Two week old iPhone 6

princess-lala

So I bought my iPhone 6 two weeks ago, the first day or two I thought the battery was great but since then I find I get about eight hours out of the battery at most.

I have friends with the same phone and they'd get over 24 hours!!

I don't have a lot of apps, I have location turned off, wifi is always off!!

Anything else I may be missing to try extend the battery life?

naasrd

princess-lala wrote: »

So I bought my iPhone 6 two weeks ago, the first day or two I thought the battery was great but since then I find I get about eight hours out of the battery at most.

I have friends with the same phone and they'd get over 24 hours!!

I don't have a lot of apps, I have location turned off, wifi is always off!!

Anything else I may be missing to try extend the battery life?

8 hours is about right for an average user. 24 hours? In their dreams...

sdanseo

Are you charging it till it's done and plugging it out or leaving it in overnight? Easiest way to kill your battery stone dead is to routinely overcharge it.

Nonoperational

naasrd wrote: »

8 hours is about right for an average user. 24 hours? In their dreams...

I'd be a heavy enough user and I easily get 16 hours.

Mick Murdock

It depends on usage. 8 hours seems right if it's heavy-ish usage. If you are a moderate user there may be an issue.

24 hours if you never use the phone, perhaps!

You won't kill a battery stone dead in 2 weeks..

princess-lala

I have it charged before I go to sleep, it gets to 100% then! In the morning it could be down to 90% (all apps closed)

Then by 4pm it's down under 20%! I have to charge it on the way home from work every day!

Nonoperational

It's worth trying a restore anyway

Mick Murdock

Sounds like it's faulty to me..

Check what apps are using the most juice. Sometimes a particular app installation can cause your battery to drain.

FourFourRED

sdanseo wrote: »

Are you charging it till it's done and plugging it out or leaving it in overnight? Easiest way to kill your battery stone dead is to routinely overcharge it.

You can't overcharge the iPhone battery. Leaving it plugged in overnight isn't a bad thing and won't affect battery life.

YouTookMyName

screen brightness will kill the battery.

princess-lala

Apps being used most would be Safari and Facebook!

I totally understand when I'm at home with nothing to do all day and I'm on the phone non stop but when I'm working and rarely touching the phone the battery is still going down at an alarming rate??

princess-lala

YouTookMyName wrote: »

screen brightness will kill the battery.

It's down quite low and I have the auto-brightness off!

FourFourRED

Post screenshots of what you see in settings > general > usage > battery usage for both the last 24 hours & also one for the last 7 days.

Mick Murdock

Is it dropping 30/40/50/60% when unused during your work day? Or are you killing the battery on the way to work, during lunch etc.

I use my phone pretty much all day for work (has a similar battery but larger screen than 6) and I usually get about 6-7 hours before having to charge.

If it's faulty return it to where you bought it.

princess-lala

Here we go

princess-lala

Mick Murdock wrote: »

Is it dropping 30/40/50/60% when unused during your work day? Or are you killing the battery on the way to work, during lunch etc.

Say it's 80% when I arrive to work at 9, at 12 it could be down to 50/60% and I may have touched it once and possibly not have even opened the home screen!

FourFourRED

princess-lala wrote: »

Here we go

Seems like you're doing a lot of web based usage on a 3G connection and a low signal at that. Your phone struggling with signal on those apps will never be good for battery. Compare your usage to the fact that you would be getting 10 hours of usage on a wifi connection. Safari & FB on 3G + signal issues = 6-7 hours.

Do you have background app refresh turned on?

People saying they get 24 hours of usage are either not being honest or genuinely just use their phone for SMS.

If you honestly think you have an issue, call a Apple who can confirm over the phone if you have an issue with the battery hardware (unlikely).

princess-lala

I usually have pretty decent coverage, 4G mostly!

Very rarely am I down to 3G!

FourFourRED

Turn off background app refresh and if you go to location settings and the system services section you can pretty much turn everything off in there except the find my iPhone part.

Test for a few days and report back.

NorthStars

princess-lala wrote: »

So I bought my iPhone 6 two weeks ago, the first day or two I thought the battery was great but since then I find I get about eight hours out of the battery at most.

I have friends with the same phone and they'd get over 24 hours!!

I don't have a lot of apps, I have location turned off, wifi is always off!!

Anything else I may be missing to try extend the battery life?

As far as I know, the battery takes a good few cycles to reach optimum performance.

whiterebel

FourFourFM wrote: »

Seems like you're doing a lot of web based usage on a 3G connection and a low signal at that. Your phone struggling with signal on those apps will never be good for battery. Compare your usage to the fact that you would be getting 10 hours of usage on a wifi connection. Safari & FB on 3G + signal issues = 6-7 hours.

