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Apple Promotes iPhone XR's Battery Life in New Ad: 'You'll Lose Power Before It Will'
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The numbers were North American, so likely yes, they were talking specifically of US based sales.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-devices-in-north-america-in-q1-2019.2180764/
I'm not prepared to extrapolate that further though to international. I don't have enough data to go by.
Too bad the iPhone Xr's better than average iPhone battery life comes with compromises such as near 720p display, worse reception with inferior Intel radio instead of Qualcomm, aggressive killing or restriction of background tasks, etc. while being more expensive than the competition. Often see these type of comments with people switching away from iPhone (in this case iPhone Xr to Pixel 3a):
Must be the way you're ab/using it. I get at least 48 hours out of my XR before needing to plug it in.
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I have an XR. It lasts me around 48 hours between charges. I don't do social media, at all, but I listen to music, make and receive phone calls, read email and do some occasional web browsing and read the news.
Which flagships are you comparing it to? According to Tom's Guide, the iPhone XR has better battery life than several other Android phones, beating the overall average by an hour and 20 minutes. The Google Pixel 3 XL has two hours less battery life than the XR; the OnePlus 6 has an hour less. In fact, as far as I can tell, the Galaxy S10 Plus is the only flagship phone to beat it in a battery life test (based on the list here).
Yes I’m abusing my iPhone because it doesn’t give a magical 48hrs of battery.. you must turn yours in for 5 mins a day to get that..
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Globally no iPhone has ever dominated really. But the US is a big enough market, the iPhone usually does well there.
If they launched a new XE though I have a feeling it’ll outsell any other iPhone maybe?
I don't get this. Seems like a waste of ad revenue to promote one of your on products, especially the lower retail version, as better in a certain way vs other products in your line up? Must make a bigger markup on the Xr or have a lot of stock they need to move otherwise doesn't really make sense to me anyway.
Mine has been pretty bad from the start. It also get prone to occasional bouts of overheating, so I am guessing I got one with a wonky issue and that mine is running rather atypically. However it is a good performer overall and so I’ll just ride it out until I upgrade this year for the dual lens model.
I've almost no notification, almost no background data transfer, location-data turned on only for those apps where it's crucial (and then only when they're in the foreground).
99% of the time, I'm happy with the way iOS handles background tasks (mostly hibernating them). It's a phone. There's very little it needs to do about an app that isn't in the foreground.
I also don't really have problem with the reception.
If your battery drains very fast, there's a problem somewhere. Maybe it's a mailbox with lots of mails? Or a specific app?
I'd try restoring the iPhone to factory settings, install no apps and see if this works better
If it works better, it's some app.
Add back the apps one at a time, keeping between one and two weeks before adding a new app.
99% of the time, I'm happy with the way iOS handles background tasks (mostly hibernating them). It's a phone. There's very little it needs to do about an app that isn't in the foreground.
I also don't really have problem with the reception.
If your battery drains very fast, there's a problem somewhere. Maybe it's a mailbox with lots of mails? Or a specific app?
I'd try restoring the iPhone to factory settings, install no apps and see if this works better
If it works better, it's some app.
Add back the apps one at a time, keeping between one and two weeks before adding a new app.
"You'll lose power before it will". False advertising if you cycle 2 hours a day in winter with music playing, Apple Watch GPS, then use it at work. It will need charging before lunch.
"You'll lose power before it will if you're a lazy slob" perhaps?
"You'll lose power before it will if you're a lazy slob" perhaps?
It’s true. My phone usually does outlast me. And really that is the first time I have been able to say that in a phone. I love my XR.
And really that is the first time I have been able to say that in a phone. I love my XR.I switched from a X to an XR in large part because of the battery life. I don't know about the XS Max, but it doesn't feel like a poor man's phone next to my X.
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I just drove 2 ½ hours with the GPS on my Apple Watch and talking on the phone the whole time, and I still had 70% battery life left in my phone.
What are you doing with your phone before lunch?
Yeah overall, apart from it’s habit of randomly dropping signal, it’s an alright phone.
