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Lte; 88%, 1 hr 9 mins usage & 1 hr 9 mins standby.

I also like to have my brightness turned all the way up and have been playing candy crush + clash royale the whole time.
 
He's definitely charging on and off. I hate posts like these because he can easily be cooking the books...

Just something I saw, but try deleting YouTube and see if your battery numbers go up. Many people on Reddit are reporting that they've seen noticeable gains just from deleting it. I'm trying it today and will see if I notice anything.
 
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This is my battery life. Right now it’s at 52% hoping to hit like 6-7 hours most! I don’t think I’ll ever see a day hitting 9-10 hours of battery life. I don’t know how u guys do it! This is with moderate usage...
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But he’s going to lose his data such as messages, health data I don’t think it’s worth it...
Facetime really kills the battery on all iphones and it seems that this one app that is being used a lot. you would probably reach the 10 hour usuage if it wasn't for facetime.
 
- Mostly youtube and Safari and discord
- Display was on bright through parts of the day as I was using it in the car as a passenger.
- will try deleting YouTube and see if I get better battery life

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The standby time on this is excellent. I turned off location on many of my apps (don't know why they were turned on considering, I set it up using a backup). This is my first work week with the phone, I'm used getting in the car and seeing 95-81% depending on temp with the 7+. Hopefully those averages will remain.

In use, my screen is usually more to the dark side, using Twitter in dark mode, a little Safari and IG. IG is my biggest battery hog so far and it only used about 6% of the battery.
 
What you need to do is connect it to iTunes and RESTORE. ITunes restores work differently. It first wipes your phone and re installs iOS 11. That is a fresh version of iOS with nothing on it. Think clean installing Windows on a PC. After it finishes installing, it’ll ask to restore from a backup or set it up as a new iPhone. That’s when you “select set up as new”.

Erase all content and settings isn’t a proper clean install. You will only be deleting your data. Not the OS. If something’s corrupted in your OS, you will not get rid of that. Restoring through iTunes deletes the OS and re installs it. That’s what you need.
But, how does one get apps, messages, settings, etc. back on their phone? Or do they not?
 
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Seems like I’m not getting the great battery life you guys are posting and definitely not on par with my 8+. Idk if I’m still in my tinkering stage or what but here is where I’m at with 55% left
 
I did a replacement on my first iPhone X (not for batteries issues). The battery on it was awful, 3-4 hours use and 2-3 hours standby. This was all the time. My new iPhone X is the opposite , 7 hr Useage, 13 standby 60%. I didn’t change anything between the two phones. Having said that, some apps still haven’t downloaded, so maybe there is an errant app in there somewhere waiting to screw everything up. They are not loading in the background now, they just have the little download cloud beneath them. I may just do a big delete for a lot of them.
 
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I’m regretting buying a wireless charger for the office. I took the phone off the charger at 6am and 12 hours later it’s at 74%. So really no need to top up at work (at least just yet)

That’s fairly light use but includes an hour of music via BT and some safari browsing
 
Noticeably better than my 7, but not as good as dad's 7 Plus.
I have had some weird battery "issues" though, where the phone rapidly drained to 0%, but those have been isolated.

UPDATE: After deleting the YouTube app, my battery life improved significantly.

I'm assuming that is what caused the rapid drain issue I mentioned earlier.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/13/youtube-battery-drain-ios-11/

My battery life is nearly on par with my dad's 7 Plus now.
 
I agree! thats why I'm not buying it! good one haha
How are you hitting 7 hours of usage and still half a battery left! your either on Airplane mode or Using Low Power

He's definitely charging on and off. I hate posts like these because he can easily be cooking the books...

I agree! thats why I'm not buying it! good one haha

Wrong. My screenshots contradict what you’re accusing me of. Go back and look at all my pats, and not a single shot shows that the phone has been plugged in since the last full charge. Unfortunately there’s no way to prove that low power modes wasn’t used as Apple doesn’t offer that statistic. But all that does is turn off animations, app refresh, and automatic mail fetch.

