Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
How's your battery life looking so far?
- Thread starter The Game 161
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Here is how I have mine set along with some articles explaining the settings. They are not necessarily what you think they do based on their titles.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033
http://www.clear-coat.com/blog/iphone-privacy-settings/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033
http://www.clear-coat.com/blog/iphone-privacy-settings/
I didn't want to believe the TSMC hype, but I think I am now a believer. My original 6s was a Space Grey with the Samsung chip and it was OK with battery life, but it also ran a bit hot. I "upgraded" to the Rose Gold 6s on Friday and I have noticed lower temperatures when doing high-intensity things and my battery life has gone up significantly. My original phone lasted about 6-7 hours of usage, this one did 9 hours of usage with 20 of standby. That is a HUGE difference, much higher than I would have expected.
I don't know how people are only getting 6-7 hours off of the 6S battery... Ran it down to 10% with low power mode on the whole time at minimum brightness (and airplane mode+wifi since my cell signal was terrible) for a total of 11 hours usage, 9 hours SOT (the screenshot doesn't show that much because it only counts the last 24 hours) and 15 hours standby. Not like I'm using low power apps either... chrome lead the way with only 1.2 hrs SOT... Can easily get 12 hours of usage out of it before it dies.
Always running the phone in Low Power mode doesn't give a good indication of the battery life as it disables many features on the phone and throttles down the CPU.
It's the same thing with people posting 12+ hours of battery life and their app usage shows nothing but playing music.
It's easy to get great battery life when you artificially limit how you use it to only do things that inherently put a small drain on the battery.
That's like buying a sports car, never driving it over 40 mph and saying it gets great gas mileage.
There is more involved with the SoC than TSMC or Samsung. There is no realtime difference between them.
This is my usage today, got my iPhone to 51% with medium use.
No low power mode used. Brightness at 20-40%, Location Services Off. Mobile Data Off. Disabled Background App Refresh. Disabled Siri.
iPhone 6s Plus Samsung
Attachments
Last edited:
Except low power mode doesn't limit anything I do on my phone, just like driving a sports car because you don't need to over 40mph because 40mph is the speed limit.
I can test again without low power mode if you really wanted. Sure low power mode greatly extends the battery life... THAT'S THE POINT. If it doesn't limit what I use my phone for I'd be silly not to take advantage of it.
Disables background app refresh - most people disable this by default because of the battery drain
Disables Siri - if have a use for a personal assistant, Google Now is better
Disables mail fetch - I don't need real time mail alerts... just check it manually
Disables automatic downloads - have it disabled anyways to save my data
Disables some visual effects - who would trade "fancy" animations for battery life
Caps CPU and GPU usage at ~60% max - even in games I don't notice any performance loss so...
Last edited:
agree with you, 6s is really better than all the others!!!Early days but this is the best battery life I've ever had on a phone. Loving my 6S plus so far
I have had amazing battery life on my iPhone 6s . I don't play any games but for what I do I'm blown away. I use to get 1.5-2 hours of screen time on my HTC One M7 . This just floors it!
I'm in my 3rd 6S Plus for various reasons. I felt my first one wasn't so great, my second was pretty good but only had it for a day. My 3rd and current one is pretty fantastic. Here's my screenshot at 50% battery.
What chip?
This is the best i got so far. Turned off everything like locations, background app refresh, etc. I turned on airplane mode and wifi calling at home since t-mobile's signal strength isn't good, mostly 1-2 dots. Unplugged it last Saturday around 940pm, wifi turned off until 7am the following day. LTE turned on from 11am-7pm but didn't do as much on the phone since i am doing something.
I am still a little disappointed on the usage time, knowing that others can get more than 10 hours. i feel like using a nokia 5110 with everything turned off. lol
I am still a little disappointed on the usage time, knowing that others can get more than 10 hours. i feel like using a nokia 5110 with everything turned off. lol
Thing is does it get you through a day doing what you normally do, without turning things off? That's the test that counts. Sure, everyone wants the longest lasting battery. But the same phone on a different day will give different results. You leave with fully charged phone in morning and by bedtime you plug it in. Beyond that it's like chasing the wind.
Exactly.. Forget Samsung or tsmc.. If you can freely use your phone the way you want throughout the day and still be left out with some juice before you plug it at night or early morning is what will count..
That's why that extra 30 mins to 1 hour in one chip compared to other doesn't really matter if you are the type who charges the phone every night.. The point is you should be able to get to use the 6s+ for the entire day the way you want without hassles.. If we achieve that our phone is good to go..
I am pretty happy with my 6s+.. And it's a Samsung chip
Exactly.. Forget Samsung or tsmc.. If you can freely use your phone the way you want throughout the day and still be left out with some juice before you plug it at night or early morning is what will count..
That's why that extra 30 mins to 1 hour in one chip compared to other doesn't really matter if you are the type who charges the phone every night.. The point is you should be able to get to use the 6s+ for the entire day the way you want without hassles.. If we achieve that our phone is good to go..
I am pretty happy with my 6s+.. And it's a Samsung chip
We would all be pleased if Apple stated that the iPhone 7 had an extra hour's battery life. That's progress. Apple actually stated that iOS9 would give us an extra hour's usage and yet here some people are with a brand new 6S+ and they're getting worse battery life than they did with a 12 month old 6+.
I have a Samsung chip and I'm ok with the battery life. However, I can't see why you would say that an extra 30 mins to one hour of usage time doesn't matter. I often run out of juice late in the day and I did on my 6+ too. I would like an extra hour of use out of my phone and the point with 'chipgate' is that some people do seem to be getting just that. I repeat that I'm ok with my Samsung A9 but I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up if Apple offered me an extra hour of usage time.
When I say it doesn't matter it's related more with Samsung and tsmc chip.. It's always great to have a phone with better battery life than its predecessor version. We still don't have the exact difference in battery life for a normal usage as yet. Benchmark tests can't be relied to get the real difference.. Also as we can see from various posts, it depends a lot on which apps you are using most of the day and whether you access wifi or LTE ..
I have a rose gold 6S Plus with TSMC chip bought a week after launch and it has very poor battery life as compared to my 6 Plus. Also runs hot (very warm) and has the blemish. I may take it into the store to get it checked out.