You can use Low Power Mode in iOS 9 to see if that helps some more.No, nothing significant. I'm still always attached to the dang charger!
I Facebook a lot. I wonder if that's part of the big problem? Lol
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Improved my 6S+ battery life dramatically by disabling a few system services.
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Noticed that I didn't need to turn anything back on. It's been a week or so now.
Will it stay on all day? I'll try that and post back. I turned off all the background app refresh and iCloud back up. Not sure what else to do. Thanks for the tip.
Old Grumpy Pants! I like that. I should have chosen that for my forum name. Darn!
I disabled location services for most apps. Really, as long as I'm going to use the FB app I shouldn't even bother. That's what killing my battery stats.
Lol! Love the screen name!
Me too. Mine said Facebook is using 50 percent of my battery. Yikes! Safari is 30 percent. Are you aware of any other Facebook app we could possibly use?
Sure, but that doesn't give you the use of the device.Double, triple, maybe even quadruple your battery life!
Ahhh facebook, that like punching a hole in your gas tank and wondering why you always run short of fuel.No, nothing significant. I'm still always attached to the dang charger!
I Facebook a lot. I wonder if that's part of the big problem? Lol
Lol, forget about turning things back on; I ended up turning more things off.
This is an amazing phone. I want to maximize its power.
I tried using the browser version since other people mentioned an app but said it got poor reviews. The browser version is laggy and I found I couldn't tag some friends into a post they wanted tagged to their pages. Maybe I'm just less familiar with the browser version, but the few times I've tried to use it, it was an exercise of my patience and I gave up and put the app back on.
In checking my battery stats it doesn't appear to be draining battery anymore while it's off. By off, I mean I used task switcher to swipe it off. But when I'm actively using it, it drains fast.
There are people writing reviews of it on the App Store claiming it is doing something in the background it's not supposed to be doing. I am unable to determine for myself what that could be.
You can turn all of them off without anything changing really--many would keep the Find My iPhone on so that its available on their device if it gets lost, and perhaps Share My Location if they share their location sometimes, but beyond that there's not much there that's needed, only based on your use and if something you usually use or do that might need something from there.
Get ad blockers like crystal, 1blocker, Purity in App Store load em up.open them and configure, suggest ad block and tracking to start. Then back to Safari in settings select blocker you want to use, and turn on. That's it. When you reload macrumor's no more top, bottom side ads. Loads in couple seconds. And if you ever want to see a particular page without the blockers, just refresh by holding the refresh key till menu comes up where you can choose to load without blockers. This is one time load after that blockers are back on.
Various ones are described at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033
http://www.clear-coat.com/blog/iphone-privacy-settings/
Try these, posted earlier in this blog.
http://www.clear-coat.com/blog/iphone-privacy-settings/
Try these, posted earlier in this blog.
Basically, background refresh and just about all of the notifications. Set location services to only be used in certain apps while I have those apps open. For most of my stuff, I set it to never be used. I also kill apps when I'm not using them.
I didn't really bother with brightness at all. It's already set to pretty low, and I don't notice that the screen seems dim at all.
These actually don't drain much battery at all...maybe give you an hour at the absolute most. They don't use GPS but your existing network to get your location.
The only time I can think these may be a possible source of battery drain is when you are in a very poor network area.
The only time I can think these may be a possible source of battery drain is when you are in a very poor network area.
Some of those features use less services and perhaps less often for less time and thus less battery, while others use more perhaps more often and for longer periods of time which might have more of a noticeable impact.