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How much battery do you lose overnight?
- Thread starter Cory Bauer
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I typically lose 0-1% overnight. 2% at the most. It probably helps that I don't use push notifications.
I loose about 5 percent a night. This is with "Do not disturb" on. On 7.1.2 I only lost like 1-2 percent, now Im losing up to 5 percent.
Could this be from iOS 8?
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Tonight I'm going to try a little experiment. I closed out all of the apps in my RAM, and Ill see if there is an app that is using the battery. If I only loose 1-2 percent, its gotta be an app thats using it. If I still loose 5 percent, its iOS 8
Could this be from iOS 8?
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Tonight I'm going to try a little experiment. I closed out all of the apps in my RAM, and Ill see if there is an app that is using the battery. If I only loose 1-2 percent, its gotta be an app thats using it. If I still loose 5 percent, its iOS 8
Dude me too! After 8.0.2, my i6 drains on average 7-8% overnight, that is way too much, I dont understand what is going on
Enabled airplane mode last night, still lost 2% in 8hrs. Better than 5-8%, but still not as good as the iPad.
This is actually very good. 10% loss is the norm.
Ipads loose less as they don't have a cellular radio. This is what sucks battery. The weaker your signal the greater the loss.
Put it in flight mode and you should only get a 1-2% loss.
I get my 6+ to 100% before falling asleep. I don't turn anything off. Wifi and Bluetooth are always enabled. When I wake up it has been at 99-100%
Difference is your car isn't running. Even when you phone is not in use it's still doing plenty of things.
One large power eater is a poor Cellular or WiFi signal. This will make your iPhone crank up its antenna gain to stay connected.
For me, I always plug it in when I'm sleeping.
I lose about 70% over night, but then again I work 3rd shift and thats when I use my phone the most. 
While I'm sleeping at most I lose 2-3%. This is with my 5S. Still waiting for my 6+ to get shipped
While I'm sleeping at most I lose 2-3%. This is with my 5S. Still waiting for my 6+ to get shipped 
I've got cellular iPads and standby and web browsing time isn't really noticeably worse compared to wifi only models. iPads have massive batteries that the cellular radio don't really put a significant dent on battery life. The screen is the biggest power drain. On my iPad 4 with screen off, I've gotten over 50 hours of usage with screen off and just using it as a wifi hotspot.
No thats too much, I used to have less standby drain with 8.0, the iPhones are rates to get 250 hrs of standby time lol.
If I left my car running at night I would expect it to use gas. If you don't want the phone to lose charge then turn it off like you should your car. I usually turn my car off when I get home.
I have to agree with other posters though.... I just plug my phone in at night. If I was at 50 percent when I went to bed at night, I woukd realize that had I unplugged it that morning, I went through 50 percent in say 15 hours... So to expect 2 full days would be a poor assumption: I wouldn't leave it uncharged for the night unless I knew I would be charging during the following day.
A couple of things, guys:
1. I used to be able to get 2 days of use off one charge; losing 8% a night started just in the past few months for me, before iOS 8 and while I was still using an iPhone 5. I chalked the issue up to being the battery on my iPhone 5 getting old, but the issue carried over to my iPhone 6.
2. I leave the iPad on at night and the battery life is the same in the morning as it was the night before. So "leaving the car running" doesn't really seem to explain it.
3. Cellular signal on the phone at home is 4/5 dots LTE, so weak signal doesn't seem to apply either.
4. 1% a night would be acceptable. 1% per hour seems extremely excessive, especially considering it means the phone couldn't reach even half of Apple's claimed "standby mode" battery life figures.
