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Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6
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I personally don't think that it matters, though I would always prefer an iTunes backup and restore, since you may never know if you lose Internet connectivity while the device is downloading the iCloud backup. iTunes should be more reliable, just in case.
Ok I'm having the same issue. I'm starting to believe its a jailbreak issue. I would go to sleep with 100% and wake up at like 88%. My usage would be something crazy like 2 hours or more but I hadn't touched the phone. I removed the jailbreak today to see how it fairs tonight. I'll keep you posted
If background app refresh is turned on, your phone will register some usage even if you aren't actively using the phone.
I have that turned off for sure. I even put my phone on airplane mode. It wasn't connected to anything and still drained
My iPhone only drains about 2-3% overnight even with a jailbreak. I don't put it in airplane mode or do not disturb either. I just leave it on the same settings day and night.
Way back when I had an iPhone 4s my iPhone would also drain at about 3-4% overnight. However once I did the email push trick of setting up mail to use Google Gmail via Microsoft ActiveSync, my iPhone then drained about 15+ % overnight.
Your stats suggest you weren't really using the phone, that it was just using itself in the background lol.
I don't really see having usage overnight as an issue for my phone. Battery level was @ 100% the night before and still @ 100% when I woke up but with 2+ hours of usage.
"If background app refresh is turned on, your phone will register some usage even if you aren't actively using the phone."
-So do apps still "refresh" even if there are no apps running in the background? I asked because I kill all apps before going to sleep but still gain usage.
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Even with a jailbreak, I lose between 2-4% overnight (DND on, of course). I have quite a few tweaks installed as well. Though it's been a while since I checked my overnight numbers.
Maybe there is a rogue app that is causing the problem?
I just got 7 hrs with 2 days standby with my iPhone 6 (mixed use and various signal strengths) before having to recharge.
My iPhone 6 drains a good 10+% every night, even on airplane mode, if it's not plugged in and I don't know why. I haven't checked the usage times before and after going to sleep for the night, however. Phone isn't jailbroken, hasn't ever been jailbroken. It's even set to manual for mail, background refresh is off, location services are only on for two apps, apples stock weather app and yahoo weather. Brightness is 30%. Can't manage more than like 6 hours on a charge. Phone tends to get a little warm at times.
Kinda annoying since my iPad will go from 100% to 98% or so overnight. Amazing standby times.
I will probably try a restore and see how it goes. Do iTunes or iCloud backups preserve app data? Just kind of curious before I get myself into restoring and such...
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Went to the Apple Store a couple weeks ago to check the health of my battery and they said it was good. So I did a restore and set up as new and now i'm starting to see the battery jumps like old iPhone 5 issue. Just did a restore so i'll see what happens. This is really irritating, I just went through manually moving everything over since it was set up as new 
. My two week old back can't possibly be corrupted that fast.
. My two week old back can't possibly be corrupted that fast.
Battery drain fixed. I removed the jailbreak and got this.
Right before I went to sleep
And when I woke up
I believe the problem was a process on jailbreak named locationd which was taking up around 15% of my battery usage. The only way to see this process was installing the tweak DetailedBatteryUsage. I didn't have too many tweaks installed and none of them were considered ones to drain. It seems that I have fixed the issue although I had to give up my jailbreak. I can live without it lol
Right before I went to sleep
And when I woke up
I believe the problem was a process on jailbreak named locationd which was taking up around 15% of my battery usage. The only way to see this process was installing the tweak DetailedBatteryUsage. I didn't have too many tweaks installed and none of them were considered ones to drain. It seems that I have fixed the issue although I had to give up my jailbreak. I can live without it lol
Yes both backups keep app data. It sounds like you may want to take your phone to the apple store tho
Locationd should be the location daemon.
Have you turned system services off under location services?
I only keep find my iPhone checked for using gps and all others are of from system services, couple apps are allowed to use only while in use.
Yea I have everything off except the find my iPhone toggle. I don't use location services anyway. Its always off but the location daemon was always in use for some odd reason
Not sure where I got my percentages. Must've been shortly after I got my 6+ and before the jailbreak came out. I lost 7%. Definitely not ditching the jailbreak because of that.
Hey guys sooo is this normal? Or a new record!
Device: iPhone 6
Capacity: 64 GB
iOS: v8.1.2
Jailbreak: No
Carrier: v18.0
By the way, no judging on how uneventful my weekend was!
Device: iPhone 6
Capacity: 64 GB
iOS: v8.1.2
Jailbreak: No
Carrier: v18.0
By the way, no judging on how uneventful my weekend was!
Hey guys sooo is this normal? Or a new record!
By the way, no judging on how uneventful my weekend was!
Hah, sometimes uneventful weekends are good for the soul.
You're on track there for about 7.5 hours of usage. The record was a few pages ago by a guy with an iPhone 6 Plus. He had over 20 hours... which is crazy good.
At least I don't think I've seen anything over 20 hours use in this thread.
Standby time I think the most we've seen is about 3 days.