My battery's max capacity is sitting at 83% at the moment, and I bought it early Oct 2018, so just a few weeks after release. I've not been kind on the battery though, often keeping on charge and up at around 100% charge, rather than letting it sit between 40-80% charge etc.
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Tbh thats not too bad for nearly 3 years use, i was expecting it to be much lower than that if im honest especially with the way you've described on its charge cycles. I noticed on mine i pretty much lost 10% within the first year even though i let discharge and only charge when it needed it. Weirdly the second year, i only lost 1% and its still currently sat on 89%, nothings changed with my daily use or charge cycles. Really weird...
Same as you though im contemplating getting an iphone 13 or may skip another year since the XR is still more than capable. Unless they have another good trade in offer with 0% finance for 18 months again, then i might bite.
My iPhone 8 is starting to show it's age somewhat (it is almost 4 years old) so will be looking closely at this next generation of iPhone.
For reference, my battery is 82% capacity. Though states that the health is "significantly degraded" and "peak performance may be impacted".
For reference, my battery is 82% capacity. Though states that the health is "significantly degraded" and "peak performance may be impacted".
Ah that's a shame, my XS is 83% with peak performance capability and it's not missing a beat. Still barely a stutter anywhere in apps or general system.
If the 13 has some kind of always-on display, I think I'd likely buy. I'd love to switch to Android for the better notifications (plenty of options, I like the app icons that show on status bar etc) but I'm too deep in the Apple ecosystem and I use a couple of other daily apps that have no Android equivalent (one is a to-do list app, and while that seems minor, it has one particular feature that's only available in one other to-do list app and that too is only iOS/macOS) so I'm kinda stuck. If Apple can get close with an always-on display and some kind of cut-down app icon-like display on there, that'd be a winner for me.
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Why would you want an always on display for a phone? I can’t think of a single advantage of that.
Very convenient for a phone that's on silent, sat on the desk next to you.
Do you happen to use many Google Apps? I'm heavily invested in Chrome, Email, Drive and Photos. But thinking of switching to iOS
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I replaced my 7 battery recently. It was at 79%, and have to say it wasn't as fiddly as I thought it would be. Whole new lease of life now.
I don’t any more but I did use them before I moved over.
Chrome wasn’t a big deal for me as I was using Safari on my MacBook so that change was easy enough - Safari offers me nothing that I didn’t use on Chrome.
I still use my gmail address. The gmail app on iOS is spot on so there’s no difference there. I briefly used the native app but I now use Spark across all my devices.
I don’t use a lot of cloud storage. While on Google I did use drive to sync documents I was working on etc but that became quite fiddly as I also had a MacBook and a Windows Desktop. I now just use iCloud and find it great.
Photos I just changed totally over to the iPhone photos app. As with gmail, there is an iOS app for Google Photos which performs the same as on Android. What helps me a bit in this regard is I have Amazon Prime so have the unlimited photo storage - this is where I store my back catalogue of jpgs.
For all intents and purposes there isn’t one Google app (that I’m aware of) that isn’t available on iOS.
I won’t rule out returning to some of these Google apps but as it was my first foray into iOS I wanted to go all in with their native offerings so I could weigh up for myself. As it stands I’m very happy with Apple’s equivalents.
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Is it? My phone is on silent 24/7 and the screen would flash anyway and catch the attention of you if you get a notification/phone call etc
The only thing that would be a benefit would be to save touching the thing to light the screen up for the time, which is hardly an inconvenience.
And for those of us who have a watch it would buzz on your wrist anyway.
Great, so you don't want an AOD.
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Well, no because it’s a pointless feature on a phone that will drain the battery. I was (still am) genuinely curious as to what benefits it would bring.
Thanks for the detailed reply
My AOD drains 5% at max... If you're that concerned about battery, may as well turn WiFi and data off until you're near a plug
It's a clock on your phone screen that tells you other basic details like if you have notifications and battery percent. Why do you need someone to explain whether or not it will be useful to you? If you don't want it, turn it off.
As above, it's great for a quick glance without having to lift up the phone or unlock etc. As it would use an adaptive refresh rate and drop to 1Hz, as well as being combined with an AMOLED display, it'll use a very small amount of power - black background and white numbers for the clock will mean only the pixels powering the clock are on, all the others are off. It doesn't run your lock screen all the time.
AOD actually saves battery, you pull out your phone and it's a quick glance at the time which is taking minimal room and with it being OLED it only lights up those pixels, without it you would have to wake the whole screen.