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How's your battery life looking so far?

No powersaving option enable. Connected to my Garmin Fenix 3 over bluetooth the hole time, and my BMW handsfree sometime.

Iphone 6s+ Space Grey 64 gb with Samsung Chip🙂

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Is this normal for iPhone 6s?!

Almost 10% drain within 50mins of use browsing safari?!?

I've been having battery drain issue even after I reset all settings on my phone.

Note: iPhone 6S 64Gb Samsung chip, restored from iPhone 6Plus backup on iTunes
 

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This is the best I've gotten so far, got a little bit extra this time because I've had wifi off the entire time. I'm thoroughly satisfied with my 6s battery life. No power save.
 

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Tee00max said:
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I feel I'm not getting the great battery life that everyone else is posting from their 6s Plus. I know usage is different but this is the best I have experienced.
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9-12 hours is the norm really. Today I got 10:50 of usage, my worst has been 8:42 and my best has been 12:21
Anything over 12 involves less Safari, no apps using GPS, no Facebook and more music playing with screen off time etc. Signal strength, phone settings and bluetooth etc will also affect usage times.
 
sunking101 said:
9-12 hours is the norm really. Today I got 10:50 of usage, my worst has been 8:42 and my best has been 12:21
Anything over 12 involves less Safari, no apps using GPS, no Facebook and more music playing with screen off time etc. Signal strength, phone settings and bluetooth etc will also affect usage times.
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That makes me feel a lot better. I text message... A LOT. So my battery drains a lot faster than most.
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With the minimum brightness I could tolerate. About 4 hours of podcast and 2 hours of music, zero gaming

Samsung A9 6s+
 
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Got my phone last friday. First full battery run on my 6S+ SG 64GB with Samsung chip. Always use around 50% brightness.
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No complaints till now.
 
sunking101 said:
9-12 hours is the norm really. Today I got 10:50 of usage, my worst has been 8:42 and my best has been 12:21
Anything over 12 involves less Safari, no apps using GPS, no Facebook and more music playing with screen off time etc. Signal strength, phone settings and bluetooth etc will also affect usage times.
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Yeah I see people are getting crazy standby times but if you are actually using the device heavy, then around 10-12 hours of usage is the norm, and I have to realize that's no slouch!
 
As long as I'm getting between 9-12 hours I'm happy. I'm averaging around 10 with my 6S+ with excellent standby times, and that's close to what I get on my iPad Air 2. Pretty impressed with how well Apple was able to optimize battery performance on these devices.
 
pretty sure with my normal use I can't drain the 6S+ in less then 2 days 😛

streamed music and podcasts to a bluetooth speaker so about 10 hours of that and I had my apple watch paired, was trying out the camera so about 50 photos and 10 short videos (slo mo is so cool!), still no attempt to save battery as I left everything on and I actually had moderately heavy use today for me including about 30 minutes of 3d gaming (about 10 minutes of that raceline CC bike game on the store and 20 of the new sonic dash game, I know they aren't the most graphically intense games but those were the ones I played). used the phone with various apps, web browsing, a few texts and used quite a lot of Facebook messenger in which totalled about 5, maybe 6 hours of screen on time and my battery is still just over 50%, had nearly no signal all day which is going to hit my battery life but I'm really really impressed with this phone!, oh forgot to mention I did sync over wifi to iTunes for nearly an hour to get some more music and ringtones on my phone.

if this is the poorer chip I can live with it honestly, it's exceeded my expectations, especially when my normal use is usually quite a bit lighter then this and the battery doesn't appear to drain more then a few percent (2-5%) over night 😛

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one question though, since I installed dark sky I've had the location icon on all the time, is it just using cell towers and that to get my location which is okay or is it happily using my gps and draining my battery?, I figure it's not as I would have noticed a much bigger drain :/
 
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My battery life is awesome so far. I have the iPhone 6s Plus 128gb (Samsung Chip). Yesterday, I ended my day with 29% left on the battery and I ended with 9.5 hours of usage and 15.5 hours of standby time. I mainly used my phone streaming podcasts and music, a little bit of surfing the internet and very light games and using it as a baby monitor for a few hours at night streaming over my wifi network. I used it a little more than I normally do just to see how much battery I could drain, but I normally switch to my iPad when I get home from work. I could easily get 2 days of normal use on this phone without having to charge.


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