Tell me about your battery on the 6 Plus.

Macrumors isn't allowing me to upload my screenshot but after 25 hours on 95% charge I'm at 9 hours and 40 mins usage and I still have 9% left. White 64 GB iPhone 6 Plus.
 
I'm getting about 1.5-2 days under moderate mixed use (mostly Safari at maybe 75% wifi and 25% LTE, Netflix, Podcasts, iBooks, a little shooting camera and video, MLB, Goblin Sword game, and Mail). Haven't used navigation with it yet so I'm not sure what GPS use does to it (that was a big battery hog on my 4S).

So it's not like it's amazing where you charge it once or twice a week. But, it confidently gets me through an entire day (even a long one) pretty much no matter what I'm doing with it and I'm just fine with that, I don't mind charging it every night. Would need a week or so to get a better handle on the average life though.
 
Tell me about your battery on the 6 Plus.

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Can't nobody be mad at that! This thing is blowing me away.
 
So yesterday, I let my 6+ battery die. It got to 3% then shut off. I thought that was odd. Pressed the power button, the display backlight comes on for a few seconds, but that "dead battery" graphic was not present. I plugged it in and went to sleep. Tonight, I used my phone all day and let it die again. It got to 4% and shut off. I plugged it in, this time pressing the power button actually got the device to turn on. When it powered to the lock screen, it still showed 4%. I unplugged the phone, then a few seconds later it shut off. I find it odd that it still won't go passed 4%. Has anyone actually got their device to go to 1%? Just found this odd.
 
I did a full cycle on mine yesterday and today. I got about a day and a half of heavy use out of it before I hit 0. I'd call that outstanding. Far better than my 5 ever was.

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joeshmo2010 said:
So yesterday, I let my 6+ battery die. It got to 3% then shut off. I thought that was odd. Pressed the power button, the display backlight comes on for a few seconds, but that "dead battery" graphic was not present. I plugged it in and went to sleep. Tonight, I used my phone all day and let it die again. It got to 4% and shut off. I plugged it in, this time pressing the power button actually got the device to turn on. When it powered to the lock screen, it still showed 4%. I unplugged the phone, then a few seconds later it shut off. I find it odd that it still won't go passed 4%. Has anyone actually got their device to go to 1%? Just found this odd.
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Mine went right down to 1%, ran at that for a few minutes and then went blank, just like it should.
 
For those posting their 6+ life could you please indicate what your brightness is set at?

On my 5 I always kept it at about 90% brightness and I never got more than 4hrs of usage. With brightness at a similar level how long might I expect my new 6+ battery to last?
 
I get at least 5 extra hours with relatively-common use on the 6 Plus as opposed to the 5s. It's really great.

I also use very low brightness (none to 10 percent), so that might be a factor too.
 
docprego said:
For those posting their 6+ life could you please indicate what your brightness is set at?

On my 5 I always kept it at about 90% brightness and I never got more than 4hrs of usage. With brightness at a similar level how long might I expect my new 6+ battery to last?
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Hmmm. Well my brightness is about 85-90%, and I use my phone pretty heavily. Towards the end there, I was charging my 5 four times a day. So far, I charge my plus once, and I'm good for literally 24 hours. I said it in another thread, the battery life on this is akin to a mini tablet battery. Takes a bit longer to charge as well, but once it's charged, boy is it ever.

So much for the wall hugger label Samsung.
 
BigMar89 said:
How'd you get that battery life suggestions panel? Always have auto brightness off?
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Yeah I guess so. I always turn it off, in my opinion it's worse than manually setting it because I only adjust it rarely (eg going outside from indoors) so I imagine having it automatically change levels constantly in my home would be more taxing. Who knows though.
 
bmms8 said:
I leave it around 25% auto-brightness on. Its plenty bright for me with this setting, I've used it this way for all my iPhones.
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Interesting. Really good battery life. Will have to give mine a full test tomorrow. Have yet to really do it.
 
bryancee said:
You let your phone die completely?
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Yes definitely. Let it die and then charge it back up all the way to 100%. I will be doing this on my first few charges.


Keep in mind it takes a long time to charge but i used it while on the charger, just didn't take it off until i was fully charged.
 
I've had my phone off the charger for almost 15 hours now, and it just dropped below 30%. I've been using it throughout the day, for web browsing, Twitter, iMessage, etc and the battery is lasting longer than I was getting out of my 5s and Mophie combined.
 
Here is mine so far, I'm still on my first charge since I got it on launch day. Unplugged it at 10 PM on launch day and still going good. iPhone 6+
 

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