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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.
 
Four hours and down to 28% seems pretty good to me if you were using it the whole time. I don't get more than five hrs usage on my 5S
 
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.
 
I am having extremely good battery life on my 6, I am actually suprised how good the battery is and performance.





The thing is when I get a new iPhone I always set it up as new, but I have everything still backed up I just put the photos on manually, and brand new install of all the apps I use, notes, etc, all that manually, doesnt take me long either.



I feel like people who use recover from a older iPhone going to a new iPhone always brings some kind of battery bug glitch .



The battery life is pretty dam awesome on the 6 for me (Verizon), I suspect some apps are probably draining the battery more then usual since they aren't fully updated yet to iOS 8, plus iOS 8.0.1 is coming soon so quirks will be ironed out fast

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location services on? push/fetch settings? There's actually alot of battery saving options in iOS



little things like turning off Vibrate on ring helps if you don't mind no vibrate on ring ( i dont ) and bunch of other things.



some apps arent fully updated yet and probably arent as efficient as they should be yet but .


Location on, ATT LTE, fetch 15, wifi and BT off. Parallax off.
 
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.

Hopefully it gets better but first day of use at 100% at 7:30 am and by 11:45 I was at 28%

Anyone else getting less than desirable battery life on the 4.7 6?
 
I have no idea what you guys are doing with your phones. my iPhone 6 was at 100% yesterday at 2 PM. I haven't charged it since, and its currently at 22%. Ive done light gaming, mostly text, and web surfing. Id say about 75% wifi, 25% LTE.
 
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.
 
Why not go to the usage and see what's using the battery?

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?
 
Location on, ATT LTE, fetch 15, wifi and BT off. Parallax off.

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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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.


This, also some apps need to be updated aswell for full iOS 8 compatibility and squash any glitches/bugs
 
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?


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.

[edit] screenshot http://m.imgur.com/lpZTdTL
 
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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. :(
 
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.
 
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.
 
My 6+ battery life didn't seem too great yesterday but it's improved a lot now. Must have finished indexing,etc
 
Mine must be defective. It drains before my eyes with nearly everything off incl cell data

3.5 hours barely used. 5 hours standby 15%.
 
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.
 
Mine must be defective. It drains before my eyes with nearly everything off incl cell data



3.5 hours barely used. 5 hours standby 15%.


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
 
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