![]() ![]() That is a surprise IOS is great at putting apps to sleep when you’re not using them. These don’t come close to how hard the Kindle app hits the battery.įrom the sound of it, the app must be active and running in the background, even when it is not being used. The usage of other apps far exceeds this, especially Safari and Evernote. Rarely does my accumulated daily reading time exceed an hour. I read a lot of Kindle books but rarely for hours at a time a typical reading session is only 15 minutes or so. The Kindle app from Amazon is now always the app that is using a greater percentage of my battery, and often by a wide margin. Looking at battery usage by app in Settings>General>Usage>Battery Usage I quickly homed in on the culprit. The iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air 2 were hitting the battery harder than before. Each time it happened I couldn’t think of anything I’d done differently. A couple of days the iPhone was very low at the end of the day, and the same with the iPad Air 2. James Kendrick of ZDnet was the first blogger to notice, and yesterday he reported that:Ībout two weeks ago I noticed that my iOS devices were using more battery than ever before. Most users will tell you that their iPhone lasts at least a day of heavy usage (the iPad lasts even longer) but lately there have been reports from some users that battery life has dropped significantly. ![]() With literally months of standby time, Apple’s mobile devices have excellent battery life. Is the Kindle App Draining the Battery on Your iPad/iPhone?
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