Iphone 6 Battery Drain Bug (Found ?)

All,

I have had battery drain issues since i switched from ATT to Tmobile. I owned an iPhone 6 on ATT with great battery life and when I switched to the Tmobile iPhone 6 battery life *****. The battery usage screen is worthless with one exception. You should be looking at the Stand By versus Usage time. I noticed my standby time was anywhere from 80% to 95% of the Usage time. This is a major indicator there is a problem with your phone. The app usage helps but it really only applies to apps, not a background process.

After slowly shutting of each app, process and account type I FINALLY found the problem. If I sign out of my iCloud account, my iPhone is fine. Everything else can be enabled and I am now getting about 25-50% usage compared to standby time. This is normal unless your are physically using your iPhone all day.

I have restored my iPhone as a new phone and just tried to load only my iCloud account. I just checked and the usage is back up to 80% of stand by time with the phone sitting idle. Unfortunately my problem is with something relating to my iCloud account. I may just choose to disable iCloud but this severely limits some of the enhanced features.

I would recommend giving it a try to see if that is your problem too.

Good luck.

Oh, and I upgraded to 8.1.2. Same issue with iCloud.

In case this is of use to anyone...

I was having severe battery drain after a few weeks of purchase. My iPhone 6 128GB had been performing fantastically but then almost overnight the battery started draining so fast I could see the percentage going down. This was with no apps open and basically everything switched off (location, background app refresh, notifications etc etc etc).

My battery usage screen showed "Messages" as using between 30 and 50% of my battery usage, which compared to the images on this post seemed ridiculously high.

I was about to take it back to apple when I tried one last thing, switching iMessage and Facetime off. Things improved instantly. I have even now switched both back on and everything is fine, my battery is lasting easily the full day even with reasonable usage, just as it did when I first got it. iMessage and Facetime are both working fine so I think something must have got stuck and was in a battery draining loop.

Anyway I hope this helps someone!

Will

LTE should be turned off. Most of the time LTE is useless unless in or near a large city. The device will continuously search for LTE draining the battery. 4G is enough for all tasks unless like I said you are near a large city getting a strong LTE signal.

contact apple to solve this

http://www.apple.com/support/

I Charge my phone every night AND randomly throughout the day, my battery life is garbage and only getting worse

Gardawg the grand wrote:

I Charge my phone every night AND randomly throughout the day, my battery life is garbage and only getting worse

Better hurry and take it in while it is still in warranty.

I Just tried to ccondition my battery by draining it to 0 then fully charging, after it was fully charged I unplugged the charger from it, went on standby for an hr and battery dropped to 94%, went on fun for 5 min, played a game for 5 min, then sent about 8 texts, phone is now at 54% Apple phone batteries suck, I'm sick of spending hundreds of $$ on their new crap only for it to be pretty much useless exactly when the "new and better" phone is released

Gardawg the grand wrote:

I Just tried to ccondition my battery by draining it to 0 then fully charging,

That doesn't condition the battery.

That simply "calibrates" the battery meter.

Why don't you take it into an Apple store for battery service under the warranty?

IM away at work for another week, then when I get home the nearest Apple Store is a 3.5 hr drive, but I am planning on making a special trip because I'm tired of charging my phone 3 times a day after light use each time.

This might sound funny to you but do you own an iMac? I am fairly new to the Mac family as of July 2015 with an iMac & iphone6 (Blackberry & Windows cpu man my whole life and now a new job has me in the Mac family) & toward the middle of September started to notice a rapid battery drain...meaing on standby within 6 hours I would be down to 10%...went to apple got a new phone, changed Apple Id, restored from back-up 10+ times (yes mostly connected to itunes) & finally I noticed the amount of data my phone was using on the wi-fi and cellular...the problem was my iMac...the icloud settings on the iMac was the culprit. I logged out everything on my iMac related to my apple id on my iphone and BAM...i am now only on 65% from a full charge yesterday morning. I did sign back into calender, notes, and reminders on my iMac but did not sign into photos, email, nor icloud drive. I am going to contine to montior this before I log into each one.

Hope that helps...this was so frustrating b/c I always wanted an iphone to replace the blackberry...I think now I am on the right path.

Same problem contacted apple who were adement the battery is consumed and want me to replace it. I told them I doubt this because I was fine up until a few weeks ago with no previous signs of battery failure. If you can invest in a quality portable charger and have it live off that until your up for an upgrade

It also sounds like you expect too much unrealistically from your phone. And your unwilling to accept that it won't meet impossible expectations.

A phone isn't mean to hold a percentage for 30 mins without draining some.