Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6

[respectabilia]

I have had my iPhone 6 for almost a week and a half and have never gotten more than 6 hours of usage. Right now it's 20% and I'm at 4 hours 45 mins so we will see how it goes. Extremely disappointed by my battery so far. I even have background refresh disabled, stripped location sevices to minimum, turned off push for email, it's fetch for only one of my 4 emails, manual for the rest. Brightness usually 25%. What's the deal?!



Now at 5 percent and at 5 hours 15 minutes of battery usage. 15 percent in half an hour of Twitter, Safari, Messages, and a small little game I play at absolute darkest the screen will get. Help..?

The iPhone battery when used as a full smartphone without worry about battery will give about 6-7 hours. Just got to accept that I guess.

Which means that if you want longer battery you might want to consider the 6 plus. Return the 6, try the 6 plus and then return it within 14 days if you need.

 

[ELPresidente720]

A better one for my 6.

 

[M0esmac]

Mine on 6+.

 

[Pluto88888]

Mine on 6+.

Wow, Horrible battery life probably weak cell tower.

Mine both phone gets
iPhone 6 (3G/4G only) 7 Hours usage no gaming
iPhone 6+ (3G/4G only) 11 Hours usage no gaming

Both phones using three 3g/4g network.

 

[M0esmac]

Wow, Horrible battery life probably weak cell tower.

Mine both phone gets
iPhone 6 (3G/4G only) 7 Hours usage no gaming
iPhone 6+ (3G/4G only) 11 Hours usage no gaming

Both phones using three 3g/4g network.

Could be, but I don't use the cell whatsoever when I'm home (both screenshots from when I was all the time home) what annoys me the most.

 

[heisenberg123]

Could be, but I don't use the cell whatsoever when I'm home (both screenshots from when I was all the time home) what annoys me the most.

It will still look for cell tower even on wifi for voice calls

 

[Le Hamilton]

Wow, Horrible battery life probably weak cell tower.

Mine both phone gets
iPhone 6 (3G/4G only) 7 Hours usage no gaming
iPhone 6+ (3G/4G only) 11 Hours usage no gaming

Both phones using three 3g/4g network.

11 hours? Can you tell something about your standby time?

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

Mine on 6+.

I think in your case something is constantly running/crashing and killing the battery.

Try backing up the phone settings to iTunes, and then let iTunes wipe and restore iOS onto the phone fresh, with your backup going back onto the phone when it's done.

If that doesn't help make an appt with the Apple Store.

 

[M0esmac]

I think in your case something is constantly running/crashing and killing the battery.

Try backing up the phone settings to iTunes, and then let iTunes wipe and restore iOS onto the phone fresh, with your backup going back onto the phone when it's done.

If that doesn't help make an appt with the Apple Store.

This is a replacement already (vibration motor broke on previous one, could get 12+ hours of usage out of that thing). Ugh.

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

This is a replacement already (vibration motor broke on previous one, could get 12+ hours of usage out of that thing). Ugh.

Regardless, I was still reinstall iOS and restore your backup to it. I've seen this work to fix battery life problems more often than it should. Sometimes there's just a problem with the ROM flash or with the restore.

Sometimes there are some corrupted files they get put onto the iPhone it will kill the battery life. I once had multiple duplications of voice memos that could not be properly transferred onto the new phone properly, and until I removed them from my iTunes library and then wiped and restored my phone, it was leaving remnants of them on the phone as "ghost files" and my battery life was terrible.

 

[markthrash]

So I experimented and managed to squeeze this out of my new 6. Not bad at all. I promise I did use my phone, just nothing over the top. Light usage on everything: texting, FB messaging, web surfing, YouTube viewing.

 

[heisenberg123]

Set up with an iCloud backup. No push, no fetch, auto brightness works great.
Very happy with the battery life on my 6
I use Bluetooth, and I have location services enabled

great results

are you on wifi mostly?

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So I experimented and managed to squeeze this out of my new 6. Not bad at all. I promise I did use my phone, just nothing over the top. Light usage on everything: texting, FB messaging, web surfing, YouTube viewing.

awesome I dont complain about my battery but I can barely crack 8 hours are you on wifi often, I dont have access to work wifi so and I only have 2 dots of reception that might be part of the reason I get 7hour range

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Wow, Horrible battery life probably weak cell tower.

Mine both phone gets
iPhone 6 (3G/4G only) 7 Hours usage no gaming
iPhone 6+ (3G/4G only) 11 Hours usage no gaming

Both phones using three 3g/4g network.

71% for a racing game could be part of the reason

 

[allen.stark.5]

 

[heisenberg123]

View attachment 499857

From 6:20am to 11pm. iPhone 6

wow thats amazing, any setting tips you want to share?

 

[jzj687]

Any idea how this should be considered?

 

[heisenberg123]

Any idea how this should be considered?

post back when that % is at 1% hard to say if you will get another 30mins or 3 hours of usage

 

[Le Hamilton]

Is the "usage" time the same as the "Display On" from Android?

 

[heisenberg123]

Is the "usage" time the same as the "Display On" from Android?

usage on the iphone also counts Music with the screen off

 

[Le Hamilton]

usage on the iphone also counts Music with the screen off

So,I think 7+ hours are very good.

 

[heisenberg123]

So,I think 7+ hours are very good.

yup in my opinion 7\+ hours of usage is good

 

[Le Hamilton]

So I experimented and managed to squeeze this out of my new 6. Not bad at all. I promise I did use my phone, just nothing over the top. Light usage on everything: texting, FB messaging, web surfing, YouTube viewing.

Is that a 6 or a 6 Plus?

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yup in my opinion 7\+ hours of usage is good

Very good, there are not many smartphones which are better.

 

[markthrash]

Is that a 6 or a 6 Plus?]
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awesome I dont complain about my battery but I can barely crack 8 hours are you on wifi often, I dont have access to work wifi so and I only have 2 dots of reception that might be part of the reason I get 7hour range

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On a more intense usage routine, I usually get about barely 8 hours, as well. First time I let the battery just completely drain was when I was at work with horrible reception. Kept switching from LTE to 3G to GPRS constantly on 1 bar. But battery holds up very well in my experience with the phone so far.

 

[tubbymac]

Just a guess in the dark but do people with bad battery life use ActiveSync / Exchange to push their email? I remember that used to kill my battery back in the iPhone 4 days when I connected to push gmail using Apple Mail. When I switched to the Gmail app I no longer had the ActiveSync battery drain.

I'm starting to think I might not need all the battery from my iPhone 6 Plus. I was using it heavily today watching the Apple keynote and hitting refresh on Macrumors while listening to Spotify and Podcasts in the background. Over 6 hours and could only run half the battery down. Even with the iOS 8.0.2 bugs this thing is still a beast in battery life!

 

[jzj687]

post back when that % is at 1% hard to say if you will get another 30mins or 3 hours of usage

Doesn't that hurt the battery?

 

[Shadowbech]

Doesn't that hurt the battery?

Yes it will damage your battery if you do it every single time. But once in a while it shouldn't. But I don't think it's necessary to drain your battery anyways.

Apple used to have it on there site where you should drain it once a month but Apple removed that page as it's no longer necessary.