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Ask HN: Why is battery life on iOS major betas so poor?

1 pointsby kenipsalmost 8 years ago
I wonder why battery life on iOS major betas are still so bad.<p>On the app level, Apple apps have strict power profiling. I&#x27;ve spoken to Apple&#x27;s app engineers, and one of their biggest constraints in feature delivery is rejection by &quot;battery police&quot;. So an app&#x27;s power profile should be measured even in development.<p>On the OS level, several advancements like coalescing and App Nap are making the system more power efficient.<p>I can understand that beta builds are different due to: * debug builds having symbols and more overhead in processing * certain power profile restriction could be lifted<p>But those probably don&#x27;t account for allowing a huge drop in battery life. Fundamentally, if the OS restrictions are strict, then any bad code should be prevented from draining the battery life too quickly. Why hasn&#x27;t that happened? Or am I missing something?

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