The batteries aren't removeable anymore so I'm thinking manufacturers know how often people use phones and they know that average contract length is 24 months, so they're designed to become useless after 2 years.
I got an iPhone 6 in 2015, absolutely love it and planned on keeping it long after the 24 month contract to save myself some money.
Its now 1 month until my contract ends and the battery life all of a sudden is non existent whereas it was fine a few months ago.
I don't know what would be more worth it now, replacing the screen (I broke it) and battery, buying a new iPhone 6, or just taking out a new contract.
If I take out a contract it annoys me how £40 a month is great value at first when you've got a brand new phone, but then you're paying that 18 months later when your phone is dying.
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What may be an issue is all the Apple bloatware in updates that slow your phone down and run processes in the background (just a guess) that are killing the battery.
Check your push notifications & backup sync settings etc
The batteries vary in quality - some will last longer than others on random chance.
Mine in the nexus 4 doesn't last as long as it did, but it's about 4 years old now, used heavily every day. Whereas some folk had theirs get stuffed at 18 months.
an iPhone 6 screen is only £30 so fixing your phone is gonna be very economical
Modern batteries are a bit of an inexact science at the mo, the quality in terms of life can vary dramatically. My own battery is 3 years old and doing fine but I have changed batteries for customers after less than 2 years in some cases.
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I'll probably end up moving to a SIM-only contract when it expires, and save myself £35/month.
EDIT: With all that said...I may well get a Google Pixel when the time comes. It's not too expensive, and seems like an everything-beater in that price bracket. I'll probably keep the S6, and that'll give me two cameras if/when I finally have some time to start my YouTube career...
If you use BT for broadband you can keep you phone and get a good SIM only deal.
If it's a iPhone 6, I'd definitely keep it....... I plan on keeping mine for about 5 years.
I may be being paranoid and modern batteries might not suffer from this, but it's noticeable that my iPhone 4S battery lasted about four years before I needed to change it (thanks again for the help!), and my daughter - who doesn't pay attention to that sort of thing - had one which only lasted two years. On the other hand she does absolutely thrash the usage as well...
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youIt is simply Moore's law- hardware increases in processing speed over time and new software takes advantage of that.
If you don't like it then don't update your operating system.
Regarding batteries, you get around 500 charging cycles before performance drops.
New batteries are relatively cheap.
So, either replace your phone every 1- 2 years.
Or replace the battery every 2 years and keep away from regular updates.
It can also help to periodically wipe your phone and set it up again from scratch.
And don't install stuff you won't actually use.
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Phones and most consumer tech do have planned lifespans and planned obselesence (sp?). It's no conspiracy, it's just economics. Why pay for millions of components that will last 10x longer than they need to when a cheaper one will last as long as it needs to?
Tech progresses at such a rate it would be a waste to build things to last.
What is battery memory effect?
Battery memory effect is about batteries remembering remaining charge if you don’t let them go all the way to zero too often. So a battery frequently charged from 20% to 80% might ‘forget’ about the 40% that’s left uncharged (0-20% and 80-100%).
Sounds crazy but that’s sort of true - but only for older nickel-based (NiMH and NiCd) batteries, not the lithium-ion batteries in your phone.
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries don’t suffer the memory effect so you almost need to do the opposite: charge them often but not all the way throughout the day, and don’t let them drop to zero.
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Are there different quality parts or if I just go on ebay and type in iPhone 6 battery will any do?