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Show us your battery life on your 6 Plus

taoxhui

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Just some basic tricks to turn off bluetooth, turn off background refreshing, etc.

There is an article online describing this. You can adjust with your own need.
 

Chief G-Hawk

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Here is mine on iOS 8.1 (Still buggy IMO)

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Of course after the 10% mark I plugged it in. No need to go 1%.
 

Dev from tipb

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I'm surprised and impressed at the numbers here - I rarely get more than 5 or 6 hours. I think it is because I spend a lot of time in weak coverage areas, so my radio is doing a lot more work, but it is frustrating to carry around my powerstation everywhere. (No worse than my 5 was, however.)
 

jayk82

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Any idea why standby and usage is the same. Noticed more battery drain as well

Mine has done this as well the past two days (my first two with the device). Was hoping it's just everything settling in and would work properly soon.
 

Jerry5k

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Jul 1, 2011
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Love everything about the iP6plus except the following:
I have had my phone (after waiting 48 days from AT&T) since Friday afternoon. Have not been impressed with battery life. Really no better than my former iP5?
Why does Home & Lock screen take up so much battery?
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Any suggestions on prolonging battery life?
 

jpxyz

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Nov 20, 2013
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Love everything about the iP6plus except the following:
I have had my phone (after waiting 48 days from AT&T) since Friday afternoon. Have not been impressed with battery life. Really no better than my former iP5?
Why does Home & Lock screen take up so much battery?
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Any suggestions on prolonging battery life?

That's really strange. How are your settings? Are you using parallax? Background refresh? I think it can also depend on the brightness of the screen. Do you have automatic screen brightness set on or off? I suggest to switch it on... And so on.
Just tell your settings and try to optimize it maybe it'll help.
But one question: does your phone heat up?
 

Jerry5k

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That's really strange. How are your settings? Are you using parallax? Background refresh? I think it can also depend on the brightness of the screen. Do you have automatic screen brightness set on or off? I suggest to switch it on... And so on.
Just tell your settings and try to optimize it maybe it'll help.
But one question: does your phone heat up?

Thanks for the quick response.
Parallax-No
Background set On- yes, on almost every app. I turned them all Off
Does phone heat up- sometimes when charging and using GPS
WILL monitor for the next few days
Automatic screen brightness-Yes
 

jpxyz

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Nov 20, 2013
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Thanks for the quick response.
Parallax-No
Background set On- yes, on almost every app. I turned them all Off
Does phone heat up- sometimes when charging and using GPS
WILL monitor for the next few days
Automatic screen brightness-Yes

Well, it's interesting to see. Maybe the background app refresh was it...
I don't now, we'll figure it out for sure :D
 

taoxhui

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Oct 31, 2014
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Well, your battery percentage says it's charged to 99% - so it's charged at least one time?

It is just charged one time. I used it for 2 days and charged it and found out there is a SW bug that prevents iOS to clear up the old battery history. That was the time I took the snapshot.

So the total usage time is 1 day. And it is normal since I listen to music during my work time so that also counts to the usage time but it consumes little battery.