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How's your battery life looking so far?
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The battery life has deteriorated after a month for me. I used to get 7-8 hours of usage time, which I was extremely happy with. Now, the usage is at 4:30 hours and my battery is at 30%. Is there anything I should change to extend it? I am not a big fan of the low power mode.
P.S. My usage has been pretty much the same all throughout.
P.S. My usage has been pretty much the same all throughout.
Have you noticed which apps use the most battery, especially when you are not on them, i.e. Facebook as a for instance.
Has your location changed, new job, different after hours locations?
Have you changed the amount of time on with cellular vs wifi?
These are a few things that spring to mind right off. You might want to drop by an Apple Store and have them run a battery diagnostic. Or try doing so over phone with apple support. Just to make sure it isn't a failing battery. It's rare, but does happen.
Actually, the TSMC chip has performed better in benchmarks as well. It's pretty much superior in every way, though how superior is up for debate and further testing of course.
I would say just ignore all the differences. Any which ways Apple is not going to replace your phone based on the chip it carries and more than 50% of the phones sold have Samsung chip.
So why fret over something which doesn't have a solution? Also the difference in real world is going to be negligible
Still on my initial charge (bought it Wednesday afternoon and charged it for about 30 minutes as I music was downloading ) and it is at 33% today.
Standby is excellent (at most 4% overnight if that), typing on it eats up battery, as is the case with me for any Apple mobile device.
Happy I can leave the phone on all day now (which I couldn't do with smaller iPhones.)
UPDATE: When it hit 20% I decided to recharge at that point (old habits) I had 9 hours of usage and 70 hours of standby. I'm sure I could have gotten 11-12 hours had I kept using the phone down to 5%, but I am super happy with the phone thus far.
I won't be upgrading the iOS for as long as I can hold out. Past experiences with iOS 8 and even early iOS 9 upgrades over the last year made me loathe using my iPhone 6 as anything but a commute killer (music, movies, notes and very, very light internet / email usage.)
Standby is excellent (at most 4% overnight if that), typing on it eats up battery, as is the case with me for any Apple mobile device.
Happy I can leave the phone on all day now (which I couldn't do with smaller iPhones.)
UPDATE: When it hit 20% I decided to recharge at that point (old habits) I had 9 hours of usage and 70 hours of standby. I'm sure I could have gotten 11-12 hours had I kept using the phone down to 5%, but I am super happy with the phone thus far.
I won't be upgrading the iOS for as long as I can hold out. Past experiences with iOS 8 and even early iOS 9 upgrades over the last year made me loathe using my iPhone 6 as anything but a commute killer (music, movies, notes and very, very light internet / email usage.)
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Last cycle after owning the phone for almost 2 months. 6s 64GB. No battery saver at all, display 40-50% brightness. I'm impressed, best cycle so far for me!
This is the first 100 to 1% round for my new TSMC. Seems to be about average regardless of chip. I'm sure this will vary by an hour in either direction depending on my usage. Either way, I'm very pleased!
6s plus?
I noticed that my camera app uses battery like crazy! Just took some 4 minute 1080 60fps video clip and the camera sucked 10% of my battery! Noticed that before already. As my posts in this thread show, I am very happy with the battery life of my 6s. But the camera battery usage really annoys me. Is that normal? Anyone else having the same issue?
Just opened the camera app to take a photo and again it sucked 1% just from opening... That can't be normal but other than that the battery is great. So weird.
Just opened the camera app to take a photo and again it sucked 1% just from opening... That can't be normal but other than that the battery is great. So weird.
Twitter uses a lot of my battery but not sure if thats because of notifications and i use it a fair amount. Still its always over 30%
I got my phone (6s) on launch day and after a few days with it I thought I would keep a record of charging. It has the TSMC chip. I am retired and I don't use the phone intensively, tend to run down the battery and don't use social media. It replaced a Nokia Lumia 820 and the iphone is way better in every respect.
I find the battery life to be excellent and it has exceeded my expectations.
iPhone battery record: Usually phone switched off overnight.
