battery drain iphone 6s 13.1.2

I had some improvement after letting the phone die and fully recharge, as others have recommended. It’s still not working the way it did before my upgrade to iOS 13.1.2, but at least it’s not draining before my eyes. FYI I have an SE because I don’t want a giant **** phone. I’ve been an Apple customer for decades but their quality and service isn’t what it once was. These kinds of disastrous updates used to be a Microsoft problem that Apple customers never even thought about. And Apple used to be incredibly responsive and supportive about any problems. I never considered other products but now it’s worth researching.

7 days after my last post and it seems that the battery life is improving. I went an entire day without charging and before bed I was at 35%. Maybe after the update the phone is "learning" how your battery/phone life is working and it takes a week or two for it correct itself. It SEEMS to be getting better but I'm holding out on my final judgment...

my battery life is also much improved.

the update to 13.1.3 helped but the biggest improvement came from deleting and reinstating my email accounts.

my feeling, and it is only that, is that the new email app has some subtly different requirements on imap servers and imap connections established with ios12 can cause ios to loop consuming the battery.

now i have reinstated my imap accounts all is good for me.

-Steve

Same problem on 2 1/2 year old iPhone SE. I used to be able to go all day, numerous text messages, the odd voice call, WhatsApp, take a few photos and send them, and by bedtime the battery would be down to maybe 48% or even higher. Last night it was at 88% when I went to bed and drained to 48% by the time I woke up. I had it face down in a dark place. All that happened was that someone sent me numerous text messages. I'm about to leave on a business trip out of the country for a month. Verizon was absolutely useless and said I was the only person having the problem and said I should upgrade my phone. I know better than to waste my time calling Apple. My "solutions" are to buy a small portable charger to carry around with me, plug the phone in the car all the time when I'm driving, and when I'm out of the US I use an Android that I bought at Heathrow that I can put sim cards in from whichever country I'm in and just keep the iPhone for emergency contact from home (and with what Verizon charges, you don't want to use your phone much).

After a month of dealing with this, countless hours spent on the phone with Apple, and then the senior support care person ghosting me I finally got a decent Senior Tech who read through all the notes and basically said, "enough with this garbage. You've done everything we've asked and have provided more than ample enough proof there is a definitive issue with your phone." He then did something with my account and case that forced Apple to either do a repair/replace on the phone even though it's two years out of AppleCare.

Went to the local Apple store yesterday, and after another 90 minutes walked out with a new phone (same exact model, 6s 128GB) that was loaded with iOS 12.4 that they upgraded to 13.1.3 even though we know it will have issues.

I can't say I'm really seeing any improvement even with a new phone and battery at 100%. I'll give it a day or two to balance out after the upgrade and restoring all my data. But I don't have any confidence the problem will be resolved.

I also still have the issue where the Apple battery case does not work correctly with the phone. While in the store I showed it worked correctly on 12.4 and then when the phone was on 13.1.3 it was dorked up. There is no way they can refute that iOS 13 has a lot of bugs still.

With the case if you place the phone in it, it will not recognize the battery to start charging the phone. If you bounce (power cycle) the phone while it is in the case it will recognize the case and start charging once it has booted up. But if you take the phone out for even a second, that all goes out the window. The other way to make it work is to take the phone out, plug in the case to charge it, wait for the LED to come on (either green or amber), then slide the phone back in. Then it will recognize the battery case and start charging.

Now, on my backup 6s that is also on 13.1.3 it does the exact same thing with the battery case, so I know it is the OS and not the case. Just for testing I upgraded the backup phone to 13.2 beta. Now the battery case seems to work as it is supposed to. But I'm not convinced that specific problem is resolved. Keeping that in mind I can't condone anyone updating their iOS to a beta version. It is bad enough we are all beta testers even with Apple's "released" OS's. Going to a beta version would increase the risk of more issues manifesting. If I didn't have a backup/testing phone I would not have pursed that course of action.

10/24/2019 Update: Still having major battery issues on my 6s iOS 13.1.3, but the advice above to delete all mail accounts and then add them back seems to have helped a bit. I'm still sorely disappointed and feel that Apple has ruined my perfectly good 6s (replaced battery and screen about 12 months ago at Apple store so it felt new) but I'm hoping that something will change in iOS 13.2.

It completely baffles me that Apple engineers can say there's no problem when there are over 1000 comments on this issue in these forums if you combine all of the various threads.

How hard would it be to allow us to roll back to 12.4.1? Apple, change your policy as a stop-gap until you have the real solution in place!

Pretty please with a cherry on top.

Same problem here:

86% health battery 1 year aged, iPhone 6s, iOS 13.1.2, 13.1.3, 13.2 beta 3 and beta 4...

