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?
I checked my maps app; just saw "mark my location". Was there an update?
Hello Kona,
Please tell us is it worth it to change the battery or time to shift to other phones, coz now such an issue and no proper support is making me lose trust on Apple. Can you please help.
It's been three weeks and my battery working fine so far. May be its worth change before you incure more cost.
I too have this issue. I was wondering if it has to do with the AT&T Microcell we use at home, since it seems to happen at home only.
I am on Verizon
I am febad bcoz I bought it some days ago it's a used phone
Since i updated to 10.2 i had this problem only once, two weeks ago. Then nothing.
Is it applicable in India too? Anybody from India got availed this offer?
Yeah, Thanks. Trouble is I am in a country that doesn't have Apple certified dealers, and I would need to ship it to a neighboring country where there is.
The same issue has happened to my iphone 6s, but if you let it keep charging even when it's 100% charge, the battery will much longer!
AGREED
Have been experiencing the same problem I saw someone post a suggestion to turn off iCloud calendar. I did that this morning, and so far battery is holding up great. I will keep an eye on it for a couple days and then post an update.
THis is now classed as a known issue & Apple are working on a solution in the next iOS update. It's has affected my iPhone 6 since iOS10, despite keeping my iOS, apps etc up to date & despite a reset, resetting to factory settings & as a last resort a complete restore. Apple support have checked my hardware & acknowledge it is an issue many users are experiencing. It's just a case of waiting for an update.
IF you want to feedback on this, go to Apple Support in your country & use the feedback option. Hopefully they'll get it sorted sooner rather than later!
Since 30th of December the problem began again. It happened few times since then, but persistently. I noticed every time, except for one, I was using turn-by-turn directions on the official Maps application. Maybe it be related to that?
(Imagine when i was driving and the phone suddenly turned off...)
Use this link to set up a call from Apple support and ask them to run a battery diagnostic. Just keep in mind that it requires a Wi-Fi connection to do that.
iPhone 6 battery suddenly draining fast
