iPhone 6 battery

gimmick

Anyone elses battery gone awful after a month or so?

After getting my phone I was getting a good 30 hours life time out of it, sometimes as much as 36-40 hours without charging. I bought the phone mid december

Then all of a sudden maybe 2 weeks the lifespan has dropped to 9-12 hours with the same usage as previously. Very frustrating.

I "conditioned" the battery by letting it run to 1% and charging it fully most of the time and have only once used a cheap non apple style charger.

Is this just the joys of iphone or what?

guil

Have you downloaded any new apps or changed any settings around the time of the change?

gimmick

I dont think so. I have deleted a few apps in the last few days and peared back all the usual hog stuff in the last few days as well but no joy.

murpho999

gimmick wrote: »

I dont think so. I have deleted a few apps in the last few days and peared back all the usual hog stuff in the last few days as well but no joy.

Go into settings/general/usage and look at battery usage and see what is eating your battery.

I don't think that battery conditioning you write about actually works either.

gimmick

Ive changed the mail from "fetch" to "manual" so hopefully that should do a job!

guil

Unless you need emails regularly I would definitely leave it on manual. How often did you have it set to fetch cos 13% battery is a lot and I'd imagine it's the bulk of the almost 50% usage against standby.

whiterebel

Yes, I've exactly the same problem, I was going to start a thread on it today actually. Went from brilliant battery life - 2 days +, to less than a day. Have set up as a new phone again, but it's still the same. Bought mid December more too.

Susandublin

I think if you leave it plugged in over night it damages the battery. Trick is to only recharge when it's under 10% life and stop recharging when it's 90%
Similar thing happened my boyfriend - and his battery is not great but mine is still perfect - have the 6plus and get a good 24 hours out of it but never leave it plugged in - that's the secret!!

whiterebel

Susandublin wrote: »

I think if you leave it plugged in over night it damages the battery. Trick is to only recharge when it's under 10% life and stop recharging when it's 90%
Similar thing happened my boyfriend - and his battery is not great but mine is still perfect - have the 6plus and get a good 24 hours out of it but never leave it plugged in - that's the secret!!

6+ is supposed to be better then the 6 for battery, so that's not great. Leaving it in overnight should have no effect. It just drains in front of your eyes.

jay2k6ie

gimmick wrote: »

Anyone elses battery gone awful after a month or so?

After getting my phone I was getting a good 30 hours life time out of it, sometimes as much as 36-40 hours without charging. I bought the phone mid december

Then all of a sudden maybe 2 weeks the lifespan has dropped to 9-12 hours with the same usage as previously. Very frustrating.

I "conditioned" the battery by letting it run to 1% and charging it fully most of the time and have only once used a cheap non apple style charger.

Is this just the joys of iphone or what?

Try a factory data reset, it may solve the issue.

FourFourRED

Turn off background app refresh

FourFourRED

Susandublin wrote: »

I think if you leave it plugged in over night it damages the battery. Trick is to only recharge when it's under 10% life and stop recharging when it's 90%
Similar thing happened my boyfriend - and his battery is not great but mine is still perfect - have the 6plus and get a good 24 hours out of it but never leave it plugged in - that's the secret!!

Damages the battery? How? Do you have evidence for this?

Everything about lithium ion batteries points to what you're saying being wrong.

challengemaster

gimmick wrote: »

I "conditioned" the battery by letting it run to 1% and charging it fully most of the time and have only once used a cheap non apple style charger.

Thats the quickest way possible to kill a Li-ion battery

Susandublin wrote: »

I think if you leave it plugged in over night it damages the battery. Trick is to only recharge when it's under 10% life and stop recharging when it's 90%

This is just wrong on so many levels.

gimmick

Did a reset and took some of the advice above and the life is gone back up around the 24 hour mark again, which is more than acceptable.

whiterebel

hasn't fixed mine. Got onto Apple to arrange repair. Tech Support on the phone checked diagnostics and could see it was going no longer than 14 hours between recharges. Have the APP+, so getting the Epxress replacement for it.

whiterebel

On Thursday, I did a hard reset, and lo and behold I'm back to 50 hours, usage and standby. Now I have the replacement upstairs which I'll have to sort out on Monday......

goz83

I have mine 8 days and the battery life sucks. Barely getting a day out of it. I find viber kills the battery real quick. Very disappointed with a brand new phone. I expected much better.

guil

Did you restore from backup or setup as new phone? I have mine since March and the battery life has never been brilliant. I'm always near a charger so not bothered too much by it.

FourFourRED

goz83 wrote: »

I have mine 8 days and the battery life sucks. Barely getting a day out of it. I find viber kills the battery real quick. Very disappointed with a brand new phone. I expected much better.

To be fair, if you're saying Viber is a big drainer of the battery then you need to look at why. Background app refresh? Push notifications? If you turn BAR off for all apps you will probably notice much better battery life.
Also personally I only have location services on for maps, find my iPhone & the camera.

whiterebel

goz83 wrote: »

I have mine 8 days and the battery life sucks. Barely getting a day out of it. I find viber kills the battery real quick. Very disappointed with a brand new phone. I expected much better.

My replacement is back out to 2 days now with normal usage. You need to check you battery usage stats to find out what is hogging the battery.

spongebob89

gimmick wrote: »

Did a reset and took some of the advice above and the life is gone back up around the 24 hour mark again, which is more than acceptable.

Hello, can I ask you how your finding your iPhone 6 battery? Thinking of swapping me galaxy s6, on paper galaxy s6 has a better battery but i think all the great specs just drain it. Id get 8 hrs with moderate usage