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?
Nothing is going to address the battery drain issue unless Apple updates 10.2 to 10.2.1 wich by the way is at 1st beta.
At least that's what I believe.
only change was the latest upgrade. I usually get 2 days out of a charge now maybe 7-8 hours. No change in apps or usage
How did you solve it?
My iPhone 6 is having the same issue. Started when I updated to 10.2. At first it would jump between different percentages so I never knew what it was really at until I plugged it in. It could die at 90% or at 10% I never really knew. I also noticed this happening more often when I used the camera. My phone would die instantly when I would try to take a picture.
After a few weeks of that it then started to die faster. The percentage was always accurate at this point, but I could be at 100% one minute and 15 minutes later I'd be at 40%. That's with no apps running in the background and just having the phone sit there with the screen off playing music.
Yesterday it started draining even faster. It was draining 1% about every minute, I timed it. Now today it's even faster than that.
My phone is impossible to use unless it's being charged. I've tried everything that has been suggested besides getting a new battery. I'm not contacting Apple as every time I've had an issue with a product in the past they would just tell me there's nothing they can do and to buy a new phone/computer. Because apparently everyone has thousands of dollars to throw out every few months when their device starts acting up.
I'm really considering going over to an Android. This to me is just ridiculous. My phone isn't even two years old. I purchased it spring of 2015. It's February 2017, there's no reason for this to be happening. Completely unreal. I guess I shouldn't expect much more from a clearly money hungry company.
If anyone ever finds a solution to this please let me know. I really don't feel like throwing out $100 on a battery that can't even be guaranteed to fix the problem. If I have to spend that much I might as well just save up the extra cash and buy a Samsung.
I just noticed the exact same symptoms you all describe. This seems likely to be a software problem since my issues started after the iOS 10 upgrade and it seems unlikely all of our batteries are suffering from the exact same issue. I was going to buy a new phone but I'm going to hold out until this issue is resolved. If I do have to move on it will be to an Android. If anyone finds resolution please chime in.
having the same issue on my iPhone 6 10.1.1, battery drains too fast and keeps fluctuating when I plug and unplug the phone, on standby mode overnight it drains like 50-60 % and nothing is even happening on the phone, very frustrating, apple needs to address that issue and quick, I thought my battery gone bad but now I see that a lot of people are having the same issue
Same issue. Random battery drainage with in minutes of being fully charged. No consistency to the activities being done on the phone. We have done everything Apple has suggested. Shocked, dissapointed and ready to stop using Apple! Stand behind your product Apple! You demand premium prices. We should get premium product!!!!
Between Tablets, Phones and Laptops we own 8 Apple devices. This is enough to say "I am done"
Same thing happened to me today — I got the 1% battery warning, even though I had charged it a few hours before. Sure enough, the battery jumped right back up to 65% when I plugged it in. I wasn't even using my phone right before the battery drain, it was just in lock mode on the table while I was doing other things around the house. I've had my iPhone 6 for 2 years and never had problems before updating to ios 10. Strangely, my phone decided to restart itself overnight and I woke up to the white 'Hello' start up screen this morning. I have no idea if that's related or just another thing going wrong. I just turned off the 'Show Parked Location' as some people suggested. I'm hesitant to resort to restoring my phone or replacing the battery, but we'll see if this problem persists....
There is 63 pages of complaints about the battery drain - Re: iOS 10.1 Battery drain - check it out. So many complaints, no real solutions. We need help!! My phone dies and when plugged into my portable charger (that I had to buy because of this issue) it jumps to pre-dead level.
And now, 10.2 update makes the battery drain even faster. Apple, this is completely unacceptable. Get with the program and update the software properly. Or you can risk losing a lot of customers, as fast as the battery is draining.
I have an appt at the Genius Bar tomm am. The blanket restore did nothing to help battery degradation. I am going to have them restore an iOS prior to 10 to see if that works. No reason for a phone to only last 2 years, that is bologna.
Recently my iPhone 6 has had a few battery issues, draining rapidly at random without nothing running in the background. This morning it went from 85% charged to 22% within minutes, so needing to use the phone today I plugged it in to charge and when I did it instantly jumped to 70% there wasn't time to get it to 100% before it went out so I unplugged it and an hour later it's down to 28%. Some days it'll hold charge without any problems other days it can drop to nothing (yesterday when it dropped to 1% (when it had been at around 35% previously) I turned the phone off, a few minutes later I turned the phone on again and it was at 34%.
I only noticed this since it went to ios10.2.
My iPhone 6s plus has the exact same problem. Battery drains from 40% to 1% then turns off in within 2 mins. Once plugged back to charging, it shows 40% battery immediately. The Apple store tech people also let me reset my iPhone. I haven't done it yet, as so many people are saying that it did not work for them. I really hope Apple can take this issue more seriously, as so many of us are having the same issue...
Exactly the same problem here. And for some months now.
It's an iPhone 6. I've turned off EVERYTHING in order to make it survive more than an hour...sometimes it charges BACKWARDS! Starting from 80-100% dropping rapidly. Then I wake up occasionally to it completely drained and unable to recharge.
Apple, it's time you fixed this! We spend very good money on a faulty product.
iPhone 6 battery suddenly draining fast
