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This achievement definitely comes as a surprise, as Apple actually reported identical numbers of standby, talk time, and video and music playback for the 6s Plus when compared with its predecessor. Obviously, these numbers have failed to capture internal optimizations that the company has carried out, and we'll be reaching out to Apple to try and find out what they are. In the meantime, we can't help but wonder if the iPhone 6s Plus holds any other, as pleasant surprises.
recently got an iPhone 6s and was playing around on it for a couple of hours but noticed that the battery percentage didn't go down at all. When I plugged it in for the night, it finally showed that instead of being 89%, I was at ~40%. My boyfriend also has an iPhone 6s which was at 4% when he plugged it in at night and was still at 4% when he woke up, but after a restart was at 100%.
Is there a way to fix the battery percentage? I tried turning the "show percentage" toggle off and on in the Settings but it wouldn't even toggle off the percentage icon when I left it for a few minutes. I'd rather not have to restart my phone whenever it's suspiciously high for my usage or when I really need to know how much battery life I have left.
originally posted by: graysquirrel
Now this is a very interesting and related observation.
originally posted by: graysquirrel
a reply to: Bedlam
Or it's purposely reporting charge incorrectly.
If Apple was up to something, this wouldn't be unexpected.
originally posted by: CrastneyJPR
so this is clearly to do with wireless charging then. Are they extracting energy from background/cosmic radiation?
Or, it means something else has changed, and there's not really 12% more energy coming from the vacuum or wherever. Don't jump to the least probable conclusion before ruling out all the much more probable explanations. Did you happen to notice the graphs at that link show over the power versus time curves are inconsistent between the two phones? The charging power is not constant, and you don't seem to have considered this.
originally posted by: graysquirrel
But, The battery capacity of the 6s is only 5% smaller than that of the 6. Since this is a real measurement done by AnandTech, it means that there is an additional 12% of charge current coming from some place other than the charger!
True but you're making a lot of unwarranted assumptions lacking the actual data for the comparison you're trying to make, so that's kind of the point, you don't know what the charging rates are for the phones you're trying to compare.
originally posted by: graysquirrel
a reply to: Arbitrageur
The two different charge current profiles graphs are for the 6s and 6s+ not the 6s and 6.
The iPhone 6s has a 1715mAh battery in a device measuring 138x67x6.9mm. The Samsung Galaxy S6 is very slightly longer and wider, though a touch thinner, at 143x70x6.8mm. Yet in that tiny bit of extra space it accommodates a 2250mAh battery. I suspect that’s a size hit many would be willing to take for 30% longer battery-life.
Apple this week posted a new support document addressing an issue some iPhone 6s and 6s Plus users have been experiencing with the battery percentage displayed in the status bar on their displays not updating as the battery drains.
"appears to be related to time zone or clock settings"
That could mean we may get infinite battery life just by manually changing time!
"How weird. I wonder why the battery percentage would be tied to the time... Could it be that the battery percentage is recorded and gets stuck if the time gets set back?"
When you time travel to the past you see your younger self. Apple just gave us a hint, what if they can use the same principle to our devices. We're closing to have an infinite source of power to our iDevices. This is what they called time and space continuum it will continually looping in time. Every year Apple will be shaving the battery size and get the same amount of power or gain a little. Obviously they are giving us an infinite power on our iDevices yet. They just trick ordinary people into believing that it was a hardware and software engineering.