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iPhone 7 battery life

JulianL said:
There's an interesting review of the iPhone 7 on one of the main UK newspaper's web site that pretty much concludes that all the iPhone 7 benefits are destroyed by bad battery life...



The reviewer claims that he gets less battery life from his 7 than he did from his 6s when new.

Frankly I'm skeptical because his experiences are so at odds with Apple's claims and there is even some solid technical information this time around about why Apple's claims of improving the battery life vs the previous generation seem credible (e.g. adding the 2 low power cores to the A10 Fusion SoC and the slightly bigger battery in the 7 vs the 6s rather than battery capacity reductions that we've sometimes seen between past generations).

I wonder if the reviewer had a defective review unit. Given how proactive and protective they are I would be surprised if Apple PR doesn't contact him to see what happened. It will be very interesting to revisit the review page in a few weeks time to see if it is updated in any way in case there did turn out to be a fault on his phone. Surely Apple PR aren't going to let this stay out there if it is down to a faulty unit?

Full review is here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/23/iphone-7-review-poor-battery-life
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Read that yesterday and found it thoroughly perplexing. I'm in the opposite position, getting to the end of the day and being surprised by just how much battery is left.

His expectations, IMHO, are way off. "If I use my phone all day then it doesn't last all day" is silly :)
 
way better than my 6S
 

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Seems pretty good since the latest update. 4.7 iPhone 7
 

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CthrewU said:
Seems pretty good since the latest update. 4.7 iPhone 7
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WOW. That is impressive. That is the kind of battery life i was wanting. I have the normal 7 as well and your numbers look the same as mine when I am rounding 5 percent...
 
Not bad, definitely an improvement over 6s
 

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Still haven't seen it go below 50% yet. It's great with my usage pattern.
Much better than the S7. (Which is kind of funny, because the S7 has a 3000 mAh battery...)
 
So, I tried something new today, which has so far improved my battery life. It's too early to make any conclusions, but I still wanted to share it with you guys. Apparently, turning on Auto Brightness has really helped me today. The past few days it's been pretty bad, then I've read that turning that functionality on does make some difference. Always turned it off because it sometimes is too bright or too dark. And that hasn't really changed by the way. Currently in my room, it has gone down all the way to 0%. It's still readable though.

Anyway, so far it has made some improvement. Not that much, and like I said it's a bit too early to call it a day. But I will try this a bit longer. If it does help me to get through the day without a breeze I'll keep it on. It's currently 18:30 in the Netherlands, took my phone from the charger at 06:30 (actual usage is almost 4 hours). Got exactly 50% left, which is nice compared to what I've had yesterday; used it for two hours (including 10 minutes of filming in 1080p60), and it went down to just below 40%. That's just bad, really bad. So lucky to finally have some improvement thanks to a feature I've always hated. xD

By the way, not sure if I'm the only one here, but WhatsApp seems to be a real battery hog. It might not surprise everyone, but I'm seeing 2.2 hours of background usage in the last 24 hours. And that's something I never saw on my iPhone 6s. It did run on the background, but just not as much as now. Looks a bit strange to me..
 
I also came from 6s Plus to a 7. Currently 5hr 27 min usage, 32 hours 11 min stand by. 44% battery remaining.
 
Enrodrehern1 said:
Wow! How did you get that!!!
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Just normal usage. I don't keep location services on unless I'm using it. Brightness kept in manual mode usually about halfway setting. There was no heavy gaming done but I did use a ton of cellular data on Safari.
 
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My 7's battery life was shocking during last Saturday. Coming from the 6+, I was disappointed. So I set up as a new iPhone (I know it's a pain, and you shouldn't have to). But I did. Other than one blip were I lost ~20% while I slept and couldn't charge AND listen to my podcasts as I fell asleep (because PROGRESS AND COURAGE) the battery has improved.

Today at 10 pm it's been off charge since 7:15am, and has just hit 20%. That's after playing music over Bluetooth during my car and walk commute to and from work and at lunch, over 2.5hrs. I've used the phone during the day to make calls and the odd safari use, and at home for about an hour exchanging silly iMessages with my young son, and more safari, a fair bit of Words with Friends and queuing up videos on YouTube. And I've only just disabled background refresh now.

So, all in, it's probably quite an efficient device.

I'd post up my usage, but it says I have to charge it fully before they will be shown.
 
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Just normal usage. I don't keep location services on unless I'm using it. Brightness kept in manual mode usually about halfway setting. There was no heavy gaming done but I did use a ton of cellular data on Safari.
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And at 3 out of 5 your signal strength isn't that great either so not perfect conditions making it all the more impressive.
 
chrizzz09 said:
Seems pretty good to me iPhone 7 4.7:

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Hey guys,
Dont know what youre doing to get such phenomenol standby and usage time. Are you really using your iPhones?
I never had such good standby and usage time. iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 are as same. No improvements
 
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