apple pencil battery life

Same here, I also think the spinning grey circle of a soft reboot is eating my battery life

I updated my iPhone 5S on monday night. I agree with everyone, battery life was horrible. I woke up this morning with 100% and 3 hours so far only lost 9%. with 43 minutes of usage. So it seems, that like early in this post, Siri might be indexing because my battery life has seemed to improve since I've updated.

I can confirm Spiv's solution worked for me. In Beta 3 the Batteries widget refused to show and I could no longer use the pencil. I followed the suggestions Spiv made and got it all working fine again for me now.

I have an Iphone 11, and my battery life is horrible ever since I updated to IOS 14

I installed the beta 4 and I haven’t had a problem nothing has crashed and my battery life is great

Try turning off the Hey Siri feature. It saved me a lot of battery life.

Confirmed here. After that, battery life went up. Considerably.Still, ordered a new battery for my late 2013 MBA, was I am down to like 9 hours from originall like 14.

Thanks for that info. Hoping them time scales are correct. Need a better battery life for work

My battery life is just as bad on beta 2. Really the most annouing part and I hate it. Any way to improve it?

Thanks, just shut down iCloud drive. my usage was Mail Background Activity and Home & Lock Screen. Phone running hot and battery draining. I was using Low Power mode (in Battery in Settings) which ran a bit cooler and maybe preserved battery life but still was draining very quickly. However, my apps that use SpriteKit and SceneKit ran so much faster now that they use Metal (recompiled in XCode Beta) that I'm in awe! I still want my battery life back though. 👿 Seriously, Beta 1.

Only partially correct.True, Betas tend to be battery users. Its expected. And Apple tends to fix these issues before GM.However for those who care, finding things that can improve battery life during the test phases (which tend to last a number of months) is a good thing. If you carry a test device and it runs dry early, testing (and whatever evaulation you might need) stops. Tips for beta battery life can quite effective at times.Its also the case that Apple folks monitor these forums, and may see info that gives them more insight on how to improve both the betas and upcoming GM. Like every other software firm since the start of time, Apple makes mistakes. A major reason for beta testing is gaining insight from the results of the thousands of testers that run the code thorugh countless situations they never find.

Make sure the watch is at 100% battery life and on the charger. Seemed to work for me after doing that.