iPhone SE 2020 battery draining fast. Lost 10 percent from normal 20 minute use with 30% brightness. Is this normal or is it draining too fast. If im on youtube video/safari, i can literally see the battery percentage tick down
iPhone SE, iOS 13
I had the same issue with my new iPhone SE 2020. Battery was incredibly disappointing for what I’ve known from my Apple products. I could see the battery percentage ticking down just reading articles (as some others described “a percentage point every 2 min” or so). Like others on here, I did the typical battery saving tips. Biggest clue for me was the first day I took it to work. I don’t have time to look at my phone at work except during my lunch. By the time I got home after 11hrs, I only had 20% battery life. Battery usage indicator told me that Apple Music was responsible for 87% of my battery usage. However, I had only looked at app for abt 3 mins during initial set up of my phone— never actually used it. The rest was background activity (even tho I turned off background app refresh for all apps). As a result of this finding, I uninstalled the Apple Music app. This DRASTICALLY improved my battery life. Next 11hr work day, my phone had only dropped to 78% with light browsing at lunch and a few txts. I used it to browse some social media/watch a few videos at home, but decided to keep off charger overnight. I’m writing up this comment right now with the phone having been off the charger for over 26hrs and I still have 34% battery life. This is much more inline with what I expected given how much i leave it in idle. Wondering if anyone else has the same issue with the Apple Music app possibly going rogue... uninstalling it helped me tremendously.
Only faulty batteries are covered in year 1.
If it dropped to 80% well inside 12 months I might try to claim but it is Apple’s decision.
Same as car batteries and tyres.
AppleCare+ covers drop below 80% inside 2 years which shows how rare it is.
I switch my phone off at night. Period. I don’t need it on while I’m asleep. My SE is over a year old now and battery health is still 100%.
it is not necessary to leave it charging overnight. And from a couple of tech guys they said it somewhat damaging to keep it pushing at 100% overnight. They also said don’t drop below 40% and it isn’t necessary to charge over 80% all the time. My phone charges pretty quickly in one hour: that’s one whole hour to go from 40 to nearly 80%. Stop stressing. Take it easy.
In addition, keeping it charged between 40 and 80% it probably cannot calibrate the true capacity. Remember battery “health” is no such thing, it is an estimate of capacity only, and as we all know batteries do age with use. I suspect your method is hiding the real capacity and it will plummet one day.
This has to be related to the recent 'update'.
My 2 year old SE is a fall-back option phone for voice calls only and it has been fine since I bought it and normally would run all day and most of the next day has just started dropping to 45% over an hour or so, then when I turn off/on again it goes back to 75%, then back to 95% when I turn it off/on again. It's not the battery - I had that checked. It's teh update doing something wierd.
DO NOT GET THE SE IF BATTERY LIFE IS A CONCERN FOR YOU.
I loved the smaller form factor, and the easy of access of TouchID in the times of COVID. I had such a miserable experience with the battery timing, and the battery life that I had to have it replaced.
And, again, so bad of an experience, that I didn't get a 12 Mini and went for a Pro, despite not liking the size, at all.
Mine does the same thing, went to the Apple store last week, they went through the whole phone, no improvement! They have no real answers other than normal operation! They know the batteries are weak, my old iPhone 6 had a better battery. They looked at me shocked when I wanted to show them the top 20 phones with the best battery life on the Internet and not one Apple phone made any of the lists! Hate to do it but I start back to work next week and the SE Will be completely useless within an hour once I return to work, probably going to have to get a Samsung galaxy.
Powerful processors will create heat. Are you talking about watching a whole 90 minute Netflix film? I would expect that to use most of a full charge.
If you want apple to hear your voice please post product feedback at
This is a user to user forum and Apple developers do not read it.
It is something on your phone. Clear it down and start again.
Thank you for highlighting that the battery capacity is not sufficient
May need to purchase additional battery back up device to overcome the problem
We the Apple Support Community are just users like you, we can't fix anything.
Contact Apple Support directly. Depending on your region, you may be able to reach them here: Get Support
Did you spoke with Apple support?What did they say? Because i see here are many people have same problems..I realized That even when i call i loose 1% every 3-5’.You have the same??
No,every 1 hour i loose about 15% battery.every 5-6-7’ minutes intrnet FB Mesenger i loose 1% ,but if i am on instagram 5 loose 1% but you tube every 3-5’ i loose 1%.
Hello.I have same problems here.My new iphone loose 1% battery every 3’ minutes call.You still have the same problem??Did you call back Apple support??Thanks.
https://techjury.net/blog/iphone-charging-overnight/
this is what I do. At bed time I switch off. And charge in the morning and maybe once in the afternoon. Cheers.
iPhone SE 2020 battery drain
