iPhone 6 battery dies in cold weather

Same issue here. iPhone 6s just over a year old. I went outside today, took a few pictures and my iPhone6s died. When trying to turn it on again it only showed the low battery/charge image. Outside temperature was -2 degrees Celcius. Once inside I turned on my iPhone and battery indicates 62%.

There isn't one but at least Apple does post the operating temperatures of their device which a lot of manufacturers do not do. I searched and found one article from back in the Galaxy S2 days where they tested various phones and found it worked best in cold weather. Whether or not that is true today I don't know as they still don't post operating specs.

What is strange here is that I brought my iPhone 6 when I went skiing in Sweden right after purchase. Worked perfectly. To be clear, Sweden is **** cold.

Yesterday, I went in my car with a fully charged iPhone. One picture and it died! It is about +2C here.

The phone is over 2 years old but I just don't know if this is software or hardware related as why would the battery only behave this way in the winther?

Maybe in African continent? Oh, wait... most people there can't afford one... let's talk about the price... i think you can at least expect some support. But no. Apple is so big, they don't care about support. It's all about money these days.

Temperature? ********. The problem is there. 35 degrees celcius, or -10 degrees celsius. Maybe more often at -10, but anyhow.

fredrikdk wrote:

What is strange here is that I brought my iPhone 6 when I went skiing in Sweden right after purchase. Worked perfectly. To be clear, Sweden is **** cold.

Yesterday, I went in my car with a fully charged iPhone. One picture and it died! It is about +2C here.

The phone is over 2 years old but I just don't know if this is software or hardware related as why would the battery only behave this way in the winther?

Batteries wear out, have you considered that yours may have?

Yeah... and what about the 1 milion (just a guess) people who bought theirs 1 year ago or less? Like me. My battery problems started 1 month ago when my phone was exactly 1 year and 1 week... go figure

jacravensbergen wrote:

Yeah... and what about the 1 milion (just a guess) people who bought theirs 1 year ago or less? Like me. My battery problems started 1 month ago when my phone was exactly 1 year and 1 week... go figure

Figure what, that you need a new battery?

to backup MarkoL1: "shouldn't be sold" not cannot be sold. If it was true that iPhones cannot be working in below 0 degrees temperatures, it would come out a lot earlier and apple would have sold a lot less phones in northern countries... And what about phones of different makes? I have never heard that other phonebatteries die after 2 years? They can ware out, true, but it can't be that phones shut down at 80% and the next day at 20%, and another day at 90% (like mine)

I understand that that is true. Phones die more easily at below zero temperatures. BUT: how can it be that today (and for the last couple of months) there are so many complaints about batteries. Not that they wear out, but that the phone shuts down at totaly random percentages? I just don't understand... Yesterday I charged my battery to 100% (4 hours after it told me it was fully charged, I disconnected it). Then I played a film which was 1,5 hours. I have even put my brightness up and it played the whole frickin' movie. Then I quited and the battery showed 5%. Then I opened another app (doesn't matter what app, but take whats app for example), and it immediately turned of the phone.
After that I charged it again (same time as last time, plus 4 hours after fully charged), then i unplugged it and took a photo. After i took the photo it shut down (at 95% charged!!!!!!) go figure that! Is that a temperature issue? I don't think so.

The problem with this thread is it started as a cold weather problem and then others started posting that have a battery problem that doesn't require cold weather. Some issues we can't bring up due to the rules but I would strongly suggest you peruse some of the rumor websites starting with 9to5Mac.

It's obvious that most of Europe and North America has sub zero temperatures during the winter. Exactly right. So obviously iphone is not meant for all those people. Unless they have a winter and a summer phone.

You have the answer to this question in my older post in this thread.

Look at the measurement graphs that I posted a while ago where I compare a new iPhone 6 battery to a old one.

The behavour in colder environments are very different.

New iPhone 6 batteries have no problem at all even in a few -C degrees.

Old iPhone 6 batteries have huge problems even in a few +C degrees.

I think it's excellent that Apple publishes the operating temperature. This says that if I put my phone in the refrigerator for a while (above freezing, temperature controlled, easily measured), it has to continue to work. I will do this as soon as I can. Might be interesting if we got a larger sample size to do the same.

jacravensbergen wrote:

to backup MarkoL1: "shouldn't be sold" not cannot be sold. If it was true that iPhones cannot be working in below 0 degrees temperatures, it would come out a lot earlier and apple would have sold a lot less phones in northern countries... And what about phones of different makes? I have never heard that other phonebatteries die after 2 years? They can ware out, true, but it can't be that phones shut down at 80% and the next day at 20%, and another day at 90% (like mine)

That information has always been available to you, you just have to read it.

fredrikdk wrote:

But why did my phone then operate fine the first winther and now I cannot even take 1 photo before it dies? It was a lot colder the first winter as well and it was +2C yesterday when it died.

It is a year older than it used to be, replace it.