iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

Im on ios 6.0.1 and have no problem with battery drainage . Have you tried to reset to factory settings and set as new phone. Dont restore old data.

Erase your phone and set up as new then install ios 7 battery drain gone worked for me on my 4s

Also update via itunes aka pc not over the air

So far it seems mines working too, just went into settings, mail, then turned each of my mail boxes off and all of the contacts, calendars etc off one by one, didn't delete anything kept them all on iPhone, did a reset and then turned then all back on and touch wood it's seems ok

Well you said that you have everything turned off and it is not working for you.

(1) Turn off location services

(2) Turn off find my Mac or iPad or iPhone

(3) Don't send diagnostic & usage

(4) Bluetooth Off

(5) Airplane mode Off

(6) Notifications you are not using

(7) Lower Brightness

(8) Fetch mail manually & iCloud manually

(9) Photo Stream & Documents & Data off

This is just some that may help someone, sometimes I get more then the (10) hours on WiFi that about 2.5 percent every 15 min 10 percent a hour. Sometimes I burn 7 percent a hour

kulas wrote:

Hi! Just wondering... Is there a way to avoid this problem for every ios update? I had my first iPhone 5 this January, and I have updated everytime an update arrives. My problem started when I updated to ios 6.1.1, and 6.1.2, but I fixed it. Now after updating to ios 6.1.3, the problem is here again. I am now going through the motions again of resetting etc. It is ok with me to troubleshoot, but it is very troublesome for me if this happens every update. For this latest update, I did it OTA with all apps closed. Should I update through iTunes instead?

Something that everyone would like to know, me included. This has happened to me twice after an upgrade in 5 1/2 years. That's about two dozen upgrades. So based on my experience there's a 7% chance of it happening (which is totally bogus statistically, because the sample size of 1 is too small). But I've also had sudden battery drain problems several times not associated with any update, all of them fixed by turning off my Exchange email account and rebooting.

I think you could minimize the chance of it happening by killing 3rd party apps, and doing the update at a time when there is a low probability of incoming Push email (or perhaps turn off Push before updating). Note that you cannot kill the mail app; if you try it just restarts in background (but without showing in the Quick Launch bar).

Just a follow up.

1st Step: I deleted my iCloud email account

2nd: I turned off all the details on my other email accounts. (As mentioned at page 1)

3rd: Hard Reset (Holding home button + switch)

4th: Turn on. (While crossing fingers)

Worked for me, for at least 10 minutes now.

Still trying to observe if there will be a drop.

Note that I don't have an exchange account and I'm using iPhone 4S.

I hope this helps.

I'm having the same issue. It didn't affect me until 6.1.3, I have an iPhone 4S. I just tried the suggestion to turn off Exchange mail in settings, reboot phone and turn it back on. I'll post back if it works.

The issue with ios 6.1.3 and 6.1.2 actually, is that for some reason the software is reporting the wrong battery %.

I just updated my wife's 3Gs which wasn't having any issues on 6.0 and now it's having the same issues my 4s is having.

I noticed her phone dropped from 100 to 91% in 13 minutes. So I turned it off. Back on again, and when it came back it said 95%.

Same issue with mine.

Sometimes it goes from 10% to 4%. I restart mine and it goes from 11% to 18%.

If you calibrate the battery it may solve the issue; but then after you use the phone and charge it a few times; the problem comes back. And so if you hard reset and calibrate a couple of times, it behaves again. And the cycle goes on and on.

The issue is the % is being read wrong. I think that's the issue for sure.

Many of the "fixes" will work. Lets say, you restore the phone as new. Erase everything. Install everything again. Your apps. Set up your emails; everything. Works!

Calendar iCloud issue. Reset that. Works!

Location services going nuts. Works!

Everything works. Hard Resetting the phone after deleting iCloud and emails. Works.

All of it may work or some of it may work for you.

The problem is that these fixes are TEMPORARY. After a few days of using the phone and charging it, the OS goes right back to reading it wrong and a week later, you're back at square ONE.

I've stopped trying to fix it. Only an update will.

There's an article now in softpedia "battery drain issues 6.1.3 become epidemic".

As for me, yesterday I bought a Mophie Juice Pack Plus. I've been using the phone since 4am pretty heavy and it's now 8pm. I'm at 40%.

I was at 20% at 2pm and charged it to 85%.

