battery drain a lot after ios 8.3

Lawrence,

I believe Apple is paying you to track the discussion and give us these stupid anwers.

The best help you can give us, is stay away.

Just for your record, the answer that I received from Apple, is that most of these bugs will be fixed by IOS 8.4.

Thank you for the help how to fix the battery drain.

I alredy did a fresh install with iTunes, and let the battery drain totally, and recharged, but in my case didn't work.

I appreciate your help.

LfromF wrote:

IT has been said in here to always do your updates connected to your computer. While I have not done this in the past, this time it helped. In the future I will connect my device to my computer and do updates through iTunes.

Over in the Mac world, whenever a new subversion of OS X comes out, there are two ways of updating. Let Software Update do it, which means it will download a Delta updater that takes the system from X.n to X.n+1 and is typically small in size. Or download the full Combo Updater and use that instead, which can take any system from X.0 to X.n up to X.n+1 and is usually very large. Those of us who suffered thru the old days of the felines (old versions of OS X were named after big cats) soon learned that doing all updates with Combo's saved you from worlds of pain.

Being that it comes from the same company, iOS is apparently no different. And here, the "combo" updaters, as used by iTunes on a computer, are also huge. The 8.3 full updater for an i6+ weights in at a whopping 2.37GB!! Given that an OTA update, which corresponds generally to a Delta if you've been keeping up to date, downloads around 300-400MB for 8.2 to 8.3 updating, I can only assume that the extra 2GB baggage contains lots of stuff beneficial to the device and its owner's sanity.

Same issue for me. Except it was a little bad with 8.3 but now with 8.4 public beta 2, I take it off the charger at 8AM and by 4:30 I am down to 10% .. I used a program called NORMAL to see whats causing this and one of the things it says is SPARKLE is causing this. I have no idea what sparkle is. It shows up as a running process. Any ideas? Ive tried everthing... I am on SPRINT and if I turn on WIFI calling, it drains even faster....

I'm also facing the same issue, iPhone 4S. Severe battery drain after updating to IOS 8.3 even when locked in airplane mode.

approx 5 hrs total from 100% to 0% with barely any use. (before update would get almost 1.5 days)

Usage vs Standby showing both incrementing at the same rate while phone locked

Original update was via WIFI, so as suggested have restored with itunes and still facing issue.
Restored again without recovering backup, only with factory settings and only seeing slight improvement.

Now seeing Usage vs Standby slightly better but still usage is about 3min for 5min of standby.... aaarh!

Regardless of the update being the root cause of the issue or not, The point is that the update initiated the problem. And I can't find any help from Apple to identify what causes the issue or any option to rollback the update since they stopped signing 8.2...(nor Lawrence's unhelpful comments in this thread)

ON a whole I'm pretty disappointed and prob won't be buying another iphone

Eagerly hoping IOS 8.4 is released soon and has identified and fixed the issue.

Hi,

I didn't find any solution, I've sent it to apple store and they tried to restore with 8.3, as they said it is a special version that can fix the issue, as my battery life is 96% and it is not a battery issue, but it remained draining so after a couple of days they replaced it.

regards.

Last night my iPhone 6 was draining battery so bad that I decided to try something I had done once before.. RESET NETWORK OPTIONS...I then re-connected to the wireless at home and today at work and Guess what? it looks like that fixed the battery draining issue.... I will see today but its already been off the charger for an hour and its still at 100% where before I would have been down to 95% already...

iphone 5s and same problem here after update ios 8.3 and 8.4 beta 2/3. I tried lot of things but can not find the solution. Is so frustrating.

Tell me kind sir, how is it possible that a one year old iphone 5S that is restored and set up as a new phone via itunes, then operated with no apple id signed in, no icloud signed in and no apps downloaded, i.e. as stock as is possible, can drop 1% of battery every 10 minutes whilst not being used? And yes this only started after upgrading to 8.3. and yes I've been to see a Genius at the apple store and the tests they ran showed that there was no hardware issues and the battery was in good health (i.e. 400 cycles)...... the only only only variable here is the stock 8.3 software....

I very much hope what you said is true as far as battery draining issue is concerned. I think it's with the iOS update that get into trouble due to some error caused that interrupts some apps that catch fire and get stuck in the whirlpool of battery consumption. Could you please tell me how to fix it? This was not at all an issue before I updated to iOS 8.3.

And as soon as I noticed heavy battery drain even without much usage, I turned ON Reduce Transparency in Accessibility Settings. This has helped me to gain some mileage. But everything was normal even with those transparency turned ON before iOS 8.3.

Hope Apple considers this as a serious issue and fixes in iOS 8.4 or maybe iOS 9 that's due to come out this fall.

Hey Lawrence. Last week I downloaded an app and for some reason, I stopped the download process as soon as it started. And since then, I'm seeing this weird icon-less name-less app that couldn't be deleted. As you can notice that there's an un-named app in that News folder. i don't remember which app that was, since I happen to notice this icon couple of weeks after. And I have installed and deleted several apps in that time period and so, I couldn't remember which app that was.

And if I try to delete it, this is what i get:

A double quoted " " App name. Do you think this might be the culprit for the battery drain on my phone?

I've got an Iphone 5s, my battery life is killing me, it is on 8.3 IOS and don't really have a clue to what has happened to this phone. The longest battery time i have experienced so far is 8 hours in a row. Hate this !!!

It is absolutely frustrating to read your responses because they don't offer anything in fact even more so just add more annoyance to the situation. If the battery life was working fine before you update it, and then you update it and then it starts to drain -- there is no other explanation but that -- instead of offering solutions -- you tell us to solve it ourselves -- so why even bother posting?

did replacing the battery help?

Hey,

we are having issues since last week! On each iPhone we have, the battery life become terrible.

iPhone 5 from my wife: you can see the percentage of the battery status drain like a countdown ...

My iPhone 6 has identically fast battery drain. After some minutes of use i´m down to 90% and after an hour down to 60%....

this behavior is not normal! My assumption was in the first place the new network operator update. Since then, the battery started to become a nightmare! We are using T-Mobile in Germany...

Does anyone has noticed identical behavior?

Michael