I use my Apple Watch for phone calls, notifications, and texts and it’s at 65-70% at the end of every day day. I use
My iPhone to read a lot of eBooks with black ground and white text (retired with plenty of free time). That uses less power. I also keep my screen turned down when I use it. I did notice this AM that while Kindle says “Background Activity” and 65% when I tapped on it then it shows 6.8 hours screen - 3 minutes background.

I have not used airplane mode or low power mode. All animations are on. Raise to wake is on. I have push mail turned on for two iCloud emails and my primary hotmail account, with the other 8 set to fetch manually. I have location turned on to “while using” for all apps, except “always” use location for 3 apps in addition to Find my Friends - Xfinity connect, Tile, and Philips Hue. I have background app refresh turned on for 80 different important apps out of about 300 total on my iPhone.

I usually use my MacBook, iPad mini 4, or iPhone 7+ for surfing the internet and Facebook. But yesterday I didn’t use my 7+ and it’s at 2:26 usage and 24:32 standby right now, with everything turned on (radios, anaimation, location, background app refresh), and its at 77% this AM. My iPhone X and 7+ are set up with Wi-Fi calling and every time my iPhone X rings my 7+ rings, and every time I get a notification it shows up on my 7+ too.

Today I’ll try to only use my iPhone X and not touch the iPad or 7+. And see where it’s at. Here’s a screen shot of the 7+ confirming those numbers on that one. As well as showing how much in screen time Kindle had on the X.

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UPDATE: After deleting the YouTube app, my battery life improved significantly.

I'm assuming that is what caused the rapid drain issue I mentioned earlier.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/13/youtube-battery-drain-ios-11/

My battery life is nearly on par with my dad's 7 Plus now.

I had to delete and then reinstall both YouTube and Facebook after I restored my 7+ backup to the X when I first set up the iPhone X, because Facebook was using 56% battery in the background, and YouTube was I think about 20% background.
 
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Wrong. My screenshots contradict what you’re accusing me of. Go back and look at all my pats, and not a single shot shows that the phone has been plugged in since the last full charge. Unfortunately there’s no way to prove that low power modes wasn’t used as Apple doesn’t offer that statistic. But all that does is turn off animations, app refresh, and automatic mail fetch.

I use my Apple Watch for phone calls, notifications, and texts and it’s at 65-70% at the end of every day day. I use
My iPhone to read a lot of eBooks with black ground and white text (retired with plenty of free time). That uses less power. I also keep my screen turned down when I use it. I did notice this AM that while Kindle says “Background Activity” and 65% when I tapped on it then it shows 6.8 hours screen - 3 minutes background.

I have not used airplane mode or low power mode. All animations are on. Raise to wake is on. I have push mail turned on for two iCloud emails and my primary hotmail account, with the other 8 set to fetch manually. I have location turned on to “while using” for all apps, except “always” use location for 3 apps in addition to Find my Friends - Xfinity connect, Tile, and Philips Hue. I have background app refresh turned on for 80 different important apps out of about 300 total on my iPhone.

I usually use my MacBook, iPad mini 4, or iPhone 7+ for surfing the internet and Facebook. But yesterday I didn’t use my 7+ and it’s at 2:26 usage and 24:32 standby right now, with everything turned on (radios, anaimation, location, background app refresh), and its at 77% this AM. My iPhone X and 7+ are set up with Wi-Fi calling and every time my iPhone X rings my 7+ rings, and every time I get a notification it shows up on my 7+ too.

Today I’ll try to only use my iPhone X and not touch the iPad or 7+. And see where it’s at. Here’s a screen shot of the 7+ confirming those numbers on that one. As well as showing how much in screen time Kindle had on the X.

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Well I wish we had ur battery life because it’s looking great! Hands down! Can u share more tips please did u set ur phone up as new or back up? Any advice u may have???
 
I'm getting better battery life now than my 7 Plus. The first few days the battery drained fairly quickly. Right now I am at 70%. Not a heavy user this weekend. A little over 2.5 hours of use, and 35 hours standby.
 
