traded my ip6s for a ip6s+, battery seems to be worse

[XTheLancerX]

I assume the 24 hour thing is based off of when I exchanged/had the device reset as new. However, I have absolutely no idea why the battery stats rolled over...

edit: fifteen percent left, at 4 hours of usage.
I swear I loose a percentage or two every minute...even just browsing safari.

It's your screen brightness. You've isolated the issue to this point: it isn't faulty hardware, you got your phone replaced. It isn't your backup, you set your phone up as new. It isn't that too many battery-hog settings are on, you've turned them all off. Stop using your phone at 100% brightness. The 6s+ has a larger screen to illuminate, 100% brightness will wreck your battery, and what about your eyes? Doesn't that bother your eyes? If my iPhone 6 is higher than 75% in an indoor environment it's too much for me, and if it's at night, forget it. It freakin hurts. Plus my iPhone 6 warms up really bad if it's higher than 50% or so, and the battery tanks with like 3 and a half, 4 hours of use before its dead. That's with a smaller display to power as well. Try running at 30% brightness and tell us how bad your battery is.

 

[Damolee]

100% brightness destroys battery on any large phone screen. I'm betting it's that.

 

[HEK]

I assume the 24 hour thing is based off of when I exchanged/had the device reset as new. However, I have absolutely no idea why the battery stats rolled over...

edit: fifteen percent left, at 4 hours of usage.
I swear I loose a percentage or two every minute...even just browsing safari.

That's not normal. Some software is hung up either trying to update or trying to connect so radio is constantly on. Put in airplain mode and see what happens over next couple hours. And turn down that screen. 100% is way to bright to be comfortable. Indoors I run about 30%.

 

[acorntoy]

Do you have your brightness set really high? My 6+ will just eat through battery at 100% but will last pretty much the day on 50-75% a larger screen will eat more battery at the same brightness level. You can see it even in the Apple posted specs, the biggest boost the 6+/6s+ battery is in situations where the screen will be off.

Edit: It's your screens brightness. It sucks but these phones can't be at 100% without just draining power.

 

[mazdamiata210]

With some items there you might as well hold the lock/sleep button until the power off prompt appears and slide that to turn the phone off as that will definitely save a good amount of battery.

Yeah, what's the point of spending all that money for a smartphone if your turning everything off?

How to get the best battery life on your iDevice.

Besides I run this every day, I don't know why you people think it's turning off everything. My phone works perfectly fine as intended. Why because it doesn't show me ads that are aimed towards me? Because it doesn't track my every movement showing me apps based on where I am, and where I'm going? That provides no use to me.

 

[VertPin]

Alright. Set it down to auto brightness. Will go from 100 to 0 and post the usage when that's done

Still, however, I had 100% brightness with even my 6S normal sized and had better battery than this so idek

 

[Damolee]

Alright. Set it down to auto brightness. Will go from 100 to 0 and post the usage when that's done

Still, however, I had 100% brightness with even my 6S normal sized and had better battery than this so idek

Well that is what happens with larger screen phones. It's normal. Applies to Android also. Why the Sony Z Compact range have seriously good battery life.

 

[VertPin]

Well that is what happens with larger screen phones. It's normal. Applies to Android also. Why the Sony Z Compact range have seriously good battery life.

I was just confused, because I see multiple usage pictures with several more hours compared to mine and they would use no low power mode, and no 100% brightness :x

but I'm keeping it on auto brightness, will post a battery screenshot once it hits 100 and goes down to 1%

 

[C DM]

How to get the best battery life on your iDevice.

Besides I run this every day, I don't know why you people think it's turning off everything. My phone works perfectly fine as intended. Why because it doesn't show me ads that are aimed towards me? Because it doesn't track my every movement showing me apps based on where I am, and where I'm going? That provides no use to me.

Just the lack of LTE would be enough to make things slow, and no VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling handoff potentially. I'm sure handoff and continuity are quite useful to a lot of people as well.

 

[Fernandez21]

Just the lack of LTE would be enough to make things slow, and no VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling handoff potentially. I'm sure handoff and continuity are quite useful to a lot of people as well.

Plus FaceTime, iCloud, iMessage. He's basically disabling all the best features, might as well just put it in airplane mode and carry a basic phone for phone calls.

I haven't turned anything off on mine and can last the full day. You shouldn't have to disable anything to get at least decent battery life with the plus.

