In a nutshell, if you are running iOS 8, go to Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage. Betcha your number one battery drainer is a game. Just a guess.
iOS 8 setting lays out battery usage by app
In a nutshell, if you are running iOS 8, go to Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage. Betcha your number one battery drainer is a game. Just a guess.
Wow never heard of this one.
It’s like since june that people are talking about this feature.
I’ll take that bet!
Safari
Messages
Tweetbot, Overcast, home & lock screen.
Safari, actually. But thanks for playing.
Eric’s Solitare…the health app isn’t going to be looking at this list, is it??
Safari, then YaHoo! It’s as bad -if not worse- that most porn sites.
The audience that reads this I’m betting it won’t be a game. More likely Tweetbot or Safari.
Actually – it’s just saying to use it for a few minutes and not listing anything. I only have about 2+ hours on the new iPhone 6, so I guess it needs more data. Almost all of the time so far was on Caustic, so I’m assuming that’s my drainer… 6 is a great size for that app btw (6+ is probably even better) – haven’t had time to mess with any of my other music apps, but now I’m wishing Gadget was on iPhone and not just iPad.
“Betcha your number one battery drainer is a game.”
You lose, it’s Audible followed in a very distant second by a game.
My lock screen is the #1 drainer in the last 7 days. Weird.
Safari and the phone app, which surprises me since I don’t talk on the phone much.
Overcast both last 24 hours and last 7 days
Home & Lock Screen – 32%
Photos – 14%
Camera – 13%
App Store – 11%
Settings 8%
i would hazard that for most people the top killed are Maps (especially on cellular), Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat and Twitter (again especially on cellular)
1 Safari
2 Bias
I’ll bet that for a lot of people it’s the Facebook app. Especially people with Background App Refresh turned on.
First game to appear on the list was Tiny Wings at #19. #18 for last 7 days.
2 was NFL Game Pass, tho..
Overcast, Downcast, Tweetbot, Home and Lockscreen, Phone, Messages and finally, Threes.
1) Tweetbot
2) Overcast
3) Facebook
4) Home & Lock Screen
5) Messages
6) Mail
7) Google Earth
8) Photos
9) Safari
10) Phone
…
15) Moonlight Mahjong
Did you say number 15? No?
I do not like this feature. From looking at this, all it tells me is which app I’ve spent the most time in. OS X actually tracks the battery usage and lets you know which apps are using significant amounts of battery. For example, on my computer right now I currently have 12 apps open but the only one in the list of “Apps Using Significant Energy” is Safari. That is what I want on my iPhone. I already know which apps I use the most.
Nope, Facebook.
But that’s what I use my phone for (in terms of battery and interaction, at least – Music gets more time on my commute, but less of those two); I have an iPad for games.
On my list, some things are labeled “background activity” (e.g. Mail, in my case, and Weather, FB Messenger, Music, Calendar).
“What app you’ve spent the most time in” is almost always going to be the most energy-intensive thing, because iOS multitasking is a lot less multi-task-y than OSX is.
If you use Tweetbot and Overcast a lot, they really are using more battery than other things.
Two things:
1) The reason it works the way it does under OS X is that there are apps that will use more battery than others, when all other things are equal. In other words, if I run both Pages and Safari for one hour each, how much do you want to bet that Safari will use a ton more battery power. That is important information to me. Something that simply tells me which app I used the most is completely useless information to me, especially as it relates to battery life.
2) “If you use Tweetbot and Overcast a lot, they really areusing more battery than other things.” That statement is not true if the apps in question are not battery hogs. I guarantee that there are some games on my phone that I could run for 30 minutes that would use way more power than I would see using Tweetbot for 3 hours.
Frank
Safari 17%
Home & Lockscreen 13%
Audible 12%
on my iPhone 6 Plus…