maccaguy

So Facebook doesn’t like having to pay for news, but they also don’t like Apple telling their users they’re being sold as commodities under Apple’s new privacy rules. Seems hypocritical to me...

From a company that will blatantly lie about having mobile coverage in an area, this is rich. 

Finally! My first Gen AirPods can be retired with honor. Uncounted running miles on them, hours at work, their microphones are shot and their batteries barely last 2 hours: they’ve been workhorses!

I purchased a decent high charge Qi charger at Target and set it up in our kitchen. My wife and I love just dropping our iPhones or the new AirPods on it for a decent charge when it’s handy. It was ~$40, so not a big ticket item, but convenient when we need a charge after work.  I’m disappointed Apple cancelled the AirPower mat, but not disheartened. 

lkrupp said:

Are you actually claiming that EVERYONE has this issue? 

No, where did I state that? I think my statement was “my iPad”, not “every iPad”.

JFC_PA said:

Well a battery drained iPad isn’t all that functional: a choice until the glitch is resolved one way or another. Is there a theory why an Airtsg via FindMy is draining the battery? Is that whet your battery usage in settings points to? 

Heck my Plan A might be the usual, disconnect the tag then reconnect it….

Already deleted the AirTag and reinstalled it, no difference. I’ve even reinstalled it via the iPad versus my iPhone and it made no difference. There are several accounts of the same thing happening to other users, sometimes it’s their iPhone, sometimes iPad, sometimes both. The online speculation is the iPad or iPhone is constantly pinging the AirTag when they are close in range, as most of the drain occurs overnight when my keys are 6m or so away. Over the last 10 days, Find My has used 50% of my iPads battery life all via “background activity”. A couple of Apple techs have taken logs and screenshots from my iPad to have the engineers take a look at the activity. Hopefully that’s what’s in this update.

I think I’ll wait a few days before upgrading...

timetravelNov51955 said:

I sincerely hope that you’re not in the medical

profession either or the education field for that matter since you obviously have never heard of spellcheck. It’s tumor not tumour.  Also, your statement is absolutely ridiculous. 

I hope you’re not a lexicographer,  understanding that there are more than one way to spell words. “Tumour” is like any other British English spelling that often includes a “u” after an “o”. Flavour, honour, savour, saviour, candour, behaviour, colour, armour, demeanour, glamour, and harbour are all perfectly good spellings. 

As far as the original topic, my 6th gen iPad has had terrible battery drain after one of the 14.x updates, and the culprit seems to be Find My, with that app alone using 60% of battery whenever it’s off charge. It loses as much as 25% overnight, compared to 2-4% before. Turning off the “Find My Network” seems to help, but only a little. Apple ran a remote diagnostics and said the device seems fine from that perspective, and it’s not like I can uninstall and reinstall that app. 

timetravelNov51955 said:

Flavour, Tumour, Hounour, what the hell is that? Where do we live? France with the other upper crust aristocrat pedigrees? 

Guess what? The battery life on the 12 lineup still sucks. 

Or maybe, just maybe, the World Wide Web extends to points farther out than your own head and people from the Commonwealth visit a site readily available on the internet and respond with a spelling normal to their local. 

JFC_PA said:

maccaguy said:

Fingers crossed iPadOS 14.7.1 stops the AirTag battery drain on my iPad.

If it’s serious disable it. 

Then there’s no use having an AirTag