I agree I think push is supposed to use less battery than fetch (at least if you get a moderate amount of emails cd fetching every 15 min) .. But since I can't push with gmail and the apple Mail app I'm not sure what the best option is for those of us using gmail
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I was happily surprised by turning off wifi my iPhone 6 battery is lasting much longer. I have poor wifi signal at my office so that was probably draining my battery faster I think. I read that a weak wifi signal can lead to faster battery drain. I still have an unlimited plan so I usually don't need wifi much.
No... Push uses more battery then Fetch, because if you have it on Push, it is constantly pinging/queing the email server checking for new emails, where as Fetch checks every x amount of minutes
According to this Not necessarily.
http://networkingexchangeblog.att.com/enterprise-business/push-or-poll-how-email-setup-can-save-your-battery-life/
Completely wrong, bro. The whole point of push is that it's NOT constantly pinging anything.... It's kind of like sms, the server contacts your phone when something arrives, not the other way around.
Research stuff before posting misinformation.
Push systems actually work by the client device announcing their presence to the server to register , and then every so often , the touch base more frequently than once every 15 minutes. Like a heartbeat and this increased frequency of announcements is what results in higher battery draw over fetch,
This is common sense, For people who get a good amount of emails everyday plus with the some spam that always hits your inbox, Push obviously uses more battery; espcially for people who use email alot and get alot of emails in and out everyday, and also for people who need emails instantly
It isn't obvious because it is not true? Every iPhone and iOS battery saving guide out there tells you to set your mail to fetch.
I think the concept of push was that your phone wasn't constantly or even regularly contacting your mail server to check for emails but rather a notification would be sent to your phone whenever you got an email ... So if you get no emails for a day ... Very little to no power used whereas with fetch you would have initiated a connection to the mail server 24-96 times in that day.
So I am trying this out now, and it looks like I might be getting more battery life than I was before, unless if its 8.0.2 thats doing some magic. I think Fant has got it right.
I've noticed this as well. On my last charge, i "only" got 8 hours of use... which i would think is not too great (even though it's 2 hours more than my 5s got)... since i thought we should be getting 9-10 hours. But i just went 48 hours without a charge. Used it two full work days. Yet it says 8 hours use. So question: Is iOS 8 calculating usage time differently, resulting in lower usage numbers? I say this because i used my phone about the normal amount each of the last two days... but the amount of "use" time it says i had was a lot lower than normal.
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I have read that Push email is essentially the same as Fetch mail with a retrieve schedule of every second. Where with Fetch you can choose, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, etc. So it is checking mail much more frequently. Whether this is exactly accurate or true i do not know... but every single place i have read all say that Push uses more energy than Fetch.
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Don't be so quick to bash him. As someone who IS researching this subject, there is a great deal of conflicting information. Best conclusion that I've come to is that the answer is.... it depends. Depends on your usage pattern, the frequency of when your emails arrive, etc.
At any rate, don't assume that because he has a different opinion than yours he has not researched. Because i can assure you that for every article that you can link me to that agrees with your opinion, i can match you with an article saying the opposite.
Well, wouldn't this be entirely subjective? As in... depends totally on how often you end up checking your email? If you never check your email, you are correct. But i would think whether you are correct depends entirely on how often you check your email.
