It's me or ios 8.2 is the best for battery life?

[Wegee]

Just curiosity here, but since I downgraded from ios 8.3 because of the problem with ifunbox etc (read here: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/13/ios-8-3-ifunbox-itools-sandbox-app-access ) I've noticed an amazing increment in battery life.
Keep in mind I skipped 8.2 at first, I was on 8. something and I jumper on 8.3 directly, so I didn't have data to compare 8.2.

Anyway, it's so noticeble I've started taking screenshots of this (it's an iphone 5c 32gb): this are 3 different days, I'm not a super heavy user, but I never experienced something like this.

 

[C DM]

Everyone has a different experience it seems. Some say some other versions gave them better battery life, while others don't really see much of a difference one way or another with most updates (at least within a single major iOS version).

 

[sunking101]

6+

For me 8.3 is by far the most stable and best version of iOS8 to date, but it also has the worst battery life.
I regularly got 11.5 - 12 hours usage from 8.0 - 8.1.1
I got 10.5 - 11 hours from 8.1.2 - 8.2
I now get 9.5 - 10 hours from 8.3

 

[dictoresno]

8.2 was great for me for battery life but 8.3 was even better. almost an hour of extra usage time on average.

 

[simon lefisch]

Battery is about the same for me. 8.3 might be slightly better but not enough for a wow factor. I can get about 10-12 hours usage on 8.3. 8.2 was a little less, maybe 10-11 hours.

 

[Gryfter]

for me, better battery life on 8.3...

 

[DeathBecomesMe]

The best I've had so far was on 8.4 beta 1. Seemed to decrease a lot less when actually using the phone.

 

[moderngamenewb]

I'm on iOS 8.3 on both my iPad 2 (got it in 2011) and iPhone 5S, and surprisingly battery life is great. I used iOS 8.2 when it first came out and it really drained the iphone battery compared to 8.1.3, but 8.3 seems to have really improved it for me

 

[sunking101]

A lot of the time it isn't the version of iOS that is less of a battery drain, it's to do with the installation process. If you do a clean install every time then you can get a better picture than if you do an OTA one time and then a clean install the next etc.

 

[becneel]

Battery life is worse on iPad Air for me