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 phone is doing this too!
My battery dies less than an hour after full charge to 100% and takes giant leaps forward toward death. For example, battery charged fully overnight, battery meter at 100%, I send a text message, 10 minutes later 80%, make a 5 minute phone call, down to 50%, then scroll the internet for 5 seconds and the "battery power less than 20%, low power mode" option pops up, then i hit ok to choose low power mode and it goes to 1% before my eyes instantly. I plug it in and immediately back to maybe 50%! i'm gonna post this separately to see if maybe there are new responses.
Glad to hear that your phone is performing normally now! Though I feel like it's quite the coincidence that everyone experiencing this problem would suddenly have failing batteries, considering it seems to be a range of iPhone models, purchase dates, and iOS versions. I mean, just look at the 65+ page thread that ellenfrompalmerton mentioned... it seems like there is some bigger issue here.
I did a quick test on the app Battery Life and apparently my battery is in good condition — only degraded about 6% in capacity since I purchased it 2 years ago. Granted, the numbers from that app may not be accurate to a tee, but I feel like it would have picked up on any serious problems. My coworker suggested recalibrating the battery, and I'm going to see if it helps. It's essentially charging the phone to 100%, letting it drain to 0%, charging it back up to 100% while the phone is turned off, though you can read the step-by-step instructions here if anyone is interested: http://www.appledystopia.com/how-to/calibrate-iphone-battery/
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.
I had the EXACT same issue... I tried restoring the factory settings three times.. This did nothing... In the end, I decided to replace the battery... It WORKED.
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
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.
I am febad bcoz I bought it some days ago it's a used phone
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.
Since i updated to 10.2 i had this problem only once, two weeks ago. Then nothing.
Try turning off the iCloud Calendar and see if you notice an improvement. It ***** as a solution if you use the iCloud Calendar, but it doesn't affect me since I manage my calendars through Google.
Go into settings - general . . . then scroll to - "reset" and click "reset all settings" (not necessary to reset media) - this completely fixed the battery drain issue on my iPhone 6!
I'm not certain but you might be on to something. Mine also showed Siri using all the battery although I rarely use Siri at all.
Mine shows Siri using the vast majority of the battery life. I don't use Siri much if at all and have turned it off.
How it is now doing. Has it worked! Was it worth it?
iPhone 6 battery suddenly draining fast
