iOS 10 battery drain / overheating

I am having the same problem. never ever had overheating issue until I updated to the OS 10. I am running the 10.0.2. I waited at first because I knew the first release will have issues. But now I regret it. wish I waited longer. If anyone find a fix that would be great. I tried switching the phone off and on again, did the reset couple times and still no luck.

Thanks KhalDrogo :-)

I tried the (Reset Network Settings ) and the rapid battery discharge that I and many others were experiencing has disappeared.

STEP 1

Tap the "Settings" icon on your home screen.

STEP 2

Select "General" from the Settings page.

STEP 3

Scroll to bottom of the General menu. Tap the "Reset" tab. The Reset screen opens.

STEP 4

Select the "Reset Network Settings" button. A warning message appears. Tap the "Reset Network Settings" button of the warning prompt to execute the reset. Tap the "Cancel" button to abandon the reset and return to the Reset screen.

Reset Network Settings solved the battery drain.

This is a great fix. After following your instrucions my battery drainage issue and overheat improved Greatly. Its only been about 2 hours since I did this, but I can say its probably the fix to anyone having a similar issue. i will report back if anything changes

Resetting of the Network Settings seems to be a solution for some folks. But this to many others, like me, did not help at all. I also reset my network settings about 10 days ago and I first thought everything is OK. But after a while I noticed that it is still not OK especially when you have some internet traffic. I have this issue on both my iPhone 6s and my iPhone 6 whereas the iPhone 6 runs on iOS 10.1 beta 3 (and the 6s on 10.02). Also the sometimes weird jumps of the battery percentage number is there on both phones. And the iPhone 6 I have even reset as a new phone (so everything from scratch) whereas the iPhone 6s became the network resetting treatment. Everything after a couple of days of observation without any success.

the Network reset is a good solution, but unfortunatly not universal for all the cases, it worked perfectly in my 6s.

I think that there is 2 sides that have to work hard on this issue, one side the most important is Apple, there is inconstency on the draining process, the battery does not drain evently from 100% to 0%. the other side is all the other millions of developers, here is missing an interface between Apple and them, what are for each App or phone provider company the needs for the battery resources? Is Apple giving them a input on that, are the Dev. requesting this information before submitting their Apps for approval?

For me would be a simple I/O signal that can be controlled by Apple when they have to release an App, and that would be a chanlange for the Dev. to keep their Apps "green" on low battery consumption. But I suppose that Apple is more interested in selling new products than creating ways to keep "old" products alive 😟

Thanks for the solution. It works for me. Now my battery is not draining fast and no overheating. In 5 hours I have used only 55% of my battery on normal use like before.

Do not proceed for networking reset, just open the pop up menu and cancel.

Some people who have tried the "network reset" have continued to have inconsistent battery drain or rapid battery drainage problems after having upgraded to ios 10.0.1 and 10.0.2

Just to clarify.... I did a network reset yesterday and so far I have yet to have issues with rapid battery depletion like I previously experienced. Here are the steps that helped me.

STEP 1

Tap the "Settings" icon on your home screen.

STEP 2

Select "General" from the Settings page.

STEP 3

Scroll to bottom of the General menu. Tap the "Reset" tab. The Reset screen opens.

STEP 4

Select the "Reset Network Settings" button. A warning message appears. Tap the "Reset Network Settings" button of the warning prompt to execute the reset.

(I'm using an iphone 6s 64GB)

I hope this fix will help some people.

More importantly I hope that Apple will address this serious bug that has affected many users when they upgraded to ios 10.0.1 or later.

Did a total reset of iPad. Did not help. Battery just drained 10% in 30 minutes, with nothing but Safari (no video/sound) and Home Screen.

Apple, if you want to force your customers to update their operating system, it is your **** responsibility to make sure the updates don't screw with the basic functionality of the devices.

This is not some radical request by your users. If you took your car to the mechanic because he kept recommending it, and wouldn't stop bugging you about having an overhaul, and, driving home, you find yourself out of gas half the way, the wheels falling off the car; and then your discover the reason is he installed all kinds of untested crap that you never asked for, you'd be slightly disillusioned too.

(Bonus bug: As I'm writing this, pressing any arrow key forces scrolldown to bottom of screen.)

What App? I'm having the same problem (as is my girlfriend and many others I've spoken to!)

severe battery drain and the phone locking up...

Todd,

What App? I'm having the same problem (as is my girlfriend and many others I've spoken to!)

severe battery drain and the phone locking up...

I agree on the forcing updates. Since 9 I've been constantly nagged to upgrade the OS when there is an update available, so much so that it's intrusive. It's often stopped videos when I'm watching to tell me there's an upgrade, and asks numerous times a day.

We've upgraded my 6S and our iPads, but my wife has a 5S and I'm reluctant to upgrade that to 10 given the performance issues that are effecting even newer models, but she's being constantly nagged to update it and there's no way to stop the nagging.

Apple only seemed to take this stance since iOS 9, but for some reason they seem to get away with it without any media fuss. When it's Microsoft forcing updates people go apes##t at them for it, but Apple can do what they want with little or no backlash.

I'm going back to Android when I next upgrade. :>(

this I have learned already before with my iPad 2, was a super machine until the day I did the update for the iOS8 and I gave up on the iPad, was so slow that instead of being a helping device was an irritating device, I end up selling it on ebay on that advice that iOS8 did the iPad very slow. the worst is that Apple will block from downgrading after a while. Today who wants can still go back to iOS 9.3.5, Apple is still assigning it, probably until they release the iOS 10.1.

for you MattF7272, I don’t advice to update the iPhone 5S to iOS10, the disadvantages of losing performance are bigger than getting "new" features. can be also that some of the new features are blocked by Apple to older hardware versions, that is typical Apple also in computers macOS system.

I did the update o iOS10 to my 6s, but hopefully next year by the iOS11, I will remember all these troubles and will not do anymore iOS updates. Let’s be honest, what the **** did we win between iOS9 and iOS10? For me, I would say, just the iMessage emotions and special effects, the rest is uninteresting for my use.

The battery runs down so fast it is unbelievable. It would almost be better if it exploded like the Samsung phone at least I would have a great story to tell and maybe get a refund.

LOL, outstanding!!! When will people learn to NEVER do software updates.

I hope you get your device back to normal asap. I am googling the internet to see if someone out there has a fix.

yes we learned not to do software updates. but you get non stop nagging, the update is being downloaded to your phone and on my iphone it finished off the rest of available storage space... 1 giga. so you finish by installing it hoping to free space. i tried looking for solutions to downgrade but it looked too complicated to restore then the iphone from itunes. it seems that backing up once from ios 10 overwrites the former backups so i can' t find them. abd it is impossible to restore an ios 9 iphone from an ios 10 backup. any suggestions?

i will not update my ipad although i keep getting nagging reminders. is there any possibility to stop these reminders ?

thanks for your suggestions