Do you have background app refresh turned on?

People saying they get 24 hours of usage are either not being honest or genuinely just use their phone for SMS.

If you honestly think you have an issue, call a Apple who can confirm over the phone if you have an issue with the battery hardware (unlikely).

Why would anyone lie about the battery life they get? I'm not a heavy user, emails during the day, a few texts and calls and I only need to charge by the second night. I got it replaced a while ago when the battery started dropping like the OPs. Apple said they could see it was draining too fast with their diagnostic check.

FourFourRED

whiterebel wrote: »

Why would anyone lie about the battery life they get? I'm not a heavy user, emails during the day, a few texts and calls and I only need to charge by the second night. I got it replaced a while ago when the battery started dropping like the OPs. Apple said they could see it was draining too fast with their diagnostic check.

Not so much that they are lying, maybe more they aren't describing the battery life correctly.

The big diffference is usage vs standby time. Someone saying "Oh I get 2 days out of a single charge" can often mean that they are getting 5 hours of on screen usage time and 48 hours on standby. Everyone will use their phone differently so you can't really compare to someone else.

guil

I managed to get 19 hours 57 mins standby on my iPhone 6 before it hit 20%, in saying that though there was less than 2 hours usage. I'm on the public beta and would use the phone much more but was just busy that day.

Eugene Norman

princess-lala wrote: »

I usually have pretty decent coverage, 4G mostly!

Very rarely am I down to 3G!

Try and connect to wifi at work if possible. Also it's the strength of the signal that matters to your power consumption.

Basically a low signal means your radio chip has to ramp up power to communicate and to amplify incoming signals.

FourFourRED

With usage being almost 50% on Safari & Facebook & on 4G or 3G, she isn't going to get the battery life she is expecting. The apps are also suggesting low signal. Having 4G doesn't mean she has a strong connection.

Background app refresh being turned off should help squeeze more out of the battery though.

Eugene Norman

FourFourFM wrote: »

With usage being almost 50% on Safari & Facebook & on 4G or 3G, she isn't going to get the battery life she is expecting. The apps are also suggesting low signal. Having 4G doesn't mean she has a strong connection.

Background app refresh being turned off should help squeeze more out of the battery though.

Safari probably doesn't do much in the back ground but FB could be downloading any number of posts.

Turn background app off for both, location off for most things and get into wifi.

princess-lala

Eugene Norman wrote: »

get into wifi.

Unfortunately at the moment I have no access to wifi! Hopefully within the next month I will.

sdanseo

FourFourFM wrote: »

You can't overcharge the iPhone battery. Leaving it plugged in overnight isn't a bad thing and won't affect battery life.

I've always found the opposite. If I charge overnight over the course of a few weeks, I'll start to get noticeably less battery life the next day and I've seen it on 3 different iPhones (as well as other models).

YouTookMyName

Tinder eh?

How you doin'?

princess-lala

Well Aren't ye just a bunch of clever clogs battery is still at 63%

waynegalway

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Safari probably doesn't do much in the back ground but FB could be downloading any number of posts.

Turn background app off for both, location off for most things and get into wifi.

Facebook is a battery killer, full stop! Even with background refresh turned off, it was chugging away at my battery (I'm iOS9 beta so I could see a bit more detail on the battery stats).

A good tip, if Facebook continues to show up in the battery usage even with background refresh turned off, is to give Facebook the boot for a week and access it through Safari. Granted, it might not look as slick as the app, but try it for a week and see what you think of it and what it does for your battery.

FourFourRED

princess-lala wrote: »

Well Aren't ye just a bunch of clever clogs battery is still at 63%

I deal with that type of thing every day so was well used to it

Type 17

Re battery life, I charge mine (6 plus) all night, every night (8+ hours), and don't use the phone much (virtually no calls, only an hour of surfing etc). It's on wi-fi at work and home and auto screen brightness is on (good for battery life), but wi-fi, 3G, Bluetooth, background app refresh and location services are always on (bad for battery life).

When going to bed, the battery is usually in the high 70's or low 80's percent remaining, and my last iPhone, a 5s, was the same after 18 month's of this usage.

challengemaster

I can manage 2 days with light usage on my 6. 24 hours should be no bother for moderate usage.

waynegalway

challengemaster wrote: »

I can manage 2 days with light usage on my 6. 24 hours should be no bother for moderate usage.

