@deviantintegral wrote:
Over the past few weeks, I've noticed a few things that make me wonder if something is up with the cell tower covering my neighbourhood.
On my iPhone 12 Mini, iOS 14.7.1:
- I am often unable to make outgoing calls from my basement office (which used to work fine).
- I routinely have dropped calls or am unable to connect while walking outside in the neighbourhood.
- Sometimes I lose data outside too, showing "3G" with full bars but nothing actually working.
- When using data for voice calls with apps like Zoom, even when outside the iOS battery report will show "Low signal".
- I've had a significant drop in battery life, which seems to go away when I go into airplane mode (but turn wifi and bluetooth back on).
My wife has also noticed that she's only getting about half the screen time on her iPhone 11, from up to 6 hours down to 3. Both of our phones have 90% capacity left on the battery, so battery aging doesn't explain this.
Has anyone else experienced this? My only other thought would be an iOS bug, but the combination of call drops plus different radio hardware in the 11 and 12 models makes that seem less likely.
@deviantintegral
Airplane mode is good to toggle into and out of when experiencing network issues.
You can also perform a reset of your network settings; this can help with other things.
Regarding the battery issue, have a look at "Maximizing Battery Life and Lifespan" as posted by Apple. Maybe something done in the attached steps.
https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/
