{"id":35367,"date":"2022-03-23T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35367"},"modified":"2022-10-09T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T11:52:43","slug":"5gs-effect-on-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/5gs-effect-on-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"5G&rsquo;s Effect on Battery Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/03\/23\/5g-battery-life\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/03\/23\/5g-battery-life\">\n<p>Nguyen includes a tip at the end of her column explaining how to create a simple Shortcuts automation to switch cellular networking to LTE when your device&rsquo;s battery hits a certain threshold, like say 40 percent. But I look at these results and wonder why I enable 5G at all.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The carriers certainly aren&rsquo;t going to suggest you do this because their current marketing campaigns are entirely about how great their 5G networks are&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22968066\/apple-iphone-se-5g-mmwave-verizon-uw\">they&rsquo;re only now starting to deliver meaningful real-world advantages over LTE<\/a>. And Apple&rsquo;s not going to suggest you turn off 5G either, because they are co-marketing partners with the carriers. But I&rsquo;ll suggest it: try turning off 5G to save battery life and see if you miss it at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/08\/iphone-se-2022\/\">iPhone SE 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/24\/understanding-5g\/\">Understanding 5G<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"id-5gs-effect-on-battery-life-update-2022-04-12\">Update (2022-04-12): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/202x\/2022\/03\/26\/Is-5G-BS\">Tim Bray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/202x\/2022\/03\/26\/Is-5G-BS\">\n<p>Either I didn&rsquo;t believe the supposed customers really needed what 5G offered, or I didn&rsquo;t believe the opportunity was anywhere near big enough to justify the trillion-dollar build-out investment. Six years later, I still don&rsquo;t. This is a report on a little online survey I ran, looking for actual real-world 5G impact to see if I was wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/03\/31\/tim-bray-5g-skeptic\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2022\/03\/31\/tim-bray-5g-skeptic\">\n<p>There are some people who report getting good 5G coverage in remote locations that have poor LTE coverage, and 5G seemingly does work much better than LTE in places like stadiums and arenas with big crowds of people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: Nguyen includes a tip at the end of her column explaining how to create a simple Shortcuts automation to switch cellular networking to LTE when your device&rsquo;s battery hits a certain threshold, like say 40 percent. But I look at these results and wonder why I enable 5G at all. 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