all I am doing at moment is charging my battery since the numerous updates of ios 13. If I never touched my phone the battery is phone, but in the real world I use twitter etc, check emails and text . I need to know what apps are doing this. I have a battery health of 86%. This is not funny now. I have better things to do than charge my phone all the time.
OK so I (erroneously) upgraded to 13.1.2 and I STILL have a battery issue with my Iphone SE. What I find is that if I use maps or some other application the phone battery level drops incredibly fast (minutes) to about 10%. The phone then enters 'low power mode'.
If I de-power the phone and reboot it then reports ~80% or some similar number. My phone was fine on the 12.x IOS so this is definitely a bug.
Apple, please sort this out. You are making your products less and less attractive and you are going to lose customers unless this is fixed. It is obviously a software BUG since this does not happen on IOS 12.x.
You describe my recent experiences exactly. I could have written your post. iOS13.2 is worse on my 6S than even 13.1.
I would assume (and HOPE) with the number of people having this issue that they will come with another point release soon!
My phone is essentially unusable if it is not plugged in.
Appreciate your sharing. As far as I have found in my extensive research there is no permanant fix for the 6s battery drain (not sure exactly what other models are having this issue or the extent, though I do know others are) the majority of us are experiencing. It's unfortunate that it's been put on the consumer to address, as this issue was caused by the IOS 13 APPLE update and should be addressed by them. At any rate this is the last update for the iphone 6s anyway...it will be obsolete for future updates. "Planned Obsolescence" is alive and well, welcome to the downside of free market capitalism.
I currently have an iPhone 8, I am also experiencing this battery drain. Yesterday (11/3), I took my phone off of charge in the morning, as usual. By 6 pm (12 hours latter) the phone was at 1%, The only usage of my phone yesterday was one telephone call, and one FaceTime call, other than that it sat unplugged and on used. So it appears that this battery drain is not just limited to the 6S. I really hope Apple does something soon as I really don’t want to have to purchase another phone. On a sidenote according to the battery health I am at 99% on a two-year-old phone.
warpbrained86 wrote:
Why couldn't Apple just not have rolled out iOS 13 to the 6s and below? I would've been fine staying on iOS 12.4.1
The fact that Apple made iOS 13 available to the iPhone 6S didn't mean you had to upgrade.
Tonight my phone was at 34%. I made a phone call and the phone shut off less than a minute into the call and wouldn't power back up.
I plugged it in and then I was able to turn it back on. The phone stated it was at 10% with a red battery indicator. I called the person back and about three minutes later it was back at 27%. Thanks Apple. I'm sure if I go the Genius bar for support they'll explain why I'm using it wrong and there's no known issue.
If someone from Apple ever reads this thread, please contact me and help me!
Update on my 6s: Went to the Apple store here in Austin last Friday (Nov. 1) to have them check my battery that was only installed a month earlier. They did the normal diagnostics and said the battery was okay. However, they were concerned that it was only showing 85% battery health. i also discussed these forum posts with them. The genius bar person was not familiear with the posts. They replaced my battery under warranty at no cost to me.
To make a long story short: my phone is now like new again. battery lasts pretty much all day - browsing web, email, maps, doing about anything, etc. So even though their diagnostics showed the battery was okay, there was something totally wrong with it. Just like anything else, there apparently are a percentage of defective or subpar units in any new inventory.
Well, this afternoon I left my 6S phone on standby at 98% for perhaps 4 hours.
checked it again and it was on 1%.
Something hidden is obviously draining the battery but whatever it is, it wasn’t doing it before unlucky IOS 13 reared its very ugly head.
This up/ downgrade is ruining people’s perfectly electronically fully functioning phone.
My batter health shows100%.
APPLE please sort out what’s going wrong with all our phones.
Thomas
In my opinion since the 13.1.2 update, there is a wrong battery management and not battery drain, because it doesn't become hot when we can observe the % drop in real time; probably it shows 100% charged, but it really charges the battery to about 50%.
Not big amount of energy being dissipated during complete discharge (not big as expected). We should check the amount of energy which gets into the phone during a complete charge, but I don't have the instruments.
PS. the health % after one year lifetime is 99% in battery settings... (but Coconut is now showing about 42% actual/design capacity...). iOS 13.2.2 now.
PPS. Solved: I was forced by this issue to buy an iPhone XR, planned/induced obsolescence worked very well.
warpbrained86 ; that may be true, but the "gurus" always admonish everyone to keep things updated. No one except the software engineers know what specific "bugs" they were fixing or if it was simply an update to add features. Snarky remarks with an attitude of smug superiority don't add anything to the conversation to help anyone.
phillipfrommonroe wrote:
warpbrained86 ; that may be true, but the "gurus" always admonish everyone to keep things updated. No one except the software engineers know what specific "bugs" they were fixing or if it was simply an update to add features. Snarky remarks with an attitude of smug superiority don't add anything to the conversation to help anyone.
