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iPhone XR iPhone XR battery life is insane [MERGED]
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I use Low Power mode and am at 5 full days between charges.
Put mine on the charger at 7:30 SOT. Still had 23 percent left.
I got 3 days before charging this week ( light use). I usually get 2 days in normal use. Best iPhone I've had.
It's similar to the plus, indeed. A user shared 4.5 hours on 73 with Low power mode. That's maybe 30 minutes higher than my 7+ on iOS 10. Is it better? Perhaps, yes, but not twice or thrice better if comparing apples to apples (both phones on original versions. The most unfair comparison is the one that has been done: an older phone's battery life being crippled by iOS updates being compared directly to a newer phone on its original version).
Edit: I don't use my phone for music: I found a screenshot of my 7+ on iOS 10 with 70% left on low power mode, with 4 hours 50 minutes of on-screen usage.
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I had a 7+ last year. The battery life was incredible on iOS 10. Easily 10 hours of on screen usage. iOS 11 made it drop to 8 hours. I always restore and set up as new, so it wasn't a weird software bug. It's sad how they intentionally lowered the battery life.
I no longer use it. A family member has it (returned to my 6s due to the camera being broken and being unable to fix it... Long story) but it is still on iOS 10, and with the same amazing battery life. There wasn't much progress on battery life on iPhones since the 6. (The 6 was much better than the 5s on heavier usage, the 6+ was incredible; the 6s improved that a little further), but the main breakthrough came with the plus, and that has been quite stable (10-12 hours of usage) ever since (if not updated).
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If updated, as you say... Then it severely decreases. Not only the plus: the 7 dropped from 8-9 on iOS 10 to 4-5 on iOS 12, likewise with the 6s (my 6s is on iOS 9 and gets 8-9 hours).
Reports of the X dropping, the 5s was a disaster on iOS 12, likewise with the 6.
If updated, they drop to inconceivable levels to someone that doesn't update (no... Battery health has no saying. It's near meaningless. Really. Unless severely degraded).
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iPhone XR battery life is just amazing even coming from a plus size iPhone. Noticeably better battery life. Even with real heavy usage, I don’t have to worry about topping up my phone throughout the day.
It’s the best thing about XR still imo even though it has a couple nice things going for it, but great battery life is a very big deal on a mobile
100%. I’m in sales and my phone is the company’s phone, technically. However, I almost would rather have the Xr with what i have experienced with it now, than a Xs model. I think I prefer the X or Xs size the best (coming from a 6s with apple battery case) more than the Xr but the battery is my favorite feature I can’t live without.
My 6s with battery case only got me thru 5pm ish. When I go to bed at night around 11pm i usually have 15-20% left on my Xr.
I agree with you about size x/xs is better but the scaling of Xr is awesome More like xs max than x
I would rather have an Xr than xs for sure. But that’s because I have (&’had’ since it was my daily driver until Xr came out) an x.
That’s an impressive difference in battery life WITH a battery case wow.
My 7plus battery was crap on iOS 12 that much I know. And 11. 10 was pretty good. But this is better than that was in its time pretty sure.
I decided to try to see if I could completely drain the iPhone XR in a day. So I took it off the charger when I woke up about 9.40 a.m. and proceeded to use the iPhone as much as I can throughout the day.
In the end I gave up because I was way too sleepy, it was already 1 a.m. which was way past my usual bed time.
10.5 hrs of screen on time, this is with gaming and reading Manga and watching youtube videos, was not able to even hit the low battery warning. 27% left.
The battery life is absolutely amazing.
In the end I gave up because I was way too sleepy, it was already 1 a.m. which was way past my usual bed time.
10.5 hrs of screen on time, this is with gaming and reading Manga and watching youtube videos, was not able to even hit the low battery warning. 27% left.
The battery life is absolutely amazing.
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I decided to try to see if I could completely drain the iPhone XR in a day. So I took it off the charger when I woke up about 9.40 a.m. and proceeded to use the iPhone as much as I can throughout the day.
In the end I gave up because I was way too sleepy, it was already 1 a.m. which was way past my usual bed time.
10.5 hrs of screen on time, this is with gaming and reading Manga and watching youtube videos, was not able to even hit the low battery warning. 27% left.
The battery life is absolutely amazing.
Sweet mother of pearl!
How is this even possible???? Were you on wifi the whole time? Brightness level? Cellular data off?
My iPhone 8 can still achieve a full day of usage on one charge. So it’s not terrible. Granted, I’ve never had an xr or xs so I guess I’d never really know
Sweet mother of pearl!How is this even possible???? Were you on wifi the whole time? Brightness level? Cellular data off?
No man, just every day use. Wifi on, LTE is on. Brightness level is determined by auto brightness, with true tone on.
Really insane battery life.
That is insane. That's unbelievable. It's stuff like this that make me wanna get an Xr
Yesterday was a particularly long day for me. I took the phone off charger at 9:20 a.m.
Had a fair bit of LTE time in zones without wifi, I went to visit the doctor, shopped at the pharmacy and also the supermarket, ending my trip by getting some lunch at the local market. So a couple of hours without wifi.
Got to bed only somewhere around 3:30 a.m. with about 6% battery left.
Had a fair bit of LTE time in zones without wifi, I went to visit the doctor, shopped at the pharmacy and also the supermarket, ending my trip by getting some lunch at the local market. So a couple of hours without wifi.
Got to bed only somewhere around 3:30 a.m. with about 6% battery left.
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