IOS14 severe battery drain on SE

Yeah, doing that is a nice first try but it didn't help for me. I had everything turned off and used the phone basically like a flip phone and the battery still drained. I think a lot of people here have done the obvious and the only thing that worked for me was a new battery.

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No doubt many people have had 1st gen SE battery problems, and many have had iOS 14 software problems with battery charge measurement and calibration. It isn’t either/or, and both problems are real. And whoever said Apple doesn’t respond to forum posts just hasn’t experienced it yet. I have. Apple is choosing to ignore these issues.

Before I go, here is an example of phone behavior that has nothing to do with a battery being weak or having “internal leaks”:

1st gen iPhone SE operating normally with iOS 13, BATTERY MAX CAPACITY 89%, charge lasts all day if no video used.

Upgrade this phone with a full charge to iOS 14.4.1, BATTERY MAX CAPACITY 89% after the upgrade. Phone streams Netflix almost an hour before dropping to 99% charge, then takes 20 minutes to drop to 65%. Power it off and back on, it’s 51%. Off and on again, it’s 38%. Run it down below 1%, it shuts down, but plug it in and immediately you have 11% with it rising to 30% in 5 minutes. Run it down to 1% again, and watch it stream Netflix for 2 hours on 1% charge. This is a problem with the measurement of charge and the calibration of the measuring tool. Not a hardware problem.

Seriously, take advantage of the $49 battery replacement through apple. I found it a lot easier than I expected. It was all overnight shipping and pretty seamless. I'm pretty glad I did this on my SE 1st gen rather than buy a new phone.

Agreed. That said, the iPhone SE batteries are a weak point, and often need replacing after only two years of use. Although apple will not admit that as a problem, iOS14.x has exposed that weakness for many dissatisfied customers. But if you want to stay with Apple, a new battery is probably required. The batteries are not terribly expensive, so most just bite that bullet.

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I think its a case where IOS14 demands more, and the SE 1st gen batteries that were marginal couldn't handle the extra demand. Clearly my experience shows that a good battery has no problems is IOS14.

I am surprised that Apple has still not admitted that iOS 14+ is draining the batteries on 1st gen. iPhone SEs. That does not seem to be true for every user, but judging by this thread, it is certainly a trouble for many, and some of those many got their SEs as recently as 2018, and a few of them have even replaced the batteries and still had trouble

Yes, many people have also reported that they have not had trouble, or that a new battery solved the problem, or that turning off something power-hungry like the hotspot, or a demanding application, reduced the problem. But there are still enough people reporting problems, that those counter-examples should not cancel out the complaints.

Are any of the posts on this thread from Apple itself? Could we get an official statement of Apple's position, whether it addresses the facts or not? It does not seem very productive for users to simply talk among themselves about their varying experiences, when some users seem to having real problems using their iPhone SEs in any reliable way.

You should arrange a repair

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service

Anything other than Screen or Battery will be a replacement phone and the price will depend on your warranty status.

Battery Repair

iPhone Battery & Power Repair

Even better than a repair, in my experience, is replacement with a non-Apple phone. A new battery, however, might fix your problems, if you want to stick with Apple. I expect this posting to be deleted.

Apple, of course, hopes you will solve the problem by getting a new, and quite expensive, phone. It's funny, I use to complain this way about Microsoft.

As I explained earlier I replaced battery from the Apple store when I had this issue before. Battery health was showing good. Even though I had to disable the location services, reduce the display brightness to minimum etc to get at least 10hr uptime.

There’s been an attempted exploitation so it’s strongly advised to update to install the security update.

Voltage variation due to battery failure.

(Charge level is simply a voltage measure.)

Netflix was running on good charge but at reduced voltage is all

Get a new battery will fix it.

See this post page 1 of this thread

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251900623?answerId=253946326022#253946326022

Do a factory reset and restore iOS via iTunes or switch to android.

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yo sorry for the late reply, for some reason i never got an email that you replied till now (like, literally even in the time stamp of the email), but that does sound like an amazing fix, especially considering those apps, although being mainstream and popular, are still apps that have a lot of features and especially a lot of online features, i hope his reply does you well but still bear in mind, even if your phone is 2 years old, remember that that thing came out in 2016, likewise, remember the iPhone 5s was amazing for its time, but trying to run iOS 14 on an iPhone 5s (ignoring the fact that its unsupported) would not work well at all, and its the same for your phone, don't get me wrong, its a good phone, that's why its supported, but just because its supported, doesn't mean its going to be great on iOS 14, so basically, i'm saying that maybe, just maybe you should upgrade to help at least a little, but i'm not going to lie, not everyone has the money to upgrade, especially considering the pandemic right now, but tbh i'd still take it into consideration, its up to you though and tbh i really, REALLY hope what CGbates said works well for you (because tbh it does sound like it will, if you have any other questions feel free to ask away and i or someone else (especially CBgates) would love to respond further