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Well that was my speculation as to why they took it down. Dont know for sure. We should all really read this for true battery info

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
Everyone needs to realize the percentage shown for battery level is an estimate made in software. Draining battery to point phone shuts off and recharging to at least 100% for 30-60 minutes, resets the software readings. It DOES NOT DO ANY CONDITIONING TO THE BATTERY ! Apple has engineered the battery, chargers, and charging logic to not enter dangerous voltage levels and to maximize battery life. Read the battery university article, has great information about batteries. But don't think you need to re-engineer the phone or how it is used. Apple design teams have done the work for you.

If you obsess over the % number, turn it off. Use the phone, recharge every night, top it off if you get low, turn on battery saver to get you through day. And forget following the percentage!
 
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O come on.. You know you had no idea that a modern LiON battery would benefit from ANY regular calibration until you read Apple's article from the UK.. Admit it.. :).. I tend loving to be a 'myth buster' on these forums too.. but you need to be really studied up or you get caught with egg on your face. That's why I'm really careful to use the term 'Battery meter calibration' - and never use the term 'conditioning' which is what hasn't been necessary for more than a decade.
You are not conditioning the battery. The battery never goes to zero, the phone is designed to shut off before that happens. And at 100% the battery is not charged to full. The percentage number you see is a fictitious number to provide relative charge level information. It is not providing raw battery information that places like battery university articles is siting.
 
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Some apps take a strangle hold of the radios on the phone and keep the processor running like mad. When the phone screen is off the phone is still running, sending and receiving messages, updates, gps info etc. if you are in a weak signal area the radios are really working hard boosting signal.

Facebook and several other apps are notorious for using the phone in background to point of heating it up and draining battery super fast. If your phone is exhibiting overheating, try airplane mode to check it. And check the battery level times to see which apps are running like mad, high percentages.

The phone should not be losing more than a few percent at most when it's not being actively used and screen is off. There are many articles about this, check them out and also battery saving articles about what you might want to turn off, like notifications.
 
I've ditched the Facebook app in favour of the website and my battery gets hours more. It's such a poorly written app and just spends all day doing stuff in the background.
 
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Just took this screenshot now with 5% remaining on my 6S. Low power mode was turned on at 20%. Not sure how good this is for battery life, but with less standby time I suspect I could get a couple more hours of use before needing a charge. I might try usung low power mode most of the next cycle just to see what the differences are. Having it on doesn't seem to slow down the phones performance for me anyway.
 
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Just took this screenshot now with 5% remaining on my 6S. Low power mode was turned on at 20%. Not sure how good this is for battery life, but with less standby time I suspect I could get a couple more hours of use before needing a charge. I might try usung low power mode most of the next cycle just to see what the differences are. Having it on doesn't seem to slow down the phones performance for me anyway.
That battery is just as good as my iPhone 6. Well, a bit less.
 
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Battery doctor is bs app. Apple has designed the phone to draw the proper current depending on the charge state of the battery. At 99% it goes into trickle charge, which takes it to 100% and shuts of. It will cycle on and off trickle charging showing 99-100%. This is designed to not harm the battery.

In fact the whole charging regime engineered into the iPhone, takes into account not allowing Li Ion battery to either go under voltage to the damage point, or over charge to damage point. You can use the 5 watt cube that came with the phone or the 12 watt iPad charger. Both are approved, and will not harm the phone.

If you let the phone drain completely to where it shuts off. It is still above any damage point. However if you leave phone this way for months, voltage could drop to damage levels and battery might not take a charge with normal charger. Long term storage is best done at around 60-70 percent.

About only thing that will damage Li Ion batteries is excessive heat, or cold. If an app hangs up and the radios are beaming at high levels, processor cycling at max, phone sits on dashboard of car in sun, those are things that will damage battery.

Realize that when you manufacture millions of devices, their will be defective ones that slip through quality control. So if you have an overheating phone, or one that cannot take a charge, go to Apple Store and have them check it out. We are not dealing with Samsung here, you have a place that will check phone and replace/fix if needed.

Here is what I am seeing for a charge from my 6s Plus, with which I am quite satisfied with.

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quite? thats insane battery life
 
Loving my 6s+ after two weeks :D:
 

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How are you getting such good battery life. Mine is not very good. I have under six hours usage and I'm at 20%.

Are you guys conditioning it by letting it fully discharge? I've heard that is bad for it and Apple no longer recommends it on their website.
nope, I'm using it as normal. I don't turn off anything other than "location when using app". All notifications are on and paired with an Apple Watch. When I get home from work around 4pm, I'm around 60% or so. I'm really pleased with my battery life.
 
