Mine isn't fantastic but I got the Smart Battery Case and it's currently on 12% after 6 hours of fair usage today in work and so as the phone is on 100% that's more than enough to get me through the day. Without the case I was averaging 6 hours usage per day (some Pokémon Go) and on days out the case can be charged separately from the phone with a battery pack which is great as I hate having the cable hanging from the phone when I'm walking around.
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How's your battery life looking so far?
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The best way to report battery usage after a new phone releases is to charge your phone overnight and then take it off charger and go about your day. At the end of your day before you go to bed, whether or not you intend to put it back on the charger or not take a screenshot of your battery page like many have been doing. And then tell us that this is one full days usage. Because that's how Apple promises you battery life. We need to have a baseline for comparison. What we need to see is one days usage and how much battery percentage you have left over at the end of that one day. That's the way to compare battery usage. Let's try that for a few days please.
Also report to us type of usage: light, medium, heavy… And a few of your normal activities. Here's what a report can look like.
Today:
10 hrs standby
6 hrs usage
Moderate, texting, surfing, a few calls, one game
Remaining battery: 41%
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And always remember to put your phone on the charger at the end of every day. Don't let it go overnight just because it says 51%. You do not want to run your battery down to under 10% before you charge. A lithium ion battery only has a fixed number of full charge cycles in its lifetime. The very best way to keep your battery fresh is to put it back on the charger between 20% and 60% every day. That's just Battery Basics 101.
Once a month you have to recalibrate the battery's "meter" (I did not say calibrate the battery itself which is no longer necessary with modern lithium ion batteries). You do this by running the battery down to below 5% and then doing a full recharge without using the phone during the charging period.
Today:
10 hrs standby
6 hrs usage
Moderate, texting, surfing, a few calls, one game
Remaining battery: 41%
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And always remember to put your phone on the charger at the end of every day. Don't let it go overnight just because it says 51%. You do not want to run your battery down to under 10% before you charge. A lithium ion battery only has a fixed number of full charge cycles in its lifetime. The very best way to keep your battery fresh is to put it back on the charger between 20% and 60% every day. That's just Battery Basics 101.
Once a month you have to recalibrate the battery's "meter" (I did not say calibrate the battery itself which is no longer necessary with modern lithium ion batteries). You do this by running the battery down to below 5% and then doing a full recharge without using the phone during the charging period.
great post. Also battery degradation happens with time as well so no matter how much you try to take "care" of your battery it will degrade no matter what. And with most people getting new phones every 1-2 years on these boards its usually ok. And you could also get a battery swap from the apple store or a trusted third party
Okay.. here are my stats for today. First day after a full recharge cycle. 7Plus
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9 hrs 21 min Standby
6 hrs 14 min Usage
Moderate use: texting, Tapatalk, a few calls.
Remaining battery: 30% before going back on charger for sleep
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That's about 8-10% better than iPhone 6SPlus running stock
But way better than 6SPlus jailbroken.
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9 hrs 21 min Standby
6 hrs 14 min Usage
Moderate use: texting, Tapatalk, a few calls.
Remaining battery: 30% before going back on charger for sleep
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That's about 8-10% better than iPhone 6SPlus running stock
But way better than 6SPlus jailbroken.
Yes me too but it does seem to make a difference. Mainly due to the processor being slowed down that seems to make the extra bit of difference and is quite significant.
yeah, phone batter 6s with 10.1 beta is for s..t.. not sure if it is the AW2 or something else, but I am literally getting HALF the batterylife of before..Battery manager in ios settings doesn't really show anything that is using unusual battery - at least not obviously.
Maybe I'll unpair the watch and see if that fixes it.
Maybe I'll unpair the watch and see if that fixes it.
Another thing we should probably not be doing when reporting battery results here is reporting any results where we turned on Low Power Mode for any significant length of time as that can very much pad battery results way up higher than they would normally be. Low Power Mode is a great feature to have in iOS but if we're going to go ahead and compare apples to apples in terms of what Apple promises us in battery life we shouldn't report results where we had low power mode turned on for a significant portion of the time in our standby/usage results.
Today was heavy usage didn't quite get to bedtime before needing to put on charger but still impressive.
Usage 6hrs 49min
Standby 13hrs 19min
9% battery left - back on charger
Usage 6hrs 49min
Standby 13hrs 19min
9% battery left - back on charger
iMessage and Tapatalk must be bigger battery drains than Reddit and Safari. I'm not getting anywhere near that battery life on my 7Plus after third full charge.
And I have Background App Refresh and Push Mail off too. And only 50% screen brightness.
I have background app refresh on for every app except stocks and weather.
I do have a push iCloud email account set up, buts it's not my main account, and only receives the odd email.
I use auto brightness. It's currently on around 20% as it's dark here, but obviously goes up as far as 100% during the day.
Bluetooth is always on and connected to my Apple Watch. It also connects to the car when I'm in it.
Hey Siri is active, as is raise to wake.
Just did some reading.....Apple only used Intel TSMC chips from Intel for iPhone 7. No chip-gate nonsense this year.
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Do the following to mitigate battery drain.
What a lot of people are missing is iCloud and devices associated to your iCloud account. It can put a hit on your battery.
Perform the following:
- Go to Settings - iCloud - select your account (very top selection) - Devices - remove all associated devices to your account. you may even see devices that you no longer use.
- Go Settings - iCloud - disable iCloud Drive, Mail, Safari, Home, Notes, Keychain, and Backup
- Settings - iCloud - Share My Location - Disable Share my Location. Remove all associated devices for share my location as well under 'From' by swiping left and deleting each device
- Settings - Privacy - Location Services - System Services - Disable HomeKit, Location-Based Apple Ads, Location-Based Suggestions, Share My Location, and Disable Frequent Locations. Disable everything in Product Improvement
- Settings - Privacy - Advertising - Enable Limit Ad Tracking
- Settings - Sound & Haptics - Disable System Haptics at the bottom
- Settings - Photos & Camera - disable iCloud Photo Library, and iCloud Photo Sharing
- If you want, go to Settings - General - Background App Refresh and completely disable the feature
Guarantee you will get improvement in battery life after performing all of the above.
I already do most all that already. I wrote the book on battery savings with all the hidden switches stuff. Especially all the Location services system stuff. I've been turning off that stuff since iOS 7. But thanks - there a couple of things you mentioned there not on my list. I'll update.
I tested it again and with light/medium usage I got around 8 hours BUT it's almost dead. My 6 Plus lasted long
If you buy Verizon model, it is unlocked and works on all carriers. It uses Qualcomm A1661...the Intel one is A1784.
If you buy Verizon model, it is unlocked and works on all carriers. It uses Qualcomm A1661...the Intel one is A1784.
Hmm. Can you post some proof. I did loads of reading yesterday and saw no such corroboration of your claim. I'm not saying it isn't the case.. but I just need something more than your word for it. Download the Lirum Info Lite free app from App Store and post a screen shot of your phone showing a Qualcomm chip.
I just logged on to iCloud to check what devices are associated to my iCloud Account and I have 4 devices,
1. My iPhone 7 plus (obviously)
2. Apple TV 4
3. iPad Air 2
4. Apple Watch
So do you suggest removing all the associated devices in my iCloud such as the Apple TV 4, iPad Air 2 and the Apple Watch? Isn't that going to make the devices stop working properly?
Which settings under - Settings - Privacy - Location Services - System Services should be left enabled?
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Do you mind sharing your tips as well so we have a full guide of tips in this thread?