IPhone 6 Plus battery charging routines

Hello all, I recently upgraded my phone to an iPhone 6 Plus. I am just wondering how other people charge their iPhones, I want to optimize the charging routines now so I can guarantee the battery will hold strong. I've read different opinions on various forums regarding letting the battery deplete all the way to 0% and charge it fully, and some say to keep it between 40% and 80%. I have tried running the phone and then not charging it at night and letting it charge a little here and there. I use the iPhone heavily from 7AM to around 9PM and around that time I am still in the 50% range despite heavy use, the next day the iPhone almost lasted me through the whole day. With all my other phones I always let them die and then charged them all the way so I would start at 100% the next day. I heard that the phones "trickle charge" once they reach 100% so its not being overcharged. I am wondering how people cycle their phone batteries, and if I should ever worry about this affecting the overall performance and dependability on the battery- Thanks Patrick 

Lawrence Finch wrote:
Matt Galligan wrote:
My question is: what could cause the phone to stop behaving as it should after a few weeks following a clean wipe and iCloud restore?
You have one or more apps that are using energy in the background. Location Services is not an issue; it uses very little energy. Apps that receive Notifications do. And apps that run in background do. If you have the FaceBook app that is probably the culprit. But there are other possibilities.
See: http://www.overthought.org/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-d rain
A couple more things to note:
I don't have notifications enabled for many apps
For the notifications that I do receive, only text messages, calendar alerts (via Sunrise), Slack, TripIt, and a couple other essentials hit my lock screen.
I don't have Facebook installed
Even if the above weren't true, the fact that the phone seems to do fine for some amount of time after a restore, and then unexpectedly halves battery life is still bizarre. I don't materially change anything about my behavior.
Lawrence, I'll note that I've actually done everything in that guide save for turning off my battery percentage (for obvious reasons).

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