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iPhone 7 Plus Users - how's your battery life so far?
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How's the standby drain on your 7 Plus? Mine has been losing 8-12% in 8 hours of standby overnight and that's with no SIM card inside and connected to WiFi. I'm going to factory reset it and see if the drain improves otherwise I'll have to go to Apple Store and get a replacement.
Killing a Lithium Ion battery and charging it back to full shouldn't do anything... it's not a NiMH battery. The only real reason to do that is if the phone starts saying the time remaining in the charge is wrong and that is fairly rare in my experience. It's better to just keep it relatively full at all times.
Every new iPhone I have had has been terrible for the first week or so because I keep messing with it or it is indexing or sending prints to the NSA or something... god knows. It does take a little time to settle down. The same is usually true for my Mac. After a while they both settle own and batteries start behaving normally. I wouldn't worry much about it unless it's a serious issue in a couple weeks.
Every new iPhone I have had has been terrible for the first week or so because I keep messing with it or it is indexing or sending prints to the NSA or something... god knows. It does take a little time to settle down. The same is usually true for my Mac. After a while they both settle own and batteries start behaving normally. I wouldn't worry much about it unless it's a serious issue in a couple weeks.
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On my freshly set up 7+, forgot to plug in last night. Fell asleep at 79%, woke up to 77% after 6 hours. Wifi on, Gmail pulling every 1 hour. DND disabled.
Way better than my 6splus. I'm beginning to think that battery was shot because the 7plus is almost twice as good.
This is after only playing Overcast through headphones and a few texts and checked Instagram and Facebook for a total of 10 minutes.
And since I posted this I have only listened to overcast, and it's down to 50%. In approx 15 min.....
This is after only playing Overcast through headphones and a few texts and checked Instagram and Facebook for a total of 10 minutes.
memo90061
macrumors 6502a
Hmmm. I'm wondering the same thing. I've had 2 iPhone 7+s.
The first one I had was an AT&T 128gb 7+, and I felt like the battery lasted way longer than my iPhone 6. I'm a substitute teacher, and sometimes I do use my phone while students work. At the end of the day my iPhone 6 would be at around 20%. With the AT&T iPhone 7+ at the end of the day it was around 50%. I exchanged my ATT iPhone 7+ for a T-Mobile 256gb 7+, and battery doesn't seem the same as the previous 7+. :/
The first one I had was an AT&T 128gb 7+, and I felt like the battery lasted way longer than my iPhone 6. I'm a substitute teacher, and sometimes I do use my phone while students work. At the end of the day my iPhone 6 would be at around 20%. With the AT&T iPhone 7+ at the end of the day it was around 50%. I exchanged my ATT iPhone 7+ for a T-Mobile 256gb 7+, and battery doesn't seem the same as the previous 7+. :/
mrenduch
macrumors newbie
The first picture was done after a fresh re-install of iOS 10.0.2. Wifi was turned off. I didn't even pair my Watch to my phone. The second picture was after no use at all while I was asleep. I should not be losing 28% of my battery while the phone is in standby, with no wifi or Bluetooth. This is beyond ridiculous.View attachment 661511
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julescilib
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mrenduch
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markthrash
macrumors 6502
I did notice mine getting a bit hot and skipping down percentages. Scared me a bit but after another charge cycle it stopped doing that so I'm good for now. Slightly better battery life than my 6S Plus.
mrenduch
macrumors newbie
I got this phone on the 16th. came with 10.0. Battery was great! I set it up as a new phone that day.
As soon as I updated to 10.0.1 I noticed issues.
I restored it thinking that i just had some corrupted software. Issues persisted.
I updated to 10.0.2 thinking it would help. Again, I set it up as a new device. Issues persisted for several days.
I updated to 10.1b1 and it got a bit better but would still lose about 20% during standby over night.
Yesterday, I restored it again, set it up as a new phone, had wifi off, had bluetooth off, and did not pair my Apple Watch to it. Lost 28% in standby mode.
This has got to be a hardware issue at this point.
Steve686
macrumors 68040
Setup: New Phone
Background App refresh: OFF
Only my necessary location services toggled on.
Screen brightness: 50'ish% on auto
Those are my main three settings I monitor.
With these settings in an average AT&T signal of ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️ To ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ I get less than 1%/hr drain on standby and in a 10 hour day leave work with around 75% charge left.
With similar settings and usage on a Damsung S7 Edge, I would see about 2%/hr drain and leave work with approximately 45-50% charge left. That was with a new S7 since March of this year.
