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.
Yep, I check the background apps fairly regularly ('cause I’m paranoid about this battery). I’m on 14 already, strangely, I did notice a difference for the first couple of days - but back to draining quickly after that. I use Firefox as my default browser too (with ublock, yes) - I don’t browse on my phone a lot.
I took my phone off charge (100%) at 17:30 last night, used WhatsApp to text some friends off and on (like, 10-20 messages total) for the next 3-4 hours and it was at 50% by 22:00, I was not using my phone, I was watching TV. It went into DnD at 22:00, and then when I got up at 07:00 it was at 25%.
So that’s 75% with very light usage, with DnD for ~9 hours, in just over 12 hours.
Battery usage is very subjective, so what one might consider “light usage” might not be for someone else, but most of the comments in this thread seem to suggest that your battery experience is really the outlier here. It might be worth it to ask to send it back to Google to get a replacement (or have them replace the battery) as chances are there’s definitely something wrong with your battery.