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iPhone 7/Plus iPhone 7 Plus Battery Life
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Keeping it off doesn't necessarily increase battery life. I just get paranoid when I see the battery % goes down each time I use it so therefore I have it turned off so that it doesn't bug me.
I see.
How is your signal and what network are you using?
My phone shows cell standby as a major draw when I am out in the countryside in Ohio and there is weak LTE coverage.
I've read a few posts that state fewer antenna bands were implemented into the phones this year for a couple of different carriers. Take that with a grain of salt as a,possibility to weaker signal and more draw as the phone works to maintain cellular connectivity.
It seems good. Always on LTE, 3-4 bars/dots all the time. I'm in the south suburbs of the Denver area.
So far today. 43 minute usage. 2hrs 17minutes standby. 85% battery... it's going fast...I'll have to recharge it before my Genius Bar appointment later this evening. My phone won't make it until 6:30pm.
I'm going to wait a week before deciding whether my battery is very good, bad or normal.
There is just too much going on when you first get a phone to be able to make a determination in just the first few days. But so far, things are looking pretty good.
There is just too much going on when you first get a phone to be able to make a determination in just the first few days. But so far, things are looking pretty good.
Sorry to hear that.
Keep using it today and try to get to the Apple Store with 10% or less left. Just be sure to get the phone down to 10% and take a screenshot with all stats to show them. They can access your charge cycles and analyze them, but it's nice to be able to show the Genius something right away.
Mine was bad the first day but now its great. My old 6S would literally drop percentages doing nothing.
Yes, After posting that last night, it occurred to me that it looks like something weird is going on. Its like its counting some Standby Time as Usage time. However I am coming from a 6S Plus to this 7 Plus and my battery time is better than the old phone.
How much battery life are you losing over night in standby? I seem to be losing over 10% for 7 hours of standby. There is no reason it should be draining that much in standby, that's worse than what my S7E would drain in standby and its notorious for poor standby battery.
I haven't left it sit overnight like that. That's when I normally charge my phone. During the day I'm between 5-10% lose per hour.
5-10% an hour still seems quite excessive in my opinion. I think the 10.0.1 update is the cause of these drain issues. The first charge I had was on 10.0.0 and the battery life was great. The next day I updated to 10.0.1 and battery life has gone down the drain.
I agree. I don't mind holding off to see if the next update fixes the issue. I'm not even mad about the issue. It's just frustrating...
My phone has been super hot since I got it and it hasn't been able to charge properly or keep battery life. I had it charging all day (did not use it while it was charging) and at the end of the work day, it was only 63% charged. I had also turned off all apps. Something is not right. I am going to restore it to original settings and try to restore from backup again.
Those that are having issues, are you on 10.0.0.1 (or is it 10.0.1 -- i would check but my battery died and its too hot to hold)? The first thing it had me do was ask me if I wanted to upgrade the OS, so I said yes. I wonder if that has something to do with it.
Are you using the lightning cable from Apple? I ask because last night my wife put her phone on the charger overnight and this morning woke up and battery was stuck at 86%.... but she has a 3rd-party charger because she uses the longer cord. I plugged it in with the Apple cable and it moved up to 100%
So far today, after a starting fresh as a new phone last night, with limited background app refresh, 1 gmail account syncing every 30 minutes, bluetooth for audio, mix of wifi and LTE including outdoor screen use (auto brightness), I'm at 4h33m use/6h11m standby including 40 minutes of LTE streaming Netflix with bluetooth while on the treadmill. If it continues that way, I'll be thrilled.
Is this good? I think I was expecting more? A lot of this was listening to audio.
At 7%, 8hr2min usage and 15hr10min standby. Looks like I'm typically getting 8hrs usage per charge based on the last two days. I'd say that's good, especially considering I was streaming video for a while tonight.
Is this good? I think I was expecting more? A lot of this was listening to audio.
you were expecting more? thats insanely good, if you want to be using your phone more than 12 hours a day then you are not interacting with anyone or anything else lol
Totally impressed by the battery so far.
I'm charging it for the first time after nearly 2 days!
This includes installing everything yesterday, heavy use on top of it.
Today was a calmer day, as I had a busy day at work, but my Watch was always connected. Around 3PM, I had 10% left. When I left work at 5.30 PM, it still had 1% left.
Anyway, perhaps too early to tell, but impressed so far.
I'm charging it for the first time after nearly 2 days!
This includes installing everything yesterday, heavy use on top of it.
Today was a calmer day, as I had a busy day at work, but my Watch was always connected. Around 3PM, I had 10% left. When I left work at 5.30 PM, it still had 1% left.
Anyway, perhaps too early to tell, but impressed so far.
I did a Factory Reset and installed a couple apps back. I then recharged my phone to 100% and left it on standby for 6 hours. It is now sitting at 93% battery. This is without a SIM card installed and simply connected to WiFi.
This is ridiculous, I'm making an appointment and getting this device swapped out. This is worse standby drain than Android devices with 100s of background processes running.
This is ridiculous, I'm making an appointment and getting this device swapped out. This is worse standby drain than Android devices with 100s of background processes running.
That's what I was expecting to get but so far that has been far from the case. Hopefully Apple has stock and exchanges it for a Brand New one, I'm not going to bother doing a factory reset again since it clearly hasn't helped.