Phone arena is reporting the iPhone 6s battery is the most efficient in a phone ever. Beating the Z3 which previously held the highly respected acolade. I must admit I'm finding the battery very good, but nothing extra special.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPhon...-score_id74145

It cant be that good, its got a worse score than a £180 Alcatel Idol Onetouch 3

You need to think about it in size of battery compared to usable hours per charge. It's not the biggest battery but it is the most efficient.

Just to be clear, this is not about the longest lasting battery, it's about efficiency. Good news for all of us, smaller battery's lasting longer.

I am sure that having a better efficiency will mean a lot when your iphone6s has died, but your mate whos got an Alcatel Idol Onetouch 3 is still up and running.

To be fair all phones have a pretty crap battery life. We think a phone that can last a full day is 'brilliant'. When in reality its pretty poor. A phone should be lasting a week. Whilst screen technology, processor, ram etc have moved on leaps and bounds, the battery has been pretty much neglected, or so it seems.

You would think someone who can produce a 20000mAh the same size as the current batteries would make an absolute fortune. Yet no one seems to be looking into it much. Whilst every now and again I come across an article which states its found a new way of increasing the amount of juice a battery can store, I have never seen it go into production.

I doubt many let their phones run flat anymore, but this is about hopefully having smaller lighter battery's with a good charge life.

The Xperia Z3 from over a year ago still beats all these new flagships, which is ridiculous.

This a million times!

My missus has the Idol 3 with everything turned on, sync, wifi, mobile data high accuracy location the lot and when she comes in from work its still got 75% left where as my Nexus 5 with a 2 month old battery in it and with every battery saving idea known to man implemented is at about 30%.

she makes me sick and i hate her for it

Think about how much happier you would be if they hadn't put a smaller battery in than the 6 then .....

I'm getting 2 days without a problem on my iPhone 6s, it's amazing how little power it needs in standby.

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That can be difficult if you are at say glastonbury for a weekend.

At least with most andoird phones, you can carry a spare and swap out the flat battery for a fully charged one.

Unfortunately not anymore you can't as most Android phones (Like the Z3 Compact) have followed Apples lead and stupidly started using sealed in batteries.

Also isn't rthe iphone battery life improved by not llowing true multi-tasking in IOS? I know my ipad can't multi-task and it's bloody annoying having to sit waiting for a download rather than start one off then go and do something else while it downloads in the background.

I think one of the reasons why companies are so reluctant to use modern battery technology as you stated, would be down to shelf life. You get an iPhone or a Galaxy, on average the battery lasts the 24 months, even if at the end of it capacity may reduce. At that time customers upgrade to the newer, bigger and apparently better handset. Could you imagine the effect if phones were released with good battery life and crucially longevity? Profits would fall......


Thats always been the case for iPhones, when not in use it only sips power, when you do use it it drinks it. I had the 5 and 5S, I loved the phone, even with iOS 8 the battery life was crap if you used your device. I know they apparently have this lower power thing built into iOS 9, I dare say it won't make much difference.

iOS devices gave great standby time, but what use is that if you need to use your phone?

Except of course I did also use it quite extensively if you check the screenshot, around 11 hours of use, including video and streaming radio.

Personally I think a portable charging brick which allows you to charge the phone without any downtime is a much better solution for this type of application.

Having to swap out a battery is a bit of a faff to be honest which is why a lot of new android devices have fixed batteries these days.

I am always sceptical, especially when one site has their own "proprietary battery life benchmark". It means they are making up their own regimen rather than using industry standards like geekbench or Amtutu (admittedly not available anywhere else than Android I think). I know each phone, location and circumstance is different, so these result are always skewed. That said iPhones have always had shit battery life after the first few months, you try getting one to last a day with medium usage and it would struggle. I have an S6 Edge, the battery life is shit on that too, only plus is fast charging. There are several phones on the market which wipe the floor with either devices, save the Note range, most Samsung and Apple phones have crap battery life. Their persuit of skinny is pretty doesn't do any favours for those wanting good battery life. Device makers are resorting to desperate measures to eek out more, reduced energy consumption by components, more advanced screens, but stupidly thinning devices and components.

I think we are some way off seeing improved battery life aside from more efficient components. I suspect at some point in the future when Apple makes the leap to embedded sims they will switch to lithium-polymer which is more flexible than ion based batteries. They might follow Macbook and use all the new space to ship a larger capacity, hey even the others might.

Just so I am clear, I am not slagging off the iPhone, its a fabulous device, however like S6 and S6 Edge, it has flaws.

You're not trying to start a Android V iOS argument are you? This thread is about the iPhone 6s battery being efficient. No one here is saying it's the longest lasting.

Agreed, I bought a 22000 mAh external pack, I can charge the phone many times on a single charge from it.

Totally agree with this. I've been using blocks for years now. I use to have to carry 2 phones, a blackberry and an iPad mini and swapping batteries would make no sense.

People saying you can't carry I spare battery to swap out for the iPhone, haven't you heard of car chargers or portable batteries. We've got a 5000mah one, charges the iPhone from 0-100% about 4-5 times. Ok it's not the best if you want to use the phone while it's charging but it can be done in

Latest phone with latest software is more battery efficient than older phones with older software .... Hold those front pages


I also hear VW diesels are pretty efficient

Regardless of how long a battery lasts the new celebration point is how efficient it is

Excuses for smaller batteries?

Reality stranger than fiction, you couldn't invent this spin

And left out the new features such as 3D Touch (which is why the battery is smaller), I think not. I'm very happy with it as it is, lasting two days (I have the Plus)

But the challenge is to always try and make things thinner (hence the battery size reduction allegedly).

I'd be quite happy to have another couple of mm on my phone if it gave me more battery life. I suspect that (all sides) have got so embroiled with being thinnest/lightest that they sometimes forget what's important. If my nexus 6 was 2mm thicker but had twice the battery life id be quite happy. A more efficient battery is great, but I want it to give me more battery life, not the same but smaller. Obviously just my opinion and that's a hardware/OS neutral opinion.

2 days, do you even use it throughout the day?
There's no way I'd get 2 days out of my 6s plus, just about manage a day.

It depends how much screen on time you have doesnt it.

My misses who just upgraded from a 5S to a 6S reported this morning that normally after a night shift at work her 5S would be like 5-10% when she got home, where as her 6S was on 71% when she got home this morning. Pretty damn good id say