iOS 10.1 Battery drain

Wixzy, have you tried online or phone Apple support? Twitter/Facebook? iOS restore, high drain app removal? Apple feedback? From what people wrote here or said where I am, defective batteries replaced by Apple support and authorized centers have resolved the issue.

I have posted before about my iPhone 6 that started having issues after the 10.1.1 and it has progressively gotten worse. It has now started shutting down sometimes at 60% and then as soon as it is plugged in, it jumps back to 90%. Then other times it makes it to 19% and shuts down and then as soon as I plug it in, it will jump all the way up to 65%. I have never upgraded past 10.1.1 because I have read that it makes it worse. I'm to the point that I'm ready to see if buying a new battery will help but I am wondering if I should go ahead and upgrade to 10.2 before I get a new battery installed or whether to leave it at 10.1.1. Any suggestions?

I'm not trying to be mean. But it seems like you're playing Pokemon Go 24/7, you also do realise that game uses gps all the time and it's power consuming. Everyone I think agrees with that- or should. It does over 28% drain, power consuming, heat, hundreds percent faster than normal wear. It is fairly obvious that someone will reach 800 rapid cycles extremely fast. I think managing expectations is a very reasonable approach.

"I'm to the point that I'm ready to see if buying a new battery will help but I am wondering if I should go ahead and upgrade to 10.2 before I get a new battery installed or whether to leave it at 10.1.1. Any suggestions?" The good news is that everyone here who went through the troubleshooting steps, Apple support, Genius or authorized repair center, if they replaced their battery it worked each time. An advantage of doing it through Apple store or an authorized repair center if the store is unable to, is that they usually do a good or through job. Hopefully you back up, they do a proper reset (maybe firmware too?) and your replacement battery will then sync itself with the iOS 10. The latest iOS version should not affect your repair, no issue for our forum friends whom resolved it.

Very frustrating dropping calls, I have a brand new work BB I can not stand due to similar issues. The good news is that there are solutions. First, Apple support, or Apple twitter/Facebook; iOS restore, high drain app removal. If you follow what others users posted here and it gets all the way to battery replacement, it worked for all of them and it will likely also work for you.

I had to make an apple support account just for this one issue. Before I 'upgraded' to iOS 10, I had no problems with the battery life and could easily make it through the entire day without having to charge once. After the update, I can no longer make it through the day and have to charge my phone at least 3x a day. None of the battery saving settings work anymore (turning off background app refresh, reduce motion, low power mode etc.) and I can only get about 1-2 hours of use compared to up to 9 hours of use on iOS 9.3.5. What really bothers me is that apple doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.

Hard to tell spicy, whatever apple is doing is outside the forum focus. But let's say that you read prev posts from all those users whom happily resolved their issue- many though Apple or an authorized service centers- it would be unfair to conclude that Apple did nothing for them. Replacing batteries or phones, redoing the firmware, iOS install, goes far and beyond what many other manufacturers offer. Many of the original posters are gone, issue resolved, they will never be back on this topic. Hopefully rereading the previous posts points you in the same direction and regains your trust in the device.

i see you are helpful here, but don't you see some of the happenings too ridiculous? Every one of them had to spend $30-$100 for a battery replacement, even if they were no faulty (according to apple's testings) and had 95-100% of original capacity. So assuming that every third apple-user replaces his/her out-of-warranty battery at one of the apple stores, apple will earn more than a lot. I would say, many other manufacturers would also go on to a battery replacement, if they knew, they would get a tons of bucks.

Well then you are lucky.. i called last week with Apple, and because it is only iphone6S which are in the free replacement they told me I could get my battery replaced just by spending about 100 euro's ....I have an Iphone6 64GB.. Grrrr ****** off by Apple.

that was rather a theoretical question, but facts remain facts. I don't care about their revenue, i was just reflecting on your statement: "goes far beyond other manufacturers" confronting "charging people for getting a new battery, even if theit actual is tested, and approved as in 100% perfect condition". Replacing a battery, or even a phone in warranty is a normal behavior, which should not be a basic for an endorsement 🙂 But there are people that had to replace their prevoiusly flawlessly working batteries, as i said, tested by apple. You find it okay?
This is not a speculation, but a fact, i wouldn't go into any "speculations", or conspiracy theories...

Looks like they are preparing to pass the cost of all the replacement batteries (whenever it comes) back onto its loyal customers.

;)

Apple App Store prices rise in UK, India and Turkey http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38650296

Adrian.

Indeed.

32% battery and draining fast as we speak.

Not sure if it is my imagination or not but over the past 3 days my phone seems to be draining faster from 30% to 0% and then shutdown.

The experiment continues.

Adrian.

I'll throw my hat into the mix... my iPhone 6 started acting this way back in the Fall and now shuts off at 30%.

An odd thing I've seen is after one of these narcoleptic episodes, I plug it in to my Anker charger and sometimes when the phone comes back on the battery percentage is in the high 20% to 30% range and then drops to something less than 10%.

Something is really amiss here and I hope it can get fixed without my having to buy a new battery on my own.

K

"Not sure if it is my imagination or not but over the past 3 days my phone seems to be draining faster from 30% to 0% and then shutdown." Adrian, if I give you a Porsche 911 Turbo S, BMW M3 GT4, Ferrari 458 and so on, and you red line them in each gear, not only will the car maker know, but also is not warrantable on the transmission. 30-0 is the Li Ion red line, and you are hitting it very hard. That battery cell area is not designed to run hundreds of cycles. It is a vertical drop in health - you have read the science, all you are doing is proving it first hand. The highest amount of battery cycle and health is above 30%, and even more above 60%. It is called DOD, depth of discharge. But I do not see any correlation between the iOS and this, rather your intensive Pokmon Go, rapid drain and that high intensity battery operation <30% is not good.

Here is another analogy maybe it helps dispel unreasonable expectations. I hand you a BMW M3 and ask you to do Nordschlieffe lap. However, the oil is 20,000 kms old. That car can still handle thousands more at normal speed. but that single lap at speed, the engine can overheat and sustain damage. Professionals will change the oil beforehand, the brake fluid to a race DOT etc. Then it can race.

inside any battery, the Li Ion liquid changes properties as the electrons move between poles. Below 30%, the liquid has different, less conducive properties than when fully charged. There are way less electrons to move through the liquid. When you do hard drain apps, you are doing that racing example I just gave, asking high demand on a system not easy to deliver. In standby, normal mode, the liquid can discharge slower and safer for the cell. Play it hard paced -500 mAh below 30%, and the chemistry reacts with heat and reducing significantly the plate life, and why you are noticing less and less abilities for it to hold. but that is usage, not iOS related. Try it on an Android, same thing.