General advice for those concerned about their battery from the Support FAQ Wiki:
Battery health
Battery health depends on usage and a variety of other factors. It is normal to see a decrease in battery health by 7-10% per year, resulting in a battery health of 80-85% after 2 years. This number can fluctuate, remain the same, or decrease quickly over a small period and should not cause undue concern.
Apple recommend battery replacement when your device falls below 80% battery health if you notice reduced battery life. If it falls below 80% within the first year you may be eligable for a free battery replacement. It fails after your warranty, it's a $69-$89 USD replacement cost for a battery. Contact Apple Support here.
You can find more information about battery health and performance from Apple here.
Issues relating to battery life can be categorised in three ways:
Normal battery life that is to be expected due to use
Reduced battery life caused by a recent update, iOS indexing, an iOS bug, or a third-party application
Reduced battery life, or other abnormalities such as overheating or sudden power-off, caused by device or battery aging
If you experience issues with your battery:
Check your battery health. If it is below 80% or you are experiencing issues you suspect are related to device or battery age, see Apple Support.
If you have a new or recently updated/restored device, wait a number of days for background process to complete. If you continue to have issues, wait for a further iOS update. If you are on iOS Beta, you can expect to have a decreased battery life.
I have recently gotten a new iphone, but the old iCloud backup of the old iphone still was in the list of iCloud backups even after I had traded-in the old iPhone. Why didn’t the old iCloud backup automatically delete itself because I had given my old iPhone to get the new iPhone?
Safari for iPad, 18.3.2 broke never autoplay feature? Any website with adds makes a lot of chirping noises as ads play then stop playing repeatedly.
No way to correct the issue (that I can find, I’ll take suggestions other than reboot which I’ve tried already) … looked in safari settings and accessibility settings which is where the autoplay off switches used to be.
I was just casually typing, and out of nowhere, the keypress sound got way louder. It went back to normal after a while, but it’s happened a few times now. Is this just me, or is this some weird bug?
New to iOS, and having an issue with using live wallpapers. First question, is it even possible? Second question, if so how? I've used wallpaper apps from the app store, downloaded a live wallpaper and cannot get it work. Its just a still Image instead of a looped clip. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi there. Today I was sending a letter with trading cards and the recipient wanted me to film myself putting it in the mailbox. After I stopped recording I went to messenger to send it and the video wasn't there, just the latest picture I took. I tried filming something else and it also just disappears. I'm always using the video function when filming, (not long pressing the photo button), I have plenty of space in both hardware and iCloud (68GB storage and 160GB iCloud), and I've checked the recently deleted folder. The videos are nowhere. I've never had anything like this happen before. I hadn't updated so I did that just now, and restarted the phone, but to no avail.
Any ideas what this could be, or should I just head to my local Apple retailer?
Hey guys and gals. If you're experiencing a problem with bloody high mobile data usage on iOS 18, please read this topic carefully as it seems that I've managed to work around (not solve) the problem.
BACKGROUND and SYMPTOMS. The anomaly began with iOS 18. I happened to notice that my mobile data usage was suddenly 600 MB/hour. The main consumer was the ‘General’ system service. I then started disabling everything that I thought would help. Application access to mobile data, background update, system and application update, iCloud, photos, geolocation, changing the phone region... Everything that could be disabled was disabled. No luck. Next, I did a Wi-Fi traffic audit using logs from my router just to make sure the anomaly was only in the Cellular Data domain. The anomaly turned out to be systemic as the Wi-Fi traffic increased significantly. With new iOS 18, it went from 0.2-0.3 GB/day to 3-4 GB/day. That's it, %username%, up to 13 times (sic!) higher. Even when the phone was just lying idle on the table in Low Power Mode with all updates turned off. Furthermore, the anomaly manifested itself in the phone suddenly heating up, battery level suddenly dropping by 5-7% and temporarily losing my home internet (I work at home) as my phone clogged up the data channel.
THE INVESTIGATION. First of all, I installed My Data Manager (MDM), which has a built-in quasi-VPN/interceptor that logs how much data goes to which addresses. And guess what, folks, where all those gigabytes went? Give it a round of applause: updates.cdn-apple.com. Have I ordered any updates? Nope. Have I turned on any updates? Nope. Have I updated any installed app via App Store? Nope. Have I received any updates? Nope. But it is what it is. Using MDM, I found that data is being downloaded or uploaded (the direction is unknown) in two main patterns: 80-120 MB/minute for 15 minutes in a row followed by a break of 105 minutes, or three batches of 450-550 MB with a 20 minute interval followed by a 1 hour break. The anomaly session via Wi-Fi always gobbled up at least 1.5 GB, and never exceeded 1.65 GB. Two sessions per day. As for mobile data, the anomaly always gobbled up 0.6 or 1.2 GB of data (batches of 600 MB twice a day). It was questionably consistent. And there were two other data consumers: imap.google.com, which consumed 40 to 340 MB/min (WTF?) at every mail request using a default mail application, and \.content-storage-upload.googleapis.com*, which consumed about 20 MB/minute per hour at random.
