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10 hour battery life iphone 6

My battery life hasn't been great.

I'm coming from an HTC one M7 and the iPhone seems to be a lot worse. It died at around 10pm last night (took it off charge at 8am). My HTC would have had about 40% left. :(

I wondering if it's faulty or if the iPhone just can't compete because of its small battery.
 
anonymous4a said:
Has anyone gotten 10 hours battery life on their iphone 6 from one charge ? Apple's page on the iphone 6 posts 11 hours on wifi, 10 hours on LTE . Has anyone else gotten something close to this ? Most I've gotten was 7 hours..
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No one's getting over 7-8 hours and that's if they're lucky or conservative.
 
your using it too much :)

/jk
/s

10hrs on wifi is possible if you browse the internet. Just sit there all day surfing and I bet you achieve it. Same with music. You'll achieve apples figures. But as soon as you move out and about and do other things on top and add other apps and turn on push notifications and add more background app refreshes then you are stepping away from standard/default settings and your battery life will go down.
 
Maybe the "pre-production" model that apple used for testing (as per their battery info page), was using the 2100 battery that was floating around, hence the mostly un-reachable battery stats ;-)
 
Hal~9000 said:
"UP TO..." being the key words on Apple's page.

I wouldn't expect anything like the number they post unless you are being very conservative with you power settings (low brightness, wifi/bluetooth off, background app refresh off, good cell signal, etc).
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I dunno, I mean, my 5S got to 1% battery by 7pm, I'm going to bed at 11-12 with 40%, same usage, id say that pretty good
 
r-m said:
Maybe the "pre-production" model that apple used for testing (as per their battery info page), was using the 2100 battery that was floating around, hence the mostly un-reachable battery stats ;-)
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I doubt it. And I'm sure they make the iPhone the best they can because they have to use them. If your suggesting they have special batteries for their own device I thought of that before but it doesn't make sense to do that because you wouldn't be able to improve the product and get s feel for it. You need the same version as everyone else so you can assess it and improve from experience.
 
Zxxv said:
I doubt it. And I'm sure they make the iPhone the best they can because they have to use them. If your suggesting they have special batteries for their own device I thought of that before but it doesn't make sense to do that because you wouldn't be able to improve the product and get s feel for it. You need the same version as everyone else so you can assess it and improve from experience.
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Nah, I wasn't being too serious. Just making reference to the 2100 capacity battery that was floating around, which was thought to be an iPhone battery.
It'd make me laugh if that blunder was made, and Apple did their battery tests using it (because it was genuinely destined for iPhone 6 but ditched at the last minute in the same way sapphire was).
But I doubt that's the case.
 
I've gotten 10 hours of usage just the other day. All other days have been every bit of 8+ or 9+ hours. Great battery life. It's what the 5s should've been.
 
r-m said:
Nah, I wasn't being too serious. Just making reference to the 2100 capacity battery that was floating around, which was thought to be an iPhone battery.
It'd make me laugh if that blunder was made, and Apple did their battery tests using it (because it was genuinely destined for iPhone 6 but ditched at the last minute in the same way sapphire was).
But I doubt that's the case.
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**** that would be the blunder to end all blunders would it. I think apple deserves a break at the moment the way things have been going lately. Damn that would be a disaster!
 
Guys how to u charge ur phone in order to stay with a good battery life? What are ur habbits?
 
Hal~9000 said:
"UP TO..." being the key words on Apple's page.

I wouldn't expect anything like the number they post unless you are being very conservative with you power settings (low brightness, wifi/bluetooth off, background app refresh off, good cell signal, etc).
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wifi off?

their claim is 1 hour better usuage only using wifi
 
Hal~9000 said:
Sure but if someone is out of the house and not actually connected to wifi, it's a drain on the battery to leave it on.
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Is that provable? What's the difference between being at home connected to wifi with 3g/4g carrier signal on in background and out and about 4g/4g on with wifi on in background. In aoples tests they had ask to join wifi networks off. I'm assuming this makes the difference?

3G/4g is harder on battery than wifi.
 
I've left my wifi on without being connected for years with negligible drain on my phones. I like that it will auto connect for me whenever I reach home or work. Same with Bluetooth. I've turned them off before without significant difference in longevity. Especially with continuity and handoff, they're most convenient when the radios are enabled.
 
I don't consider anything the claim to be fact in real world usage.

They give me all the features I plan on using them, at least the ones that are useful to me. Wifi on, bluetooth on, background refresh on but only the apps I want to use it, apple weather in Notification Center, location services on for apps I use that require it, find my friends on, find my iPhone, auto brightness.

I get 4 hours of usage on my 4S. 5 hours on my 6 both using iOS 8.

The 4S has a relatively new battery. Overall I'm not that impressed mostly because I hate the idea of micro managing the phone for better battery. If I'm going to turn off every feature I'd just get a dumb phone.
 
iPhone7ate9 said:
No one's getting over 7-8 hours and that's if they're lucky or conservative.
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I got 8 hours and 33 minutes on my last full charge. This is with 27% gaming with Ace Attorney Dual Destinies (a 3DS port), 21% Candy Crush, 10% Mail, 8% Home & Lock, 6% Safari, 6% Music, and 4% Facebook.

I have background app refresh all disabled, Mail set to fetch every hour, all System Service Location Services turned off except Find My iPhone, and the only Notification Services/Location Services I get are the main Apple programs along with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
 
Bahroo said:
You can use Fetch, but I just use the Gmail app.
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Does the gmail app have better battery life than mail app?

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Kendo said:
I got 8 hours and 33 minutes on my last full charge. This is with 27% gaming with Ace Attorney Dual Destinies (a 3DS port), 21% Candy Crush, 10% Mail, 8% Home & Lock, 6% Safari, 6% Music, and 4% Facebook.

I have background app refresh all disabled, Mail set to fetch every hour, all System Service Location Services turned off except Find My iPhone, and the only Notification Services/Location Services I get are the main Apple programs along with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
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Is fetch more battery saving than push?
 
Starfyre said:
Does the gmail app have better battery life than mail app?

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Is fetch more battery saving than push?
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Fetch saves more battery then Push absolutely, and I use the app because I dont care for Push(instant email) or Fetch(fetching your email on a timer instead of instant email)

I use the gmail app to manually check my email whenever I use the app, this is how I use my email, I dont need to get anything up to date instantly(depends how you use your email, your priorities in life etc, whether you need it for work or etc), I just go to the app every now and then and check manually(saves most battery)


So if you don't need email instantly, for your phone to be constantly checking for emails, constantly updating, then turning off Push saves alot of battery
 
Bahroo said:
Fetch saves more battery then Push absolutely
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I don't think that's necessarily true. For many usage scenarios, push uses less battery than fetch. For example, if you don't get many emails, push isn't using any battery, but fetch is using your phone every 15 minutes or whatever even if there are no mails to download.
 
For me it's the cellular thing. I have 1-2 bars in my office. Battery lasts about 6 hours for usage. 12-13 overall.

On the weekend when I'm not at work and actually using my phone MORE I get about 8 hours and 13-15 standby.
 
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