Battery charge % doesn't show a continuous discharge, but drains down in big steps, especially when doing something like watching videos. With iOS 12.4 was perfect... these last updates killed the battery

New development here. My 6s now goes from 60% to shutting down on me with no warning. A restart showed the battery at 10% and then shut down again. A subsequent restart showed the symbol for plugging in the phone as it didn't even have enough juice to power on. I plugged in the phone and got the symbol of the hollow battery outline with a tiny red sliver indicating there was almost no battery available. About four minutes later, I powered on my phone and it was at 60% like it was before the shutdown happened. This happened two days in a row already. I have screen shots. The battery usage screen in settings doesn't even recognize this happened.

I Made an appointment at the Genius bar where they tested it, told me nothing was wrong with the hardware (phew), and suggested that my charging habits were causing the issues as I have lots of little charges and no full recharge in the last few days. I should let the battery run out on its own and then deep charge it overnight and do this for three nights in a row. She (the Apple employee) says, "...it takes a good 8 hours to charge every little cell in the battery. I should let it charge overnight."

Their other suggestion was to reset it as a new phone, and not restore from a backup. They were very polite and wished me luck.

So I had a perfectly good iPhone 6s that Apple absolutely ruined with iOS 13 and there's nothing Apple will do for me.

I am not happy.

warpbrained86 wrote:

New development here. My 6s now goes from 60% to shutting down on me with no warning. A restart showed the battery at 10% and then shut down again. A subsequent restart showed the symbol for plugging in the phone as it didn't even have enough juice to power on. I plugged in the phone and got the symbol of the hollow battery outline with a tiny red sliver indicating there was almost no battery available. About four minutes later, I powered on my phone and it was at 60% like it was before the shutdown happened. This happened two days in a row already. I have screen shots. The battery usage screen in settings doesn't even recognize this happened.

I Made an appointment at the Genius bar where they tested it, told me nothing was wrong with the hardware (phew), and suggested that my charging habits were causing the issues as I have lots of little charges and no full recharge in the last few days. I should let the battery run out on its own and then deep charge it overnight and do this for three nights in a row. She (the Apple employee) says, "...it takes a good 8 hours to charge every little cell in the battery. I should let it charge overnight."

Their other suggestion was to reset it as a new phone, and not restore from a backup. They were very polite and wished me luck.

So I had a perfectly good iPhone 6s that Apple absolutely ruined with iOS 13 and there's nothing Apple will do for me.

I am not happy.

I already tried the steps they suggested to you... no improvement. I agree, the latest iOS 13.1.x did something wrong on our 6S which were OK before. Mine 6S behaves like your... very big drops of % typical of a worn out battery. I hope that this is only a reversible software issue... But probably it isn't. With coconut battery it now shows a 81% health battery, instead of 86% of a few days ago. My last try is to turn off optimised battery charging (on 3.2 beta 4), I can see the result in the next days

I am having exactly the same problem on my 6s since ios 13 was installed - constant battery drain that will sometimes go all the down from 100% to 1% in a matter of minutes. Right now its holding at 55% for some reason. Sounds like no relief coming from Apple.

I would say not. Did 13.2 last night, let phone sit on charger while it did the background work. Took off charger at 1am when it was at 100%. In seven hours it dropped 11% doing nothing, no usage. That to me is not fixed.

No, here with iOS 13.2 final release same bad behaviour. Half day battery life (from 100 to 5%) with moderate use... Coconut shows 58% health now... in iphone settings it tells 99% health... I contacted apple chat support: the battery is ok for mobile resource inspector (they suggested classical advice to improve battery life or, if I need, I can pay for the battery change...).

In brief, the solution is: buy a new iPhone Xr/11/11Pro.

Same problem everyone else reports. Unusual battery drain and sometimes get's hot. I have tried EVERY fix I could find in this thread, from apple itself, from tech sites, including factory reset and a new battery. Called Apple, they don't recognize it as a major issue. Look at the tech websites, they are aware of it. Apple please address this. It started in sept when 13.0 came out. I now have 13.2 same old same old.

i have had the opposite experience, 13.2 and deleting and reinstating my imap email account has solved all my battery drain problems on my 6s.

i can only assume it had to do with the apps i have installed compared to other people here.

my battery capacity did drop from 95% to 85% - i assume this damage was done when my phone was getting hot on earlier os releases.

all i am saying is there is hope.

-Steve

thanks for trying to help. Still nothing is working. I did factory reset so it had no apps I installed. Same drain. Battery capacity 100%. It's new. When I said I did every fix I could find, I meant it. This has been going on for well over a month I've had time to try everything. At apple store, with techs on phone, via threads here, and tech advice on the internet. NOTHING has worked. It's the IOS 13 software, my hardware is fine.