If I can recall my 6sPlus stats, I think I would leave work with around 65% charge left.
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I've had the phone on constantly for almost a half hour and still 100%. My Samsung would've been at 95%.
Background App refresh: OFF
Only my necessary location services toggled on.
Screen brightness: 50'ish% on auto
Those are my main three settings I monitor.
With these settings in an average AT&T signal of ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️ To ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ I get less than 1%/hr drain on standby and in a 10 hour day leave work with around 75% charge left.
With similar settings and usage on a Damsung S7 Edge, I would see about 2%/hr drain and leave work with approximately 45-50% charge left. That was with a new S7 since March of this year.
If I can recall my 6sPlus stats, I think I would leave work with around 65% charge left.
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I've had the phone on constantly for almost a half hour and still 100%. My Samsung would've been at 95%.
To any of the people who have extreme standby drain, I too had the same drain in standby and ended up returning the device and waiting for a replacement.
If you have already done a restore and turned off everything in the settings and you are still draining battery excessively, you should go to an Apple Store and look into getting the device replaced.
If you have already done a restore and turned off everything in the settings and you are still draining battery excessively, you should go to an Apple Store and look into getting the device replaced.
So its been 2 weeks since i created this thread, im not impressed with the battery life on my iPhone 7 Plus at all, if i just text with the iPhone and basically don't run too many apps then the battery is fine but if i use facebook and use apps then it starts draining rather quickly and its not much better than my old iPhone 6s, i thought the plus had a much better battery and it just doesn't seem that way but then again, the people that report extraordinary battery life must not use the iPhone for any intensive cpu purposes it would see,
i did a restore from backup the day i got my iPhone 7 plus and reset all settings though the settings app right at the beginning so the possibly of a corrupted backup infecting the iphone 7 plus is unlikely.
Sort of defeats the point of owning a smartphone if the device is only used for checking email and texting and browsing safari, because, in that case the battery life is certainly great. It's when i start using apps, playing a game that i see the battery starting to drain in a really annoying way,
As far as standby is concerned, the iPhone retains the battery life overnight and i have only seen either a 2 or 3 percent decrease overnight so thats good,
i have a question, have any of you tried these Battery life saving apps on the app store? such as this one for example : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-doctor-master-battery/id446751279?mt=8
i did a restore from backup the day i got my iPhone 7 plus and reset all settings though the settings app right at the beginning so the possibly of a corrupted backup infecting the iphone 7 plus is unlikely.
Sort of defeats the point of owning a smartphone if the device is only used for checking email and texting and browsing safari, because, in that case the battery life is certainly great. It's when i start using apps, playing a game that i see the battery starting to drain in a really annoying way,
As far as standby is concerned, the iPhone retains the battery life overnight and i have only seen either a 2 or 3 percent decrease overnight so thats good,
i have a question, have any of you tried these Battery life saving apps on the app store? such as this one for example : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-doctor-master-battery/id446751279?mt=8
tigertazz
macrumors 6502
My battery has been brilliant !
I upgraded from a 6 so having any battery left at the end of the day was a bonus but having near 30% going to bed and up from 6am is great.
I set the phone up as new. No back ups no restore. Oh and it's running 10.0.2 after an update from 10.0.1 out the box.
I upgraded from a 6 so having any battery left at the end of the day was a bonus but having near 30% going to bed and up from 6am is great.
I set the phone up as new. No back ups no restore. Oh and it's running 10.0.2 after an update from 10.0.1 out the box.
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Glad to hear its working out great for you, What kind of location services do you have enabled in the system services menu?
tigertazz
macrumors 6502
Got everything running. Nothing is off.
Wanted to test its battery under the most "normal" load
MrJM
macrumors 6502a
I've come from a 6S and I must say Im super impressed! Im getting to the end of the day and having 40% left. My 6S would often not last a day (I ended up purchasing the battery case for it).
Gonna see if I can can get 2 days usage out of it, don't think it will be too difficult!
Gonna see if I can can get 2 days usage out of it, don't think it will be too difficult!
The Game 161
macrumors Nehalem
First morning using my 7 plus and while it’s maybe too early but it’s clearly better
2 hours, 19 mins usage
5 hours standby
83% left.
On my 6s plus with the same usage I would be at around 70% I imagine.
2 hours, 19 mins usage
5 hours standby
83% left.
On my 6s plus with the same usage I would be at around 70% I imagine.