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| ▲ | TheDong 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| My iPhone mini lasts about 6 hours. If I hike in the cold it lasts maybe 2.5 hours tops, and hikes are usually 4-6 hours total, so it's usually dead by the time I'm done, and so I can't tap to ride the train home unless I bring a power bank. If I have a long train ride, like 2 hours, and I read on it, it'll usually use about 50% of the battery in that duration. If I go somewhere new, and use google maps a lot to navigate around, it'll last about 3 hours total. If I go somewhere with bad cellular signal, it constantly fights to connect and drains incredibly quickly, often in a matter of 2 hours. The Air looks like it's supposed to have a battery that's about 30% larger than the mini's, and the mini is wildly insufficient for regular use. |
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| ▲ | Insanity 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | That seems extraordinarily poor battery performance. FWIW, I often go on hikes that take a similar 4-6h time. Granted, I get to charge it on the drive over so I usually start the hike with 100%. We'll use my phone to take photos and videos on the hike. Never ran into battery issues. And it's Canada, so hikes are in cold-ish temperatures. | |
| ▲ | r0fl 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What’s your battery health at?
I skied out west last season and it was -25°C and my phone lasted from 9am to 6pm | | |
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| ▲ | TheDong 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Too high for apple to replace it for a third time, like 95%. Congrats on somehow having a better battery life; all the mini users I know can't manage an 8 hour day with theirs without plugging in somewhere. | | |
| ▲ | joseda-hg 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Being far from a cell tower would also place a lot of stress on the battery, so hiking by itself is probably more draining than you'd expect TheDong, can you test if putting it on air plane mode makes any difference? Maybe you're on the edge of multiple cell towers and your phone is trying to connect/disconnect too aggresively? | | |
| ▲ | TheDong 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, of course airplane mode makes my phone last longer, but what's the point of a phone in airplane mode? It lasts longer if I turn it off too. At this point I just accept that I have to bring a battery brick with me everywhere, it's fine. | | |
| ▲ | joseda-hg 4 days ago | parent [-] | | I mean, if it's out of charge anyway, it'd seem more useful to be able to turn it on/off and use it sporadically or at the end to get back A battery pack does make it pointless though |
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| ▲ | _Algernon_ 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| People go on hikes in areas where there are multiple days between charging opportunities. Hiking often also occurs in areas with bad or no coverage causing higher battery consumption with the phone trying to connect. If you don't mitigate this (with eg. turning off or enabling airplane mode) this will burn through battery much faster than the usual city dwelling. |
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| ▲ | r0fl 5 days ago | parent [-] | | A very tiny percentage of the population does that. Apple is not going to make the form factor of a device that sells ~100,000,000 units in 90 days to accommodate the 0.01% of people who take multiple day hikes. |
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| ▲ | hulitu 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > How many people hike longer than their battery lasts? ROTFL.
All of them. If your phone stops in a middle of a forest, what do you do ? Just sit there until (magically) starts again ? |
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| ▲ | Insanity 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Replied to the other comment - but I poorly read your message that I responded to. You're absolutely right that this wouldn't be a normal / routine use-case. |
