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?
Same here.
Are there any officicial responses from Apple about that glitch? All came out with the new iOS. Had never any issues with my battery before.
I am using iOS beta and the last iOS update didn't solve this issue yet. So I hope with the new iOS update when available for public there is a slight chance we can have this solved. But again, the Beta version is showing that the issue is still there and there
I took my phone to Apple Store, they did the check and suggested to restore the phone. I did the back up and restore...and didnt' fix the problem. Then I did a new install without any apps. I still have the same problem. I am not sure if I should replace the battery. It could be the software issue that confuse with the battery status. I am so not sure what to do...
Someone said that replacing it will make it worse, but in my experience doing nothing will also make it worse. I have an appointment tomorrow to get a new battery because at this point I cannot use my phone for more than 30 seconds without it shutting down. The only way I can turn it back on is heating it with a hair dryer!! You can wait and see if your problem goes away if you'd like, maybe I'm just a really unlucky person.
The corrent conditions just not acceptable. The phone is fully charged, after few mins , the battery drop from 100% to 10%, sometimes, shut down! I ordered one from eBay and going to replace the battery. But I do think this issue is to do with the IOS . There is no answer or support / recall from Apple on this iPhone 6 model so will try to replace battery and see.
I got a replacement battery and tool from ebay. All works now.
so..reinstall IOS/upgrade/closes all apps all doesn't work. Something to do with the battery and IOS , the phone just confused...all back to normal with the new battery.
My iPhone 6 battery started draining inexplicably just two days ago after two years of trouble free service. I could almost watch the battery percentage go down by the minute. Very weird. Anyway, I combed through the threads below, nuked my Uber app and turned off the 'show parked location' option and it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks to all who contributed to the fix!
Same thing happened to me. The strange thing is, my boyfriend has an iPhone 6 purchased at the exact same time in 2015 (through AT&T) mine is through Verizon. He has zero issues. Ever since I upgraded to iOS 10, my phone has been draining like crazy, and dying completely between 50% and 30%. I had to purchase a charging case, tried turning off GPS location, nothing works. I will probably have to try back-up restore next...
Apologies for the rambling. Hopefully 3 time's the charm. It continued to drain even on wifi so I searched again and found this link. I checked the battery consumption as advised and noticed my 'Calendar' app was consuming 49%! I updated all my apps and after 24 hours, the battery appears to be functioning normally now. http://www.gottabemobile.com/how-to-fix-bad-ios-10-battery-life/
I had the same thing happen to me. I tried almost everything listed here, none worked. Went to Genius bar and they replaced the battery in my phone. This did not help. After 3 more visits to Genius bar the replace the phone. I set the phone up as new and did not do a restore - same issue. I again reset to factory and DID NOT ADD ANYTHING TO THE PHONE - NO APPS, MAIL, NOTHING - same issue. Went back to Genius bar - they replaced the phone again - NO CHANGE. At this point the phone is mostly unusable and Apple is of no help. At this point I am convinced it is an iOS issue since a complete factory reset with wiping all data and not adding anything does not resolve the problem. I would try to do the setup of the phone without any iCloud connectivity to verify there is nothing there causing an issue but this is not possible.
I will likely trade this in for an Android - this was my first iPhone and it has not been a very good experience and is not just terrible.
I am having the same problem as most of the people on this Topic, Originally my iPhone was on 9.3.3 and it was working beautifully until I noticed my battery life was draining so fast that I didn't do anything to change the setting or anything like that. I decided to turn off location and notification but that didn't make any difference. So I decided to update from 9.3.3(June 2017) to 10.2.1 but that didn't solve the problem, Often will shut down when I open a specific app like SnapChat when I had like 43 percent battery life. It won't turn on until i use the charger and it will finally turn on then jump back to 43 percent. This has happened all the time. So I went by UbreakIfix to have them replace the battery, that solved the problem but shortly after that, they messed up my BlueTooth, Wifi(2.4ghz), and GPS. None of it works right and UbreakIfix WON'T fix it what they broke So Do not go by New Port Richey, Florida location to do your repair. I have tried to back up and restore to factory setting and even updated it to 10.3.3, that didn't solve the problem.
My iphone was from ATT then switched to Verizon with the same phone and unlocked. Today, My wife is facing the same issue where hers will drain down quickly for no reason. She upgraded to 10.3.3. a few days ago.
I have an issue with my iphone 6 that is even worse, mymobile shuts down after reaching to 45% of my battery life, and thought i need to replace the battery and i did. But still the same problem do exist and this is driving me crazy.
Please i need quick su
This is the worst (iPhone 6) battery life I have had in all iPhones from 1st generation to the 6th. Now I can barely even have the phone stay above 80% in the first 2 hours of the day and if I take a call it drops below 10% then end up charging it multiples in a day
You are not alone. I had the exact same problem with the iphone 6, starting about September 2017. Dramatic drops in power from 100% to 60% to 10% for no apparent reason. Went to the apple store and they now have a diagnostic they can run that confirms that the battery is officially "Consumed".
Those are nice words that really mean: Apple Engineers specified a battery in the iPhone6 that doesn't last longer than 3 years and its up to the consumer who paid nearly $800 for the largest memory version of the phone to decide whether to pay $80 at the Apple store to have the battery replaced, take a risk with a 3rd party to replace the battery, or spend another $800-$1000 on a replacement phone. On top of that, they make you wait a couple hours at the store and don't even employ the technology to text you when its ready.
The good news is that for the thousands of people having this problem -- its normal and expected and you don't have to waste time reinstalling the OS and all those time wasting activities. Its simply a fact that the Iphone 6 battery is not designed to last long and Apple fully knows this as their diagnostic tools now confirm it.
It sounds like the answer is to switch to Android since Apple seems to have gone steadily downhill for the last half-dozen years both in the quality of their products and, especially, in the quality of customer service. My wife's 6s started doing the exact same thing as yours also in September. It now goes from 100% to <15% in a few hours with nothing turned on and no activity on the phone as far as app, calls, etc.
The nearest Apple store is 45-60 minutes away necessitating spending at least a half-day traveling and waiting for the "geniuses" to fix what should be a mail-in, free, fix.
I can buy an Android phone and have it delivered tomorrow with no hassle, less money, and I haven't heard anywhere near the number of problems with service that Apple keeps piling up.
I'm with you. I tried all the steps and everything and I'm just done with Apple. I'm purchasing a Samsung Galaxy Note 8, yes it is expensive, but everyone I talk with loves the phone and even my son wants to get rid of his iPhone 6s at this point. Good job losing customers Apple!
iPhone 6 battery suddenly draining fast
