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Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6
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I'm eager to compare mine to the 5S I kept as a spare. I always keep the old one each year just in case. This year it really paid off since I found out they were bending just before I was about to take it out of the box and set it up. Saved by Twitter 
That's awesome battery life. Your screenshot also dispels the theory that WhatsApp is a battery drainer. I'm starting to see more screenshots these days with great battery life with heavy WhatsApp use. So I guess we can rule that app out for people's battery issues.
Only on pace for 6 hours of usage there, so your battery life isn't that good. I think 8 hours is doable for the iPhone 6 in general, with a few of us getting 9+ hours.
As above you're only on pace for around 6 hours of usage. It could be the background activity in Photos app though. Maybe it's still syncing with iCloud and downloading a lot of photos.
Your battery is AWESOME. If you need or prefer the bigger screen, you could consider upgrading to the iPhone 6 Plus. I didn't really notice the OIS in the Plus model to make much of a difference in normal pictures, even in low light. Surprisingly the Plus model fit in my pocket when I tried it at the Apple Store and the big screen wasn't too bad to hold in my hands. I liked it a lot.
I don't have that turned on. I'm guessing I could get more battery with parallax turned off, but I don't think I can turn just that off without also turning off the zooming animations, which I actually like.
7/8 sounds about normal - it depends on what apps you use and what settings you have on/off. Also varies a lot due to how strong your cell reception/signal is in your area. The Apple numbers are in a very controlled environment. It's probably 11 hours of using nothing but just the Safari app with no switching to any other apps. I could probably get close to that (I've gotten to 10 hours with my usage) but it would be very boring to reproduce those results sitting all day just using Safari and nothing else.
I think you should be salty about it, yes. If you aren't at least getting 7-8 I'd worry that something is messed up with a restore from backup, or that the battery is faulty, or that some App is going hog wild and preventing your iPhone from idling properly. Be especially wary if the usage time is equal or close to the stand by time. If those numbers are nearly the same it's a clear sign of something faulty.
I'd try a clean install first, but I know that's a big pain for most people. Usually the restore from backup is what messes most iPhones up.
You are correct in that the battery usage screen resets after a full charge. But you're wrong in that plugging in the phone is immediately noticeable on the screenshots because there is a message under the standby time warning something like "phone has been plugged into the charger since the last full charge". So the screenshots without that message are completely valid measurements of actual battery life.
[edit] can't upload images from iOS???
This bug should be fixed in iOS 8.02 according to the release notes. I haven't tested it yet though.
Ok so i went to Apple and he ran diagnostics. Conclusion was : he didn't know whats going on, and he didn't want to replace it because of "the Environment" ... But because i bought it there he couldnt Refuse my request to replace it. Got a new phone now. Lets see how it goes
Currently at 8 hours 8 minutes standby and 6 hours 45 minutes usage.. Which has got me slightly worried since I only got up 3 hours ago. Think I'm gonna try and do a restore and set up as new today
Lol, because of the environment. It's not like they're going to put those devices in a landfill. They'll send them back to Apple to refurbish, and then Apple will sell them again. But hopefully the replacement model fairs better. Keep us updated!
After 4 charge cycles on my 6, my battery seems to be getting better and better. I set my phone up as new and have only allowed location services/background activity for the Apps I need to use these services for, rather than just saying yes every time I'm prompted, and am connected to Wi-Fi most of the time, but my usage habits are no different to my 5S and I'm seeing a vast improvement. Just installing iOS 8.0.2 so hoping that doesn't knock it back!
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Yeah I think thats the problem with a lot of people in this thread, you have to let the phone go through a few charge cycles. People are getting the devices and after 1 day they say that the battery doesnt last a long time. Just give it about two weeks or even a week to see the battery calibration start to kick in.
Just curious if anyone has noticed a drain after switching to VoLTE?? I changed my setting to have it and data on last night and seemed like it was a significant drain so switched it back this morning but to early to tell. Overall battery life on my 6 has not seemed to be the greatest and not the number some have been reporting.
I would like to a fresh reinstall as I did mine from back up but how do you go about doing that and saving you contacts? That's about the only thing I care about?? Any info would be much appreciated. Lots of great info on hear, thanks all!!
I would like to a fresh reinstall as I did mine from back up but how do you go about doing that and saving you contacts? That's about the only thing I care about?? Any info would be much appreciated. Lots of great info on hear, thanks all!!
If your contacts are stored in iCloud all you'll have to do is login to iCloud once your phone is done being restored. It asks you this during the setup of your phone. To check if they're stored in iCloud go to iCloud.com, login, click Contacts, and see if they're there. If they aren't there you'll have to export them from your phone and import them iCloud, but I'm sure a quick Google search could find an easy guide to walk you through that.
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I would always recommend doing a fresh install on a new phone. It's a bit of hassle, but the only way to guarantee you are getting a clear picture of the battery performance. I got my 6 on launch day and set it up from my 5s back up, because I was impatient. My battery life was not noticeably better on the 6 through Saturday, so I did a clean install Sunday and have let the battery drain right down to 0 (until it powers off), and then recharge on the wall charger to 100%, uninterrupted twice and am getting far better performance than on the 5s now.
I would put the time in to clean install before you get too p****d off