battery drain iphone 6s 13.1.2

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's a nifty case. I'll have to look into it. Thanks.

I'm bothered by a few things:

1. 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
2. Now that it's an issue, why can't Apple allow 6s users to downgrade if they so choose? what would be so terrible? (I know, I know. never gonna happen)
3. Why can't Apple admit that there is an issue here? It would be so satisfying to hear Apple say, "We know about. We apologize. We're working on it." I can't stand the denial I get from the Apple store and from all of the Apple support denial reported in this thread.

The truth is that I'm a small phone kind of guy. I like smaller phones and was always hoping they'd come out with a new SE. Rumors are circulating that there will be a new SE in March 2020, but it'll be the size of the current iPhone 6s, 7, and 8, and won't be the size of the current SE. We'll see what it is in March. I may be ready to upgrade by then (and my current battery will probably be sufficiently murdered by iOS 13. ;-)

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!

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.