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8.1 iPhone 6 real bad battery life
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Of that's for a 6, then that's normal but if it is a Plus then you got issues...which one is it?
That looks perfectly acceptable to me. You talked on it for about an hour plus other usage.
To those with Facebook... Holy smokes, that is some serious drainage. The OP had over 35% between Facebook and FB Messenger.
The Facebook app is not the problem. It is the location service on the app. Turn it off and you should be fine. This is my iPhone 6 with Facebook.
Christ on a crutch that battery life is insane. Teach me your ways. I have a 6 too, what on earth am I doing wrong....is running my phone down to 0% then charging it back up not recommended?
I guess I should just be satisfied with the 7ish hours I get out of my 6 considering it is exceptionally better than the 5 I had upgraded from. I think I just yearn for how the battery performance was prior 8.1 and get jealous when I see these crazy usage times others are able to maintain . Play on players.
I don't have any problems with 8.1 and battery life on my iPhone 6. In fact after a few days with 8.1, it is ending up better than 8.0/8.0.2 for me. Screenshot in the thread post below:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20222995/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20222995/
I always setup my iPhones as new. It's a pain but I usually end up with far less problems and better battery life. I keep a backup in iTunes before wiping though just in case.
Actually, i tested it with and without Apple pay over 2 days. I'm actually getting ~15% better battery life by removing Apple PayI think its because the NFC chip is always on the lookout for a signal. In Android phones, the nfc doesn't get activated until you open the app or turn on the phone saving battery life.
That is at least my experience...if you decide to test it out, please post your results
i seem to be ok. i do agree that it definitely drains more to have NFC always on somehow but I think its closer to maybe well under 5 %(which shld be negligible) after more usage before and after and also using apple pay at a few places.
Yep mine does that too. Usually around 60 minute of usage then it goes down to 99%. But when I'm listening to music then about 2 hours of music then it goes down to 99%.
Not only that for me battery life has improved a lot on 8.1 for me.
when I click on location services I dont see facebook listed
where do you turn that off?
Yep mine does that too. Usually around 60 minute of usage then it goes down to 99%. But when I'm listening to music then about 2 hours of music then it goes down to 99%.
Not only that for me battery life has improved a lot on 8.1 for me.
Your settings, please?