Thinking of upgrading to a 7, probably Pro when Black Friday deals hit. My 6Pro battery life sucks shit, I’ve replaced the battery with an OEM one and not much better. I use my phone throughout the day, but most of it is streaming with the screen off. Always needs to be charged. Normal amounts of random app use and browsing.

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    All day. Pixel 7 Pro.

    Hammered towards the end of the day but I don’t have to charge. I always charge on a low wattage which seems to keep the battery going

    Personally I’d not upgrade from 6 to 7 but that’s me. 6 was a bad year. I held off even though my OnePlus 6t was really dying - broken connectors etc.

    See if you can make it to the 9 mock up start coming out and the prices will tank. Google seems to be chasing the best seller prize and prices crash early.

    Don’t buy an ‘a’ again.

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      Thanks, I’m happy with the hardware and would keep it, but given I already gave it a battery and it’s still the same, it’s just gotta go. I try to always go new, but a gen behind. It’s like buying a model year car, make believe value, by year 2 you’re paying (around) what it’s actually worth.

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        I hear you. My phone is about the only thing I buy new-new, just because of the battery and it has to work without hiccups.

        I hang around the YouTube reviews until the notable ones say the battery is ok. They were saying the P6 battery sucked fairly early on.

        I’m not a gamer but the battery life on the Pixel 7 Pro is great. I have quite a few apps set on “unrestricted” rather than “optimised” with “app battery usage”; like a birthday app from F-Droid which is supposed to notify of birthdays in advance - so I can buy cards and post them over seas. Didn’t seem to make any difference in the battery life that I could see - I don’t monitor the Screen on Time.

        Good luck. I’m sorry you had to buy another battery and it didn’t solve your problems.