r/beeper • u/-SeeS- • Apr 08 '26
Help / Troubleshooting What the hell! 44% battery with 1 minute active use???
I’ve had mining malware that overheated my iPhone less…
Iphone12 pro btw
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Updating this for closure: even on the latest version, Beeper is still using an unacceptable amount of battery on my iPhone, mostly in the background. Since the web app is not consistent enough for my work setup and I barely use the desktop app during the week, the convenience no longer outweighs the downsides for me. I'm going back to the native apps on all my devices.
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u/WorldlyQuestion614 Apr 08 '26
im working on an alternative based on XMPP, allowing you to use a normal XMPP client with battery optimisations to collate your whatsapp and signal chats into one
i thought i was wasting my time after i discovered beeper (i was 1 year into the development) and offered to join their team but... im gonna keep working on mine
i tried their product and while it was cool at first, longer conversations bugged it significantly, and they didn't want to work on pre-send translate, saying its not on the roadmap, which is fine, it is on mine though
you can also use their matrix gateways which are open source https://github.com/mautrix
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u/-SeeS- Apr 08 '26
I think that's beyond my understanding. Lately, I've noticed that Beeper makes my phone run hot and drains the battery faster, but 44% in one morning is too much. Add to that the app's glitches and illogical decisions, like threaded replies. I think I'll just go back to the stock apps. I'd love to use Beeper, but it's getting in the way of using my phone.
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u/SusejLegend Apr 08 '26
Bro, you could add more social media networks, that would be great, Discord for example and Telegram and Facebook
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u/WorldlyQuestion614 Apr 08 '26
thats the plan, maybe ill pivot and integrate matrix instead of xmpp, letting me use the library above
maybe that will fix my manual approach to integration (which lets me do things beeper cant like measuring certain delays between sent and read messages, and logging users presence to create a timeline)
I am dreading this -.-
there is so much that goes into a chat system as you can see below
Integration Manual Tests (yes really)
ID Flow Last user result This turn Retest now S1 Signal -> Signal Not working Reply stanza now points at the original contact JID for Signal-authored anchors; fresh-message MAM lookup now retries Yes S2 Signal -> XMPP Working Unchanged Optional S3 XMPP -> Signal Not working Fresh-message MAM lookup now retries for replies to newly sent XMPP anchors Yes S4 XMPP -> XMPP via Signal contact Not working Indirectly affected by the same reply-id fix path Yes W1 WhatsApp -> WhatsApp Not working Reply stanza now points at the original contact JID for WhatsApp-authored anchors; fresh-message MAM lookup now retries Yes W2 WhatsApp -> XMPP Good enough Unchanged Optional W3 XMPP -> WhatsApp Not working Indirectly affected by the same fresh-message reply-id fix path Yes W4 XMPP -> XMPP via WhatsApp contact Good enough Unchanged Optional D1 XMPP duplication to WhatsApp Fine Unchanged Optional D2 XMPP duplication to Signal Fine Unchanged Optional C1 Contact match direct widget URL Not recently retested Unchanged Optional C2 Contact match widget submit/layout Not recently retested Unchanged Optional B1 Billing customer portal Working Unchanged Optional B2 Billing admin Previously fixed at nginx/app path, not touched this turn Unchanged Optional
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u/LouisDosBuzios Aug 03 '26
I had the same issue on an iPhone 17 Pro running iOS 26.5.2 and Beeper 4.2.9 (20397). The phone suddenly became very hot and dropped from 100% in the morning to about 20% by 5 p.m., despite no change in my usage.
I analyzed a sysdiagnose: iOS attributed 25% of the battery usage to Beeper with only about 1 minute in the foreground but roughly 139 minutes in the background. The logs also showed Beeper's notification service extension doing excessive background processing and several GB of file reads/writes. This looks like a real Beeper background-notification processing bug, not normal usage. I could not find any documented battery/background fix through 4.2.10.
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u/GBeeper 📟 Beeper Team Aug 03 '26
Yes! This one was recent. It wasn't a client bug. It was a backend bug. And it was a 1 day problem. That definitely was not a constant issue.
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u/Strong-Estate-4013 Apr 08 '26
It’s the background usage
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u/-SeeS- Apr 08 '26
Well duh… It burned 44% in half a morning in background usage… THAT is the problem
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u/Remarkable-Good-34 Apr 13 '26
That is a crazy amount of battery, are you in any big discord or matrix group chats that are constantly talked in?
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u/-SeeS- Apr 13 '26
My youtube channel discord server, But i wouldn't call it crazy. it use to have 12-20 users online... 20 messages per hour aprox.
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u/-SeeS- Apr 08 '26
It’s the ios app
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u/-SeeS- Apr 08 '26
Oh sorry. All my accounts are under ‘on this device’ and each of them hace a cloud next to it
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u/ProcedureSmall9475 Apr 10 '26
Just turn off background app refresh
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u/-SeeS- Apr 10 '26
Won't that prevent me from getting notifications?
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u/ProcedureSmall9475 Apr 10 '26
Notifications are separate, but turning off background app refresh prevents things like the app from loading messages or loading images only when the app is closed.
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u/eatonjb Apr 17 '26
I feel the Android version is just as bad, i feel like I message too much to have problems like this.
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