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iPhone 7/Plus iPhone 7 Plus Battery Life
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It could be from the raise to wake feature if you have it turned on. Any time the lock screen shows it will go under that category.
Hoping my battery stays really good, hurricane Matthew is coming. I'll probably be without power
Yeah that’s fine if you are using it a fair bit. That’s not far from my usage if I’m honest when using the phone during the day.
I'd love to tell ya, but even pre-ordering it through AT&T, it STILL wont even SHIP till Dec 2nd.... Apple is pissing off customers with intentionally not having enough product to ship out, to keep the prices and interest artificially inflated. With fewer sales they wont be able to keep this practice up much longer...
also with notifications that show on the Lock Screen. after I disabled Raise to Wake, I wondered why mine was still pretty high. then I disabled Screen Lock notifications for a bunch of apps that didn't matter, and it made a difference.
The 1st couple of days didn't seem to good but that was probably due to higher than normal usage while setting up and playing/testing but since then I have been more than pleased with battery life on my 7 Plus.
You have many notifications going through the night? I always have a load of twitter notifications during the night so if i had 10-14% drop I guess i knew why. If signal is low sometimes that can be a cause.
Signal was great. Not a ton of notifications. I turn most of them off from the lockscreen. And DnD was on.
I noticed the other day that when my 7 plus is laid on my desk, it builds up around 4 mins of usage every hour, even when not in use. This is also what I get through the night when the phone is laid next to my bed.
However, when I have the phone next to me whilst watching TV, it builds up around 20mins, and as much as 40mins of usage when in standby.
When I'm sat watching TV, I put my phone with the remotes on an armrest tray. According to the phones compass app, this puts it at a 22 degree angle.
Anyway, I had some time tonight, so I did some testing. First I placed it how I normally do for an hour, then turned it 180 degrees, so it was at the same angle, but upside down with the screen still facing up, and left it for an hour.
I did this a few times, and the results were consistent.
When angled in the normal orientation, the phone shows 20-40mins usage when in standby. When angled with the screen upside down, it uses 4-5 mins per hour of standby.
I'm guessing the angle is messing with the raise to wake feature. Can't think what else it might be.
I will turn raise to wake off tomorrow just to test, but it's a feature I like, so I won't leave it off. I just need to learn how to put the phone down, as clearly I'm putting it down wrong
However, when I have the phone next to me whilst watching TV, it builds up around 20mins, and as much as 40mins of usage when in standby.
When I'm sat watching TV, I put my phone with the remotes on an armrest tray. According to the phones compass app, this puts it at a 22 degree angle.
Anyway, I had some time tonight, so I did some testing. First I placed it how I normally do for an hour, then turned it 180 degrees, so it was at the same angle, but upside down with the screen still facing up, and left it for an hour.
I did this a few times, and the results were consistent.
When angled in the normal orientation, the phone shows 20-40mins usage when in standby. When angled with the screen upside down, it uses 4-5 mins per hour of standby.
I'm guessing the angle is messing with the raise to wake feature. Can't think what else it might be.
I will turn raise to wake off tomorrow just to test, but it's a feature I like, so I won't leave it off. I just need to learn how to put the phone down, as clearly I'm putting it down wrong
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Have to say that I'm really impressed with the battery life on the plus, coming from the 6s. When using it really does have good endurance, like a few others have said there is bout a 10% drain over night for some reason that I can't seem to pinpoint, but have faith in Apple to sort!
Have no doubt that with average or moderate use this is a 2 -3 day phone.
Have no doubt that with average or moderate use this is a 2 -3 day phone.
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5hr 55min usage, 14hr 32min standby. I'm at 36%. Did some video streaming, maybe a half hour or so. Not too sure how good this is.
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