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Progressive said:
My iPhone 7 is at 100% at 8:00am. I browse the net on my one hour commute, listen to Spotify (offline) for a couple of hours, send a few e-mails etc. and my battery is down to 30% by 2:00pm. I have screen at lower than usual brightness but most notifications running. Close apps when not in use.
Is this normal!?
yes it is, battery is crapIs this normal!?
Progressive said:
My iPhone 7 is at 100% at 8:00am. I browse the net on my one hour commute, listen to Spotify (offline) for a couple of hours, send a few e-mails etc. and my battery is down to 30% by 2:00pm. I have screen at lower than usual brightness but most notifications running. Close apps when not in use.
Is this normal!?
Screenshot the usage page within battery. What you've said is sort of like people who say their car went 100 miles on £10, it's not quite enough to say.Is this normal!?
craigjm said:
The fact that you can't charge it and listen to music at the same time is the biggest annoyance
I genuinely thought this wouldn't annoy me as I "never really do that". Got to day 2 before I ran into a situation where I needed it!On a related note; the 'solution' of 3.5mm cable into the lightning adaptor is very inelegant and doesn't look or feel right, particularly when you headphone cable and phone are both black. I guess they have given us a solution which is JUST fit for purpose but for me it's a workaround not a solution.
First day back at work and charging the 7 while listening to music on the Bluetooth dongle works well, although a few moments where the office has heard my music because I restarted on returning to my desk only to find Bluetooth hadn't quite finished reconnecting.
Looks like I'll need to delete the Vengaboys album
Looks like I'll need to delete the Vengaboys album
Progressive said:
My iPhone 7 is at 100% at 8:00am. I browse the net on my one hour commute, listen to Spotify (offline) for a couple of hours, send a few e-mails etc. and my battery is down to 30% by 2:00pm. I have screen at lower than usual brightness but most notifications running. Close apps when not in use.
Is this normal!?
doesn't seem normal to me, getting way better battery life than that on my 7. as someone else said, screenshot your battery usage and then the stats at the bottom. Is this normal!?
my battery is currently at 80%- usage 2hr 24min standby 5hrs 57min. usage a mixture of candy crush, instgram, messges, twitter, snapchat.
essayer said:
Is spotify definitely only playing offline music? IIRC it still uses data unless you specifically put it offline
Just checked the app and I wasn't in 'offline mode' though I thought I was so only played music I know to be downloaded to the iPhone. Therefore I assume it wasn't consuming data though I could be wrong.Thanks!
Progressive said:
My iPhone 7 is at 100% at 8:00am. I browse the net on my one hour commute, listen to Spotify (offline) for a couple of hours, send a few e-mails etc. and my battery is down to 30% by 2:00pm. I have screen at lower than usual brightness but most notifications running. Close apps when not in use.
Is this normal!?
Nope, i'm getting 2 day's out of my 7Plus battery with a decent amount of app/browsing/music / twitter & mail synch. Much better than my 6s previously.Is this normal!?
I was reading a book for 2 hours the other day and listening to music and the battery dropped 1% in that time. Screen brightness was relatively low though (about 25% along the slider).
Check the usual location settings- i have all of mine to None - or Whilst using the App.
Progressive said:
Just checked the app and I wasn't in 'offline mode' though I thought I was so only played music I know to be downloaded to the iPhone. Therefore I assume it wasn't consuming data though I could be wrong.
Thanks!
I recently started using Spotify and it does indeed still pull data down unless switched over to offline mode. From what I can see, it's mainly pulling down album artwork.Thanks!
If you're in a poor signal area, that can also severely drain the battery where the phone is using more power to hang on to a weak signal. I used to live in the centre of Birmingham and had full 4G signal, where my old iPhone 6 used to last for ages. I now live in a poor 4G area and get no more than 2 bars of signal; even with the bigger battery of the 7 Plus, my perception is the battery is draining much more quickly than my previous scenario.
Cybertronian said:
I recently started using Spotify and it does indeed still pull data down unless switched over to offline mode. From what I can see, it's mainly pulling down album artwork.
If you're in a poor signal area, that can also severely drain the battery where the phone is using more power to hang on to a weak signal. I used to live in the centre of Birmingham and had full 4G signal, where my old iPhone 6 used to last for ages. I now live in a poor 4G area and get no more than 2 bars of signal; even with the bigger battery of the 7 Plus, my perception is the battery is draining much more quickly than my previous scenario.
...but at least you don't live in the centre of Birmingham, eh? Silver linings and all that.If you're in a poor signal area, that can also severely drain the battery where the phone is using more power to hang on to a weak signal. I used to live in the centre of Birmingham and had full 4G signal, where my old iPhone 6 used to last for ages. I now live in a poor 4G area and get no more than 2 bars of signal; even with the bigger battery of the 7 Plus, my perception is the battery is draining much more quickly than my previous scenario.
essayer said:
Is anyone else on Three having problems getting onto 4G? I've been on 3G all day in London, the 6S was always 4G inside and out
Yes. It's a recognised problem affecting the 7 and 7 plus, not just here but in the US on some of their networks as well. Something to do with voice over LTE from what I've read after googling the problem online. Rebooting usually solves the problem for a short while, and another fix which seems to work better is to change the 4G setting from "Voice & Data" to Data only in Settings - Mobile Data - Mobile Data Options - Enable 4G
I've just downloaded iOS 10.1 which has been officially released today, so I'll see if that has helped to resolve the issue.
ETA: Since updating to iOS 10.1 I changed my setting back to Voice & Data over 4G and the problem remains, with my phone dropping back to 3G. When I change it back to just data over 4G it picked up the 4G signal within a couple of seconds. It looks like this is down to an immature firmware on the modem in the 7 / 7 Plus, as Apple switched from a Qualcomm modem to an Intel one. The previous update to 10.0.3 was to update the firmware for the Qualcomm modem which is still used on the Verizon network in the US, and did not update the firmware for the intel modems used by everyone else. I've no doubt that a firmware update will come, but we may have to wait until iOS 10.2 before we get it.
Oh, and since updating to iOS 10.1 my battery life seems to be worse on both my iPhone 7 and iPad Air 2.
Edited by Teppic on Monday 24th October 21:15
Cybertronian said:
Progressive said:
Just checked the app and I wasn't in 'offline mode' though I thought I was so only played music I know to be downloaded to the iPhone. Therefore I assume it wasn't consuming data though I could be wrong.
Thanks!
I recently started using Spotify and it does indeed still pull data down unless switched over to offline mode. From what I can see, it's mainly pulling down album artwork.Thanks!
If you're in a poor signal area, that can also severely drain the battery where the phone is using more power to hang on to a weak signal. I used to live in the centre of Birmingham and had full 4G signal, where my old iPhone 6 used to last for ages. I now live in a poor 4G area and get no more than 2 bars of signal; even with the bigger battery of the 7 Plus, my perception is the battery is draining much more quickly than my previous scenario.
craigjm said:
Blown2CV said:
Jimmy Recard said:
Just an iPhone question rather than an iPhone 7 question. Does anyone know how to set it so that messages in notifications aren't shown on the lock screen? I've tried every setting and searched online but no luck.
iPhone SE 64 GB on iOS 10.0.2
ah so your Mrs won't find out about your other girlfriend?iPhone SE 64 GB on iOS 10.0.2
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