• An iPhone battery life story

    From Tom Elam@thomas.e.elam@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Tue Sep 2 09:18:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On Tuesday morning August 26 the wife's iPhone 14, with original
    battery, was left at a Grand Canyon area hotel. Using the emergency
    contact feature the hotel called my phone to let us know they had found it.

    We were on a tour bus, 60 miles away already. If in our car we could
    have returned to pick it, but the bus was on a schedule headed to Moab
    UT. The hotel offered to FedEx the phone to our house or a future
    location. Moab was a short stay, so we had them send it to the Denver
    Brown Palace hotel, our last stop on the way back home.

    We arrived in Denver via the Rocky Mountaineer excursion train at about
    6 pm on Friday, August 26. FedEx showed it delivered to the hotel at
    9:30 that morning. The hotel staff had difficulties finding the package
    with the phone inside.

    I checked FindMy at the hotel desk, but it showed the phone still
    enroute. So we went to to the room and unpacked.

    A little later somebody with an iPhone got close enough to our phone
    somewhere in the hotel to update the location. I went back the to desk
    and asked them to look again for the FedEx package. Next, I started
    pinging the phone via FindMy Play Sound. About 15 minutes later we had
    the phone back and a sincere apology from the desk staff.

    What's the point? That iPhone battery, showing a max 87% of capacity
    left, last charged on Monday, still had plenty of battery life left on
    Friday evening to respond to a FindMy Play Sound. In fact, it was still
    at about 30%.
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