Increased battery consumption on iOS devices?

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Increased battery consumption on iOS devices?

Increased battery consumption on iOS devices?

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rparkerppl	r rparkerppl posted 3/5/2024 1:44:03 PM Topic Details Share Topic
r Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 10	Hello, I have been a SkyDemon customer for a couple of years (one of the many fans of such an excellent app). I flew yesterday for about 1.5hrs and noticed that the battery consumption by SkyDemon seemed much higher than it used to be / I'm used to? I'm using SkyDemon 3.16.12 on the same devices that I've used for over a year (with no problem) - I run both an iPhone SE (2020) iOS 17.3.1 and an iPad Mini4, iOS 15.8.1, both linked to a PilotAware Rosetta firmware 20230316. On the flight yesterday, the battery went down from 100% to 25% on the iPhone and 100% to about 60% on the iPad for that relatively short flight, with SkyDemon showing up as the main battery usage consumer (in Settings->Battery). I know I've been on much longer flights using exactly the same setup (in the same plane too) and never had such battery usage. Not saying "correlation equals causation" but this the first time I've flown since the SD update to 3.16.12 released 14/Feb/202. I don't recall if there have been any iOS updates (to 17 on the phone or 15 on the iPad) since. My previous flight was on 12/Feb/2024 and I don't recall any unexpected battery usage. I'm aware it could well be battery health on the devices generally, but both devices at the same time? Has anyone else noticed higher battery usage by SkyDemon recently? Anyway - I thought I'd check with you all on the forum Thank you Kind regards, Richard Parker
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 3/6/2024 10:16:34 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 8.9K	On the contrary, we've done a great deal of work recently to lessen the amount of CPU used by SkyDemon, so I am surprised to hear this. I will also be interested to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.
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Mariusz Klinski	M Mariusz Klinski posted 8/19/2024 7:10:37 PM Post Details Share Post
M Group: Forum Members Posts: 1, Visits: 0	I’m not sure if this is normal behaviour or not, but on 2hour flight battery life of my iPad is drained to 15% and I need to use power bank to keep device a bit longer on. I’m new to SD and to aviation, so can’t comment if this is something resent or pre-existing. I use iPad Air 5th gen WiFi only, and as a gps receiver I use garmin gps glo 2.
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