How are you getting such good battery life. Mine is not very good. I have under six hours usage and I'm at 20%.

Are you guys conditioning it by letting it fully discharge? I've heard that is bad for it and Apple no longer recommends it on their website.

My 6s+ isn't getting anywhere near what others are showing. I set it up as new, and I've turned off most notifications, Hey Siri, push email, etc. I get about 6 or 7 hours usage time down to 1% while using it the same way as my 6 Plus. My 6 Plus would get 10 to 12 hours usage time under similar circumstances. I hate the thought of attempting a return with limited new stock availability.
 
Coming from an iPhone 6, there is definitely an improvement with the 6s+ but I'm not getting the dramatic results, is it due to using the same backup since iPhone 5? with all that old jailbreak data. Tried my best with the reset all setting before back up then set up as new iPhone, restore, then reset settings.

Should I try fresh install? dont particularly want to download 60gb of iCloud photos and lose all my app data with no guarantee of battery life

This is low power mode from 100% -

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My 6s+ isn't getting anywhere near what others are showing. I set it up as new, and I've turned off most notifications, Hey Siri, push email, etc. I get about 6 or 7 hours usage time down to 1% while using it the same way as my 6 Plus. My 6 Plus would get 10 to 12 hours usage time under similar circumstances. I hate the thought of attempting a return with limited new stock availability.
If you didn't get AppleCare at the time of purchase - do it now, quickly.. Before 14 days are up - you can add AppleCare. Then if you suspect a battery issue -- it's on Apple to replace it from available stock.

Everybody's TURNED OFF that damned WIFI ASSIST thing... right?!... First of all it will eat your Data for LUNCH.. and second it's a super huge battery drain..

Also - unless you live in an area where you're between two cell towers of huge difference and you want to try and land on the stronger one.. MAKE SURE to go into Privacy/LocationServices/SystemServices and turn off the switch for Cell Network Search and Setting TimeZone.. You don't need either of those as they're automatic processes if you're staying in country. Bit battery eaters too. In fact most things in the SystemServices window are battery eaters, 90% of which you don't need.

Keep Routing and Traffic ON... because, and I'm often surprised to find that most people don't know this, that button allows YOUR POSITION to be reported as part of the flow of traffic. It has nothing to do with you GETTING to see traffic on your phone.. It reports YOUR position as part of the whole traffic flow.
 
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Coming from an iPhone 6, there is definitely an improvement with the 6s+ but I'm not getting the dramatic results, is it due to using the same backup since iPhone 5? with all that old jailbreak data. Tried my best with the reset all setting before back up then set up as new iPhone, restore, then reset settings.

Should I try fresh install? dont particularly want to download 60gb of iCloud photos and lose all my app data with no guarantee of battery life

This is low power mode from 100% -
That's actually pretty normal battery life for 6S+ with 54% leftover. There ain't no iPhone 6 out there that ever got that kinda battery life. So I'm not sure what you were referring to 'not much better than my 6'.. LOL.. That's WAAAAY better than my 6 ever got. And how did you get a 'yellow' battery indicator? Is that an App Store app?
 
Mostly on wifi not sure what to think of the battery life. 3 days old 6s
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I am seeing similar battery life on my 6s. This past weekend I turned off "Hey Siri" and am testing to see how much that changes my battery life...for my own knowledge. I'll probably still have "Hey Siri" on most days, but when I'm sure I will need a long battery life it might be the first thing I turn off.
 
Coming from an iPhone 6, there is definitely an improvement with the 6s+ but I'm not getting the dramatic results, is it due to using the same backup since iPhone 5? with all that old jailbreak data. Tried my best with the reset all setting before back up then set up as new iPhone, restore, then reset settings.

Should I try fresh install? dont particularly want to download 60gb of iCloud photos and lose all my app data with no guarantee of battery life

This is low power mode from 100% -

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It is entirely possible that if your backup data includes backups done while jailbroken, there could be some demons in there messing about with the system. I can't guarantee for certain that you'll get better battery life if you start from scratch, but there is the possibility.

That seems kind of low for having low power mode on the whole time, despite the high standby time. Currently my 6s Plus is at 48% with 7h 41m usage and 13h 48m standby. On my 6 Plus I generally saw 1h on-screen time for every 10% with usage stretching longer when listening to music or podcasts. My 6s Plus seems to be a little more efficient with the battery despite it being smaller.

