Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6
- Thread starter tubbymac
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
So in the interests of SCIENCE I decided to try running down my 2nd iPhone 6 today to see how long it lasts on a full charge. This turned out to be much harder than expected because it dragged on and on...
I used Safari to browse quite heavily, followed by a lot of gaming with Real Racing 3, and following forums with Tapatalk throughout the day. Spotify music streaming was done with the screen on while I was browsing or in Tapatalk. Podcasting was done when the screen was off. Feedly and Kijiji were used sporadically through the day.
This is heavier than my normal usage patterns by far. Normally I don't game as much and when I do it's a less graphically taxing game such as Super Hexagon. Also I normally don't use Spotify as much but when you see how long the battery lasted you can tell I was nearly bored out of my mind trying to drain this battery and needed something to keep me going.
I was expecting 8 hours with this heavy use and ended up with nearly 11 hours of battery usage. Totally unexpected! Apple claims up to 11 hours just web browsing so this was a shocker.
Suffice to say with my usage patterns I'm glad I returned my iPhone 6 Plus because this smaller iPhone 6 lasts way longer than I would normally need each day.
Not sure if my 128 gb model has anything to do with this but my last 64 gb model did not last this long. Or maybe it's iOS 8.1. Whatever the case this rocks!
I used Safari to browse quite heavily, followed by a lot of gaming with Real Racing 3, and following forums with Tapatalk throughout the day. Spotify music streaming was done with the screen on while I was browsing or in Tapatalk. Podcasting was done when the screen was off. Feedly and Kijiji were used sporadically through the day.
This is heavier than my normal usage patterns by far. Normally I don't game as much and when I do it's a less graphically taxing game such as Super Hexagon. Also I normally don't use Spotify as much but when you see how long the battery lasted you can tell I was nearly bored out of my mind trying to drain this battery and needed something to keep me going.
I was expecting 8 hours with this heavy use and ended up with nearly 11 hours of battery usage. Totally unexpected! Apple claims up to 11 hours just web browsing so this was a shocker.
Suffice to say with my usage patterns I'm glad I returned my iPhone 6 Plus because this smaller iPhone 6 lasts way longer than I would normally need each day.
Not sure if my 128 gb model has anything to do with this but my last 64 gb model did not last this long. Or maybe it's iOS 8.1. Whatever the case this rocks!
That's the problem: train! The phone uses much more energy because of constant cell tower switching.
When surfing on the train, my iPhone 6 uses around 15-20% per hour. When doing the same stationary it is more like 5-8%.
looks good, its hard to say with any music player in the top 4 apps because you can get so much usage for music on a charge so anyone who listens to 2-3 hours of music with the screen off might get 12 hours overall but that same battery might get 8-9 hours of usage if they did not listen to any music
Got 15 hours without any doctoring and I've been streaming TV shows through Safari.
I think this is the best battery life I've had so far.
I think this is the best battery life I've had so far.
Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6
Yes I do. Why? I don't see anything wrong with owning both as each one is being used on a different carrier.
Yes I do. Why? I don't see anything wrong with owning both as each one is being used on a different carrier.
I assumed the same as you since I felt I got better battery life when I listened to music. But you know what they say about assumptions. Today I decided to put this to the test and my number one app was podcasts and I made sure to only use it with the screen off. I also made sure the podcasts were downloaded fully and not streamed.
This was totally unexpected that I got the same battery life as my normal usage. It doesn't make sense to me. My guess is that any battery life I saved was being used while driving around in my car. Maybe the constant connections to cell towers offset the audio.
Basically the same 5 hours usage at half battery I've been getting with my previous screenshots. My battery is quite consistent no matter what I've tried so far.
I don't know how you guys are getting 11+ hours with heavy use. This is the best I can do with my 6+ under slightly more conservative(auto screen off 2 min) usage.
----------
Yeah you just have to charge to 100% again before it displays percentage again.
----------
Yeah you just have to charge to 100% again before it displays percentage again.
That is odd. If you do a slide to power off, that shouldn't erase those battery stats. If you did the hard reboot by holding home and power button at the same time until screen goes off then that would clear those stats.
at least now I know that 14 our usage is possible, and I don't just have a bad battery. Nothing but browse web yesterday, and this is what I got. Previously the most I could get was nine hours and 45 minutes at 1%, with LTE on the whole time and lots of maps.
