battery drain iphone 6s 13.1.2

Apple, if there’s a solution, text or email everyone! If there’s not, please get on it! I have a newer SE that worked just fine, but after updating to iOS 13.1.2, the battery life is ridiculously short - the percentage literally drops before my eyes. I have to charge multiple times daily (did not before) and charging is much slower. The phone has suddenly shut down right after the battery says it’s at 37%. I also am fed up that it’s trying to force me to set up Apple Pay, which I don’t want. People are bothering to contact you - why don’t you help us?

Hey guys my iPhone 6s is doing the same thing Apple has a bug that they know about that don’t wanna fix it instead they will tell u to replace the battery which at $49 is bs it’s not just the 6s it’s from se all the way up just keep complaining about it the Apple advisor I spoke with did a diagnostics in my phone an after I called Apple out about the problem which is in the Apple Bionic chip my phone started to work correctly an charge like it should smells like another lawsuit might be needed

Since I updated my iPhone 6S to iOS 13.1.2 two days ago, the battery gets hot even when doing light tasks like browsing or messaging. I can see the battery drain in real time.

The battery was replaced by Apple less than a year ago and is at 90% health. Before the update 2 days ago, everything was fine.

This morning I woke to 100% charged and checked mail, Instagram, and goodreads and my battery stayed at 100% for a while then only went to 99% after about 15 minutes. I thought I was back to normal until just now when I logged back in and opened up email and started watching the battery tick down 97, 96, 95, 94, 92, 91 right in front of my eyes until I went back to Low Power mode.

I checked updates in apps and saw that a couple of my apps had just updated so I think this is all tied to every single app trying to update at the same time since the iOS 13 update.

I am having the same issue with my 6S. All apps are up-to-date, I have a new battery but the phone Is draining very fast and is getting very hot. Apple please fix. I will not be updating my iPad until this is fixed.

I am facing issue with fast battery drain after the latest release of the software 13.1.2 on my iphone 7. Even before the download my phone battery health was 96% and right after the download it immediately falls to 93%. With 2-3 minutes of usage battery falls by 5%. This is extremely annoying.

Yep, same here. Upgraded my 6s to 13.1.2 and now my battery life is very poor.

If I don't use the phone the battery life is OK but any activity that requires scrolling the screen eats the battery,

scrolling long email messages is the worst. Scrolling a long chat transcript for a couple of mins can eat 5-10% of my battery.

Come on Apple, sort this out.

Hi all, I have the same problem. Battery health 99% but it lasts for very little time and very fast drops to 1%. Refresh of apps in the background is completely off and I use just Safari, mail and some messages... :-/

I don't want to come across as pessimistic, but I seriously doubt anyone from Apple is ever going to read this thread. They just don't care. I haven't heard back from the Senior Apple Support person in four days that is handling my case, despite multiple emails.

My suggestion is to call Apple and start hounding them. Odds are they're not going to do anything to go out of their way to help. That's just their [superior] mentality. Basically we're all hosed. iOS 13 dorked up our phones and we're stuck with it.

They'll tell you to run diagnostics, possibly multiple times. They won't find anything wrong. They'll suggest you go and replace the battery for $50 with no discount, and it won't make a difference. Some of you already have had a very recent battery replacement and are having the same problem as persons with older batteries. They might even ask you to go into a store so a technician can do "more diagnostics that we are not capable of performing remotely.". Guess what the in-store person will find wrong? Nothing. Will the take detailed notes and add them to your case? No.

Once you've wasted your time at the store and call them back (which the person in the store will suggest you do), then they're going to tell you to reset your phone's settings. Not necessarily wipe the phone, but reset all of your settings (they might suggest just the network settings first).

Good luck, cause you're gonna spend the next hour or two reconfiguring your phone as to how you had it set up. Still won't make a bit of difference. Once you get past that point, and show there is no improvement they'll ask you do to do a complete phone reset, back to the way it came when it was new, but with iOS 13 on it. Will it help? Nope. Just a colossal waste of your time. After each of these steps you'll be having to call Apple back and wait again to speak to someone.

I strongly encourage that a backup of your phone is made before you let Apple talk you into making ANY changes or performing any tasks. Whether you backup all of your settings to iCloud, or to iTunes (pre-Catalina for Mac owners), or to Finder for Catalina OS. Don't forget to encrypt that backup (if local) for security sake. Take screen captures as you go showing the battery degradation as it affects your device. I did this, to show how quickly the battery was draining. The digital clock at the top of the screen couldn't show enough detail for how quickly it was draining. I actually used the Stopwatch app and took a screen cap each time the battery % dropped, doing my best to react as quickly as possible. Apple didn't care that I did this, however I have hard evidence they can't refute. This will anger them because of course they're smarter than us.

