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I thought the iPhone 6 Plus battery was supposed to last longer than this.

lordofthereef

lordofthereef

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mattopotamus said:
Right, but you did not get 22 hours of actual usage or screen on time. The usage stat is a strange thing.
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Comparing the usage stat with percentage battery used is where people often fall short of understanding statistics. Sometimes, not always, the numbers need to be considered mutually exclusive. I can easily spend 3-6 hours playing music and it will be in the low single digits in percentage used. I can watch a single hour of Netflix and it will be easily in the double digits. Trying to then compare the numbers with usage time is useless. We would need a third statistic, which is app usage time, in order to make true sense of what these numbers really are.

IMO the updated stats aren;t much better than old ones. We can tell if a rogue app is blasting our batteries, but that's about it.
 
sunking101

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lordofthereef said:
Comparing the usage stat with percentage battery used is where people often fall short of understanding statistics. Sometimes, not always, the numbers need to be considered mutually exclusive. I can easily spend 3-6 hours playing music and it will be in the low single digits in percentage used. I can watch a single hour of Netflix and it will be easily in the double digits. Trying to then compare the numbers with usage time is useless. We would need a third statistic, which is app usage time, in order to make true sense of what these numbers really are.

IMO the updated stats aren;t much better than old ones. We can tell if a rogue app is blasting our batteries, but that's about it.
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Agreed. I dislike the way the new stats are 'per 24 hours' and not since the last full charge, which would be much more relevant.
 
aphexacid

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fiveainone said:
Yes that's normal usage especially with LTE. People with 12hrs don't use their phone, or are on wifi the whole time. 7-9hr usage is about the average. Location services are definitely a huge drain too. If you want to go 12+, stay on wifi, do messages, browse safari as much as you want, nothing else, and you should get there easy. You can also "condition" your battery once by going to 0 then back to 100% without interruption. Helps a bit as well.
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This is about right. I get a pretty consistent 8 hours of "usage". I have my brightness set to right underneath the middle of the moon in action center. So whatever that is, 75-80%. I know i can probably get better batter if i turn on auto brightness or just lower it, but what the hell for. Its got a big beautiful screen and i want to be able to use it fully without dimming it.
 
Darrensk8

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aphexacid said:
This is about right. I get a pretty consistent 8 hours of "usage". I have my brightness set to right underneath the middle of the moon in action center. So whatever that is, 75-80%. I know i can probably get better batter if i turn on auto brightness or just lower it, but what the hell for. Its got a big beautiful screen and i want to be able to use it fully without dimming it.
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Wow that's amazing! My brightness is set to just under 50% (just off the middle of Bluetooth in action center) I usually get 7 hours like this...I'd prefer more but it's better than the 5s...if I could make it that long on your brightness setting I'd be extatic! :eek:
 
daijholt

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fel10 said:
I got my 6 Plus yesterday, and I thought the battery was supposed to last close to 10 hours. All I've been doing is downloading apps, browsing safari, using Spotify and texting. Does this look right?

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Firstly, iOS takes a few days to calibrate to the battery and your usage habits.
Secondly, iOS will download a variety of things in the background once set up like HQ Siri, and obviously saps battery when downloading your regular apps.

Once all that is done it'll level out and last an age. The usage you show is about what I get out of my regular 6 now, but it was far less in the first few days of its life.

Also, run the battery right down until the device switches itself off, then charge it to full in one sitting. It helps calibrate the software to the battery capacity.
 
Appl3FTW

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Like this? :)
 

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aphexacid

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Darrensk8 said:
Wow that's amazing! My brightness is set to just under 50% (just off the middle of Bluetooth in action center) I usually get 7 hours like this...I'd prefer more but it's better than the 5s...if I could make it that long on your brightness setting I'd be extatic! :eek:
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It may have to do with other settings you have enabled that i don't. I don't use push notifications for anything at all. I also turn off background app refresh.
 
iososx

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My battery life has been decent considering Apple didn't leave much room for one. I'd be thrilled if the phone was 2mm thicker with a terrific battery. But that involves more common sense than Apple will admit :)
 
Technarchy

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Lots of variables with battery life.

  1. Signal
  2. Are you on WiFi?
  3. Screen brightness
  4. Size of iCloud sync the first couple of days
  5. How many background services you got running, especially social media and dropbox
  6. Do you game or watch lots of video?
 
fel10

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Technarchy said:
Lots of variables with battery life.

  1. Signal
  2. Are you on WiFi?
  3. Screen brightness
  4. Size of iCloud sync the first couple of days
  5. How many background services you got running, especially social media and dropbox
  6. Do you game or watch lots of video?
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Yes I'm in Wi Fi
Screen brightness is set to 50%
What do u mean by size of iCloud sync?
I hardly close any apps so Tinder, Facebook, and other social apps are usually running in the background
Yes I do game and use YouTube a lot.
 
Technarchy

Technarchy

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fel10 said:
Yes I'm in Wi Fi
Screen brightness is set to 50%
What do u mean by size of iCloud sync?
I hardly close any apps so Tinder, Facebook, and other social apps are usually running in the background
Yes I do game and use YouTube a lot.
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When you first fire up a new iPhone it takes awhile to sync up all the icloud. It's doing so quietly in the background, but it's devouring battery life.

Once it is done, battery life tends to improve.

And video is always a great killer of battery life.
 
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thalazy

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My battery

drained like crazy yesterday when I was using my exchanged iphone 6+. I hadn't tweaked it yet, was importing all of my content and since I got a bigger storage size quite a few new apps. I am tweaking my phone today, monitoring what I allow to run in the background. I normally got around 10 hours with my 64gb with heavy web usage and light gaming. Should be the same with this one as well.
 
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