My initial iCloud sync used 20% of the battery in about 30 minutes. After the sync finished the battery has been excellent. The acid test for me will be bluetooth or wifi tethering, which always drained the battery of my old 4S quickly. I haven't needed to tether in the one day I've had the new phone.
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Battery life on iPhone 6 is terrible
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I am concerned about my 6 battery also. I'm on O2 in uk. Was 100% this morning at 7:30am and was 0% by 16:00pm but there hasn't been a great deal of usage tbh. Mail on fetch, background updates off, brightness on 1/3rd. Very light web, camera and Facebook usage. Bit concerning I haven't really done anything.
Charged overnight. 3 hours later with light texting and web surfing and one 15 second video shot and I was at 75%. That seems to be much worse than the 5s. I would have expected to be at 90% or so.
Give it a day or two. I think there are lots of work to do by the OS to optimize file indexing, adjusting file permission, etc
If you restored backup then it has to download all software packages, related contents, etc.
Give it a day or two until there is no background work.
If you restored backup then it has to download all software packages, related contents, etc.
Give it a day or two until there is no background work.
The battery is pretty good to me. Mu first charge was horrible and I was pretty upset with the battery life. But after letting it drain and completely charging it ( to calibrate) it last for about 6.5 hours on wifi with constant usage including a few games and the camera. I was actually shocked at how well it performed.
54% Back up and restore. On my lockscreen at the bottom it says restoring from Icloud Backup. what the heck does that mean it's still restoring?
Also limit ad tracking on, I also turn off diagnostics and usage to send that report to Apple, all this helps
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This, also some apps need to be updated aswell for full iOS 8 compatibility and squash any glitches/bugs
Do you have a lot of pictures? You could turn on iCloud photo and make it so it doesn't download the full photo versions to your phone.
Coming from a 5 the 6 is incredible. Feels like I have gotten nearly 2x the usage out of it today. Obviously it's getting a lot more use than normal with it being new, but it has still lasted the day with battery to spare. I think I might be able to manage 2 days off a single charge when the novelty wears off.
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Have been less than impressed on mine, but the AT&T coverage in my house is awful, so it's probably constantly pinging. 
Haha this might just be true. After handling both in person and seeing this I think I'll definitely get the plus if I get the new iphone.
Impossible to tell what it's like right now since everyone is spending way more time than normal with their new phones. This happens with every single new release and in the end, Apple is pretty darn accurate about advertised battery life - every time.
I'm not. Normal usage today (for me, which is light) and down 10% per hour. I just disabled push mail; we will see if that helps.
Yup unfortunately battery life sux. But we new it would going in when they said it was the same as the 5s.
My battery life has been good. 12 hours standby, 4 hrs 35 min of usage and I'm at 51% battery left. Mostly at home, on WiFi, but I've spent some time out and about on cellular data too.
iPhone 6, VZW, 64GB. I set up as a new phone and just imported my contacts, everything else is wiped out and I reinstalled a lot of my apps as I went along.
iPhone 6, VZW, 64GB. I set up as a new phone and just imported my contacts, everything else is wiped out and I reinstalled a lot of my apps as I went along.
Guys you have to give it a few days. When I started using mine it was downloading photos from the cloud like crazy for over an hour, updating, and god knows what else in the background. It was actually getting so warm it was about to get uncomfortable to hold. After a while it died down and got cool again. But the battery took a major hit upfront because of all that.
After a few restarts for good measure last night and this morning, and a full night on the charger, my battery life is awesome today, and I've been streaming Spotify, Bluetooth to my car, and all kinds of stuff.
After a few restarts for good measure last night and this morning, and a full night on the charger, my battery life is awesome today, and I've been streaming Spotify, Bluetooth to my car, and all kinds of stuff.
have u tried restore? not sure if they will do that at the apple store given the crazy week or will they just swap since theyre too busy
