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Q: iOS 10 battery drain / overheating

I Updated my iPhone 6 64gb to iOS 10 yesterday, today with normal low usage my battery (charged every night) has dropped from 100% to 38% in just over 1 hour   I've also noticed that in use it is getting very hot something it never did under iOS 9, so apart from the positive of now having a winter pocket hand warmer it will be a useless phone after mid day   I hope iOS 10.0.2 comes out quickly to address this issue, a very disappointed Mac user since Mac OS 8.5

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 4:10 AM

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  • by sunilpta,

    sunilpta sunilpta Sep 29, 2016 1:46 AM in response to miguel_forum
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    Sep 29, 2016 1:46 AM in response to miguel_forum

    @miguel_forum. Thank you for the comprehensive advise. I have a 5s and was working perfectly before the update to iOS10. Now with all apps off and 100% battery before bed, and I am late so many times  in the morning cause my battery died sometime during the night. I tried the reset network option but it did not work. This is my work phone so not going to try the Beta version. We need apple to come to the party and offer a solution Before loosing a lot of faithful clients.

  • by EmmanCess,

    EmmanCess EmmanCess Sep 29, 2016 6:51 AM in response to Steve v
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    Sep 29, 2016 6:51 AM in response to Steve v

    I have the same problem too on 6plus I've notice that the temperature is unusually high.
    Try Disabling the Background App Refresh
    Settings > General > Background App Refresh > Disable

     

    There is a noticeable changes in temp and how the battery is discharging.

  • by Herself917,

    Herself917 Herself917 Sep 29, 2016 7:28 AM in response to Herself917
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    Sep 29, 2016 7:28 AM in response to Herself917

    I had this happen with my iPHONE 7.  I did everything mentioned and still had the problem.   Phone was 10 days old.  Made an appointment at the genius bar and it was replaced in 10 minutes.   The two people I spoke with at Apple were unaware of the issue.  I showed the employee at the genius bar this thread.   If you have done everything, make an appointment at Apple.

  • by Tom France Joy,

    Tom France Joy Tom France Joy Sep 29, 2016 7:59 AM in response to EmmanCess
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    Sep 29, 2016 7:59 AM in response to EmmanCess

    i've done this but not solved

  • by Ernest House,

    Ernest House Ernest House Sep 29, 2016 8:27 AM in response to Steve v
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    Sep 29, 2016 8:27 AM in response to Steve v

    iOS 10 is a horrible update. What was a perfectly fine and snappy iPhone 5s is now a clunky, slow and hard to use device. It's also dumber. on iOS 9 I could move freely and seamlessly in and out of my car's bluetooth connectivity. On iOS 10, once my phone connects to the car, whether I use it or not, the phone heats up and the battery starts draining.

     

    Even the battery display logic is messed up. Before a hard reset, battery was 78%. After restarting, it was 20%. After charging a minute it was 70%.

     

    I'm still recovering from seeing my Apple device display a blue screen on the restart. Talk about Apple going down hill... XD

  • by 330gtc,

    330gtc 330gtc Sep 29, 2016 11:48 AM in response to Steve v
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    Sep 29, 2016 11:48 AM in response to Steve v

    I have an iphone 5s that I can use for two days before having to charge. But then I updated to 10.0.2 and couldn't get more than about 9 hours on a charge. I looked at so many forums. Then I accidentally swiped right on my home page and saw a long list of widgets that were seemingly updating constantly. Widgets I used and many I never use. I deleted all of them and now my battery life is back to normal.

  • by tyler from fort lauderdale,

    tyler from fort lauderdale tyler from fort lauderdale Sep 29, 2016 12:37 PM in response to 330gtc
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    Sep 29, 2016 12:37 PM in response to 330gtc

    OK...but why should we lose battery and have the phone heating up BECAUSE od IOS 10? Many of us want those running and had them running on IOS 9 without a problem. In my case, I have a 6Plus. So we are supposed to be ok with an update that makes us turn off all bells and whistles? I would rather have APPLE fix their mistake and let us enjoy our very expensive phones.

