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iOS 17.0.1 Battery Life Test / Battery Drain / Battery Performance

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iOS 17.0.1 Battery Life / Battery Drain / Battery Performance Test.

With the release of iOS 17 we saw almost unprecedented bad battery life.
Will iOS 17.0.1 be the medicine to bring back good battery life to the iPhone?

iOS 17.0.1 was released September 21, 2023

This video was shot more than 24 hours after iOS 17.0.1 was installed, normally I will let it sit for a few days to settle in, but
thought I would give it a go with just 24 hours. I monitored the CPU it was idle for the last 2 hours before the test was started so
nothing seemed to be going on on the devices. I will however run the rest again in a few days and update the scores here in the comments.

Before the test was run the devices were set to 25% display brightness, auto brightness has been disabled, all devices use same settings, and are connected to the same access point.

How Geekbench works :

Geekbench 4 battery scores measure the battery life of a device when running processor-intensive applications. It…