I’m waiting till 2020 when I can get a Qualcomm modem and decent arial designs. Plus with a bit of luck they’ll put an OLED screen in it and make it a bit lighter?
I’ll also look at any XE model they’ll launch.
My iPhone X is just over a year old (I’ve had it since August), and it is already on 89% battery health. I noticed just over a week ago that my battery was draining fairly quickly whilst not doing much. I’ve spoken to Apple Support, and it’s just run out of warranty. They’ve done a diagnostics test, and it passes. I’ve turned off background app refresh, but it’s not made a difference. Next step is to restore it from iCloud to see if that helps. That’ll be a pain in the arse to do, with all the data I have in iCloud. If that doesn’t help, I’ll have to pay £65 or so for a new battery. Quite frustrating, really.
Actually, my battery was reading 53% this morning and is now still reading 53%
Apple is amazing, they have just created a perpetual motion machine that uses no power.
Not begs the question, how do I get the battery percentage to move?
I really hate to read about such advertising.
Why nobody talks about the heavy disadvantages for many customers, who purchased an iPhone 7/8 (or plus). These older devices showed from the beginning an average battery time.
Because of the Qualcomm court cases Apple took away some of the Qualcomm patent features infringing patent law. These software features reduced electricity consumption (aside others e.g. features for faster search in Notices or Mail).
That's why since iOS 12.x the battery time is shortened obviously between 40% up to 60%, depending on the way of use. (Also the other functions became respectably worse...).
Till now NOBODY CRIES!!
Why?
I wait till this "battery gate" is driven to surface – a big wave...
So we understand better the motive for Apple for the battery replacement program of 2018 and this advertising finally is pure cynicism of Apple company against customers... Ugly
Why nobody talks about the heavy disadvantages for many customers, who purchased an iPhone 7/8 (or plus). These older devices showed from the beginning an average battery time.
Because of the Qualcomm court cases Apple took away some of the Qualcomm patent features infringing patent law. These software features reduced electricity consumption (aside others e.g. features for faster search in Notices or Mail).
That's why since iOS 12.x the battery time is shortened obviously between 40% up to 60%, depending on the way of use. (Also the other functions became respectably worse...).
Till now NOBODY CRIES!!
Why?
I wait till this "battery gate" is driven to surface – a big wave...
So we understand better the motive for Apple for the battery replacement program of 2018 and this advertising finally is pure cynicism of Apple company against customers... Ugly
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We all know Apple has a pending case in regards to battery life. And the same will happen with this phone and others as time goes on, have to push the consumer to buy a NEW iPhone, iPad. Definitely not the MBP until keyboardgate is fixed
I had an XS Max but had to send it back due to the OLED causing my migraines. So I’m actually on the XR for the LCD display. My XR does have far fewer connectivity problems than my Max did. As a phone, in terms of call quality, it’s the best iPhone I’ve owned so far. But it definitely doesn’t compare as well to my Android phones with their Qualcomm modems. It will be good to have QC back in iPhones again.
I’m hoping Apple will change whatever peculiar thing they do to OLED so I can go back to using their XS MAX upgrade. I’d like to have the rumored wide angle lens. I absolutely do love and use that lens on my Samsung S10+. But I’m sure I’ll like the XR upgrade well enough if that’s all I can use. I definitely can use OLED displays, just not the ones on the iPhones for some reason.
You won’t be the only one who feels that way and has found this. That you can use other make OLED’s but not Apples, which is even more daft when Samsung has made them.
My friends androids always die before my XR when I travel to gigs with them and none of their phones will connect to the cheap bluetooth transmitter in my car which works with the last 2 iphones I've had. As well as their phones are always messed up from something. Superior..what because they have some hardware the Iphone doesn't have?
You can keep the Chinese phones that send data to their government and The Androids Os which send data to google..no thanks, I'll pay more for a better experience and more privacy.
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Yep great battery almost always goes from a day to a day and a half without a charge.
Just buy a case dude!
