I'm not WhatsApp user and I'm no longer iPhone user, but I learned not to trust battery health statistic on iPhone. I had SE back in the day and while the phone told me that battery health is 85%,...
I'm not WhatsApp user and I'm no longer iPhone user, but I learned not to trust battery health statistic on iPhone. I had SE back in the day and while the phone told me that battery health is 85%, it drained pretty fast and sometimes the phone died before it drained to zero (at say 30%).
While WhatsApp clearly does some shenanigans in the background there, I would think about changing the battery. I believe it may help.
The behavior you describe usually starts when battery capacity drop below 80%. Remember the BatteryGate? Apple tried to avoid the sudden dies by reducing speed, which works, but did an awful job...
The behavior you describe usually starts when battery capacity drop below 80%. Remember the BatteryGate? Apple tried to avoid the sudden dies by reducing speed, which works, but did an awful job in introducing this feature that it only reinforced its infamous planned obsolescence strategy.
Replacing the battery probably would help, but I have no issues with the current one, such as abrupt drains or shutdowns. So I guess I'll carry on with this one for a little longer.
App downloaded from the devil does nefarious things? Who would have figured? WhatsApp and all the other meta products are things that I would rather lose friends over than download. Meta is one of...
App downloaded from the devil does nefarious things? Who would have figured?
WhatsApp and all the other meta products are things that I would rather lose friends over than download. Meta is one of the major players that have made the society as shit as it is today. They spy on you and manipulate politics. Calling them the devil might have been an understatement.
I checked my iPhone (16 Pro) and I'm not seeing high usage via WhatsApp. The only day last week where it was high was when I was talking on the phone, via WhatsApp, to a friend. Which makes sense....
I checked my iPhone (16 Pro) and I'm not seeing high usage via WhatsApp. The only day last week where it was high was when I was talking on the phone, via WhatsApp, to a friend. Which makes sense. But otherwise, most days, it's not even in the Top 10 or even Top 15. I don't think I've adjusted any settings on WhatsApp to make it less "talkative" or battery-hungry either.
I'm not a WhatsApp user but I am an iPhone user. I don't think iOS is super accurate with its background power calculations. Sometimes I see apps on there that I know do not do much background...
I'm not a WhatsApp user but I am an iPhone user. I don't think iOS is super accurate with its background power calculations. Sometimes I see apps on there that I know do not do much background processing showing up for more time than I even use them. I also know that Apple has its own tricks to make its apps look a bit better here.
I know that for iMessage at least, iOS doesn't count its background processing time the same as it does for third party apps (like WhatsApp) since iMessage is built on Apple's push notification service which is a constantly running system service. iMessage's background processing doesn't show up under "iMessage" but under a generic "System Services" label. Since Apple also separates out video calls into Facetime (also under a separate service), video call processing also shows up separately.
WhatsApp here can then look worse since all of its background processing for messages (like E2EE processing), processes for voice and video calls, location services, etc. are all counted under one big WhatsApp label. So WhatsApp's battery usage here can vary wildly on how you use it. I don't really use WhatsApp much beyond the odd call here and there with family elsewhere in the world and very limited messaging with them. I never see WhatsApp in my battery usage despite my battery health being down to 83-84% as well. I can imagine if you take a lot of calls through WhatsApp, it can show up here under background processing since it has to actively use system resources in the background while you're in a call.
I know Meta is a company not to be trusted but with an app as mature as WhatsApp, I'm not sure how much trickery they can really do for background processing. iOS is both really strict with its background processing allotments (so I imagine WA have optimized the shit out of things) and a bit enthusiastic with how it calculates battery usage. I'm sure there are engineers at Meta who's job is solely dedicated to finding little loopholes for background processing and performance but there's only so much cat-and-mouse hunting/chasing that can be done for an app used by half the world.
I'm not WhatsApp user and I'm no longer iPhone user, but I learned not to trust battery health statistic on iPhone. I had SE back in the day and while the phone told me that battery health is 85%, it drained pretty fast and sometimes the phone died before it drained to zero (at say 30%).
While WhatsApp clearly does some shenanigans in the background there, I would think about changing the battery. I believe it may help.
The behavior you describe usually starts when battery capacity drop below 80%. Remember the BatteryGate? Apple tried to avoid the sudden dies by reducing speed, which works, but did an awful job in introducing this feature that it only reinforced its infamous planned obsolescence strategy.
Replacing the battery probably would help, but I have no issues with the current one, such as abrupt drains or shutdowns. So I guess I'll carry on with this one for a little longer.
I'm curious if this issue is widespread or something wrong only with me, my phone and/or my WhatsApp.
App downloaded from the devil does nefarious things? Who would have figured?
WhatsApp and all the other meta products are things that I would rather lose friends over than download. Meta is one of the major players that have made the society as shit as it is today. They spy on you and manipulate politics. Calling them the devil might have been an understatement.
I checked my iPhone (16 Pro) and I'm not seeing high usage via WhatsApp. The only day last week where it was high was when I was talking on the phone, via WhatsApp, to a friend. Which makes sense. But otherwise, most days, it's not even in the Top 10 or even Top 15. I don't think I've adjusted any settings on WhatsApp to make it less "talkative" or battery-hungry either.
I'm not a WhatsApp user but I am an iPhone user. I don't think iOS is super accurate with its background power calculations. Sometimes I see apps on there that I know do not do much background processing showing up for more time than I even use them. I also know that Apple has its own tricks to make its apps look a bit better here.
I know that for iMessage at least, iOS doesn't count its background processing time the same as it does for third party apps (like WhatsApp) since iMessage is built on Apple's push notification service which is a constantly running system service. iMessage's background processing doesn't show up under "iMessage" but under a generic "System Services" label. Since Apple also separates out video calls into Facetime (also under a separate service), video call processing also shows up separately.
WhatsApp here can then look worse since all of its background processing for messages (like E2EE processing), processes for voice and video calls, location services, etc. are all counted under one big WhatsApp label. So WhatsApp's battery usage here can vary wildly on how you use it. I don't really use WhatsApp much beyond the odd call here and there with family elsewhere in the world and very limited messaging with them. I never see WhatsApp in my battery usage despite my battery health being down to 83-84% as well. I can imagine if you take a lot of calls through WhatsApp, it can show up here under background processing since it has to actively use system resources in the background while you're in a call.
I know Meta is a company not to be trusted but with an app as mature as WhatsApp, I'm not sure how much trickery they can really do for background processing. iOS is both really strict with its background processing allotments (so I imagine WA have optimized the shit out of things) and a bit enthusiastic with how it calculates battery usage. I'm sure there are engineers at Meta who's job is solely dedicated to finding little loopholes for background processing and performance but there's only so much cat-and-mouse hunting/chasing that can be done for an app used by half the world.