Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Many iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users had reported that their batteries were being drained faster after they updated their devices to the iOS v12.2.

Battery tests are something that YouTuber iAppleBytes has made a name for himself doing, but as he points out, there’s one thing that always comes up in the comments of all of his videos. That’s the claim that older versions of iOS were kinder to batteries, with iPhones lasting longer on a single charge. To verify whether the new iOS updates had anything to do with it, iAppleBytes decided to test it out by adding new batteries to four iPhone 6S devices that would allow all devices to have the same amount of battery capacity.

These devices were running either the current iOS 12.3 Beta 1, last week’s iOS v12.2, the older iOS 11.4.1, or the elderly iOS 10.3.3. The test then consisted of all four handsets running a lengthy YouTube video until their batteries were empty.

The iPhone running iOS 12.3 Beta 1 lasted the shortest amount of time: just a hair over 10 hours. This isn’t surprising, as improving battery life is one of the last things developers do in pre-release versions.

The devices with iOS 12.2 and iOS 11.4.1 had a virtual tie, with both lasting about 10 hours and 30 minutes. The newer version lasted roughly 7 minutes longer.

But the hands-down winner was the iOS 10.3.3 iPhone. It was able to play the YouTube video for 11 hours and 41 minutes, more than an hour longer than any of the rest.

If you just installed iOS 12.2, the best thing to do is wait a couple of days for the install to settle down. Following the installation of a major iOS update there are all sorts of things going on in the background, from indexing all your files to carrying out analysis on your photos to make them searchable.

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