How many people hike longer than their battery lasts?
Isn’t the phone not being used when hiking?
Are they live streaming the hike that they need such insane battery life?
I hike and bike ride with my kids very often. Other than the odd picture and video I have my phone in my pocket during those hikes. The battery barely drains
My iPhone mini lasts about 6 hours. If I hike in the cold it lasts maybe 2.5 hours tops, and hikes are usually 4-6 hours total, so it's usually dead by the time I'm done, and so I can't tap to ride the train home unless I bring a power bank.
If I have a long train ride, like 2 hours, and I read on it, it'll usually use about 50% of the battery in that duration.
If I go somewhere new, and use google maps a lot to navigate around, it'll last about 3 hours total.
If I go somewhere with bad cellular signal, it constantly fights to connect and drains incredibly quickly, often in a matter of 2 hours.
The Air looks like it's supposed to have a battery that's about 30% larger than the mini's, and the mini is wildly insufficient for regular use.
That seems extraordinarily poor battery performance. FWIW, I often go on hikes that take a similar 4-6h time. Granted, I get to charge it on the drive over so I usually start the hike with 100%.
We'll use my phone to take photos and videos on the hike. Never ran into battery issues. And it's Canada, so hikes are in cold-ish temperatures.
Being far from a cell tower would also place a lot of stress on the battery, so hiking by itself is probably more draining than you'd expect
TheDong, can you test if putting it on air plane mode makes any difference? Maybe you're on the edge of multiple cell towers and your phone is trying to connect/disconnect too aggresively?
People go on hikes in areas where there are multiple days between charging opportunities.
Hiking often also occurs in areas with bad or no coverage causing higher battery consumption with the phone trying to connect. If you don't mitigate this (with eg. turning off or enabling airplane mode) this will burn through battery much faster than the usual city dwelling.
A very tiny percentage of the population does that. Apple is not going to make the form factor of a device that sells ~100,000,000 units in 90 days to accommodate the 0.01% of people who take multiple day hikes.
Like this guy who burnt down a forest when this exact thing happened (while he should have prepared better, don't burn down forests if you find yourself in this situation, it is inexcusable)
Replied to the other comment - but I poorly read your message that I responded to. You're absolutely right that this wouldn't be a normal / routine use-case.
Isn’t the phone not being used when hiking?
Are they live streaming the hike that they need such insane battery life?
I hike and bike ride with my kids very often. Other than the odd picture and video I have my phone in my pocket during those hikes. The battery barely drains