experience with Bard mobile

By Alicia Krage, 22 January, 2025

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi everyone!

I just applied for NLS, so hoping to get an account with Bard pretty soon. I've really gotten into audiobooks over the past year and now listen to them exclusively.

I'm just curious and wanting to hear from those who use it regularly. What's the book selection like?

Thanks for any info!

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By PaulMartz on Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 00:11

Interestingly, there is a Battery heading at the top of the Settings app battery screen, and if VoiceOver focus is on that heading, and I rotor to headings and flick down, VoiceOver acts like it can't find any other headings.

However, a single flick right off of that first heading followed by the same operation finds the battery usage by app heading. Thanks for letting us know about that.

And for those of you who think BARD can't possibly be the battery hog, I'll wager it varies widely by usage pattern and phone type. BARD tops my list at 44% over the past 24 hours.

By Troy B on Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 00:11

The battery problem I'm having is intermittent and when it happens I can't say for sure if I've used bard mobile that day or not. I know that others have commented that the other app I mentioned apparently drains the battery fast and I know I've used it on days when my battery runs down so that is the likely culprit. I'm just trying to eliminate things, and since the battery is 2 years old and I didn't start having the problem until recently and I started using both bard mobile and the other app I mentioned at about the same time I was just checking.

By Brian on Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 01:11

Somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong?
I go to settings, battery, then I select the "last 10 days" option, then I navigate to the heading Alicia mentioned above.
I have been consuming books this past week, however BARD claims to have only used up 2% for the last 10 days.
I should also note that I have background app refresh completely disabled. In fact, I never use this option. Not since it first launched back on, what was it? iOS 7?