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Battery life on iPhone 6 is terrible

Don't have my new 6+ yet, but I can testify that iOS 8 is killing my iPhone 5's battery a lot faster than before I upgraded the OS.
 
Power up yesterday at 11:06 am
Died Today a little after 3pm

Total of 26 Hours with 2 forced iCloud backups.
Gbytes of Wifi and cellular downloads.
Including apps updating like keynote pages etc
Podcasts refreshing Photo streaming.

Along with all the playing around show and tell a new device gets.

I'm thrilled with the battery life
iPhone 6 4.7
 
iPhone 6 battery life is draining pretty fast on first use, not sure if it is normal, but its been half a day.
 
Diesel350 said:
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?
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What's your screen brightness set to? The iPhone 6 has the brightest screen of any phone on the market and having the brightness set to over 50% will drain the battery faster than necessary.
 
Vertigo50 said:
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.
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I did none of that. Mine was plugged into my iMac for all data transfers. Did a clean install. Phone was done with iCloud, etc. off and fully charged the next day (today). I've had every phone since 2007 and mine is not right. There's no way 'giving it time' is going to fix mine.
 
I have a plus that I've been using since 8:00 am, its 5:51 pm and I am at 71% battery life. I have been using it all day. Games, video, calls, wifi, lte, downloading, etc.
 
Raffi said:
I have a plus that I've been using since 8:00 am, its 5:51 pm and I am at 71% battery life. I have been using it all day. Games, video, calls, wifi, lte, downloading, etc.
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What's your Usage and Standby times?
Settings- General- Usage- Battery Usage
 
Raffi said:
I have a plus that I've been using since 8:00 am, its 5:51 pm and I am at 71% battery life. I have been using it all day. Games, video, calls, wifi, lte, downloading, etc.
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Can you post a screen cap of your battery usage page please?
 
meagain said:
Can you post a screen cap of your battery usage page please?
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Sure here it is. The third is my wife's iPhone 5s and our setting are identical. She didn't really do anything intense like gaming or video and I have way more battery life. The plus has an amazing battery and it will get better in a week or so.
 

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Honestly, I saw this thread and just checked my phone... I got up at 8:00, it's almost 3:00pm. My iPhone 6 has been mostly sitting in my car all day with the screen off on DND while I was surfing and it's at 33% battery life. It's been doing nothing, and it's at 33% battery? Also, I noticed last night and this morning that lots of apps from Google Maps to Facebook seem to be stuttering, temporarily freezing, or needing to restart?
 
Battery life on Iphone 6 is terrible

Did you restore from back up or set up ass new?
 
The battery life on this is great. Better than my 5s. Certain tasks use battery a lot less on the a8 clearly.
 
2IS said:
Those complaining about horrible battery life need to wait a couple days, especially if you see the message that its still restoring

Those claiming the have super duper awesome battery life are either not using their phone or are FOS. Apple's own inflated numbers shows it to be on par with a 5S, actual reviews show it to be more or less (usually less) on par with a 5S too. So enough with the BS about how you used it heavily and 24 hours later you're still at 22% Your phone isn't that special.
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I could not agree more. People saying they have been using their phone hard for 24 hours and still have half their battery left are just like the guy on the other thread that has a 6+ and he said he was walking two large breed dogs and posting to this forum one handed at the same time with ease ...,

I don't know why people have to make stuff up to justify their purchase ....
 
iguy777 said:
I could not agree more. People saying they have been using their phone hard for 24 hours and still have half their battery left are just like the guy on the other thread that has a 6+ and he said he was walking two large breed dogs and posting to this forum one handed at the same time with ease ...,

I don't know why people have to make stuff up to justify their purchase ....
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So much truth here... So much...
 
As I type this out, 4 hours and 63% is way good on my end.

Battery: 63%
Usage: 4hr:14 min
Standby: 8hr 22min
 
meagain said:
I did none of that. Mine was plugged into my iMac for all data transfers. Did a clean install. Phone was done with iCloud, etc. off and fully charged the next day (today). I've had every phone since 2007 and mine is not right. There's no way 'giving it time' is going to fix mine.
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You win. Your phone sucks.
 
Sulten said:
As I type this out, 4 hours and 63% is way good on my end.

Battery: 63%
Usage: 4hr:14 min
Standby: 8hr 22min
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Wow that is much better than mine.

Battery: 23%
Usage: 4 hrs 46 mins
Standby: 15 hrs 20 mins

I know I have a longer arount of standby time, but there is no way that explains this battery differential. Totally unimpressed by the battery life on the 6 so far. Set up as a new phone, turned off background app refresh and most system location services, and still crap battery life. It's even worse than my 5S.
 
Vertigo50 said:
You win. Your phone sucks.
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LOL Well in all honesty, I think it does. Seriously I have nearly everything turned off I can. It happens. My 5 gets way better battery life while running far more things, been jailbroke, not a clean install in a 'long' time from prior phones. And it's running iOS 8 as well so I can't blame that either.

Just going to inform Apple who will see for themselves and get another. I'm not happy about this trust me.
 
MacDevil7334 said:
Wow that is much better than mine.



Battery: 23%

Usage: 4 hrs 46 mins

Standby: 15 hrs 20 mins



I know I have a longer arount of standby time, but there is no way that explains this battery differential. Totally unimpressed by the battery life on the 6 so far. Set up as a new phone, turned off background app refresh and most system location services, and still crap battery life. It's even worse than my 5S.
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Depends on how your using it in that amount of time. YouTube and pr0n is a real drain. ;)
 
checked again

5hr 10min
50% batter left

FB 32%
Safari17%
Phone 16%
mail , msg, and etc on the rest
 
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