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With iDevices the unexplained drain is probably the Find My feature in action. The way it works is that the Bluetooth and GPS stacks are powered on every few s
by jiggawatts 4y ago
With iDevices the unexplained drain is probably the Find My feature in action.
The way it works is that the Bluetooth and GPS stacks are powered on every few seconds briefly, even if the device is supposedly off.
iPhones that have "home" buttons demonstrates this not-true-sleep very well. The button looks like it is embedded in the front glass and have a nice satisfying click when it's depressed...
...except that it's not a button at all. It's just a polished circular indent in the glass! There is no moving part.
The click? That's haptic feedback from the vibration motor that works even if the phone is "off". If the phone loses all power or is truly turned off, then suddenly the button goes dead and you realise that it's just smooth glass. I had that phone for years before I first noticed this.
- tmptmpgo 4y agoThat is incorrect. I have definitely noticed that the haptics do not activate if the iPhone is turned off. Unless this is something they’ve started doing with newer versions of iOS that I have only used on a buttonless iPhone.
- wincy 4y agoIt’s funny, if you want your battery life to be really good on an iPhone, just put it in airplane mode. This even disabled the Find My stuff that stays on when powered off.