But it does last about as long as a MacBook. I wouldn't mind longer life, but the current battery is not as weak as you're saying.
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But it does last about as long as a MacBook. I wouldn't mind longer life, but the current battery is not as weak as you're saying.
appleii.c
macrumors 6502a
What does this even mean? I've been on iOS 8 for a month, havent had a single restart.
How far apart are these buildings you speak of? For me, and every trusted review I've seen put the phones battery life up there with the top phones.
Quoting a Samsung commercial? Now you are simply just trolling.
My 6 is at 76%, 1 h 57 min usage, 21 h, 9 min standby.
That included a 5.5 hour shift yesterday at work, where the phone was in my pocket and did not have service most of the time. Oh and 29% of my usage is Phone, and 19% is messages in the background and 19% is "low signal" Mail and Facebook.
The battery rocks on this phone unless i'm at Disneyworld with location services running on their app. Then it sucks it dry, but other than that I can go days without charging.
Bring on Apple Pay people - and this keynote is cutting into my grocery shopping plans. I shouldn't have slept in....
That included a 5.5 hour shift yesterday at work, where the phone was in my pocket and did not have service most of the time. Oh and 29% of my usage is Phone, and 19% is messages in the background and 19% is "low signal" Mail and Facebook.
The battery rocks on this phone unless i'm at Disneyworld with location services running on their app. Then it sucks it dry, but other than that I can go days without charging.
Bring on Apple Pay people - and this keynote is cutting into my grocery shopping plans. I shouldn't have slept in....
appleii.c
macrumors 6502a
But did you walk into any buildings? Apparently thats what kills the battery! (kidding)
In all seriousness, I had to reply to you because of your Disney App experience. Awesome app, but Man, does it kill the battery (probably another thread somewhere). I'm going up again next month and I bought a little Sony portable charger simply for that App and my stay at the park.
I had the new iPhone 4, battery life sucked. I bought a new battery and replaced it myself. It sucked.
I upgraded to the new iPhone 5, battery life sucked.
I upgraded to the iPhone 5s, thinking there would be a better battery life. Battery life sucked.
The iPhone 6 battery life sucks.
See the trend here?
I have to charge my phone 4 to 5 times daily.
But people on MacRumors are befuzzled. They told me that I might have a bad battery. They asked me what phone am I using.
But the truth is, I just report my dissatisfaction to Apple.
It took Apple a longer than any other phone manufacturer to upgrade their displays and Retina HD is a sham.
I upgraded to the new iPhone 5, battery life sucked.
I upgraded to the iPhone 5s, thinking there would be a better battery life. Battery life sucked.
The iPhone 6 battery life sucks.
See the trend here?
I have to charge my phone 4 to 5 times daily.
But people on MacRumors are befuzzled. They told me that I might have a bad battery. They asked me what phone am I using.
But the truth is, I just report my dissatisfaction to Apple.
It took Apple a longer than any other phone manufacturer to upgrade their displays and Retina HD is a sham.
This is an Apple Pay thread, not a battery life thread. If you have a battery life concern, please move on.
1Zach1
macrumors 65816
But it's apparently the "fundamental flaw" of Apple Pay and why we can't believe in it or that it is to be trusted.
Graphixx30
macrumors newbie
And yet you keep upgrading. I have to say your comments in this thread have given me a good laugh today. Thanks for the entertainment. 🙂
I learned my lesson. Every year Macrumors people say the battery life actually is better.
What the heck do you do on your phone that requires you to charge 4 to 5 times a day? I don't think any phone will have good battery life for you.
noobinator
macrumors 604
For someone that is so against aPay and Apple in general, why did you keep buying the phones? 😕
This is another common question from people from Macrumors.
I do the things I always do. Like what I'm doing now. On macrumors.
I'm sitting on the charger now in fact.
I'm not against Apple pay, iPhones or Apple in general. I like iPhones. But I also know what the iPhone product can and can't do
I'm free to state my true opinions about the product and these are well known facts.
Yup, a Target with no service even... battery zapping piece of metal at it's finest 😛 (seriously, people have yelled at me about the lack of service in the building!)
Turning off location services for it helped greatly last Friday. I don't need the map to tell me where I am, so I figured it was ok to try that. I left with my phone at like 50% after a full day in the Studios. My daughter has a 4s, and hers had died with MDE running at the Magic Kingdom, and so she turned it and push mail off and was in the 40% left I think, and she was using it to message friends a ton.
You just reminded me - MUST go charge the battery back-up thing we have just in case!
I'm going to experiment with it the next couple of days and see what I can leave on and such. The overall t-mo service is wayyyy better in the parks than I have at home so that helps with low-service issues.
appleii.c
macrumors 6502a
So... to hijack this thread into a battery life topic, 16 hour "full day", assuming you get 8 hours sleep, taking away about an hour per charge, that gives you about 12 hours total usage. So get 3 hours of usage? That's not taking into account the time it takes you to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner. Shower, bathroom time, commute time... so if you are on your phone non stop, I'd say you only get 2 hours of usage between charge.
I think you have a defective phone, or a defective perception of time. 😉
There's no point in trying to understand it. Just accept it. To be on the mature side of things.
mcdj
macrumors G3
you could have typed this reply to yourself on page one of this thread and we could have closed it.
OP, I think the real issue here is that you're not happy with your iPhone. So you think that any services associated with it will fail.
It sucks when you're not happy with something like a smartphone, which is used every day, and quite extensively. Have you considered simply looking for a different device that you would be happy with?
It sucks when you're not happy with something like a smartphone, which is used every day, and quite extensively. Have you considered simply looking for a different device that you would be happy with?
oddnendz
macrumors 6502
dontwalkhand
macrumors 604
Then don't use it. Don't spoil it for those that do want to use it.
Now I do hope most do use it to pressure more stores into installing NFC
Now I do hope most do use it to pressure more stores into installing NFC
And what are the things you always do? Because doing the things I regularly do (primarily browsing various forums and news sites) yields 8-12 hours. Mix in some standby hours, and my phone is usually still alive by the time I go to sleep
mcdj
macrumors G3
OP isn't spoiling anything but his/her own reputation on this forum. If anything, this thread has actually served to illuminate the multiple benefits of
Pay, despite the OP's utterly failed efforts to find faults in it.I'm an iOS developer and since the iphone 5 I haven't had to charge my phone all day until I go to sleep and I do major field testing and massive usage, I have no idea what you are talking about 😱