Well I wish we had ur battery life because it’s looking great! Hands down! Can u share more tips please did u set ur phone up as new or back up? Any advice u may have???

See above - I restored from my 7+ backup.

Tips - Keep brightness down, or use smart invert on the screen to get darker backgrounds that use less power with an OLED screen.

I use “raise to wake” screen setting, but that could be turned off so the screen doesn’t light up as much when you didn’t mean to wake it.

I use a “still” lock screen photo but keep animations on and I use the animated home screen background. You could turn that off or turn off all animations.

Go through location settings and set most apps to “while using” except for critical ones that need location all the time (like ones with a geofence).

Set background app refresh to only do it for apps that you want to have the latest data without having to open the app and refresh data manually. Facebook will suck the battery if it’s always checking and refreshing.

Don’t always respond to notifications of an email or text if you don’t have to and if the notification has all the info you need.

Only get push mail for important email accounts and manually check the others a few times a day. Or at least only have it fetch mail once an hour and turn off push mail.

Always turn off the screen when you are done using the phone, and don’t wait for it to dim on its own.

I find that if I can type something faster by dictating to Siri, that results in half the screen time that I would’ve had if I was typing it on the keyboard.

There is no crime in turning on low power mode right away when you have a full battery, but I wait for the low 20% warning.
[doublepost=1510601357][/doublepost]I’ve been using my iPhone continuously on screen for a couple of hours. I’m at 81%.

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See above - I restored from my 7+ backup.

Tips - Keep brightness down, or use smart invert on the screen to get darker backgrounds that use less power with an OLED screen.

I use “raise to wake” screen setting, but that could be turned off so the screen doesn’t light up as much when you didn’t mean to wake it.

I use a “still” lock screen photo but keep animations on and I use the animated home screen background. You could turn that off or turn off all animations.

Go through location settings and set most apps to “while using” except for critical ones that need location all the time (like ones with a geofence).

Set background app refresh to only do it for apps that you want to have the latest data without having to open the app and refresh data manually. Facebook will suck the battery if it’s always checking and refreshing.

Don’t always respond to notifications of an email or text if you don’t have to and if the notification has all the info you need.

Only get push mail for important email accounts and manually check the others a few times a day. Or at least only have it fetch mail once an hour and turn off push mail.

Always turn off the screen when you are done using the phone, and don’t wait for it to dim on its own.

I find that if I can type something faster by dictating to Siri, that results in half the screen time that I would’ve had if I was typing it on the keyboard.

There is no crime in turning on low power mode right away when you have a full battery, but I wait for the low 20% warning.
[doublepost=1510601357][/doublepost]I’ve been using my iPhone continuously on screen for a couple of hours. I’m at 81%.

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Thank you for all the tips! What’s thr point in having to pay $1300 for a phone if you can’t use half of it’s features lol
[doublepost=1510604213][/doublepost]I’m receiving a little better improvement with battery life today!!! Since I’ve restarted the phone!
 
Thank you for all the tips! What’s thr point in having to pay $1300 for a phone if you can’t use half of it’s features lol
[doublepost=1510604213][/doublepost]I’m receiving a little better improvement with battery life today!!! Since I’ve restarted the phone!

Im using all the features - I have ALL iCloud services turned on and syncing, all animations turned on, have push mail on for my three important emails turned on, location “always on” for my important 4 apps and “while using” set to on for all the others, and 80 apps have background app refresh turned on. I only use low power mode when I’m down to 20%.
 
Battery life seems to be between 9- 10 hours Depending on how you use it and for what. Having a strong signal will add. Tweaking adds some but there’s nothing that reAlly adds alot to it
 
Im using all the features - I have ALL iCloud services turned on and syncing, all animations turned on, have push mail on for my three important emails turned on, location “always on” for my important 4 apps and “while using” set to on for all the others, and 80 apps have background app refresh turned on. I only use low power mode when I’m down to 20%.
Would u like to trade iPhones lol
 
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