Key phrase there is "light usage". I find that the standby time is incredible, far better than anything I ever got out of android. With wifi and mobile data turned off at night, the phone only loses about 1-2% in about 7-8 hours. So with "light" usage I could easily get well over 24 hours, but in reality, with what I would consider essential usage for a phone of this type, 24 hours is pretty much the most I can squeeze out of a charge. If I was on the train for a couple of hours from Galway to Dublin, playing a few games or something like that, I'd say I'd be lucky to get 6-7 hours out of a charge. Intensity of usage plays a huge role, and everyone uses their phone differently. I know that if I barely touched it, in theory it would last 48 hours. But that won't happen because I like to actually USE it.

princess-lala

In fairness I like to use my phone but when I'm in work for 9-11 hours a day I'm not near it, I may send a few texts during the day and use it on my lunch but that's it!

I wouldn't be a heavy user during the day at all!! It's now at 4% And realistically I only started to use it at 7:45 when I got home!!

Gah is it a fault or what? :mad:

FourFourRED

iPhone 6 plus.

Everything turned on except for Bluetooth & Mobile data. Connected to wifi all day, location services turned on for every app & all system services, background app refresh on, push for all iCloud services inc mail, push notifications for most apps, handoff on, automatic downloads and updates.

Discharged at around 9:30, died pretty much 12 hours later. Solid 8 hours usage.

princess-lala

Tinder must be killing the battery :pac:

FourFourRED

princess-lala wrote: »

Tinder must be killing the battery :pac:

Tbh that seems good for iPhone 6. If you were connected to WiFi more often your usage time could be around 8 hours or more.

princess-lala

Wifi at home should be sorted in two weeks! Depending on Eircom :rolleyes:

Unfortunately no wifi in work

guil

FourFourFM wrote: »

iPhone 6 plus.

Everything turned on except for Bluetooth & Mobile data. Connected to wifi all day, location services turned on for every app & all system services, background app refresh on, push for all iCloud services inc mail, push notifications for most apps, handoff on, automatic downloads and updates.

Discharged at around 9:30, died pretty much 12 hours later. Solid 8 hours usage.

How is your home screen usage so high? Leaving it unlocked sitting there is hardly any useful usage.

Type 17

I notice in the screenshots above that the iOS system is suggesting turning on Auto Screen Brightness - you should do it, as it actually dims the screen during indoor usage, which is more common/likely for most people.

PS: It really is the usage that counts - while I have 70-80% at bedtime on weekdays, weekends mean a lot more screen-time and with much more standby time/usage spent outside of wi-fi. So today (Saturday, 16:50hrs), my battery is already at 56%.

FourFourRED

guil wrote: »

How is your home screen usage so high? Leaving it unlocked sitting there is hardly any useful usage.

Why do you think it is sitting there unlocked? It isn't. It auto locks after 1 minute. That makes up the times the lock screen is woken either by the user or by a notification. I have most of my apps set for notifications and I check my phone a lot throughout the day as its front of me on my desk.

guil

I use mine a lot as well and auto lock is set for 3 mins but I never have more than 10% home and lock screen

FourFourRED

What's your brightness set to?

mohawk

The biggest thing I have noticed with my 6 is that the battery doesn't really drop unless I am actually using the phone. When I wake up in the morning my battery will have only dropped ~3% even with notifications for Facebook, Twitter etc turned on.

It sounds a bit weird that your battery drains so much when the phone isn't being used.

guil

FourFourFM wrote: »

What's your brightness set to?

Automatic

challengemaster

waynegalway wrote: »

Key phrase there is "light usage". I find that the standby time is incredible, far better than anything I ever got out of android. With wifi and mobile data turned off at night, the phone only loses about 1-2% in about 7-8 hours. So with "light" usage I could easily get well over 24 hours, but in reality, with what I would consider essential usage for a phone of this type, 24 hours is pretty much the most I can squeeze out of a charge.

Well when I said light usage, I mean I'm not excessively trying to prolong the life. I never turn off wifi, mobile data or bluetooth. I'd regularly have 1 bar of coverage so I'd imagine the phone is trying constantly to boost the signal. And I'd use the phone for whatever I need to when I need to. I never use sleep mode, phone receives all fb/messenger/email/etc notifications, all the time. Its still essential usage.

Currently 1 day, 5 hours and 30 mins since last charge. Battery at 72%. Using the phone as normal.

Eugene Norman

princess-lala wrote: »

Tinder must be killing the battery :pac:

You are still getting the low signal remarks on the usage monitor. When wifi is sorted at home you'll solve the battery drain at home problem.

challengemaster

challengemaster wrote: »

Currently 1 day, 5 hours and 30 mins since last charge. Battery at 72%. Using the phone as normal.

2 days 6 hours give or take since last charge. That's 54 hours. Still 33% left.

guil

challengemaster wrote: »

2 days 6 hours give or take since last charge. That's 54 hours. Still 33% left.

Can you post a screen shot of the battery info? Probably need 2 pics to get all the usage info and standby time etc.