Terrible iPhone battery life? Don't panic - there could be a VERY simple solution
MORE users have complained about the battery life of devices running iOS 11 – and one popular app appears to be the source of most users’ headache.
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iPhone and iPad owners last month complained about serious battery drain triggered by the official YouTube app on iOS.
According to reports, the official YouTube app appears to have a few bugs on iOS 11, which affects all iPhones and iPads, and causes devices to run warm when watching videos.
Whatever the cause, the bug appears to be severely impacting users’ battery life.
iOS developer Justin Morris tweeted about the issues earlier this week, posting: “Recently purchased a new iPhone or upgraded to iOS 11.1.1?
“Well, there’s one popular app that you might want to stay away from, as it’s wrecking havoc on battery life.
“There appears to be a bug affecting the YouTube app that severely affects battery life and causes overheating.”
Hi Shivam, we're actively working to fix this! Thanks for your patience.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 13, 2017
Recently purchased a new iPhone or upgraded to iOS 11.1.1? Well, there’s one popular app that you might want to stay away from, as it’s wrecking havoc on battery life. There appears to be a bug affecting the YouTube app that severely affects battery life and causes overheating.
— Justin Aaron Morris (@IAMJUSTINAARON) November 16, 2017
One enraged YouTube user claims the app drained 87per cent of their battery while watching one video.
Writing on Twitter, the user shared: “iOS 11, you are f***ing up my battery life. 98% to 11% by just watching one YouTube video. @Apple come on man.”
YouTube has now pushed-out an update to its iOS app which it claims fixes the battery life problems.
The latest version of the video app, v12.45, is now available in the App Store on iPhone and iPad.
Anyone who experienced the bug, or who noticed a drop in battery life on their Apple hardware, should immediately install the update.
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The Californian company hasn’t released any further information about the nature of the glitch, which makes it difficult for experts to determine exactly what the root cause of the battery drain could’ve been.
YouTube on Android was never affected by the bug.
Earlier this year, enterprise security firm Wandera analysed 50,000 moderate to heavy iPhone and iPad users on its network to determine how battery life fared on iOS 11 compared to iOS 10.
The London-based company wanted “to compare the average battery decay rate over the past three days”.
Assuming the same device started with the battery at 100%, this chart shows how long it takes to get to 0% for each version.
WANDERA
The current estimate is 240 mins for iOS 10 and 96 mins for iOS 11.
Wandera head of content marketing Liarna La Porta posted on the company’s official blog, “Assuming the same device started with the battery at 100%, this chart shows how long it takes to get to 0% for each version.
“The current estimate is 240 mins for iOS 10 and 96 mins for iOS 11.”
According to the research by the London-based security firm, the decay rate for iOS 10 is 0.006958 per cent per second compared to 0.01739 per cent per second for iOS 11.
That’s a significant increase – and could easily be the difference between your iPhone lasting you through until the end of the day or not.