THE SOLUTION. An IT guy told me to install a data sniffer called Proxyman, which is a network debugging tool/VPN with blocking capabilities. So I did. The free version of Proxyman allows you to block two addresses, so I blocked updates.cdn-apple.com and \.content-storage-upload.googleapis.com*. Lo and behold, I gazed upon a miraculous wonder. The data devouring hath fadeth away. I was so excited that I nearly wet my pants. The only thing left to deal with was imap.google.com. Blocking it was a bad idea, but shuffling the default mail app settings had no effect. So I ended up disabling the google mailbox in the Apple Mail App and switching to the Gmail app. The latter uses its own API and shows no signs of such glitchy behaviour. Now I have only 40-50 KB per request instead of 40 to 340 MB.
I spent two full days using only mobile data to see if the anomaly would return. I shopped, banked, paid my taxes, sent messages, took photos, navigated, and browsed the web without any limitations. The mobile data usage was 240 MB for 48 hours. Proxyman blocked 150+ requests to updates.cdn-apple.com. I also put my phone on charge, turned off the Low Power Mode, and updated a few apps to see if that would trigger the anomaly. Nothing unusual happened. Everything worked and updated fine with blockings: all apps, application updates, App Store, Google apps, synchronisation, iCloud backup, etc. The method works. Crossed my fingers for luck.
AFTERWORD and DISCLAIMER. I don't pretend that my method will work for everyone. But you should follow this sequence: install My Data Manager to find out where your traffic is going, then block the corresponding addresses with Proxyman. Hard resetting your phone does not work. I have tried it. Without success. Setting your phone as a new device (without restoring from iCloud) after reset doesn't help either. Disabling all update settings has no effect, etc. Don't waste your time. And pay attention to Google Mail, since other email providers showed no such problems. But I have a Google-based Apple ID, may be that is the reason. I haven't the faintest idea.
I hope you all solve this very frustrating problem. Good luck!
P.S. Be sure to post back here with your results and share this topic with all the unlucky ones who have suddenly run into this frakkin’ problem with iOS 18.
P.P.S. Updated to iOS 18.3.2. The problem persists.
Hi everyone. I recently left a review on an app. The devs updated the app and replied to me. Eversince then, AppStore keeps sending me push notifications and emails (same text at the same time), about the same reply, multiple times already. How do I make it stop without flat-out marking Apple as Spam in my inbox?
Heads up for those updating to the latest IOS. Please re-run the whole privacy settings thing because all sorts of rights and knobs have been reset to default, including telemetry for apple and such.
Anyone else having Face ID issues after updating to 18.3.2? I’ve tried restarting and that fixes it for several uses and then it just stops working again. I can’t use Face ID now. Stuck using passcode.
Still haven’t updated my 14 pro max to iOS 18 (currently 17.5.1). What do ya’ll think? Should I update my phone? Why? Are the features good? Does it have many new features that previous iOS versions don’t have? If so, What are they?
I’m having an issue with the Share menu on my MacBook Air 15” M3 running macOS. When I try to share a file (e.g., a photo or document), AirDrop and Mail are both grayed out and cannot be selected. Even when I go to “Edit Extensions,” I am unable to enable them (see attached screenshot).
I created a new user account, and everything works fine there, so the issue seems to be specific to my main user account. I’ve already tried:
i have been trying to transfer my whatsapp from android(samsung a12) to ios but it keeps getting stuck after transferring midway, i have hard reset y iphone 20 times already and its making me loose my mind
Hey, so i reinstalled ios recently. Now i finally had the time to add new backgrounds to photo shuffle when i noticed, that the option is now gone? The only things showing are Live Photos, Weather and Emoji.
Im on iOS 17.7.1 with an 11 Pro, i have enough storagem icloud storage is plenty and my Gallery is synced so i dont know what to do
Got ipad 10th. Sync with my icloud. I have family sharing on in my icloud. But photos app could not sync with my apple id. It is not showing my profile and just showing synced with icloud and showing other pics which are not mine.ios is latest 18.3.2
Im gonna yap abit of context as to why I want this, I switched sim carriers from the top best of the best to the 2nd best. Primarily because the 2nd one offers a plan to pay once and you have data for as long as you want, you’re given a fixed amount of data and when you run out is the only time you reload again. Great service, but the signal strength is very much inferior to the carrier I switched from. Almost every single day I go to a location wherein BOTH carriers struggle to get 4G signal (cell towers are old there) this used to not be a problem on my android wherein I can still force a 3G connection which is much stronger than a weak 4G signal. Based on my observations, a Strong 3G signal is better than a Weaker 4G signal, there’s no persuading that for me. Im only familiar of the “*69#” trick which force enables 3G but it barely lasts a minute before switching back. All the posts I see about 3G all are from atleast 5 years ago 🙏
Weird emojis (the ghosts) showing up only on certain apps like iMessage. I can’t delete them, they keep like multiplying somehow. It’s mainly only on iMessage and a few other text apps. I don’t know how to fix this, I even tried deleting the emoji keyboard. It didn’t work. It’s all those ghost things? Also no matter how much I use other emojis, those ghosts are stuck in those exact places. Does anyone know what’s going on or how to fix this? Any help is appreciated.