iOS 10 battery drain / overheating

t thanks for the response, but sorry to hear turning Wi-Fi of didn't work for you. I've been doing more testing and tried sexual things that have allowed me to resume using Wi-Fi in my wife's iPhone without draining the battery.

I removed all widgets, uninstalled Facebook, Facebook messenger, turned off background app refresh on every installed app. Since then, I've reinstalled Facebook and messenger without problem. It's looking like one of the apps is going crazy in the background, but i haven't yet isolated which one. Just happy to have a functional phone again.

be aware with Facebook and Messenger Apps,

control it with your desktop computer, not just one time, but several days.

it just happened with me, they were off on iOS, and from a desktop open the Facebook with a friend account and was possible to see that Facebook says that you are available per Phone. if it is so, means your iOS App even off is communication with the Facebook servers. on the Battery monitor I was never able to see it, just with a friend Facebook desktop.

this tip was published per many bloggers in the beginning of this year, iclarified, 9to5mac .....

This IOS 10 is just plainly troublesome as it causes too many overheating + battery drainage problems without any use of the updates. I have soft reset my Iphone 6S 4x and even did a factory reset just to try to overcome those issues, with NO avail. I just want my phone to go back to how it was before the update. Please do something about this, Apple. -Don't release an IOS that isn't ready!

Battery issue solved.

I updated the phone to iOS 10.0.2 & did a Network Reset, charged the phone to 100% & there were no issues after that.

Battery is now lasting full 24 hours on normal usage (browsing about 45 mins, texting, Facebook & Twitter - 20 mins, gaming - 20 mins & mailing). My iPhone 6 was 100% at 9:30 AM. Went to work and was on 3G/LTE till about 7:30 PM. Was texting & checking emails at work. The battery % was 63% when I came home. After browsing, social media & playing a game the % dropped to 38% by the time I went to bed. The % dropped only 2% overnight to 36% & by the time I put the phone to charge it was 30%. So a good 24 hours of backup or normal usage. I use Facebook & Twitter only on WiFi.

A lot of complains of battery drain were regarding to the Facebook app. Hopefully they've sorted it out.

There is still a heating issue when using the phone while, updating of the apps is going on in the background but I think this is normal.

So I think a Network Reset does the trick & iOS 10.0.2 has solved the massive battery drain.

I will not say that everything is fine just with the Network reset, but no doubts that is the step to do for the biggest improvement. Here lies also the Phone providers, have they updated their software accordently? answers that most of us will never know 😟

Apple and all the Developers have work around to do in order to improve overall the Battery life. Before I published that the problem was solved for me, overall I would say yes, no more battery heating, the battery lasts for about 26h with about 3,5h of real use. but yesterday happened again a strange situation, I was by 22% when wake-up, played my rotine game about 10min, and then the battery was still 22%!!! I told to myself cannot be, turn off the iPhone (just turn off, no reset), turned on again and supprise, the battery was by 35%!!! strange!!! and kicking *** using forward untill was under 10%, then I re-charged again.

Same problem with battery drain.

I have one 6s 64Gb and after ios10 update my phone start to overheating and drain battery very fast. 70% battery loose in only 2 hours of browsing Internet and all settings made for battery saving, also save mode active, dimmed screen almost to not readable light.

I have tried to restore and update with iTunes without any successful in battery drain issue.

Exactly the same issue after 'upgrading' to iOS 10.0.2, Iphone 6 goes down at a rate of 10 to 15% every hour, with almost no usage. Never had the problem before the latest OS.

I turned absolutely everything non-essential off, all what was on during the 9 version with no issues whatsoever. Not sure yet what was the point in upgrading. Runs down rapidly to 40 or 50% and all of a sudden showing low battery. If I am on a call it simply dies. On plugging into power source it goes back up to the previous level. Should not be the Wifi though, as it also happens without.

I can only hope for a new update soon to fix this. I guess my own fault to upgrade.....

Restored to iOS 9.3.5 via iTunes today, same issue. So i think I have a hardware problem.

Talked to Apple, ran diagnostics and they offered me a free repair. So maybe just coincidence and not iOS 10. 🙂

Please try disabling the background app refresh for ALL apps and see if that helps. You can do that by going into settings and simply scrolling down until you see the apps, going into each one, and disabling background app refresh for each one.

So, I thought that the 10.0.2 might have fixed my problem, but it came right back to the point that I had a full charge at 10pm, I watched 20 minutes of Netflix, went to sleep, and woke up with a dead iPad.

So a couple of days ago I did a complete restore. So far, so good. Running normally.

Restored my backup to a "new" iPhone 5s today, all is fine, no overheating, no battery drain...

Both, my wife's and my iphones started to overheat and run out of battery much quicker than with iOS 9. Can no longer unlock the phone by swiping to the left. This update really *****.

Hi paulfromg, that is great news. Please help me out here. I assumed you did a full backup on iTunes, them reset your phone to as new, then restored the backup from itunes, the same Backup before reset and not any earlier. Are you sure that has sorted all the issues? Thank you.

I am very disappointed with Apple. I have been an Apple consumer all my life and I am starting to considering to stop using their products. Since iOS 8 they are forcing us to update with their daily dammned notifications. So we do it because we just want they stop to disturb us, and then the phone doesn't work anymore.

I am having serios overheating problem since I updated it. Also the phone always runs slower with a new update. Whyare we forced to update our Phones if our devices doesn't work better with the update? This is something that should be sued.

I agree with you fanaticguitars

only I am not giving it up, but ...

what I figure out is, they are providing new iOS versions, the same with macOS, they anouced as compatible, as better, as wonderfull ... , but in fact they are damaging the performance of our actual hardware. One decision I did for myself, is that NO MORE iOS updates, you stick yourself with the OS that was sold with your equipment and you are 100% satisfied and happy. usually I change my iPhone every 2-3 years and the difference of the new iOS during this period of time does not justify the problems.

this battery problem, I had lived with it with my old 5s from iOS8 to iOS9, and now the same with my 6s with the iOS9 to iOS10.

to make this battery issue arriving the hears of the Apple Engineers, we have 2 possibilities, or we go to a Genius Bar and present it and probably we are not able to demonstrate it and come back with nothing in hands, or install the Public Beta version, currently is the 10.1 Beta 3, which runs without bugs and gives us the oppurtunity to report back to Apple whatever is not running well.

I installed the Beta version since the version 1, and the battery issue I would say is parcially solved. no more over heating, and the battery lasts more than 24h, which is my goal. nevertheless is not 100% ok, for example during my sleep with the phone off the battery drains 12% out, or it turns off with the battery 50% full and then goes again alive without additional charging, the progression of the % is not even. But at least I have it reported back to Apple also with photos and videos and hopfully more guys all over the world are doing the same, so that the issue can be on the Apple Enginners priority list to be take care.