Hi Phillip, I'm not sure what you're referring to? If you read all of my posts in this thread since page 1, you'll note that I tried to be methodical and helpful to anyone else trying to diagnose their battery issue.
My comment regarding Apple store employees telling me that the battery issue is due to the way I've been charging the phone is off the mark on their part. I'm displeased with Apple's lack of response to battery issues when there are numerous threads and hundreds of posts in these forums alone about the abysmal battery performance under iOS 13 that didn't occur in iOS 12. We have the screen shots and times and dates of phones dropping from full to nothing right before our eyes.
I showed the screen shots to the Genius Bar folks and they told me nothing is wrong. They said it's the typical 'hysteria' whenever there's a new iOS release. I took their advice and charged my phone for a full week exactly like they suggested. I'm still here in this thread with the same issue.
Thank you Phillip from Monroe for telling me that I haven't been helpful. I appreciate your feedback and hope to do better in the future.
warpbrained86 wrote:
I showed the screen shots to the Genius Bar folks and they told me nothing is wrong. They said it's the typical 'hysteria' whenever there's a new iOS release. I took their advice and charged my phone for a full week exactly like they suggested. I'm still here in this thread with the same issue.
Yeah, the typical hysteria when people with an old 6S can't use it no more. No words, they don't listen to us.
I tried yesterday to set it as a new iPhone and left in standby for less then one day... saw it going from 100% to 35% when exactly doing nothing.
One year old, 200 cycles battery, which was perfect before one of the latest updates.
phillipfrommonroe wrote:
Same issue with my iPhone 6S. Not eligible for "free" battery replacement per serial number.
If you've never had the battery replaced, it probably needs to be replaced by now. What does it say in Settings>Battery>Battery Health? Unless you're ready to purchase a new phone, replacing the battery will be well worth it. I had mine replaced in my iPhone 7+ just before updating to iOS 13. It's as if I have a brand new phone.
Apple was forced to give me a brand new iPhone 6s, NIB, which takes the whole "battery health" completely out of the equation. Realistically the health of the battery shouldn't even be a factor. Apple is just using it as a distraction. My old phone had 10.3.3 loaded and it had a solid 2-day battery life. All that changed was the OS and it went to a "maybe it'll last until lunch" phone. One variable in the equation, one. The OS.
Even with the new phone I still have battery issues with all versions of 13. The OS is obviously the problem, but Apple won't be bothered to remedy it, ever. They're more focused on giving their customers 10,000 emoji's instead of fixing bugs and making the phones actually work. Cause if someone doesn't have their snowman, er, snowperson holding an ice cream cone emoji all **** is gonna break loose. At one point iOS 13 was so bad that later releases of the 6s's wouldn't even turn on after they were upgraded. I mean that's one seriously huge point of failure.
Each week Apple has less and less employees working on testing and debugging than they do on creating new [mostly useless] features, so the battery bug will not get fixed. They've had how many versions of 13 released now and haven't fixed it, or even acknowledged it? Let's see, not including the first release which was the start of the problem.
13.1
13.1.1
13.1.2
13.1.3
13.2
13.2.1
13.2.2
That's seven releases they've had to correct the issue. Seven. Hasn't been fixed. They've already set the pattern, which is to ignore the issue completely.
If anyone thinks that Apple Support is even going to read this thread they are a fool. It's basically just an avenue to vent our frustrations and compare the horror stories of how bad our phones have become.
Keep in mind there is a very good chance our 6s's won't be supported in the iOS 14 release. Just like the regular 6 won't support iOS 13. They'll be a legacy product that is phased out so we're pretty much stuck with this unless we get a new(er) iPhone or switch to Android.
As I've posted before, I had my battery and screen replaced by Apple about a year ago. My phone was like a new phone.
I'm still hoping the battery issue will be addressed at some point. I remember that there was a specific issue in iOS 9 that didn't get resolved until 9.3.2 (I think), so it's possible a fix will come. ....maybe....
An interesting anecdote from last night: my battery lost almost 50% of it's charge in a span of 3 hours. The battery usage screen in settings showed that the major consumption was Waze and Google maps....
....that I used for about 6 minutes to find someone's house. ::rolleyes::
My phone dropped rapidly to 1% and then I wanted to see how long it would go on 1%. I reduced the screen brightness and then used it lightly for another 1.5 hours before plugging it in for the night. It never went lower than 1%.
The one good thing for me I guess is that I've been trying to look at and use my phone less overall as part of my self-improvement. Since I don't want to use up my battery, I actually use the phone less. So maybe Apple gifted me a blessing in disguise! :)
No hysteria- its real. I finally gave in and got the 11. While switching from my 6s to the 11 my 6s died and needed to be plugged in in order to stay on the phone with the old provider. Absolutely nothing wrong with the my old 6s other than the battery won't stay charged for more than an hour or two. oh well, maybe my 10 year old can make movies or something with it.
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