battery drain iphone 6s 13.1.2

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.

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.

I did virtually nothing with my iPhone (6s) all day Sunday, left it plugged in all day. This morning, put it in my pocket w/o checking anything on it.

About mid-day I checked Battery and saw that Siri had used up >60% of my battery and the charge was down to about 30%.

This is without doing next to nothing with the device other than carrying it around. Took a picture of the screen just in case that helps.

Now, about a week ago, took the device to the Apple Genius Bar who did some basic testing and told me the Capacity at 92% was fine but suggested I replace the battery (which was replaced December 2018. What happens if that does not fix it - buy a new device I was told.

Seems to me with the experiment I did, that Siri is the problem?? How do I turn it off??

I've factory reset with fresh install and continue to have the same issues. That may be 'gotta try it anyway' issue, but I've went so far as deleting every app (even Apple's own apps) on a fresh install with everything turned off (background sync, location sync, wifi, bt, etc) and it still drains within a couple hours on a. phone charged to 100%, with battery health at 100%!

My 6s is still having problems after install of IOS 13.3. When the problem started, battery health was at 92, now at 90%. Latest problem is when battery drops to less than 40% it will just shut down on me without warning, as if the battery is dead. After plugging in for just a couple minutes, charge is back above 50%. Just very frustrating. Im starting to leave the phone plugged in whenever i can at home, office or in car...

I woke up this morning to find my phone had powered off overnight. If you look at the photo showing the battery level it shows a almost full charging dropping in an instant to near empty. This is what I found when I powered back up.

as I type this the charge is holding steady at 10%. The battery health shows battery performing at 100%.

I am going to now put the phone on charge to see how quickly it reaches full charge.

‘ I expect to report back soon. ‘

It took half an hour to reach 91% after dramatically showing a near instantaneous drop to 10% so there must be something wrong with the battery meter reading rather than the battery itself being drained. ( The battery reading had continued to hold at 10% until I put the phone on charge. )

Any thoughts?

In the same boat here. iPhone 6s, setup as 'new phone' after updating to 13.3 Battery Health is holding good at 94% and I've been cruising at 1% charge for the majority of the day. I think some serious battery level re-calibration code needs to be injected into the next ios release for our older gen phones. If anyone has any possible work-arounds/suggestions out there, they would be greatly appreciated.

This morning, I picked up my phone which was plugged in all nite and the reading was 100% charge. By the time I walked it out to my car, about 2 minutes, the level had dropped to 1%. This device is pretty much unusable unless it is plugged into a power source.

Just loads of frustration on my part - and from what I am reading, everyone else's too.

APPLE Wake up!!!! What are you doing about this problem???

I am taking numerous screen pictures to document the battery level at different times. Suggest everyone do the same as electrosim2001 and others have done!

rdrahn wrote:

This morning, I picked up my phone which was plugged in all nite and the reading was 100% charge. By the time I walked it out to my car, about 2 minutes, the level had dropped to 1%. This device is pretty much unusable unless it is plugged into a power source.

Go to Settings>Battery>Battery Health. What does it say?

SlimJim186 wrote:

Would be nice if Apple even looked at these forums to see the complaints and concerns of the people that are keeping them employed, the consumer. Right now they primarily act as a way for the consumer to vent, and that's about it.

These forums are a place for users-to-help other users. Apple is quite clear about that in the Terms of Use to which we all agreed when signing up. Venting is not terribly productive and, beyond a certain point, not permitted.

If you want to discuss the matter with Apple, you are free to do that. You can start with the Contact Support link in the upper right corner of every page of these forums.

I've already done that, multiple times. Please go back to the beginning of the thread and this will be obvious. As you will also see there are many pleas for help directly to Apple from many of the other members posting in this thread.

rdrahn wrote:

Thanks for your suggestion.

I can certainly do that but I I did take it to the Apple GB in late November. They told me the battery was OK, but suggested to replace it with a new one at the cost of $49 (The battery was replaced in December 2018). Based on what others have said in this thread, that will not resolve the problem, so I pass on that option unless they will refund my $$ if it does not resolve the issue.

I had the battery in my iPhone 7+ replaced just before updating to iOS 13. It feels as if I have a brand new phone. I have no problems with battery life.

Every year, when a new version of iOS is released, there is a spate of posts saying that the newest version has destroyed battery life so it's not really helpful to pay attention to any of that. Deal with your phone and your problem.

I have a 6S and until the newest update it was working fine. My battery health is at 89% but the past few days I can literally see my battery percentage going down. I’m not doing anything differently. Last night My phone was at 49% and when I woke up today it was at 1%. I turn off WiFi last night to see if that was the issue and still it drained. I uninstalled Instagram thinking it was the issue but so far no change in battery life. I’m very upset! Apple needs to fix this!

Are y'all using the new iPhone interface on Catalina (whatever it is, I'm still on Mojave), or iTunes on an earlier version of Mac OS? Could that plausibly make a difference in our relative success at resolving with the above process?