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iPhone battery drain when riding with Edge 530

Okay, so I finally have my Edge 530 configured the way I want it, and am running the latest beta version 5.48 software at the advice of a CS rep. (It was disconnecting from my phone during rides.)

Now I notice that my iPhone battery is draining rapidly during rides - about 15% per hour. Today I tried turning off "Background App Refresh" and setting location services for the Connect app to "Never" - and got the same result.

Is this something I'll just have to live with? It doesn't bode well for all-day rides, especially if I want to occasionally stop and use my phone for other things, like snapshots.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

0 simonicusfacilis over 5 years ago

Are you livestreaming?

0 Koyote over 5 years ago in reply to simonicusfacilis

I never set that up… So I just went and looked. I don’t think I am using the live streaming or incident detection features.

0 ericbfit over 5 years ago

Are you using Live track? If so that seems about normal.

0 Koyote over 5 years ago in reply to ericbfit

No, I'm not using Livetrack, unless it someone turns on as a default. I never turned it on, and have looked - it doesn't seem to be activated. Don't know how it could even be working, since I never entered anyone's contact info.

Any other ideas?

0 simonicusfacilis over 5 years ago in reply to Koyote

I have only had the battery drain like that using LT. Sorry. Obvious question have you looked at the battery use on the IPhone and confirmed it was Connect draining it. Did you try low power mode on the iPhone? Or just knocking off the WiF. Daft suggestions I know but there are some weird links between location services and WiFi than could be juicing you.

0 Koyote over 5 years ago in reply to simonicusfacilis

Just did a three hour ride, and my phone’s charge dropped 30% - so that’s 10% drain per hour. For the Connect app, location services were turned off (the setting was “never”), but background app refresh was left on. That seems to be the cause, as there was significant activity on that under my battery usage. My question is: is 10% per hour normal? Seems like a lot.