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Is there a good one for the iPhone? I'd like to know what apps are using the battery the most.
 

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Are you aware of the "Battery" option in "Settings"? It would seem to cover what you are looking for.

-Keith
I did not know of this. Thank you. I just looked and in the last 24 hours Runkeeper, an app I seldom use, used over 50% in the background. It doesn't even show up as an active app I can delete from memory. Under the items "Allow Runkeeper to Access" I noticed Location was Always, Motion and Fitness was on, and Background App Refresh was on. What does that last one mean? I changed Location to While Using, Motion and Fitness to off.

Short of deleting the app, how would I get this app out background?
 

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...and Background App Refresh was on. What does that last one mean?

This is how Apple describes "Background App Refresh"...
"After you switch to a different app, some apps run for a short period of time before they're set to a suspended state. Apps that are in a suspended state aren’t actively in use, open, or taking up system resources. With Background App Refresh, suspended apps can check for updates and new content.

If you want suspended apps to check for new content, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turn on Background App Refresh. If you quit an app from the app switcher, it might not be able to run or check for new content before you open it again."

Here is an article about quitting an app in iOS 9.

-Keith
 

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This is how Apple describes "Background App Refresh"...
"After you switch to a different app, some apps run for a short period of time before they're set to a suspended state. Apps that are in a suspended state aren’t actively in use, open, or taking up system resources. With Background App Refresh, suspended apps can check for updates and new content.

If you want suspended apps to check for new content, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turn on Background App Refresh. If you quit an app from the app switcher, it might not be able to run or check for new content before you open it again."

Here is an article about quitting an app in iOS 9.

-Keith
I am familiar with that method of quitting apps. However, the app that was using over half my battery in a 24-hour period does not show up in that list. Since updating that app to use location services only when running, it now does not show up int he battery usage list at all. So I guess it's not a big deal that somehow it's running.

At the bottom of the list of battery usage apps there is the comment "Shows proportion of battery used by each app in the last 24 hours." I interpret that to mean that, for example, one app used 35% and another 15%, and the battery is down 50%, the first app used 35% and the second 15% of 50% of the battery. Does that make sense?
 

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That's how RunKeeper looks on my iPhone. It's options are for While Using. Check you've got the current version.

Also, this sort of behavior I've experienced in past in other apps. It might be a temporary glitch. Manually kill the app. Toggle its location access to Never and then back to While Using. Then run the app again. That sort of process, along with scattering chicken bones :), can fix an aberrant quirk.
 

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I had a horrible time with the Tapatalk app eating up my battery, even while suspended. I eventually deleted it and my battery usage has gone back to normal.
 

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That's how RunKeeper looks on my iPhone. It's options are for While Using. Check you've got the current version.

Also, this sort of behavior I've experienced in past in other apps. It might be a temporary glitch. Manually kill the app. Toggle its location access to Never and then back to While Using. Then run the app again. That sort of process, along with scattering chicken bones :), can fix an aberrant quirk.
Runkeeper wasn't even in the list of running apps for me to kill. I hadn't used it to record a run in over a year, but there it was, somehow using locations services. I wish the iOS gave the user the opportunity to kill any app that is using resources, short of deleting it from the phone.

When I checked Runkeepers options it was using locations services all the time. I changed it to only while running, and that helped out my battery usage a lot. It doesn't even show up on the battery list anymore
 

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I very much doubted that so I spent the 99 cents to buy it and try it out. It's worthless. I don't even see a button to clean cache but I'm pretty sure it's against the TOS on iOS.
 

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