That's actually pretty normal battery life for 6S+ with 54% leftover. There ain't no iPhone 6 out there that ever got that kinda battery life. So I'm not sure what you were referring to 'not much better than my 6'.. LOL.. That's WAAAAY better than my 6 ever got. And how did you get a 'yellow' battery indicator? Is that an App Store app?
But he has been using low power mode the whole time, which is supposed to stretch the battery further, so I still feel like that's a bit on the low end. And the yellow battery indicator is how the phone shows that you have low power mode on.
 
If you didn't get AppleCare at the time of purchase - do it now, quickly.. Before 14 days are up - you can add AppleCare. Then if you suspect a battery issue -- it's on Apple to replace it from available stock.

Everybody's TURNED OFF that damned WIFI ASSIST thing... right?!... First of all it will eat your Data for LUNCH.. and second it's a super huge battery drain..

Also - unless you live in an area where you're between two cell towers of huge difference and you want to try and land on the stronger one.. MAKE SURE to go into Privacy/LocationServices/SystemServices and turn off the switch for Cell Network Search and Setting TimeZone.. You don't need either of those as they're automatic processes if you're staying in country. Bit battery eaters too. In fact most things in the SystemServices window are battery eaters, 90% of which you don't need.

Keep Routing and Traffic ON... because, and I'm often surprised to find that most people don't know this, that button allows YOUR POSITION to be reported as part of the flow of traffic. It has nothing to do with you GETTING to see traffic on your phone.. It reports YOUR position as part of the whole traffic flow.

Thanks for the info. I do have AppleCare+ on the device: I just remember in times past when the Genius runs a diagnostic on my battery, it shows it's in good health, and he gives me a lecture on battery usage and the variables that can effect it. Anyway, if I can't do a return and purchase a new one, I'll definitely go through the AppleCare replacement route.

I do have wifi assist as well as all of the other System Services turned off except for Routing and Traffic. It's almost as if the factory installed a 6s battery in my 6s+.
 
This is my battery life so far on my 6s 64gb, Samsung chip.

This is with heavy use on Facebook, Safari, and tapatalk. Im happy with this.

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Everyone needs to realize the percentage shown for battery level is an estimate made in software. Draining battery to point phone shuts off and recharging to at least 100% for 30-60 minutes, resets the software readings. It DOES NOT DO ANY CONDITIONING TO THE BATTERY ! Apple has engineered the battery, chargers, and charging logic to not enter dangerous voltage levels and to maximize battery life. Read the battery university article, has great information about batteries. But don't think you need to re-engineer the phone or how it is used. Apple design teams have done the work for you.

If you obsess over the % number, turn it off. Use the phone, recharge every night, top it off if you get low, turn on battery saver to get you through day. And forget following the percentage!
Agree 100%
 
I've ditched the Facebook app in favour of the website and my battery gets hours more. It's such a poorly written app and just spends all day doing stuff in the background.
I tested same for a week and diff was only 20/30 mins of usage but was not seeing lots of posts on safari so switched back to facebook app.

If you don't have background refesh enabled for fb and close it as soon as finish, background usage is minimal, also keep in mind thag watching video in fb is counted as background usage too, over a day i normally have 7/8 mins of background usage.
 
Took it off the charger yesterday at around 2pm, it is now the NEXT day and I am still going.

This is crazyyyy, how did I ever survive with just the battery on the regular 6?

6S+ is great.
why can't i be like u ):

Are you on a fresh install?
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It is entirely possible that if your backup data includes backups done while jailbroken, there could be some demons in there messing about with the system. I can't guarantee for certain that you'll get better battery life if you start from scratch, but there is the possibility.

That seems kind of low for having low power mode on the whole time, despite the high standby time. Currently my 6s Plus is at 48% with 7h 41m usage and 13h 48m standby. On my 6 Plus I generally saw 1h on-screen time for every 10% with usage stretching longer when listening to music or podcasts. My 6s Plus seems to be a little more efficient with the battery despite it being smaller.


But he has been using low power mode the whole time, which is supposed to stretch the battery further, so I still feel like that's a bit on the low end. And the yellow battery indicator is how the phone shows that you have low power mode on.

It does seem lower for sure, hopefully it will calibrate, its only been charged twice
 
It does seem lower for sure, hopefully it will calibrate, its only been charged twice
That's possible. Give it a couple days and if there's an Apple Store nearby, maybe make a genius appointment before doing a wipe. Who knows, it could just as well be a defective battery instead of any backup data issues.
 
90% of my activity was just browsing instagram today.. Kinda disappointing TBH...

Anyone close to being as bad as this?
 

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