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General consensus on battery life of the 6?

Mine is better than it was on the 5s.

Not obscenely better, but better. Maybe 10-20% better in real world use.

I'm a fairly heavy user though, lots of cellular data use, gps, podcasts and spotify
 
TruckdriverSean said:
Mine is better than it was on the 5s.

Not obscenely better, but better. Maybe 10-20% better in real world use.

I'm a fairly heavy user though, lots of cellular data use, gps, podcasts and spotify
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10-20% is right in that Apple-projected range.

But why is how much you use the phone relevant to whether the 6 has a better battery than the 5s?
 
Pretty good compared to my iPhone 5. My iPhone 5 would clock ~4 hours of screen on time. The iPhone 6 can clock around ~6. Both don't compare to my Xperia Z3c which clocked 8hrs and 29 minutes.

Good to see there is at least one company that cares for battery life.
 
Only had it for a day (6+ was better, but i don't use it much since it's just so big and i was petrified of bending it)... but 6 seems to be on par with what my expectation is.

8 hours under my normal usage.

probably will last from morning to evening if I don't use it as much.

which I'm happy with.
 
Just ran my iPhone 6 4 hours straight from 100% to shutting off. Brightness 100%. Auto Lock Never. I used it for various task during that time. Clash of Clans some video and web browsing. The phone was locked for may 3 seconds once just because I have a habit of locking the device.
 
heycal said:
10-20% is right in that Apple-projected range.

But why is how much you use the phone relevant to whether the 6 has a better battery than the 5s?
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Only relevant that differing use may vary results.

For example, if the wifi chip is drastically more efficient in the 6, while the cellular chip was approximately the same, a heavy wifi user may see X% more use than the 5s, while a heavy cellular user may see only a fraction of that. I'm not an engineer so I have no idea what's in the iPhone, but I know you can often see very different efficiency gains with only minor detail changes. (Fuel efficiency being a big one for me at my job)
 
On my 6 I am seeing great battery life. I do notice a few things that will murder it though. 1: Google Hangouts, which sucks because I use it all the time 2: low signal. It's only compounded when you combine them and it's a bad scenario. 7 hours and 50% with 42% of that going just to Hangouts due to low signal.

Otherwise I am super happy with my battery life from the normal 6
 
Comfortably gets through a days' heavy use.



Is this consistent with other people's findings?
 
richardbb85 said:
2-3 days and you werent happy....why dont you invent sth that last a week. people makes me smdh everytime on this forum. i be happy if i can get thru a day without chargin more than once.
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You misquoted me. I said I wasn't unhappy with my 5S' battery. In reality I have stated before in a separate thread that I was unable to understand how people can't go a full day on a charge when I was able to go 2-3 days. Being able to go the extra day now is an added bonus for the 6. Or, maybe I should use my phone more. My mother does complain about me not calling her enough.
 
Great for me, I finally have a phone that I feel comfortable that I can hammer through the day and still be able to use it after I get home.

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masands said:
Pretty good compared to my iPhone 5. My iPhone 5 would clock ~4 hours of screen on time. The iPhone 6 can clock around ~6. Both don't compare to my Xperia Z3c which clocked 8hrs and 29 minutes.

Good to see there is at least one company that cares for battery life.
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LG cares about battery life too, judging by their G2.

So around 6 hours on the 6 compared to 4 hours on the 5? Neither number great, but the increase is nice.

weaverra said:
Just ran my iPhone 6 4 hours straight from 100% to shutting off. Brightness 100%. Auto Lock Never. I used it for various task during that time. Clash of Clans some video and web browsing. The phone was locked for may 3 seconds once just because I have a habit of locking the device.
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Do we know how much more you could gotten at 50% brightness?

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TruckdriverSean said:
Only relevant that differing use may vary results.

For example, if the wifi chip is drastically more efficient in the 6, while the cellular chip was approximately the same, a heavy wifi user may see X% more use than the 5s, while a heavy cellular user may see only a fraction of that. I'm not an engineer so I have no idea what's in the iPhone, but I know you can often see very different efficiency gains with only minor detail changes. (Fuel efficiency being a big one for me at my job)
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Interesting. So would this mean there are phones more suited to texters than emailers, etc? If so, I'd like to know which ones are which. How come we don't see that kind of information talked about much, ala "5 best battery life phones for heavy texters!" or whatever?
 
heycal said:
Is it? I'm on iphone 4 now myself.
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It should be, particularly if you've had your 4 for a while and the battery has degraded. I'm finding the 6 is getting at least 30% better battery life than my 5 did, although I'd attribute about half of that to battery degradation on the 5 from two years of use.
 
Get a 6plus!!! I get 10 hours on screen time every day under extremely heavy usage! I unplug it at 10am and still have charge when i go to bed (as i dont use 10 hours on screen!)
 
Honestly I did not dip below 50% in the week or so as I tend to charge every night.

I did a bit of heavy usage today, and see 4 hours of usage with 60% of battery left. Pretty damn decent imho but I will admit I was on wifi all day which is not usually the case.

I figure I can hit 7 1/2-8 hours of usage if I let it fully drain out vs the 6 hours of usage on my 5 and 5S
 
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