When using the new Apple Maps, even with my phone plugged in and charging, it still loses battery percentage slowly. Is Maps using more power than my car charger can give? Any one else having this problem when driving?
iPhone 4S, Using IOS 6
I noticed the same thing yesterday, I was losing about 1% every minute while using turn by turn in the new maps app.
At first I had Pandora streaming also and was losing about 2% per minute so I turned off Pandora and turned down the back light then the drain slowed to about 1% per minute. Still doesn't seem correct. I have other navigation apps and none of them actually drain the battery while the charger is plugged in.
Hopefully there will be a fix, the only thing I can think of is that the use of Siri for voice nav could be causing the extra drain.
Yeah. Kinda ***** I can't really listen to music and have the nav going at the same time cause it drains fast. Hopefully they address this issue. Seems like ios 6 in general is draining more battery that ios 5. I even went through my settings to turn what I need off, off, so it maintains a normal battery life. I shouldn't even have to resort to that :/ I wonder if another small update can fix this draining problem?
I just realized that in my task bar every flipping app I have was still running since the update. I even hard reset yesterday. I manually closed them all. Most of them I never opened? Hope that works.
I just found that it was my car charger that was the problem. Now it is actually charging while in use.
I will update if that changes.
3D mapping, which cannot be switched off, is killing the battery so the only vaugley redeeming feature of this otherwise appauling replacement for Google Maps is unusable. I wouldn't mind so much if they'd launched Maps as Beta alongside Google Maps. At least we'd have a choice.
the same thing with me. Tryng plans is draining the battery
I agree , apple maps does drain battery like any thing .. Third party apps does a lot better ... Apple says maps for better by users using ... Does the battery problem toooooo ;) really disappointed ... It's not about charging but why should battery drain so much ??? They should learn from third party apps...
Apple Maps draining battery, even when plugged in charging?
