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iPhone 7 battery life

I disabled Siri last night, did no full charge (phone was at 99 from the idling before) and left it.

After 7,5 hours of sleep the usage stat said 8 minutes now, instead of the 23+ minutes it normally consumes. Battery was still at 99.

This probably doubled my standby time. But I'll test it throughout the week. It sucks to not have Siri though. But if that means no charging throughout the day I'm fine with it.
 
mexxdude said:
I had the same standby drain issue with my JB7. I have tried everything with no improvement. Finally went to the Apple Store a couple times and the genius told me it is very normal for the phone to loss 15-20% overnight in standby mode. I told them that the 7 had worse battery performance than my old 6S. They said that I can't really compare the two phones since they are so so different. It was the first time I felt really diappointed with Apple and wanted to get a S7 Edge to call it a day.

Anyways, I ended up getting a new MB7 last week at Target during its Black Friday sale and sold my JB7 online. Guess what, the battery on the new phone is great. With the JB7, I would ended up 20-30% left at the end of the day. With the new MB7, I have been getting 50-60% remaining by the end of the day. One thing I noticed is that with the JB7, my cell signal is at 2-3 bars at home. On the MB7, I get 4-5 bars. I don't know if that's what was causing the battery drain issue. And yes, the JB7 is with Intel chip and the MB7 is Qualcomm chip.
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... is there such a great difference between the two chips?!
 
My battery life is much improved over my iPhone 6 Plus.

I'm at 69% battery on my current charge with 3 hours and 52 minutes of SOT, which includes video playback, lots of texting (through an app I will say that seems to be pretty battery heavy), lots of browsing, running my Fitfit via bluetooth and a slew of other apps. This will probably give me close to 10 hours of SoT by the time my battery fully depletes, but I typically don't let that happen. Usually I throw it back on charge around 40%.

If I was on my Galaxy S7 edge it would be time to put it back on charge -- and I'm doing the same exact things on my iPhone as I did on my Galaxy, using the same apps. I always brought my charger with me to work with my Galaxy S7 edge because one day I had a full charge (as far as I could remember), and I checked my phone around mid day and I was down around 50% without hardly using my phone. Only happened once though, but the battery life in general on that device was pretty abysmal. I was lucky to squeeze 5 hours of SoT, draining the battery pretty low -- down to 10-20% or so.
 
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Will be looking for an improvement on this from my 7 plus - had it approx 10 days and I'm in the extended xmas return period so have until early Jan to return. To put into context the 7 (4.7) I had briefly got 11hr usage and 55 hrs standby (best result).
 
m-a said:
... is there such a great difference between the two chips?!
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I'm not sure if it has to do with the chips. I restored the new phone using the old phone backup via iTunes, so the setup is the same.
 
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Guys!

I found the solution to my problem. I have to disable Siri!!!

Having Siri enabled racks up 1,5 hours of usage during 20 standby hours and drains with 1-2 percent an hour in standby. I had to charge around the evening everyday. I disabled Siri yesterday morning and woke up today with 44 percent remaining from the charge from the day before. Overnight I only dropped from 46 to 44.

The usage stats are now also correct, no padding at all. 4,5 hours of usage on 21 hours of standby at the moment. I used it more than than normal! No more 6-8hours "usage" by doing not much at all.

Today I'm going to fully charge and enable Siri to make comparison screenshots at around the 21 hour mark. That way I can show apple what I found out.

I would suggest trying this on your phones as well.
 

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Surely this battery can't be okay? Started using the iPhone 7 yesterday from brand new, backed it up from a previous backup from 5s, noticed the battery was draining quite fast, set it back to factory settings blah blah blah, getting this amount of usage and standby time? Is this normal? Am i being too picky? Surely we shouldn't have to disable most features the iPhone 7 offers?
Any Opinions???
 

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iPhone 7 with AW

Somehow my battery started to drain 7-10% overnight in idle mode:/

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msi92 said:
iPhone 7 with AW

Somehow my battery started to drain 7-10% overnight in idle mode:/

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Is that a regular 7, since your signature states you own a 7 plus?

r0aritsieuan said:
Surely this battery can't be okay? Started using the iPhone 7 yesterday from brand new, backed it up from a previous backup from 5s, noticed the battery was draining quite fast, set it back to factory settings blah blah blah, getting this amount of usage and standby time? Is this normal? Am i being too picky? Surely we shouldn't have to disable most features the iPhone 7 offers?
Any Opinions???
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During the first few days, your phone will spend a lot of energy on indexing all the data from iCloud, apps, etc., which of course has an impact on battery life.
On top of that, I presume the battery isn't fully charged when you start your new phone the first time.
 
iOnAsJ said:
During the first few days, your phone will spend a lot of energy on indexing all the data from iCloud, apps, etc., which of course has an impact on battery life.
On top of that, I presume the battery isn't fully charged when you start your new phone the first time.
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We're you in a similar situation?

Yes when i booted the phone originally i had 70%, i charged it fully to 100%, used it until near death charged it to full again and that's when I screenshoted the usage etc.
 
r0aritsieuan said:
We're you in a similar situation?

Yes when i booted the phone originally i had 70%, i charged it fully to 100%, used it until near death charged it to full again and that's when I screenshoted the usage etc.
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I thought so. Normally, this should improve after a few days. If it doesn't, you can go to an Apple Store?
 
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I thought so. Normally, this should improve after a few days. If it doesn't, you can go to an Apple Store?
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Ah great thanks for the advice! Do I have to let apple/the store know before the 14 day return policy? Or does that not count for a faulty phone?
 
r0aritsieuan said:
We're you in a similar situation?

Yes when i booted the phone originally i had 70%, i charged it fully to 100%, used it until near death charged it to full again and that's when I screenshoted the usage etc.
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Try to disable Siri. It helped me tremendously.
 
r0aritsieuan said:
Siri's one of the main features also though, we shouldn't have to disable big features like that just to get to half the expectations of the phones battery life!
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Well obviously, but it's still happening.

I can do 2 full days without siri enabled, not even 1 with it enabled. Even if I don't use Siri at all during those days.
 
r0aritsieuan said:
Ah great thanks for the advice! Do I have to let apple/the store know before the 14 day return policy? Or does that not count for a faulty phone?
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Give it a week or so and a number or charges to stabilize. As far as Apple, if you just got the device you might be under the extended holiday return period so you might have even more time (you should check your receipt to make sure).
 
Here are my latest stats for my phone using the battery life app.

Had my 7 Plus 256GB for 2 and a half months and never once had my phone die at random percentage. Must be doing something right.
 

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This is my biggest problem with the battery life. The standby time. Around eleven i unplugged my Iphone fully charged and only used it a couple of minute (wifi-browsing, checking Instagram etc). I lost five procent on seven hours. Is this really normal?
 

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Johannes10 said:
This is my biggest problem with the battery life. The standby time. Around eleven i unplugged my Iphone fully charged and only used it a couple of minute (wifi-browsing, checking Instagram etc). I lost five procent on seven hours. Is this really normal?
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Seems okay if you didnt start at 100. Otherwise it's not okay.
 
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