I dont't think the hardware is the culprit (iphone 7) but the software not tuned-up pretty much (ios 10).
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Which? Magazine Claims iPhone 7 Has 'Poor Battery Life' Compared to Rival Smartphones
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So far my battery life on my 7 Plus is great.
Usage: 1 hr 45 min
Standby: 9 hr, 21 min
95% Left.
Usage: 1 hr 45 min
Standby: 9 hr, 21 min
95% Left.
Why does everyone here not realize that they are both right. Iphone 7/7plus have great battery life. But....
10.0.1 and 10.0.2 really caused some major drain issues for certain users. Once 10.1 GM or public is out iphone will go back to having great battery life. (Fingers crossed)
Case closed.
10.0.1 and 10.0.2 really caused some major drain issues for certain users. Once 10.1 GM or public is out iphone will go back to having great battery life. (Fingers crossed)
Case closed.
They should compare comparable devices.
Personally, I've noticed significantly improved battery life on my 7 Plus vs 6s Plus. Even with all the time I use it during the day, I don't think it's gone below 50% once. It's normally in the 75% range.
Personally, I've noticed significantly improved battery life on my 7 Plus vs 6s Plus. Even with all the time I use it during the day, I don't think it's gone below 50% once. It's normally in the 75% range.
I hate to sound like an Apple defending fanboy, but this isn't a very useful test.
What percentage of smart phone users are actually making more than 700 minutes of phone calls per day?
And if you were using 600 minutes of data a day, your phone bill would be outrageous for data usage.
I admit that in some ways I wish Apple had gone for a slightly fatter phone with better battery life. But I'm getting plenty of all day power with my iPhone 7 Plus, and I don't find myself saying, "Oh if only I could talk on the phone an extra two hours a day."
I guess what I'm saying is that while I wouldn't mind a bit more battery life, I'm not willing to throw away all the advantages of my iPhone to get them.
I take a big picture approach and it's more about how all of my hardware plays together as a team, as opposed to whether one piece of my equipment could have better battery life. I value the Apple systems and how well they play together, replacing one item, say the phone, just to get better battery life, but now it doesn't work as well with my computer or tablet, is not much of an advantage to me.
Of course that's the sneaky side of Apple. Provide all the tools you need, integrate them well, so that you don't want to replace any one of them, even if a better product does come along.
What percentage of smart phone users are actually making more than 700 minutes of phone calls per day?
And if you were using 600 minutes of data a day, your phone bill would be outrageous for data usage.
I admit that in some ways I wish Apple had gone for a slightly fatter phone with better battery life. But I'm getting plenty of all day power with my iPhone 7 Plus, and I don't find myself saying, "Oh if only I could talk on the phone an extra two hours a day."
I guess what I'm saying is that while I wouldn't mind a bit more battery life, I'm not willing to throw away all the advantages of my iPhone to get them.
I take a big picture approach and it's more about how all of my hardware plays together as a team, as opposed to whether one piece of my equipment could have better battery life. I value the Apple systems and how well they play together, replacing one item, say the phone, just to get better battery life, but now it doesn't work as well with my computer or tablet, is not much of an advantage to me.
Of course that's the sneaky side of Apple. Provide all the tools you need, integrate them well, so that you don't want to replace any one of them, even if a better product does come along.
Everyone's experience will vary. My iPhone 7 has had superb battery life in terms of my 6s. I could read 30 different battery surveys on the iPhone 7, none of them matter in terms of performance, because only the user determine how they use their iPhone on a daily basis. And no two iPhone usages will be the same.
ARS Technica is a pretty good site, but they do have a long history of Pro-Apple bias.
Who can blame them?
There's a lot of money, recognition and power in pandering to Apple. The last thing any organization like theirs can afford to do is make Apple angry. They'd be out of business in just days.
I don't. But the protruding camera doesn't bother me. I also like the iPhone being thin so maybe I'm in the minority here.
That can probably be said about the other phones as well though. The Galaxy S7 battery capacity improves a lot after a few days when things get optimized based on your usage pattern.
I agree with you though - testing performance and battery life right out of the box probably gives a skewed impression of how it actually fares in daily use.
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That sounds very odd to me - I usually have 20% or more left when I go to bed in the evening (I charge at night) and easily have 40-50% left on my GS7 Edge when most of my colleagues scramble for their chargers towards the end of the work day. And I use it a lot.
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try the following:
What a lot of people are missing is iCloud and devices associated to your iCloud account. It can put a hit on your battery.
Perform the following:
- Go to Settings - iCloud - select your account (very top selection) - Devices - remove all associated devices to your account. you may even see devices that you no longer use. <-- this is just temporary. once your battery life gets better enable all the associations.
