New iPhone SE battery draining fast

Same here. I bought mine new from the Apple Store in 11/16, replacing a 4-year-old 4S that still got at least a week before needing to be charged.

Now I'm watching it drain 10% an hour--while in Airplane Mode. Nothing is on. At all. It's in Airplane Mode, low power mode, no wi-fi, Bluetooth, location services or apps open. This is constant. It can be fully charged at bedtime and be at 20% when I wake up... while being in Airplane Mode the entire time.

Do remember that the SE has the processing power of the 6s, but the battery of the 5, not the 6s. So the capacity of the battery isn't up to snuff. If there is a setting for processor performance (cough, windows, cough), you could set that to minimum.

Additionally, there might be applications that run in the background that consume power, even when the phone is turned off. This is a problem with the Nook readers. If you enable WiFi on the reader, and turn it off, it still consumes battery power at an alarming rate. No, not standby, fully powered off. Barnes and Noble will not admit that this is the problem with the short battery life of the nook readers. Instead, they are telling customers that they have too many apps open at one time and should configure the reader for minimal power use. They never mention turning off WiFi. They need it on to do push updates and other stuff that you really don't care about, but they want to dump on you anyway.

So Apple, got anything running we don't need, like responders, trackers, and capturers? I can't remember, did you agree to any of the NSA's terms?

As far as I am aware iphone se is having a longer lasting battery than any Iphone . Mine was easily lasting 2 days with my usage . Now i have to charge it twice a day . I am sure that something is not right and I have literally tried everything . IKONCLOST, so what are you suggesting to do ? DO you suggest staying with the wi fi switched off ???

I’m on my 2nd $75 battery purchase in 7 months. Yea, since May 2017. The SE is sucking the life out of my battery. The guy who said 26 hours, I’d like to congratulate u on owning any phone that lasted 26 hrs. If your iPhone gets cold, it drains in minutes. Is this iPhone 6 battery performance recall including the SE..???

I had SE before, 2016 august, bought new SE 2017 december, Problems with new one started right after i bought it, sended to repair, with the idea maybe system failed, got it back with words everything perfect, paid almost 100 euros, few days later sended back to repair, with the words i want battery change, so probably will have to pay double now..

problems right after i bought it, batterie died really fast, overheated while charging (no use included), pgege scrolling freezed, keyboard failed responding etc.

after so called repair, batteried died as early as before, but didn't overheat anymore, pages still froze, keyboard rarely responded right after push...

So yeah, i know what you feel, only i am in war right now cause they do not want to change it, and i do not want to pay extra for a bad device.

I also wonder "How come a brand new iPhone SE battery is dying quicker than a well-used three year old iPhone 5?"

My iPhone SE, now a year old last for a half day... this when always use battery save mode. I tried argue for warranty, but because of a small ,ark on the metal frame was the warranty not valid and I was offered a replacement for 3500 SEK ($ 430). The conclusion is that apple don't want you to use the product, if you do and drop it once, no waranty, even though if the phone works perfectly.

Try the steps here to see if they improve your battery usage, especially disabling Background App Refresh:

http://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/

Also download the app Battery Life from the App Store and test your battery with it. If it is defective the phone should be on warranty and an Apple Store can test and replace if necessary.

I'm also have serious issues with my new iphone SE battery. I've tried all recommended tips and the battery lasts 1/2 day max.

Yes, we have exactly the same problem! First 3 months battery lasted normally at least 48 hrs, but then suddenly collapsed to maximum 12 hrs lifetime! First service actions: reset and program update didn't help at all. Second service actions: battery replaced. Unfortunatelly it seems that phone still consumes battery approx. 10% per hour...

First iphone ever and VERY disappointed to this product so far 😟

My SE is exactly the same.

I got it two weeks ago, and it consumes 1% every 5 minutes, and around 10% in one hour. Very terrible battery performance.

By the way, I only browsed news website without watching any videos.

I thought it was due to iOS 10.1 problem, but now I downloaded and installed iOS 10.1.1, and reset and it still drains very fast.

Today i got it from the repair center, and an engineer said the test results were Ok.

I really dissaponit about SE's poor battery performance.

We have now two fast draining SE in family . First is now replaced to new phone but we haven't got it yet. Second phone was in service and there they reseted the phone and loaded new software. We must now test it but expectations are not high...

In our case battery performance in both phones was fine first 3 months, but it collapsed suddenly after that.

I'm still having this problem, found a fix yet?

Hey you need to take your phone into Apple this will be covered under warranty. With the iPhone 6 s and the iPhone 6se and some of the iPhone 7 when Apple had them in the plant making them some of the battery's were exposed to the air to long causes big problem including physical me saying 30% then dieing or draining insanely fast. You can even look it up it was on the news I just hope this helps you.