apple pencil battery life

Resolved: (for my situation) Even though my iPad Pro is compatible with Apple pencil, sidecar will still show No Devices until I actually connect my Apple pencil and my then my iPad shows up immediately.

Same problem on iPhone 7. Crazy battery drain (need to charge it 3/4 times a day) and excessive heat even when doing basic tasks like messaging. In addition, battery stats stated that battery current capacity was 79% of max capacity and needed a replacement. I have downgraded to iOS 13.7. Battery life is back, heat disappeared and battery stats states that the capacity is 92%, which is in line with battery age (10 months). I suggest you all to downgrade, the new functions of iOS 14 are not enough to stand with such issues.

I applaud your positivity and I hope the following doesn't apply for you, but quite a few people have found the battery % indicator to arbitrarily get stuck making it seem like the phone isn't charging or that the battery life is suddenly incredible. Turning the phone off and on yeilds a genuine reading though.

I agree, Siri works sometimes, not others. Hey Siri is not working at all. They may have turned it off, which is why battery life is better.

Battery life is horrible for me. I would end the day of normal use at about 30 percent at 11pm...today I was at 30 percent at 2pm. Hopefully they can pinpoint this quickly.

Poor battery life is the hallmark of every early beta since the programs began. Power management isn't a priority and will be put in place later in the cycle.

This happens with every single major beta release. It's normal. Battery life usually doesn't return to normal until beta 3 or 4.

Which beta are you running? With Version 3 I found that turning off Listen for 'Hey Siri' greatly improved my battery life on my iPhone 7 Plus.

After looking through Settings and turning off almost everything (background refresh, detect gym machine, Apple Watch faces, etc), my battery was still draining fast. I un-paired my watch and paired it back up using a backup...battery still drained fast. I would wear my 1st gen watch from a full charge at 7am and it would be at 20% by 11am. Before watchOS 4 Beta 2, I could’ve probably worn my watch from 7am until the next day 7am and not even be at 20%. Not sure what changed from last night, but today my watch lasted me all day. I didn’t have to charge it at all. I still have a couple things off (detect gym machine and background refresh). I have a weather complication on my watch face and the location arrow from the Control Center is still there. Only weird thing is that my battery life on the watch doesn’t match what it says on the battery widget on the phone. My watch earlier said it was at 92%, but the battery widget on my phone say 86%. That

All my devices (3 computers, 1 iPhone, 1 iPad, 1 Apple Watch) drain pretty fast too. This is expected, alas. It was always the case that beta software is not optimised for battery life. And the constant logging for crashes and errors makes it more process intensive :-/

once again, they kill battery life. Want us to get a new phone they do. My phone needs charged twice a day now and it’s slow charging too WTF

Same issue with my Series 4 after software update to 7.3.3. Battery life has been substantially degraded and the watch is taking much longer to charge than it did prior to the update. Apple, you need to put out a new update to fix this or allow us to roll back to the previous software version.

I too have been experiencing the same very fast battery drain that you are all talking about. I have an iPhone 6 16GB. I just recently re-install iOS 9 right over my previous iOS 9. Since doing this my battery life experience has greatly improved. I can't exactly say that things are back to normal but very much better than before I re-updated. I did try re-installing iOS 8.3, restoring from backup and then upgrading to iOS 9. 1st and 2nd time same results, battery life out of control. Now that I just updated right on top of iOS 9 and things have greatly improved. If things change I will re-post. Good Luck!!!