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8.1 iPhone 6 real bad battery life

ionjohn

ionjohn

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I've never experienced that before haha

That's on a fresh restore of 8.1, no mail push, less than 10 apps, low luminosity, 5 cell bars, system services turned off
 

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Same story on my 6 Plus (2h44m usage at 61%). Hopefully Apple comes out with a minor update in the future to bring battery life back to 8.0 levels.
 
myscrnnm said:
Same story on my 6 Plus (2h44m usage at 61%). Hopefully Apple comes out with a minor update in the future to bring battery life back to 8.0 levels.
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Maybe we need to fully discharge it and then charge it to 100%?
 
Oddly enough, I was experiencing the exact opposite. I was having terrible battery life with iOS 8.0.2 and so I was eager to try out the new update mainly for battery life over anything else.

I am happy to report impressive battery life since the update so it seems to be working well on my iPhone 6

iPhone 6 64GB (AT&T) // iPad Mini (Wifi) // 2013 MacBook Pro Retina
 
i'm going to take a risk and get the update. my battery has been perfect so far.
 
Restart your phone, somebody on the forum said that this is what fixed their battery drain issues.
 
If I can get 1 hour of moderate usage per 10% I am happy. Right now I am at 89% with 1hr14min of usage and 6hr14min of standby. I'm getting about the same as 8.0.2, maybe a tad better because I've been doing more heavy usage on that 1hr14min than I normally do.
 
my 6 Plus was draining significantly after i updated even on standby but i simply turned the device off and on and battery is trickling down like 8.0.2 which was good.
 
BigMar89 said:
my 6 Plus was draining significantly after i updated even on standby but i simply turned the device off and on and battery is trickling down like 8.0.2 which was good.
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The 6 looks to be draining slower than on 8.0.2. ^_^

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I noticed after upgrading to 8.1 a lot of apps I turned off in background app refresh turned back on after the upgrade. I since turned them back off any my battery life is back where it was which is great. I only have a few health apps on in background app refresh which seem to want that setting on.
 
TJone said:
I noticed after upgrading to 8.1 a lot of apps I turned off in background app refresh turned back on after the upgrade. I since turned them back off any my battery life is back where it was which is great. I only have a few health apps on in background app refresh which seem to want that setting on.
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I got the whole thing turned off
 
I have the same odd "100%" even though I have 28 minutes of usage and 2 hours of standby. Think it may be a bug.

On another note, I have "Music, Background Activity" for 5% over the last 24 hours and have no idea what that is, any ideas? I don't have music playing or open or anything.
 
TJone said:
I noticed after upgrading to 8.1 a lot of apps I turned off in background app refresh turned back on after the upgrade. I since turned them back off any my battery life is back where it was which is great. I only have a few health apps on in background app refresh which seem to want that setting on.
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Thanks for the heads up. Turns out three apps had background refresh turned back on in my phone after the update. We'll see if this makes a difference. Even discounting that, there's still a huge discrepancy in my battery life though.
 
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