iOS 17 Beta 1 was released June 5th 2023
This video was shot more than 4 days after iOS 17 Beta 1 was installed, so it had some time to settle in. I have seen many comments that it takes about a week for battery performance to optimize itself after an iOS update. I have always been skeptical of this statement as I have never personally had bad battery life right after I update. If I restore and download backup from iCloud well then that is another story. So I decided to run the battery test 4 days after I updated them this time. In that period they were left without power and then powered back to 100% to be
ready for the test to run.
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 provides a consistent workload…