Battery drain since iOS 15.6 is ridiculous

This is NOT an end user problem. I updated my iPad this morning and after the update, I went to a meeting. During the meeting (1 hour) my battery went from 84% to 2%. This has NEVER happened before. Something is definitely wrong with this update. Unlike others reporting here, Battery usage shows NO application eating up the battery. I'm hoping there is some sort of background cleanup or other going on and that this is not a long lived problem. I did not have this problem on my iphone after I upgraded.

Dave Hudson wrote: "I updated my iPad this morning and after the update, I went to a meeting. During the meeting (1 hour) my battery went from 84% to 2%."

Dave ~ What model iPad is it? (So we can know how old the battery is.)

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Abhinv wrote:

ios 15.6 drain alot of battery like ios 15.5 or other previous versions

How do you explain that both Lawrence and I are experiencing better battery life with iOS 15.6.? Are we just better at using our phones?

which model you using? and how do you explain this that since ios 15 releases my 12 pro max starts battery drain and ios 15.5 and ios 15.6 drains battery much i tried everything restarts, reset all settings, clean install and after that and for your info. battery is good in shape i go to genius bar and they checked so what do you say?

Abhinv wrote:

which model you using? and how do you explain this that since ios 15 releases my 12 pro max starts battery drain and ios 15.5 and ios 15.6 drains battery much i tried everything restarts, reset all settings, clean install and after that and for your info. battery is good in shape i go to genius bar and they checked so what do you say?

I think you missed my point. If the problem were with the update, everyone (or huge numbers of people at least) would be having a problem. And, not only is that not what's happening, some people are seeing improved battery life. As long as you keep insisting that the problem is with the update, you're not going to get anywhere with resolving the issue.

I’ve already explained. If you would prefer to just complain rather than troubleshoot the problem that’s your choice, but the troubleshooting would probably take less time than you’ve spent composing posts. Roughly 500 million iPhones were eligible for this release; if even a tiny percentage of them has the issue you are seeing there would be tens of thousands of posts about it. So the logical conclusion is that it’s a problem specific to your phone, and needs to be solved on your phone. It probably doesn’t even have the same cause as others who have reported a similar issue.

Exactly why i have posters remorse every time I put something on here or ask for help from Apple. Instead of berating customers, why don’t you do a Google search and you’ll see there already ARE thousands of posts and even some news articles about people seeing this problem.

So over the arrogance of Apple.

Dave Hudson wrote:

Exactly why i have posters remorse every time I put something on here or ask for help from Apple. Instead of berating customers,

You're not the customer of anyone participating in this thread. And disagreeing with your assessment of the cause of the problem is not "berating" you.

they never admit these facts because they only tell same lines and same troubleshoot, they think we didn't try anything like that but I don't blame them they just told us what apple told them , when company itself not focusing on better battery life on one year old phones, so its a waste of time here. they never believe, at the time of writting this comment i lost 2 percent battery . acc. to apple its normal after all methods i applied... well done apple. apple is waste of money .sorry but thats the truth.

The battery on my phone 12 Pro max, is running down super fast too, i thought its my phone battery issue then I realized i just updated to ios 15.6 and found that this caused this battey issue, Apple tech kindly do something about it. Hope you release the fix so soon.

As a royal Apple user for years, I believe we should have a choice to roll back to older versions of IOS, such as 14.3 when my iPhone Xs Max used to last almost two days of battery, not few hours. I really don’t need all these fancy features. I just want my phone last through the day as it used to. Now I’m stuck in this awful software with no turning back and I really don’t believe IOS 16 will be any better, because my phone is so old now with 96% (original) battery health?? Give me a choice to roll back please. At least one stable version of older IOS.

a) This didn’t make sense , on our phones if nothing has changed except iOS update, it’s iOS 15.6 that’s causing issue

b) Everyone here bought iPhones at a minimum $700 and upwards to use it with apps, not to use phones with experimenting one app after the other for nnn days downtime , we users expect the updates not to cause issues

c) @Apple if you think you cannot release good quality tested updates so frequently, please reduce the frequency and provide better quality than quantity

Lesson learnt is to not to update iOS and wait at least one to two releases from now onwards

I am a user, I don't know iOS internals. I don't have to explain that, Apple does.

My battery is ruined.

Take a look on Google, lots and lots of people are complaining about batteries ruined.

And all that Apple says is "its is somebodyelse's fault".

feliperj wrote:

I am a user, I don't know iOS internals. I don't have to explain that, Apple does.

My battery is ruined.

Take a look on Google, lots and lots of people are complaining about batteries ruined.

And all that Apple says is "its is somebodyelse's fault".

Apple doesn't generally comment at all. They have not, for example, commented in this thread. And, suggesting that the problem with the phone is something other than the most recent update is vastly different that saying "it's the user's fault".

iPhone 6s+.

Battery was ok until I installed first version iOS 15.

Then, immediately, my battery lasted 1/2 of what it did with last version if iOS 14.

Now battery lasts 1/3 or 1/4 of what it did with iOS 14.

Battery health 92%.

I know, it will never be Apple's fault, it will always be our fault.