iPhone 7 battery drain

You also might want to check if your battery gets discharged while your phone is turned OFF.

Yesterday I had to shut my phone down because it kept getting warmer and warmer. When I did, the battery had 41% capacity left. The phone did not cool down while it was turned off. Roundabout two hours later it was impossible to power it up again - because the battery was completely empty.

Im also in the same boat, can i ask what you guys have done so far to address this issue?

Hi,

Same issue as Almondo9 with my iPhone 7 (IOS 10.0.2). Moreover the battery drains even when the iphone is switched off : -14% in one night !!. Issue with battery level indicator or with the hw ? I will open a ticket to Apple support.

Thanks.

Nothing so far... The iOS updates don't help, nor do the energy saving tips which the support people repeat over and over. Seems, that nobody knows what causes the problem.

almondo9 - did you get a new iPhone 7? If so, how's it going so far? Did you restore it from a backup (iTunes)?

I'm just wondering, because if that worked for you then I am taking mine back to the AT&T store for a another one too.

Please let me know asap. My 14 days is up the 30th.

Thanks bud.

okay...

Thanks for letting me know.

I Went to Apple Store and got mine replaced with a new one on iOS 10.0.0 and now it's working a lot better, battery lasts a lot longer but I haven't updated it to the latest so I'm just gonna leave it like this for Now.

What is the average battery life for you guys? I'm getting 7 hours of use from wifi internet browsing mostly and a little clash royale. Thanks about it. 7 hours is weak!

I'm using iph 6, after updating ios 10.01, my battery indicator always 100% and after a few hours using my battery drain.

I FIXED THE SAME PROBLEM ON BATTERY DRAIN ON MY iPHONE 7 PLUS! I had the same problem on my new iPhone 7 Plus 128gb phone running iOS 10.02 and here is how I fixed it!

First of all the way you know you have a problem (and also the way you know you have fixed the problem) is when you go to Settings>General>Battery and scroll all the way down and look at TIME SINCE LAST FALL CHARGE. If your usage time is the same as your standby time you know you have a problem and basically the iPhone is running continuously and not going into standby mode. THIS USUALLY IS BECAUSE AN APP ON YOUR PHONE IS MALFUNCTIONING AND YOUR PHONE IS RUNNING THE APP CONTINUOUSLY. You might get clues to this under the list of apps under BATTERY USAGE on same page but that wasn't helpful to me as it doesn't seem to show which app is running continuously.

Here is what I did to fix the problem and any one of these might fix it and I am not sure which one actually fixed it so here are things to try....

FIRST OF ALL MAKE A GOOD BACKUP BY CONNECTING YOUR iPHONE TO YOUR COMPUTER AND USING ITUNES.

1. If you are running Facebook on your phone then delete it and reinstall it as this app is one of the biggest culprits. Takes 5 minutes and might fix it.

2. Then do a soft reset....the way you do a soft reset on the iPhone 7 or 7 Plus is DIFFERENT THAN PREVIOUS iPHONES. Due to the new home button requiring power to work, Apple has changed the buttons used to force a restart. You now need to hold the wake and volume down buttons at the same time. After a few seconds of holding in the buttons, the Apple logo will appear on your iPhone's display, indicating it has restarted, and you should be back in business. This takes only a minute or so..

3. I then "Reset all Settings" by going to Settings>General>Reset >Reset all Settings. AGAIN MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD UP TO DATE BACKUP DONE BEFORE YOU DO THIS. I didn't think this step did much and this doesn't erase content but you lose all your settings like wifi connections and passwords etc so i decided I didn't want to lose them all so then went to next step. This takes about 10 minutes.

4. I then connected my iPhone 7 Plus to my computer and restored my backup with iTunes. This takes an hour or two as I have a lot of apps and data.

5, I then went to Settings and scrolled down and turned off the "Allow Notifications" on each app that I could live without notifications. takes 10 minutes...

6. I then charged my computer fully and VOILA it was fixed and the way I know this is I went to Settings>General>Battery and scroll all the way down and look at TIME SINCE LAST FALL CHARGE and NOW THE STANDBY TIME IS MUCH HIGHER THAN THE USAGE TIME AND THE BATTERY IS WORKING FINE AND NOT DRAINING ANYMORE THAN NORMAL.

Sorry that i don't know exactly which step solved my problem but you can do this all in a couple of hours and it saved me from returning my iPhone! Maybe if others try these steps you could narrow it down and let people know which one worked. Reminder backup your iPhone to your computer before you do any of the major steps above. Hope this helps.

Thanks drkcope for this, however my iPhone 7 battery usage and standby have always been different so this isn't the problem with my device.

I Do believe there is something that is definitely running in the backgroun, but it's not being shown within the phone itself.

When I first got the phone, my biggest usage was coming from the message app, which I thought was weird. There is however, a lot going on now within this app itself; gifs and such that can be embedded into a text message. Maybe it's all these moving litttle parts that are to blame.

After 2 weeks dealing with this issue I've become numb to this truth. Maybe one day Apple will release an update that will solve this issue. Until then...happy charging y'all!

7 Hours! Considering some of us are only making it about 4 to 5 hours with a brand new iPhone 7 or 7+...I'll take 7 hours at this point.

You will really watch the battery drain when you're on a call. Talk about weak...

Yea, I turned some more stuff off, I'm up to about 7 and a half. Also not noticing much difference between LTE usage or wifi usage. I'm scared to see what kind of battery life this will have if I actually use most of the functionality built in like Siri and background app refresh. 3 hours? I may try to do a reset, and maybe a restore from backup. My last IPhone failed to backup properly so I had to start this phone from scratch.