Esha4u

Q: 8.4.1 iOS Update battery draining quickly & overheating

Hi, I've recently noticed with this new update that my battery is draining very quickly with little or no use. It started when I came home from work my iPhone was on 1% and as a nurse, I barely get time to have a break so I don't use my phone whilst I'm at work. I also ensure that I shut down all of the apps that I use before I click the lock screen button. This was when I had the 8.3.1 iOS update.


The next day the exact same thing happened. Around 5pm my iPhone blanked out with barely any use. Then I had a notification that the new iOS update (8.4.1) , so I updated it. Honestly I wished I didn't because its just made the whole situation 10 x worse. When my iPhone is in charge or on the table I find that it is overheating quite a lot.


Now in the morning my battery was 1% with barely any use. In the night my phone is at my bedside table, all of the open apps i've closed. In the night I don't use my phone at all and I dont set an alarm and yet this problem still occurs.


Is anyone else experiencing this problem? If so, please reply



iPhone 5, iOS 8.4.1, Battery is going quickly and is

Posted on Aug 16, 2015 2:23 AM

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  • by tkaye28,

    tkaye28 tkaye28 Aug 16, 2015 2:47 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 16, 2015 2:47 AM in response to Esha4u

    I had great battery life on my 6+ before the update. Now my battery drains incredibly fast say 100-0% in an hour with the same use as before the update when my phone would be above 20% at 12am. Please fix it apple.

  • by slavasmirnov,

    slavasmirnov slavasmirnov Aug 18, 2015 2:45 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 18, 2015 2:45 AM in response to Esha4u

    Dear Apple. Pls fix this. The same stuff here with iPhone 6 Draining 100 to 0 in 1.5hour on lock screen  its a disaster

  • by thunderzzz,

    thunderzzz thunderzzz Aug 18, 2015 2:57 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 18, 2015 2:57 AM in response to Esha4u

    Hi. Try to follow the instructions on this page in order to  maximize your battery life: https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/

    http://www.idigitaltimes.com/ios-82-battery-life-problems-how-fix-quick-drain-is sues-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-422229

    Try to reset your device. This won't delete your data stored on the phone.

    • Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button
    • Press and hold on the Home button
    • Keep holding both buttons until the display turns off and back on with Apple logo on it.

    You may also try to reset all settings: go to Settings - General - Reset - Reset All Settings


    You may also try to follow these steps:

    1. Navigate to settings/general/ battery usage. Check the applications. This will show you which app eats up your battery.

    2. Turn off iCloud keychain: Navigate to Settings/ iCloud/Keychain / turn it off.

    3. Limit  apps activity on the background: Navigate to Settings/ general/ Background App refresh/ turn it off for each application which uses to much power.

    4. Disable auto brightness: Navigate to settings/ display and brightness/ auto-brightness. Turn this option off.


  • by David.Mays,

    David.Mays David.Mays Aug 20, 2015 11:46 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 20, 2015 11:46 AM in response to Esha4u

    I am having the same issue. I really don't feel like paying $80 to have the battery replaced, only to find that it was a software problem.

     

    My 5s has had great battery life, and I cannot believe that it would become so bad, so fast. It will drop from 60 to 20 to 1 and then shut itself down, all in the space of a few minutes.

     

    I had to tell my corporate IT guy NOT to update the iPhone I use for work, because I'm worried that the same will happen to it.

  • by otodon,

    otodon otodon Aug 20, 2015 12:24 PM in response to thunderzzz
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    Aug 20, 2015 12:24 PM in response to thunderzzz

    I Navigated to settings/general/ battery usage and found that "Maps" that I have not opened was using 63% of my power.  I cannot delete this app.  I think we need a patch.  I set location services and updates for this app to "never" and I will see if that helps.

  • by David.Mays,

    David.Mays David.Mays Aug 20, 2015 12:35 PM in response to otodon
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    Aug 20, 2015 12:35 PM in response to otodon

    Mine said that Facebook was using 50% in the last 24 hours for "background activity".

    And "Mail" was in second place at around 25% with "low signal". I have an AT&T micro-cell in my house, so I'm not too sure about low signal being a real thing.

     

    I'm downgrading to 8.4 as we speak.

  • by David.Mays,

    David.Mays David.Mays Aug 20, 2015 3:05 PM in response to David.Mays
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    Aug 20, 2015 3:05 PM in response to David.Mays

    Downgrading has already improved my circumstances. The phone has lasted over 1.5 hours without needing to be plugged in, which is more than I could say for it yesterday.

