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How's your battery life looking so far?
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Is that a 6S Plus? Wow.. You must barely use your phone. And I'm guessing you charged BEFORE you went to bed and left if OFF charger over one 8-9 hour period?Decided to charge it at last... Awesome
I use it quite a lot to be fair which is why I'm shocked how well it lasted.
Took it off charge at 5am finished work at 6pm and it still had 60% left
Went to bed and it was still at 50% and charged it up at 3pm today. So I wasn't on it badly every 10 mins as was working for 12 hours but still had good usage.
Only thing o have off is background refresh and when on wifi I kept 4G data off so to test it I'm going to leave 4G on even when using wifi to see the difference in results.
Got work tonight at 6pm so my phone will be 100% by the time I leave at 5.40
And yes this is the 6s plus
Okay. That explains some things. You have a sort of 'non-standard' work day/usage pattern. When you charge your phone NOT when you're sleeping and then leave it OFF charger for those long sleep hours or work day where you are only using your phone on breaks - then it really pads the StandBy numbers way up. Most people's pattern is to use ALL day - then charge all night while sleeping and take off charger when you wake up. It's that pattern that we really want to do our comparisons with - to really be comparing apples to apples. And in the final analysis is the USAGE hours (not Standby) that really tell the tale.
I too always keep background app refresh off but I LEAVE Data always turned on even when on Wifi. The Data antenna is obviously a big battery user. If you turn it off you'll get some amazing battery savings there. So with ONLY Background App Refresh off - and charging my phone BEFORE bedtime and then OFF charger while I was sleeping I got numbers close to yours on my 6S+ - 27 hours Standby and 9 hours usage.
But on an average day with moderate usage through the day (calls, surfing, forums - no games) and on charger ALL NIGHT while sleeping my numbers, by the end of the day are averaging: 18hours standby, 7.5 hours Usage with 13% leftover before bedtime. I think that's great and better than 6+ and on par with what Apple is saying we should be getting.
So folks, PLEASE remember to put which phone you have when showing numbers and tell us if your phone was on charger or off charger for the period you slept. Then we can make a fair comparison.
And always post a screenshot as 'proof' please.. So right before your screen shot - write something like this:
6S+, on (or off) charger while sleeping, [surf, calls, gaming], all feature on (or - no PUSH MAIL.. some description here of what features you leave on or off)
.... something like that..
Well when I used my phone all day the last charge my numbers were
13 hours usage
16 hours standby
And that day I didn't need to charge till gone mid night
Yep. That's more consistent with the rest of the numbers we're seeing for 6S+. All good news from here.
I've always said if we can take our phones off charge when we wake up and don't need to charge again till we sleep again that's all we can ask for. If it lasts more then bonus.
My numbers are pretty much identical to yours. Is this better than last years 6? Seems to match my old g3
I can't really answer that well since I was using a 6+ for like 4 weeks, on T-Mobile's JOD program, and before that a 2014 Moto X. It is definitely better than the X was.
Very impressive and I thought mine was amazing.
on myh night shift i'm on
4 hours screen time
6 hours standby
78% left
I use iCloud Music Library, though all the music I listen to is made available offline.
Not much. But then I do have % turned off. I only turned it on for the purpose of posting and after that I turn it off. But typically when it's 90% it's always around 2 hours of usage.