- Go Settings - iCloud - disable iCloud Drive, Mail, Safari, Home, Notes, Keychain, and Backup
- Settings - iCloud - Share My Location - Disable Share my Location. Remove all associated devices for share my location as well under 'From' by swiping left and deleting each device
- Settings - Privacy - Location Services - System Services - Disable HomeKit, Location-Based Apple Ads, Location-Based Suggestions, Share My Location, and Disable Frequent Locations. Disable everything in Product Improvement
- Settings - Privacy - Advertising - Enable Limit Ad Tracking
- Settings - Sound & Haptics - Disable System Haptics at the bottom
- Settings - Photos & Camera - disable iCloud Photo Library, and iCloud Photo Sharing
- If you want, go to Settings - General - Background App Refresh and completely disable the feature
Guarantee you will get improvement in battery life after performing all of the above.
[doublepost=1475549569][/doublepost]i thought that we had bad cell coverage they are using 3g and 4g coverage as there standard of measure. i don't know when i have been hooked up to anything but LTE in a long time. And i live in Tennessee.
U.K. Consumers' Association magazine Which? has concluded that the iPhone 7 offers the worst battery life when compared against the current crop of rival flagship smartphones.
Using a series of tests designed to account for everyday usage variables, the subscriber-only magazine compared Apple's 4.7-inch phone against the Samsung Galaxy S7, HTC 10, and LG 5, and called the results "staggering".
Internet browsing time measurements were less contrasting, nevertheless the iPhone 7 still came last.
The new iPhone's poor results in the battery test shouldn't come as a surprise, given the limitations of the 4.7-inch handset's battery cell compared to its larger rivals (5.1-5.3 inches). Measured in milliampere hours, the iPhone 7 has a 1,960mAh battery, compared to the HTC 10's 3,000mAh cell, for instance, yet Which? describes this as a 'fault' of the phone.
The larger iPhone 7 Plus, on the other hand, features a 2,900 mAh battery, but wasn't mentioned in the test, perhaps because it was perceived as belonging in the 5.5-inch handset bracket populated by devices like the Galaxy S7 Edge (3600mAh) and the HTC 10 Desire (2700 mAh).
The test doesn't mention that Apple's own product specifications show that the iPhone 7 has a higher-capacity battery than the iPhone 6s (1,810mAh), and seems to continue a recent negative trend where media reports have criticized Apple's new flagship phone on the basis of its battery life. For example, last month, The Guardian ran an iPhone 7 story titled "How good can a phone be if the battery doesn't last even a day?" and claimed that its holding charge was worse than the iPhone 6s.
Article Link: Which? Magazine Claims iPhone 7 Has 'Poor Battery Life' Compared to Rival Smartphones
Yeah, I never experience anyone talking on the phone in line at the supermarket, walking down the street, at a concert after asked to turn the phone of. Of course people make calls with their phones. If you don't, fine, but many do. 700 minutes worth, probably not, but the test wasn't done to see if you could get that much talk time. It was to see which lasted longest. Have we all gone mad?
I have a friend who still uses a 4s on a daily basis. They can have a talk with you about iPhone "relics".
I get 53 hours out my 7 with heavy use (whole season of Luke cage on Netflix at full brightness, in 1 session) before it's %20.
The key is to turn off location
And leave phone plugged in
The key is to turn off location
And leave phone plugged in
I can believe that some droid phones with larger batteries _could_ outlast the iPhone, however I trust Ars Technica results much more than Which (Which used to use price a deciding factor, so a cheaply made device would be as good as better made devices, even if it only lasted the duration of the warranty, looking at you Samsung TVs).
Ars Techinca:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/0...at-annual-upgrades-with-one-major-catch/5/#h6
My own experience is that I charge my iPhone (6) once every two days. I'm a light user, a bit of Facebook here and there, and some web browsing. I pretty much have everything turned off. If I make a phone call it does seem to drain pretty quick. What really makes it drain fast is listening to music or using it navigate. I recently had to make a trip into the city and didn't want to drive (2 hours on a bus each way), so I listened to music and then used the navigation to get from the bus station to where I was going (10-20 mins). The battery was dead before I got home. In less than 6 hours.
My wife's Xaio-Mi is the epitome of crap when it comes to battery life. We've turned off everything we can find, but it burns through about 10% an hour (getting quite warm while doing so). Her phone isn't even connected to any data networks and we haven't installed any apps on it.
Whenever doing research on anything (news included), people must always check multiple sources, bias is everywhere.
Ars Techinca:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/0...at-annual-upgrades-with-one-major-catch/5/#h6
My own experience is that I charge my iPhone (6) once every two days. I'm a light user, a bit of Facebook here and there, and some web browsing. I pretty much have everything turned off. If I make a phone call it does seem to drain pretty quick. What really makes it drain fast is listening to music or using it navigate. I recently had to make a trip into the city and didn't want to drive (2 hours on a bus each way), so I listened to music and then used the navigation to get from the bus station to where I was going (10-20 mins). The battery was dead before I got home. In less than 6 hours.
My wife's Xaio-Mi is the epitome of crap when it comes to battery life. We've turned off everything we can find, but it burns through about 10% an hour (getting quite warm while doing so). Her phone isn't even connected to any data networks and we haven't installed any apps on it.
Whenever doing research on anything (news included), people must always check multiple sources, bias is everywhere.