 

[mildocjr]

My battery life is just fine with my 6S+, lasts me all day.

Pro-Tip - If you install iCloud Control Panel on your Windows computer to sync Safari Bookmarks (which the Windows account is synced using OneDrive) and you try to use it with your iPhone or iPad, it will kill your battery life.

 

[mazdamiata210]

Just the lack of LTE would be enough to make things slow, and no VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling handoff potentially. I'm sure handoff and continuity are quite useful to a lot of people as well.

Plus FaceTime, iCloud, iMessage. He's basically disabling all the best features, might as well just put it in airplane mode and carry a basic phone for phone calls.

I haven't turned anything off on mine and can last the full day. You shouldn't have to disable anything to get at least decent battery life with the plus.

Again, that's why the first line says "How to get the best battery life on your iDevice."

 

[C DM]

Again, that's why the first line says "How to get the best battery life on your iDevice."

Well, in that sense, that would basically be better battery life, but not the best still since there are things that could be done that would make it even better than that, like disabling even more things, not using any apps, putting the device in airplane mode, using the lowest possible brightness all the time no matter what, and basically just turning the decide off.

 

[HEK]

Well, in that sense, that would basically be better battery life, but not the best still since there are things that could be done that would make it even better than that, like disabling even more things, not using any apps, putting the device in airplane mode, using the lowest possible brightness all the time no matter what, and basically just turning the decide off.

This argument over what to turn off or not is pointless. Use the phone however you like to use it. Apple added the on/off switches to allow each person to decide what they want to use, and how long to have battery charge last. There is no right or wrong answer. Turn on all the radios, notifications, screen at 100%, volume at highest level and stream HD movies using a low signal wifi or LTE connection. Just don't complain you have poor battery life. Because you don't. Battery life is just fine when everything is on and running at max.

The thread starter was looking for assistance. Plenty of answers were provided. Free to use what he/she wants to use or not. Big phone, big screen turned to 100% brightness, live with reduced battery time per charge. Seems to be working ok for majority of 70 million users worldwide.

 

[mazdamiata210]

Well, in that sense, that would basically be better battery life, but not the best still since there are things that could be done that would make it even better than that, like disabling even more things, not using any apps, putting the device in airplane mode, using the lowest possible brightness all the time no matter what, and basically just turning the decide off.

And that would severely limit the ability to use the phone. My suggestions do not. Simple.

 

[C DM]

And that would severely limit the ability to use the phone. My suggestions do not. Simple.

And part of what I'm saying is that similarly for quite a few people something like disabling LTE, for example, would have a fairly strong impact on usability of their device.

 

[acorntoy]

And part of what I'm saying is that similarly for quite a few people something like disabling LTE, for example, would have a fairly strong impact on usability of their device.

Don't want to be -this- guy but I seem to remember when the 5 came out it was proven LTE IMPROVED the battery life, because while it used more energy it wasn't loading the data as long as the 3G did and thus actually improved on the battery.

 

[C DM]

Don't want to be -this- guy but I seem to remember when the 5 came out it was proven LTE IMPROVED the battery life, because while it used more energy it wasn't loading the data as long as the 3G did and thus actually improved on the battery.

That supports my point that much more.

 

[mazdamiata210]

And part of what I'm saying is that similarly for quite a few people something like disabling LTE, for example, would have a fairly strong impact on usability of their device.

And if I'm on wifi all day long??? YOU might need LTE, but many people don't. Thus the guide I wrote that says IF YOU WANT BETTER BATTERY LIFE then disable LTE.

People complain that their battery is dying, I offer a solution to squeeze more battery life out of their devices and everyone complains OMG YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST TURN YOUR PHONE OFF THEN

 

[VertPin]

about to update post with battery stats. at 3% now.

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[MH01]

100% brightness, is a battery killer. I'd check all your apps and see which ones are using location services

 

[acorntoy]

about to update post with battery stats. at 3% now.

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Looks much better, was it the screens brightness or a combination of things?

 

[Fernandez21]

about to update post with battery stats. at 3% now.

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Glad you got it sorted out. What was it?

 

[mazdamiata210]

about to update post with battery stats. at 3% now.

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Nothing impressive. I get this regularly...

 

[dannyar]

So in all you're mind numbing relentless complaining you couldn't figure out that having you're screen brightness set to 100% would be the cause? Some people bro....