9/10/15 3% left Usage 7hrs 12 min Standby 62 hrs 24 min
13/10/15 1% left Usage 6 hrs 39 min Standby 50 hrs 41 min
16/10/15 2% left Usage 5 hrs 50 min Standby 43 hrs 51 min
20/10/15 4% left Usage 5 hrs 28 min Standby 54 hrs 28 min
23/10/15. 4% left. Usage 5hrs 38 min Standby 34 hrs 55 min
27/10/15 3% left Usage 5hrs 21 min Standby 63 hrs 7 min
30/10/15 3% left Usage 7 hrs 54 min Standby 32 hrs 16 min
1/11/15 17% left Usage 4 hrs 36 min Standby 34 hrs 48 min
5/11/15 7% left Usage 4 hrs 58 min Standby 58 hrs 29 min
8/11/15 30% left Usage 3 hrs 35 min Standby 32 hrs 15 min
12/11/15 2% left Usage 6 hrs 1 min Standby 52 hrs 43 min
17/11/15 1% left Usage 6 hrs 14 mins Standby 66 hrs 41 min
20/11/15 32% left Usage 3 hrs 20 min Standby 30 hrs 19 min
22/11/15 2% left Usage 8 hrs 15 min Standby 44 hrs 35 min
27/11/15 3% Usage 6 hrs 11 min Standby 57 hrs 31 min
1/12/15 3% Usage 5 hrs 37 min Standby 60 hrs 42 min
I know it is a bit geeky but thought it may be of interest!
I find the battery life to be excellent and it has exceeded my expectations.
iPhone battery record: Usually phone switched off overnight.
9/10/15 3% left Usage 7hrs 12 min Standby 62 hrs 24 min
13/10/15 1% left Usage 6 hrs 39 min Standby 50 hrs 41 min
16/10/15 2% left Usage 5 hrs 50 min Standby 43 hrs 51 min
20/10/15 4% left Usage 5 hrs 28 min Standby 54 hrs 28 min
23/10/15. 4% left. Usage 5hrs 38 min Standby 34 hrs 55 min
27/10/15 3% left Usage 5hrs 21 min Standby 63 hrs 7 min
30/10/15 3% left Usage 7 hrs 54 min Standby 32 hrs 16 min
1/11/15 17% left Usage 4 hrs 36 min Standby 34 hrs 48 min
5/11/15 7% left Usage 4 hrs 58 min Standby 58 hrs 29 min
8/11/15 30% left Usage 3 hrs 35 min Standby 32 hrs 15 min
12/11/15 2% left Usage 6 hrs 1 min Standby 52 hrs 43 min
17/11/15 1% left Usage 6 hrs 14 mins Standby 66 hrs 41 min
20/11/15 32% left Usage 3 hrs 20 min Standby 30 hrs 19 min
22/11/15 2% left Usage 8 hrs 15 min Standby 44 hrs 35 min
27/11/15 3% Usage 6 hrs 11 min Standby 57 hrs 31 min
1/12/15 3% Usage 5 hrs 37 min Standby 60 hrs 42 min
I know it is a bit geeky but thought it may be of interest!
The usage stats are very uneven.. Do you use the phone consistently in a similar fashion or did you use more of battery intensive apps when your usage is showing lower..
Basis my observations thus far, camera, photos, videos and news 360 apps cause battery drains so whichever days I tend to use more of these apps my usage stats goes down a bit.. But my standby time is pretty consistent till now
First off if you hit the little clock button to right of seven day button you will get reported onscreen vs standby times for each ap. Tumbler may be one of those apps working your radios hard in standby. It could also be an app that is hung up close it remove it and re download it. You may also want to hard boot your phone, power and home button same time till Apple appears.I'm trying to figure out why Tumblr uses 50% of my battery...That's ridiculous. And I'm wondering if I use it in Safari if it will use less battery.
6s plus, took the screenshot when it reached the point where it's been exactly 24 hrs since I plugged it in yesterday. Obviously the standby time started at the point when I took it off the charger. So no extra time overlap of the screen on time details, what I see is what I got from one cycle in 24 hours: a little over 9 hours of screen on time with 10 percent left. Mostly on wifi today, phone signal is pretty crap ranging from one to two dots. An hour of That safari screen on time included streaming of hd quality video. Auto Brightness on.