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iPhone 11 Pro horrible battery life when connected to Orbi RBR50 / RBS50 / RBS50Y
I have an Orbi RBR50 + two RBS50's - purcahsed as an RBK53 Kit from Costco in the Fall of 2016. I have an RBS50Y outdoor satellite I added September 2020. Everything has been working smoothly for a...
I performed a factory reset on my RBR50 a week ago, and my awesome battery life returned. I waited a week to response just to have a full week of data to make sure the reset worked.
I did a search on "iOS 14.6 battery life". Holy Smokes, Bat Man! Too many hits to count. From this I get a sense that it may not be related in any way to the Orbi. Perhaps more testing is in order. i.e. go somewhere (neighbor? office? Starbucks?), connect to a different WiFi network and see if the pattern of battery drainage happens there.
Several articles suggest goiing to Settings->Battery and scrolling down to Battery Usage to see if any particular apps are using a lot of battery. On my (Android) phone, Battery settings predicts how long the battery will last at the current usage rate. If the iPhone does something similar, it would not be necessary to sit around until the battery actually dies.
(I also have an 'app' that displays a graph of the battery usage (also temperature and CPU usage). Maybe the iPhone Battery settings function does something similar? I doubt that there is a Battery 'app' for the iPhone. Apple seems to control things a lot more than Google does.)
I spent June, July, August looking at every possilbe solution online - it wasn't until I finally got out the house that I realized my problems seem related to home Wi-Fi. Alll good on Cellular and other people's Wi-Fi.
Do their iPhones run the same version of iOS as yours?
Could there be some app that runs only when you are connected to your home WiFi? Maybe something to do with home automation or security?
Does that Battery usage page show where the battery drain is coming from?