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Nigel-66 Author

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83 points

New iPhone SE battery draining fast

I just bought a brand new iPhone SE from Carphone Warehouse UK (boxed, sealed in original Apple box/packagine and shrink-wrapped. I even checked build date for phone and it was only built 8 weeks ago so I know it is brand new) and the battery isn't lasting long. I've done the usual: let phone battery die, then plug in and wait till it is 100% charged to calibrate it. With no bluetooth and hardly any use the battery dies of it's own accord after just 26 hours.

With my previous iPhone 5, under the same set of circumstances, it would take 64 to 72 hours to die. The main reason I bought a new iPhone SE was because my old iPhone 5 was three years old and the battery life was almost exhausted after being charged/discharged hundreds of times over three years, at the end the iPhone 5 battery was dying after about 34 hours.

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

I've only had it a few days, can I get my local Apple store to swap it for another, or will I have to go to Carphone Warehouse and get them to swap it?

Or, is there no fault at all and SE just has terrible battery life?

Posted on Jun 17, 2016 1:31 AM

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LaurieNY

Level 1

9 points

Posted on Jan 15, 2017 11:16 AM

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.

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Dec 5, 2016 4:10 PM in response to Applepro2123

I took it into the Apple Store (Still under warranty) and they ran a few tests and said it wasn't a hardware issue. The lady helping us told me to restore as a new phone which I had already done. Still, it didn't do anything. I have gone through settings and made my iPhone SE a dumb phone instead of smartphone to save battery, has done nothing so far. This reply has taken me 5 minutes to write, and I have watched the status bar go down 3%. If anyone had this problem and has a fix, please let me know! And I have only had this iPhone for a few weeks and it was brand new.