You'll spend hours going back and forth with Apple, keeping in mind you're the one having to do all the tedious work, not them. They're getting paid to tell you do to do the work. You're not getting paid to redo your phones. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned class-action lawsuit. I have no idea how to approach that, but I'd be a willing participant.

At some point you'll have to ask yourselves, "how valuable is my time to keep messing with this brick?" Apple already has your money, they're not interested in solving the problems they have created. They just want you to spend more of your money on a new (presumably) iPhone, and won't give you a discount on it, even if you totally prove the OS is the culprit. Remember, there is only one variable here, the OS. Your phone and its hardware didn't magically change, just the upgrade to the operating system. Apple hates hearing that. It means that you are suggesting they have an inferior product.

What's worse is that you can't even sell the phone to offset the cost of a new(er) model. You have to disclose that it has a flavor of iOS 13 on it, and the integrity of the battery has been seriously compromised. The phones are now basically worthless.

If and when you reach someone at Apple support, ask them for an email address that you can reply to. It's one thing to have a discussion over the phone where they can change the words that come out of your mouth. It's another thing when you have an email chain that can be audited and is a historical record. When the conversation starts, copy the URL of this thread and send it back to them. Hard for them to argue your case when so many people have the exact same problem stemming from the exact same action (upgrading the OS).

Thanks Apple.

I had a similar problem with my iPhone SE. It started some days ago, just after the update. After thorough inspection, I found that one app (an "SOS"-app) was set to continuously check my position (using GPS). I changed the setting to "check only when app is in use" , and now the problem is solved. So check if any app is continuously using the gps-receiver, because that will drain the battery quickly. You can see that there si "unwanted" activity by checking the activity-chart. Normal activity is shown in dark blue bars, but if there is any "hidden" activity, it shows up as a light blue bar. In my case the whole chart was filled. Now there are only the normal, dark blue bars left.

I've done all of the "things" one would need to to extend battery life and it's still so very bad. not only that, when I plug it into my MacBook Air it does this endless cycle of buzzing where it's recognized then it isn't... what's the deal! My friend told me that his Samsung galaxy charge will go all day long while streaming videos. If I say, "streaming videos" around my iPhone, the battery dies. COME ON!

Today my battery did not drain for the first time. Other than keeping apps closed throughout my day, I didn’t do anything different than before the update. So maybe there is progress in the update once all of the apps Update themselves. Maybe there is hope.

This ordeal has lasted a week but seems to be rectifying itself without a new battery or an appt with Apple.

I hope it improves for you as well.

It installed last night on my 6s. When I took my phone off the charger it was at 100%. I set up the new Memoji, sent a couple of texts and set my phone down. An hour later it was 40%. I turned off blue tooth, cellular data and location services for everything and swiped everything out of memory . Ten minutes of minutes WiFi surfing and one 15 second phone call and the phone was at 17%. Battery health is 99%. I normally charge my phone every other day. This is nuts. My phone is pretty close to worthless to me now.

MY 6S phone has brightness almost at zero, no background refresh, everything disabled, deleted apps and it’s losing charge even when turned off. i did not have a problem until I downloaded OS13. Apple says there’s not a problem. Of course not they want us to buy a new phone!

The same thing is happening to my Iphone 7.

Battery health is 98% and below is a list of the things I have done:

• Reset the phone as new and installed all the apps again.

• Turned off all the notifications except phone calls and messages.

• Turned off background refreshing.

• Turned off automatic updates.

• Turned off most locations, only maps and find my phone are on to (while using).

• Turned off vibration

• Cloud backup is set only for contacts, notes, reminders and calendar, NOT for photos, videos and apps.

• Display is set to low brightness

• Turned off analytics

• Email is set to "Manual" Fetch and Push are off

• I only use the original apple charger and cable.

• the phone has had plenty time to index everything and it should be settled now.

• I don't use Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Whatsap

Don't know what else to do to get better battery life. Sometimes I use low power mode which helps a bit.

The phone goes from 100% to 40% in stand by.

If I make a 10 min call, the battery drains about 25% of it's charge.

It's even worse now with the 13.1.3 update which I hoped it would fix the battery problem.

This is what I think, this new system is geared to the new phones with better batteries, processor and RAM.

I doubt that the battery will get better life on the iPhones 6S, 7 and 8 like it used to under IOS 12.

I'm thinking about buying one of those cases that has a built in battery pack to help and keeping me from charge my phone all the time.

I'm not buying a new iPhone I just can't afford, the iPhone 7 is still a great and capable phone.

If Anybody has any more suggestion I'll be happy to try.