iPhone SE 2020 battery drain

Is this a joke? How is it possible that you even have to turn off your phone during the night or use airplane mode to save some battery? What is the point of having a smartphone if you have to stop notifications, erase data and keep apps to a bare minimum just to get through the day? I was about to change my 3 year old Xperia Ultra for an Iphone SE, since a couple of months ago I got an IPad mini 5 and I've really enjoyed ios. I wanted to experience the famous Apple Ecosystem, even considered buying a MacBook Pro, but reading your replies have really put me off. We know we pay a premium with Apple and one of the reasons we accept that is their acclaimed customer service, but I don't see it in this thread. I have experienced battery drain with old Samsungs (S6) and ancient HTCs (one). Battery life was the reason I moved from those brands. Then I got a Nokia Lumia 1520, which after several years still holds a charge pretty decently. And my current phone, as I already said, it's a 3 year old Xperia Xa2 Ultra. Believe or not, with all the apps I use running in the background and no power saving tweaks whatsoever, my battery has dropped just 7% after reading these 20 pages. I really wanted to change it for the SE, especially for the size, and to get something more up to date. But I can live with a big, old and somewhat slow phone. I cannot live with a poorly optimized battery

I am having the same issues with the battery. The problem is I’m not even working at the current moment and I can’t imagine if I was working the phone would be almost useless. I’m probably gonna have to trade it in and pay more money for something else. Apple you should be ashamed yourself don’t you test the batteries at all on these phones before you release them!

The same for me.

my iPhone SE 2020 decreased battery life from 100 to 92% in less than 7 months of use.

very very disappointed!

apple care online program assistance said battery was ok after a long remote assistance session!

I even have to wear a powebank (came from Xiaomi, did not use powebanks for 1 year).

must have a problem, this battery!

Hope someone is following this to provide their thoughts. Bought a new SE2020 a month ago with 14.2 from the box. It was having issues with proximity sensor, which later I figured out was the protection glass that caused it to function this way.

But I was silly enough to believe that it might be software problem and upgraded to 14.6 several days later after the buy. Now I'm having the battery drain in idle of -1% every ~30-40 mins. I'm not a heavy user whatsoever: it's typically 4-5 notifications in 30mins here and there from WhatsApp/Telegram/Mail. And even this causes the new phone (100% battery health) to drain that quickly in idle.

Is it the same for everyone? I understand that A13 is far more "heavy" than A11 in iPhone 7 but losing that much just from a few notifications is awful for a 1m old phone. Just wondering is it 14.6 specifically which causes such drain in idle (saw a lot if angry messages about 11,12, 12PM) or it's just a tiny 1800 mah capacity of the battery?

Please let me know if any older ios 14.x is better in terms of battery life. Important note: I'm ALWAYS on low power mode, which does not seem to make any difference at all.

I’m posiTive eveRything Under the suM is Perfect. Yeahhhh, I know they’ll fix it. That’s the reason why, hold up tight. Apple’s always been really good about creating mental health issues through “igniting fuel” to fix stuff. It’ll get done! Thanks as always Apple you guys are the best!

I went from an iPhone 6S to an SE because of the battery and memory space. I don't use my phone a lot. I expected the SE to be a lot better of a battery but it is about the same as my old phone. My mother is having the same problems with her SE phone as well. I know it is one of the cheaper phones but still with the cost and technology it should be better. I believe Apple should take care of this problem.

I have an iPhone se 2 and il be on it for like 10 minutes after a full nights charge and it will drain 10% very fast and then 20 and then 30 and then 40 gets worse I’ve already done everything people say like oh just change these setting even disabled location services on everything and it still drains insanely fast please help I will literally switch back to my android

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I'm having same issue. My battery drains fast no matter what and I have literally tried everything at this point. I have even turned off all the radios (airplane mode) and wasn't using it and it still drained fast. I previously had an iphone 6 and never had the battery drain this fast.

I got the same call. I also talked to Apple about doing an exchange. Hopefully this won’t be a constant problem with the SE

yep. had one too. got them to repeat case number digits in an email they sent. seems to be real.

interesting. please post usage results with new shipped phone regarding battery.

please post back with your results, cheers.

im experiencing similar if not the same battery drain issues.