  • by paulfromg,

    paulfromg paulfromg Sep 29, 2016 1:20 PM in response to tyler from fort lauderdale
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    Sep 29, 2016 1:20 PM in response to tyler from fort lauderdale

    Just one question to all who troubleshoot the problem:
    Is there somebody who has resolved the problem with doing a full reset?
    I´m on Public Beta 10.1 now, resetted the network settings, disabled all things mentioned here and on official Apple documents without success.
    The battery lasts about 4h in Standby with 20min usage..congratulations..
    I´m about to do a full reset now, but I just want to know if there is a "success story"

    Thanks for a reply if someone here still got battery at 10pm

  • by ellab318,

    ellab318 ellab318 Sep 29, 2016 1:57 PM in response to paulfromg
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    Sep 29, 2016 1:57 PM in response to paulfromg

    I did a full reset to my iPhone 6 (Verizon) and it was successful.  When I reset the phone it also prompted me to update my carrier setting, which may have been part of the problem.

    After the full reset and restore my battery usage is as it was prior to IOS 10.0.1 (now 10.0.2) and it has not overheated once.  I do not have my apps automatically updating and my mail is not set to push new updates, but those settings were like that before the heat-up/battery drain issue.  It's probably been about a week since I did the full reset and no issues.

  • by Inormandroy,

    Inormandroy Inormandroy Sep 29, 2016 2:07 PM in response to Steve v
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    Sep 29, 2016 2:07 PM in response to Steve v

    I just updated to 10 and I wish I hadn't. This battery drain takes my battery from about 10 hours of use to almost half - WITHOUT MY HAVING DONE ANYTHING but a few calls and searching for emails. If I'd known this would happen I'd never have moved up to 10. It's not like battery life on apple products has ever been very good, but this is ridiculous. I sure hope Apple comes up with a fix REAL soon!!

  • by 330gtc,

    330gtc 330gtc Sep 29, 2016 2:32 PM in response to tyler from fort lauderdale
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    Sep 29, 2016 2:32 PM in response to tyler from fort lauderdale

    Tyler, I agree with you but this did work for me. On 9.3.5 if you swipe right on the home page you get Siri/Nearby/?etc. but on 10.0.2 you get just a widget page. For my phone this page had every widget turned on to update. If I went to Settings those updates were not on. I deleted everyone from this new widgets page and still have functiong widgets. While it would be nice if Apple did a better job testing before throwing these things out here, this did work for me.

  • by Jacques Bloch,

    Jacques Bloch Jacques Bloch Sep 30, 2016 4:30 AM in response to Steve v
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    Sep 30, 2016 4:30 AM in response to Steve v

    I have the same problem too. When using apps with ios10 the battery life goes down from 100% to 20% in just less than two hours. This used to be three times as much on ios9.

  • by seminolefans,

    seminolefans seminolefans Sep 30, 2016 1:47 PM in response to Steve v
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    Sep 30, 2016 1:47 PM in response to Steve v

    FYI, if you criticize Apple's inaction and deflection on customers for this issue, they will delete your post. I have narrowed down my high heat and battery drain issue to the Facebook App in iOs 10.0.2

  • by Ddobsy,

    Ddobsy Ddobsy Oct 1, 2016 3:26 AM in response to Steve v
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    Oct 1, 2016 3:26 AM in response to Steve v

    I've just killed the music widget which appears to have instantly killed the heat  

  • by Satanismo,

    Satanismo Satanismo Oct 1, 2016 9:44 PM in response to Todd Jonz
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    Oct 1, 2016 9:44 PM in response to Todd Jonz

    Brilliant! This resolved the issue of battery drain and overheating immediatley after reading it. My Phillips Hue widget has been greyed out and unusable since updating to 10. I deleted the widget, restarted the iPad, and no more overheating and battery drain. Thanks!

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