I've had my iPhone 6 since the end of October 2015. Everything has been great, until recently. Suddenly, my battery drains A LOT faster than usual. I never let the percentage get below 50%, and I don't have many apps, the brightness is always halfway, and it's on DND overnight. I have AppleCare, but would they replace the battery or would I have to buy a new phone through applecare? Thanks.
My wife also had the same problem on her iPhone 6 two months ago. Same steps, we turned off background apps and shut off bluetooth and so on and so forth. All the troubleshooting steps Apple mentions online. Which by the way don't make sense because the phone went from working perfectly to all the sudden not being able to hold a charge almost overnight. My wife is not a power user either and has very few apps she actually uses. Anyway I took it to the Apple store and waited in line for a couple of hours and at that point insisted that they replace the battery even if I had to pay full price for the repair which was around a hundred bucks. For me I'd rather pay the 100 bucks to make the problem go away than have to spend half a day standing in line at a crowded Apple store. Anyway, that worked and she hasn't had a problem since.
Also a new map feature showed up recently, or I just started noticing it, 'Show parked location' where the phone is now periodically popping up a notification saying it saved the location of my car. My opinion, there must be some power consuming process running in the background that monitors my phone and decides that I have been in my car and parked it so it can save my location and show me a notification. I turned that off using the switch in the 'Maps' settings window. Will see if that makes a difference. Has anyone else noticed this feature? Is it new or I just didn't notice it before?
It would seem that there is a problem on the software itself that needs to be reset.
A back up and restore can help you if there really is a problem on the software. If the the battery still drains faster then it is recommended that you go to the store and let them diagnose the phone itself.
Yep this just started happening to me too, about two days ago. Used the battery settings page and turned off apps in the background (Facebook was the top one). Last week my phone battery was lasting almost two days. I'm not a power user. This is lame.
Since I've updated my iPhone6 to IOS11, my battery has been running down faster than normal.
I have done these things to try and extend the battery life;
- turned off background app refresh
- turned off as many notifications as possible
- turned screen brightness to half
- set Auto Lock to 1 minute
- turned Siri off
- use home wifi
- turned off iCloud (only use it for Photo Stream)
- Bluetooth is off when I'm not using it
- when I charge, I only charge to 80%
I also did some other things mentioned in the link below. I don't know whether it was one particular action I took or a combination of some or doing all of them but my iPhone's battery now lasts the same as it did prior to updating to 11.
Since I've updated my iPhone6 to IOS11, my battery has been running down faster than normal.
I have done these things to try and extend the battery life. Whether it was because of one particular thing, a combination of a some or doing all of them, my battery is now functioning normally.
- turned off background app refresh
- turned off as many notifications as possible
- turned screen brightness to half
- set Auto Lock to 1 minute
- turned Siri off
- use home wifi
- turned off iCloud (only use it for Photo Stream)
- Bluetooth is off when I'm not using it
- when I charge, I only charge to 80%
I also did some other things mentioned in the link below. I don't know whether it was one particular action I took or a combination of some or doing all of them but my iPhone's battery now lasts the same as it did prior to updating to 11.
If the battery drains down to single digits, then your battery is good.
Normally in a high drain situation if the phone turns off while levels are 30-70% it is indicative of a battery in need of replacement.
My battery was dropping down to 66% and then the phone would turn off. Putting it on the charger, as soon as the low battery changed to the Apple screen came up the battery was at 66%. Replacing the battery it now drains to 1%, and when plugged in comes up at 3%.
My fix was to log out of iCloud and log in with a newly created apple id.... Battery problem solved on my phone and my wife phone who were sharing same iCloud id
Have you tried factory resetting? If that doesn’t work, you may need to replace the battery. That’s what fixed mine.
Contact Apple support, they can run diagnostics on your device. Just be sure you're connected to WiFi when you call as that's required for their diagnostics.
According to this, it applies world-wide to iPhone 6 and newer devices.
https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/
Has anyone tried the "restore iPhone" option, and started fresh to see if this helps? Curious to learn...
I have the same issues, 50%, to 35%, to 10%, and finally down to 1% in less than 4 minutes, then immediately back to 25% after being plugged in.
Very frustrating Apple!
On my phone, I think turning off 'show parked location' and then rebooting the phone has seemed to resolve my particular issue. My conclusion is of course completely un-scientific. I have no real data that shows that is the problem and there are thousands of things happening on an iPhone at any given second. But, there you go. Something to try at least.
I had this same issue and noticed it began after the most recent update to IOS 10. What seems to have resolved the issue is going to maps and removing the parked location option as well as going to the battery to see what is using the most battery time on my phone. Facebook and Reddit were relatively high and I realized they were refreshing in the background. I unselected the option for those apps to refresh in the background. So far it's been a week and the battery life is much improved. Worth a shot! I also haven't noticed much difference in their time to load when I'm using the apps either so it doesn't seem like you lose much by not having them refresh in the background.
This may help - essentially you sign out, reboot, and sign back in on all your accounts.
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-9-3-2-battery-vs-9-3-1-battery.1966379/p age-5#post-22806658
Another way to save battery is don't charge your phone at night. When you charge your phone at night, your phone sits there at 100% and when it is sitting there, and when you unplug it, it drains more faster. Hope I helped!!
iPhone 6 battery suddenly draining fast
