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6thDAY

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Apr 14, 2010
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Hi guys, I wanted to ask your opinions before I take make a Genius Bar appointment.

I got my 128GB 6s Plus on Friday and noticed it was draining battery substantially fast on idle. So I did 2 tests.

1st test:
Charged it to 100%+ (left it for some time after 100%), turned ON Airplane Mode, unplugged it, timed it, left it idle, and after 8 hrs the battery it was still at 100%.

2d test:
Charged it to 100%+ (left it for some time after 100%), turned OFF Airplane Mode, unplugged it, timed it, left it idle, and after 8 hrs the battery it went down to 78%. Therefore, it's dropping at a rate of 2.75%/hr.
The Settings enabled were:
  1. WiFi: ON
  2. Bluetooth: OFF
  3. Auto-brightness: ON
  4. Cellular Data: ON
  5. Background App Refresh: OFF
  6. Personal Hotspot: OFF
  7. Reduce Parallax Motion: OFF
  8. Low Power Mode: OFF
  9. Siri: ON
    1. Allow Hey Siri: ON
  10. Location Services: ON
    1. Call Network Search: ON
    2. Find My iPhone: ON
    3. Setting Time Zone: ON
    4. Wi-Fi Networking: ON
    5. Everything Else: OFF
  11. iCloud: ON
  12. Mail -> Fetch New Data: OFF
  13. Apple Music: OFF
  14. Airdrop: OFF
I have no background apps running. That would mean at this rate, in 36 hrs, the phone would die just from idling.

I don't think that's normal, even with the mentioned settings being on. The phone is running on iOS 9.0.1.

Let me know what you guys think?

Thanks.
 
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