IOS14 severe battery drain on SE

My wife's Iphone SE is doing exactly the same thing and it is Version One. The problem started after updating the software to IOS 14.3 - the phone worked perfect on IOS 14.2. I have checked the battery health and it is 100% and there's hardly any usage showing on the apps in the Battery App. The phone is draining overnight by about 50% even when it is switched off so I can't understand why it is draining because being switched off, it is not using anything. It was left on last night and when I checked the bar chart in the Battery App after charging this morning, at approximately 02,30am the battery level plummeted from 60% to approximately 15% and was showing 1% when we checked it before charging.

Regards

Gary Baron

I wish Apple would shed some light on this. I have exactly the same problems with my iPhone SE. If I leave the fully charged phone without using it, by 4-5pm it is down to 1% charge. I took it to a local repair workshop the other day ( No Apple Centre's here in Malta). They could have changed out the battery and charged me €35 but they advised after inspection that there was nothing wrong with the original battery. As with other SE owners this has all started after the IOS 14.3 software update.

It's time we had official word from Apple as it's starting to p*"s me off big time.

If you wish to keep using the iPhone, you had best get the new battery. The diagnostics are pretty flawed and pretty useless. Your best bet is to stop using Apple products, but a new battery would probably "fix" your iPhone SE.

I’ve had this issue and the only way to revert is to call apple support. Call from a different phone than the one needing to change, plan on spending time, and breathe. It’s a PITA but they can do it. They’ll first want to perform diagnostics.

So, it confirms that it is definitely the OS and not the battery that is causing the drain.

Here's another observation from yesterday,

Battery status at 11:45 PM - 51%

At 07:30 AM (without any usage the previous night). - 18%

Checked few e-mails at 8 AM - 1%

Played music on full volume on the speaker mode, status at 9 AM - 1% (after use of 1 hour)

Picked the phone to change the song at 9:01 AM - The phone died due to battery drain

Plugged in for charging and phone turned on at 9:02 AM - Battery percentage 38%

Removed charger and open an app at 9:04 AM - Battey drained and phone switched off.

Do you guys see what's happening here?

It is definitely a BAD iOS for iPhone Se 1st Gen.

Can someone from Apple respond to this?

ill just make it simple to understand, it’s good to find liking towards apples older model iPhones, keep the style alive but iOS 14 is extremely hard on an older iPhones hardware, the latest iPhones have been equipped to adjust and even perform perfectly with the next generations of iOS, imagine a building and its foundation, you can’t expect an old foundation to support a huge building without it degrading quickly and eventually falling to ruins

You don’t get to choose who contributes. Earn a few hundred points and you can report me, see if the moderator agrees.

Meanwhile get rid of whatever app is using battery.

Turn off Siri, turn off that ridiculous iCloud nonsense, turn off Dictation, turn your screen down and keep out of hours of social networking.

I brought my iPhone 6s on a buy one get one offer from AT&T store when iPhone 7 was already in the market as the latest model. I had to recharge once in 2 days till the first iOS upgrade. Within 3 months I got the first upgrade that may be perfectly fine with bug fixes and features/better performance for iPhone 7/7s but it screws up the older model phones including 6/6s. My phone battery backup drastically dropped and I replaced the battery thinking that it is an issue specific to the battery. But even with the new battery I experienced the same issue. It wasn’t even giving one day uptime for the phone. In my experience I feel that Apple is forcing their customers to upgrade to the latest model of iPhone by intentionally screwing up old models by increasing the battery usage by increasing the clock speed of the CPU and enabling unwanted location services. I am still using the same phone for past 6 year and I don’t have any hardware problem with it. Even though it’s build quality is excellent I feel they have a bad marketing strategy. There are some way to prevent battery drain by disabling all these battery consuming services to avoid but it’s not easy for a normal users. iOS upgrades should be optional for the users of old model. I tried skipping upgrade many times but at some point of time when I reboot or I had no option to skip, my phone got upgraded. So I will never buy another iPhone and won’t recommend to anyone. I would also suggest the users of latest model to skip the upgrades as much as possible when the next model arrived into the market.

This forum itself is evidence that iOS 14.x does mess up older iPhones -- at least 1st gen. SEs. The idea that Apple is not pressuring people to upgrade is laughable. In the meantime, if you want to use an older iPhone, at least buy it a new battery.

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“…The idea that Apple is not pressuring people to upgrade is laughable. …”

Examples of pressure from Apple?

They haven’t written to me, and my iphone 6S works as well if not better than it did.

SE 1 and 6S are identical inside apart from the size .

But they will probably not run iOS15

Do a backup and restore to fix it.

PS they cannot refuse to replace the battery if you are paying!

Get a new battery $49

Just get a Battery on ebay if your able to fit it yourself. You could take it to your local phone repair shop or get LD 150 to fix it for you.

I found the latest update cured the battery woes quickly

Hi,

Same problem here, with my 1st gen SE 128G!

Talked to support yesterday, diagnostic, etc., nothing wrong.

I should take it to service for further investigation.

Warranty is over so it is coming out of my pocket!

Before IOS 14 the phone was working just fine.

I charged in the morning and it was OK until next morning. Or longer.

Now I charge in the morning and start using (unplugging) at around 9AM.

If I am not using the phone just sitting on the table, it is down to 1% by 2-3PM.

If I am using it (only ligth use, calls and bit of messenger), it is down to 1% by noon.

But, the interesting part comes after this! The phone works fine at 1%, until next morning.

I can take pictures, send messages, go to the internet etc., it is working fine. But, I have no idea what is the real battery life.

The other thing is that my "battery health" is 100%! I remember before it was down to 98% or even less!

Ibelieve it doesn't matter how power hungry is IOS 14!

Something is wrong with the battery management, or else.

The other strange thing is, that my wife's SE works just fine!

My SE is about a year and a half year old, her phone is much older.

And her "battery helath" is only 94%.

I love my phone, it is a very powerfull and handy phone, and this is crazy how IOS 14 killed it!

Guess, all I can do wait for the miracle update on IOS 14.1!

However, if anyone comes to a solution, please let me know. Thanks!