Excessive iOS app battery usage

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Tony Lopez

• May 02, 2023 02:19

Tailwind (background activity) has used 15% of my battery over the last 24 hours. The app hasn’t been so draining until lately. Perhaps the latest app rev has a bug. This needs to get fixed.

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  Scott Riesebosch

  • May 02, 2023 23:42

  Hi Tony. Thank you for your feedback. Is it possible that you are near a vehicle sensor regularly? There is one possible edge case where if you get close enough to a vehicle sensor for your phone to detect it, and then you move away from it, and then it comes back into range again but you move away from it - if this cycle repeats it can lead to battery drain.

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  Tony Lopez

  • May 03, 2023 16:26

  Hi, how close is close? There hasn’t been a change (car is in the driveway). What is a ‘normal’ battery consumption rate for a relatively new phone (iPhone 14 pro).

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  Scott Riesebosch

  • May 03, 2023 16:53

  It will depend on the range you have your vehicle sensor set it, but generally an iPhone can start picking up the sensor anywhere from about 10 to 20 feet away - but usually in the 10 to 15 foot range.

  Normal battery usage is pretty much 0 unless you come and go often, or if your phone keeps picking up the vehicle sensor during the day and then losing it again within a few minutes.

  We are addressing this use case shortly anyways. We are already internally testing an alpha version that eliminates that issue, so even if it comes in / out of range all day long for random lengths of time it won't matter.

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