As stated above, this thing has frozen about 600 times in the last week. It only started this after updating to IOS17. it also won’t hold as much of a charge. Even dropped from 100% battery health to 96%. I literally just bought the phone and had the battery replaced in June. This is pathetic.
Battery can degrade from a number of reasons, but the main 2 reasons are extreme temperature (especially hot temperatures) and keeping the battery fully charged for a long time without discharging. But a brand new battery shouldn’t drop 4 - 5% after a software update.
Wishing I was in EU now🤦🏼♀️ I live in Ohio. The temperature here is bipolar so we get super hot and super cold. However, my phone has never been exposed to extreme heat or cold for more than stepping outside. At this point i want to switch to android because I’m sick of apples constant antics. My boyfriend has had his 11 for under a year. I want someone who claims the depletion at this rate is normal to tell me why his BH dropped from 100% to 88% in less than a year. Went from 98% to 88% in less than 6m. I know this because I had checked his BH the day i had my battery replaced 5 months ago to compare the old battery to his before it was replaced. He doesn’t let his phone die, he uses it for his blood sugar. Whatever excuses ppl want to throw around as to why this is happening are going to go in my one ear and out of my other at this point. This isn’t normal, this is just fucked up🤦🏼♀️
A lot of people, especially Apple fans and so-called mainstream tech reviewers, often do not criticize Apple or point out its flaws. The iPhone is notorious for having poor thermal cooling capabilities, the CPU often gets hot according to thermal tests. Apple doesn’t want to put a copper heatsink or other thermal cooling hardware inside their iPhones. The hot CPU can cause the battery health to degrade sooner. Some Android phones have very good cooling systems, usually a copper heat pipe, a copper vapor chamber, or thermal pads. Another problem is Apple pushing their MagSafe wireless charger, but wireless charging is known to create extreme amounts of heat which significantly lowers the battery health within a short period of time. And also, Apple was so stubborn, they kept using the Apple lightning connector all the way to the iPhone 14 until the EU forced them to switch to USB C on the iPhone 15 and beyond. The Lightning connector is not very efficient and gets hot, especially when fast charging. So there are other ways the iPhone can get exposed to extreme heat which is not good for the battery health in the long run.
I suspect that Apple may purposely decrease the battery health number after a software update, probably to make people think that their battery health is lower than it actually is. This is because I also saw my battery health drop from 95% to 88% pretty quickly after a software update which was strange.