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How's your battery life looking so far?
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I did the Plus for a month or so. I liked it a lot but I had to come to terms with needing solid one handed use. I could get by with the Plus, but it required lots of finger gymnastics and was always unsteady.
I returned my 6s Plus and bought a 6s and the Battery Case, and I'm thrilled. Feels so good and natural in the hand. Battery life is a little better with the 6s and case than it was on the Plus.
The front facing speaker is a really nice bonus. It sounds great and is louder simply because it's pointing right at you.
I'm pretty psyched on this combo.
Not sure what you mean by better/worse. Apple designed this case specifically to work with it's phone.
I know what you're saying about essentially leaving it "plugged on" for 10 hours at a time, but I think that's a concern that's no longer valid with today's battery tech. I've left iPhones plugged in overnight for 8-10 hours plenty of times with no concern.
How about the overall look of the phone along with the battery hump ? I don't know how it would be to hold the phone by adding the case. Anyways guess the battery case is only meant for power users who aren't able to sail through the day with the existing phone's powers.
For me the 6s plus works out perfectly fine (maybe due to my big hands) and after upgrading to 9.2 my battery is lasting me easily for 2-3 days.. The stand by and usage times both look better.. Don't know if it's just a coincidence or Apple has really done something to the battery as it wasn't mentioned explicitly in the upgrade notes
Various people who are using it like it and say that it looks fine and feels fine (if not even better in some ways).
Well I have read and heard mixed reviews so can't say.. Firstly lets accept that this is a shoddy way to fix the batter issues in a phone.. What's the point of trying to create the thinnest phone on the plannet at the cost of battery and later adding a hump to it to solve it.. What about the thin design etc which is not even visible now with the hump..
Hope you are getting what am trying to say.. Hope apple learns it's lessons doesn't run behind thinness in future.. Nobody is asking for it at the cost of battery life
Adding an option for more/additional battery life does not in itself imply there is a problem that is being solved, simply an option for additional battery reserve should someone want that for some reason.
Sense it's really bugging people that the Apple battery case is working for those that are using it. After making fun of it, and previously complaining about thinness vs battery life. Now it's like, half hearted complaints, confusion on which direction to complain about. Oh dear, maybe the case with the battery even feels good to hold. And the sound is better with speaker vibrations directed forward. Darn it, another positive. What's wrong with apple? The nerve of them providing a choice that works.
Apple has provided a solution for people that want smaller width and height phone, but need the battery life of the 6s Plus. With the present battery technology you can't have both thin and super long life. But people can choose one over the other. And if those choosing to use the battery case, like it, who cares that those that don't want to use it, don't like it. Aren't both getting what they want, using their phone the way they want. But it's not the elegant solution for everyone, so it must be wrong in some way. Yeah, right.
Apple has provided a solution for people that want smaller width and height phone, but need the battery life of the 6s Plus. With the present battery technology you can't have both thin and super long life. But people can choose one over the other. And if those choosing to use the battery case, like it, who cares that those that don't want to use it, don't like it. Aren't both getting what they want, using their phone the way they want. But it's not the elegant solution for everyone, so it must be wrong in some way. Yeah, right.
Haha.. And what's the point if nobody rants about it.. Good for people who need that extra life with a 6s or even the 6s plus for that matter..
It can come handy even during a long trip etc.. But yeah this is nothing new.. There are cheaper and in some cases better alternatives available in the market..
Think if you check the case is only for the 6 and 6s. No battery case for the Plus from Apple.
Moving away from the battery case talk, has anyone seen a ton of "background activity" by Youtube?
I have "background app refresh" turned off for YouTube and yet at one point yesterday I saw that YouTube had 58 mins of screen on time and 5.2 hours in the background!
<i'm using 6s+ on iOS 9.1>
I have "background app refresh" turned off for YouTube and yet at one point yesterday I saw that YouTube had 58 mins of screen on time and 5.2 hours in the background!
<i'm using 6s+ on iOS 9.1>
Background app refresh can contribute to background activity but the ability of apps to run in the background in general is not controlled by it and is built into the OS.
Manually closing the app if/when you are done with it would do the job for sure. That aside, realistically it shouldn't be running in the background for more than a few minutes anyway, unless you are perhaps listening to something in the background through the app.
No, I've not subscribed to YouTube Red (or whatever it is called) so I can't listen to anything on YouTube in the background. That's the irony of the entire thing - an app that wouldn't let me play music/videos in the background actually using up resources in the background!
Battery life back to normal now
Got 44 the other day and thought that was insane
89 hours? That's insane
Got 44 the other day and thought that was insane
I was very surprised myself, could of maybe got more put I plugged it in at 10%
All my settings are stock, only things I change are what apps send notifications.