     

    Yes, I tried all of the voodoo tricks like backup/restore, and turning off trivial features that use batteries. None of them worked.

     

    8.4.1 is a total dud, at least for me on my device.

  • by errepi.riccione,Helpful

    errepi.riccione errepi.riccione Aug 21, 2015 4:40 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 21, 2015 4:40 AM in response to Esha4u

    Same problem, a big battery drain in my iPhone 6, an hour ago it was 96% ..I did not use the phone, and now, I'm at 92% !!


    IPhone 6 guaranteed me a good autonomy, finally I was happy,and now the battery has returned to make despair as in previous models.


    An update disastrous

  • by arnedesutter,

    arnedesutter arnedesutter Aug 22, 2015 5:10 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 22, 2015 5:10 AM in response to Esha4u

    I had exactly the same issue. Reset to factory default did the trick for me (iphone 5S)

     

    http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-fix-ios-8.4.1-battery-life-drain-issue-guide/

  • by Shaurabh14,

    Shaurabh14 Shaurabh14 Aug 22, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 22, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Esha4u

    I had a great battery life on my iPhone 5S when it was running in iOS 8.4 but the moment after its update to iOS 8.4.1 the battery is draining pretty fast. The iPhone gets heated up when kept for a while and the battery just goes from 100 % to 80 % in no time.

     

    Waiting for Apple to rollout a new Update that #Fixes the same .

  • by Berbyq,

    Berbyq Berbyq Aug 22, 2015 6:53 PM in response to Shaurabh14
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    Aug 22, 2015 6:53 PM in response to Shaurabh14

    I also have a 5s that's been fabulous since new. I'm not having overheating problems now but have in the past. A hard reset always worked for me.

    Today however, after updating to iOS 8.4.1 I had a strange occurrence.  I went to send a text but my phone was dead.  I thought this strange because just a few hours earlier (with little use since) I had 80% battery.  When I got home I plugged it into the charger and nothing happened   . I held the home button and the top power button together and still nothing. Uh oh.  I went to move away from the phone and I got the  boot screen. Once it went through that sequence I was presented with the familiar screen to enter my password.  I looked at the battery and it was charging but showed 56% charged!!!

    i Don't know what's going on here but I am pretty confident that this is an 8.4.1 issue.

    I hope it doesn't happen again but at least my phone isn't the brick I feared.

  • by ikorax,

    ikorax ikorax Aug 23, 2015 4:37 AM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 23, 2015 4:37 AM in response to Esha4u

    Ok, I realize this may come off as pure madness but it seems to be helping me.

     

    My 5S was heating badly as well lately (after the last update) and draining battery (with home screen somehow being the main battery eater in the last 24 hours in which I was actually browsing a lot with weak signal), I was desperate to find a solution. Now, I have tried resetting the network settings (didn't help a bit) and then all settings (helped at first, but then, when I started bringing my usual settings, passcode and touch id in, the phone started heating up badly again). And then it kinda dawned on me - touch ID. I have disabled it and the crazy battery drain (was about 1% per minute) stopped and the phone hasn't been heating up for the last ±20 minutes. From 80% it only went to 79% and I have shot a 20-second video, messaged online for ±3 minutes and sent the mentioned video over wifi to my friend between 80 and 79.

     

    Would be great if this were the true root of the problem.

     

    I logged in specifically to write this reply.

  • by Hank5943,

    Hank5943 Hank5943 Aug 23, 2015 2:51 PM in response to Esha4u
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    Aug 23, 2015 2:51 PM in response to Esha4u

    I just put the new update-iOS 8.4.1- on my iPhone 5S on Friday(8-21-15). I went from getting decent battery life to the battery draining in a couple of hours.

    Also, my wi-fi connection has been intermittently breaking up. Those are the two problems that I have encountered so far with the new update but it's only been two days. Apple needs to fix this. I would recommend to anyone thinking about updating to iOS 8.4.1-don't do it!

  • by Migliomac,

    Migliomac Migliomac Aug 24, 2015 2:31 AM in response to Hank5943
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    Aug 24, 2015 2:31 AM in response to Hank5943

    I've same problems: battery drain and wifi connection breaking up.

    Also Apple music doesn't works well (with 8.4, Apple Music worked perfectly for me).

    Don't upgrade until Apple fix this issue.

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