever other app), and then the whole feature OFF; go back to Settings > Twitter and you'll see it's now off.

Summary: Turning off "Background App Refresh" feature does NOT turn it off for everything as it indicates; you still have to go in and edit it for the specific app.

Since doing this my battery is working beautifully.

I've been testing this theory out, as well the past week.
Either off completely or only while set to "WI-FI".
I do believe this helps.

Also, testing Location services/gps even though my apps are set to "While using" to just turning it off OFF. (Turned a feedback in for this) of course with it all off battery life increased b/c its not pinging anything.

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

The battery drain "glitch" is what I like to call the placebo effect.

 

[Trees]

I noticed that Photos was set up by default to use Cellular Data. Same with Google Photos. So at work this week I've been taking some pictures to capture serial numbers, input into a database, then delete the pictures.

Since cell signal is ok within the building, "Settings\Battery\Battery Usage" was showing Photos with "Low Signal" at times up to 7%. I disabled Cellular Data for the two photos apps, and will see if this helps.

Like with those above, I've set some apps to "While Using" or "Off" for Background and Location Services. Don't know why some of the apps became "enabled" again after restoring from my 6S+. Perhaps recent updates since the restore.

Will see how these two adjustments impact battery life over the next few workweeks.

 

[ItnStln]

The battery drain "glitch" is what I like to call the placebo effect.

How so?

 

[Tartarus]

How so?

If I’m not mistaken the toggle works like a placebo, telling you it did something while in fact it hasn’t..

 

[ItnStln]

If I’m not mistaken the toggle works like a placebo, telling you it did something while in fact it hasn’t..

Don't even get me started on the toggles in iOS 11. I'd love to know what apple's reason for the change was.

 

[Tartarus]

Don't even get me started on the toggles in iOS 11. I'd love to know what apple's reason for the change was.

That’s a discussion for another thread.

 

[ItnStln]

That’s a discussion for another thread.

It's also a question nobody seems to have an answer to

 

[doogald]

Don't even get me started on the toggles in iOS 11. I'd love to know what apple's reason for the change was.

It's been discussed in another thread, but Apple's stated reasons are at the top of this support page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086

 

[Wotchered]

I noticed some time ago that with every new update most of what I had turned off got turned on again !

 

[arnold7mark]

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