This is the only way I am getting a good full day of usage.

I also don't believe in turning off features as a fix.

I did experience an issue a few updates ago where the "Setting Time Zone" service would check all the time. I turned that off but apple fixed that.

Other than that I don't believe in turning off 3G, or data altogether. Or have to turn off push or iCloud or Siri etc etc to get a decent battery life. What is the point in having a smartphone if you have to turn off all the features in order for it to work properly. Nonsense.

The iPhone should at the very least give you a full 1 day of full use with ALL the features turned ON. Of course, I turn off wifi because I'm never on wifi; but as far as the features that make this "smart" and not just a Blackberry Curve, I have them ON. As it should be.

I bought this case just so that if Apple never fixes this battery problem; then my wife can get a full day of use and I can move on to a Galaxy S4 then.

I'm an Apple guy. I have a MacBook, but if this is how is going to go, then ill get something else.

Actually it should take 3 to 4 hrs to fully charge the device if battery totally drained. Disregarding the percentage meter. It will show 100% a bit sooner but is not fully charged yet. If you are having to charge the battery every 12 hrs and are not using it there is some app running in the background causing that drain. You should see about 1% every 2 hrs if just in standby and not using the phone at all. Other than that there is an APP running causing I can promise you. Email hung checking mail, or iCloud hung syncing, or some app constanting reporting your location.

Ameli29 wrote:

I've also noticed that instead of usual 1.5 hour it takes for a phone to fully charge, it takes over 2.5 hours now after the update.

Whoever wrote the apps are draining the battery, I'd have to disagree with that person.

Some apps could start draining battery, but not to the extent of having to charge the phone every 12 hours.

It's up to software, and I had written even before the latest update that it's ridiculous to have a

Guys ,

i can confirm the following:

yesterday after noon after reading here i've done the following:

1. disabled FaceTime

2. In Icloud - Documents and Data - disabled Mobile 3G Data

3. On AppStoe - disabled Mobile Data Usage.

4. On general - Mobile - make sure that all toggle for usage down the bottum are off ( Iphone5 Mobile 3G data is still on)

Since then until now i can see that battery usage is back tto noraml....

anyone can check it also with his Iphone5 6.1.3?

Thanks.

I think it was a combination of things but no way to pinpoint the cause(s). Something was obviously drawing down battery power that was in no way apparent from the UI. I am certain that Facetime and iCloud Docs was activated (turned on) by the 6.1.3 update on my iPhone 5. Beyond turning both off and reseting twice I did not change anything else. Sounds like different people are having different combinations of things that work for them so it's a hard to isolate a specific cause. All I can say for certain is that my simple settings changes seem to have fixed my issue.

Note: I just relaized when I went outside that my auto brightness issue seems to be back to 'normal' also, it had been going to max bright very quickly (outdoors) after 6.1.3 regardless of the slider setting.

Enjoy your "fix" while it lasts Jajaba.

It wasn't te turning off settings that fixed it, it was the resetting a few times that fixed it.

I fixed it too like that. Reset a couple of times and restored the phone as a new phone. FIXED. Then guess what? It just comes back with the same issue.

I reset again a few times. Fixed again. Then after a few days of charging and using, same problem.

Yesterday I was at 20% after 3:36min usage and a few hours standby. I'm sick of resetting and restoring for the issue to just come back again.

And as the guy before me said; why should we turn OFF services that came with the phone? If they don't work, why put them in? Why do I have to be Apple's guinea pig?

You'll be back to draining in a few days. Don't worry.

As I said, issue is your phone is reporting the WRONG %. When it says it is "Fully Charged" it isn't. So it SHUTS DOWN after no more than about 4 hours usage. Real usage. With your services turned ON. As it should be.

And no. It doesn't stay at 1% for 2 hours. It shuts down. Sometimes it shuts down at 8%. Once it turned off at 15%. I had to plug it in, and then it turned on and I unplugged it. Again it thinks it is drained and it turned off at 10%. So I plugged it in and then it turned on. And it kept shutting off like that ad I kept plugging it in and forcing it to boot up until it was at 1% and I forced the phone to drain completely. Then I charged. And reset and did what you did. FIXED. Now in back at the same problem.

The ONLY fix is for them to fix it in an update BEFORE ios 7. Otherwise they'll screw 3Gs owners. Just like the time they screwed 3G owners with ios 4 and made their devices unusable.