IOS 8 battery usage feature

just found this in settings & looks brilliant and useful! games take up most battery usage but there is home & lock screen battery usage & it's quite high is that from me just pressing the home key to wake my phone up or is when I go from screen to screen of my apps on my home screen? it takes up a lot of battery! also if it's games that take a lot of battery if I force close them & stop them running in the background will that cut the battery usage down?

I heard about this before iOS 8 became available and wanted to try it.
I found this in the Settings / Usage menu. On my iPhone 6, it says "Battery information will be available after using the iPhone for a few minutes". And doesn't update.
Does this work as expected for you? Did you see that message at all?
Thanks very much.

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