As it happens, I do have my brightness turned down, auto brightness off, and screen curtain on, although I know the latter does not affect battery life. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2016, at 6:56 AM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > Hi Dan, Apple Accessibility has confirmed on multiple occasions that screen > curtain has no effect on battery drain. Adjusting the brightness does though. > I always have my brightness at 0%. Even if I need to turn it up to get > sighted help if VO breaks badly enough, which hasn't happened in many years, > now you can tell Siri to increase the brightness for you, so I can't think of > a reason that a totally blind user shouldn't have their brightness at 0% and > automatic brightness adjustment disabled. > Screen curtain is a great security tool, but it has no impact on battery > drain. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > >> On 15/09/2016, at 1:35 AM, Dan <dbeaver...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You might want to check to see if screen curtain is on. If not turning it >> on will drain the battery much more slowly. >> >> >> Dan Beaver >> >> >>> On 9/14/2016 9:17 AM, Mary Otten wrote: >>> I am noticing amazing battery drain on my iPhone 6s. I have been using the >>> beta for several days now, and I don't recall this battery drain starting >>> when I got the beta. It seems to just be over the past few days, and when I >>> look for battery usage details, it seems that the mail app is by far the >>> biggest consumer of battery. Now that makes sense, since I do a lot of mail >>> on my phone. But this morning, having charge my battery up to 100% and turn >>> airplane mode on last night, I got up with the battery saying 99%. Within >>> an hour, it has dropped to 62%. That seems a bit much. Location tracking is >>> not on. No apps are loaded in the background. I just basically been using >>> the mail app. >>> Mary >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - >> you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
