iPhone 6 battery dies in cold weather

I to have the same issue.

I have an iphobe 6 plus 128gb.

Its so much worse than my previous iphone 5, that coped pretty well with cold weather.

I think its a design flaw, the battery is most likely much thinner and gets cold much, much faster. This resulting in this worthless cold weather capabilities.

Now, I would like to know if 6S plus och the 7 plus is any better? Or if I should just except that its a lousy winter phone?

Since my last instance (29th of October) I haven't had the problem any longer albeit the weather has turned a bit colder than before..the only difference since then, is that I did update the software to the latest version....I thought the problem was hardware related...now I am not really sure what to think instead... Since many other people here are having a very similar problem, I believe it would be useful if everybody, when reporting the issue, could specify what software are they running on. I am currently on 10.1.1 (14B100). Cheers, iMessy.

There is another thread complaining about a similar issue, though we hand't necessarily correlated the problem to temperature.

Re: ios 10.1.1 battery problem

In my case temperature could definitely be a factor. As per the post above, Apple appears to be replacing some 6S batteries related to a problem like this. I'm pretty sure mine was working fine in all temperatures before 10.1.1 but I'll be checking to see if I qualify for this replacement.

Has anyone had their battery successfully replaced by Apple yet?

i Went into my local store on the day the replacement program was announce, but no walk-I'm Genius Bar appointmeets available. Told to contact online support to confirm if my serial number was eligible.

DId the online chat, but wouldn't even entertain checking my serial number - just kept telling me to make a Genius Bar appointment at my local store. Made an appointment specifically to have battery replaced.

Went to store - confirmed phone is eligible - but no replacement batteries in stock! Will have to back to store again.

A week later and still waiting for notification that my new battery is in.

:-(

Mine just died at 42 deg F with 30% charge. Bought Dec2015 so gonna race to get new battery before warranty runs out. My serial number was not included in the range covered by apple battery replacements.

Same deal. Have had 6s plus for 14 mos. Does not meet the serial number criteria for replacement.

So incredibly frustrating. I am an Obstetrician and if my phone fails my patients have no way to reach me.

Saw a "genius" yesterday who said it must be my "charging habits". However when he tried to pull up an analysis of said habits, it failed. Then he concluded there must actually be a battery issue and recommended i buy a new $80 dollar battery. Uhhh, no.

No recourse I guess except to finally go Android which my husband has been begging me to do for years.

It is not a software problem.

Its hardware.

I have been investigating this problem ALOT for almost 2 years.

If you look at older posts that I have posted here you can see graphs

with test-results when I have tested the battery in a controlled Environment.

(climate chamber)

P.S., I was screwing around with my iPhone 5s afternoon it “died” at 92%, and found that attempting to power up shows the dead battery screen, and trying again immediately after that will actually boot the phone. As long as you do this after placing the phone in a warm environment for a few minutes, you shouldn’t need a charger.

my battery is 2 days old, just got it replaced on Monday with a new one. 87% charged, left it in the car at 29F and powered off, came back to my car 9 hours, turned it on and down to 10%. SO MUCH for meeting the storage specifications!

checked out "battery life" app and it says the battery wear is 15%!!!

turned on my car, jacked up the heat, stuck the phone to the vent. After warming back up, the battery remain near dead but the battery life app says the wear is 0% now.

let's just say don't depend on your iphone in cold emergencies. and let's stop ignoring that there's a real problem. Otherwise they WON"T do anything about it.

Just replaced my iPhone 6S battery under the free replacement program.

Will post again if the problem is fixed/not fixed.

I just began researching this same problem. I also have an iPhone 6 approximately 1.5 years old. The phone battery is at 50% or more inside my house with an average temperature of between 20-22 degrees C. Within 10 minutes outside the phone battery drops to below 5% and shuts off completely. The temperature outside was approximately 5 degrees C.

I have the same problem with my iPhone 6S. The phone is not even a year old and it turn's off having 58% when I use it in an outdoor enviorment where it's 10° Celsius (this is 50 Farenheit). Could changing the battery realy help?

Same thing here. 1.5 going on 2 years. iPhone 6S is fine in warm weather, going down even to 1% still working. But this week I was out and with a temp at 7C it died completely and when I tried to turn it on it gave me the no battery message when the phone still had a good 30% to go. When I brought it inside it was fine after plugging to the outlet (30% still there...). It happened 3 times now this week. Anyone had any clue on this?

I have exactly the same issue described by others. With temperatures lower than 10 C and iPhone battery less than 40% there is high chance to see phone switching off. At home battery still good till 1%. This is not really acceptable to me, considering the phone is 10 months old and it was not cheap...

Same issue here - I wonder if it is a software bug as I know for a fact that it was not like this last year. Last year it died once when it was really cold -10c. According to apple specs the battery works best in temperature range from 0C to something around 30C. Mine dies at 10.