iOS 10.1 Battery drain

service it first ostic : ) I lived a few years in Montreal, the Apple Fairview and Ste Catherine store technicians are often students at Ecole Politechnique, Concordia or McGill engineering, some of the best schools in the world. Bring your phones, let them do their job, maintenance and diagnostics, at least once a few years?

Hi all,

I'm here to confirm that ,since the IOS10 upgrade, my Iphone 6s started to experience weird battery drainage and unexpected shutdown with 30% battery left! My serial number is not involved in the "replacement lots" and I'm getting really frustrated since I can't use the device properly; I'm a loyal customer and I've waited for a software fix but the latest release didn't fix anything!

I hope Apple will provide a solution as soon as possible,there are not B-class customers since we all paid the same price.

Maybe the iP6+ is twice the size of my iP4!

But the battery is also twice powerfull (2915mAh vs 1420mAh)

So I should be more afraid of the iP8+ because it will be more powerfull than my iP6+ And fry faster the battery?

So it will ne normal to get a nice full year battery life out of it?

Come on!

Technonogie should increase not decrease!

Firmware also!

How you explain ipad3 lagging on iOs9.X vs no issue iOS8.X?

Isn't programed obsolescence?

Seems that Apple wrote some software code that is no longer compatible with some older batteries rendering them useless. 100% functionality before the upgrade. Not working after the upgrade. Most of us realize it's the OS at fault. Some are somehow stuck on blaming the battery. Regardless. If you want it fixed be prepared to fork over some cash to replace your battery. Too soon to tell if the OS will kill or how long these new batteries will work with this code.

I'm not prepared to pay anything,Apple offered me to change battery for "only" 70 Euro...LOL are you kidding me?!

I call this lack of respect,I bought a premium smartphone one year ago and now I'm supposed to fork over some cash for a new battery that Apple should replace for free (due to an evident software error)?

We'll see how this behaviour will pay off in the future ;-)

"So I should be more afraid of the iP8+ because it will be more powerfull than my iP6+ And fry faster the battery?" Google is filled with next iPhone rumours, no idea. But, let's mix a bit of Moore's Law in here. If you mix an OLED screen with Artemis ARM 10, 10nm architecture, you double the processing power, but half the mAh current demand. A lot less. Circuit boards continue to shrink, more space for battery. iP5 had a big upwards evolution when 6 came. 6 to 6S to 7 was linear evolution, with clear improvements within the same size. 8? no idea, we will only know with the launch. But, 5 years from now, expect different power technology, it is coming.

As for your iPad, no idea. My dad's had issues; once I did a clean reinstall, backup, freed memory, his 2013 iPad is zippy. Have you tried it? As well, we have now evolved the html language, so the web has become busy and graphical (think the RDS site). Have noticed all sorts of older computers having a bit more issues drawing Flash, HTML 2.0 and so on. Add to it iCloud all platform iCloud syncing since iOS 8, your iPad does a lot more work in 2017 than when launched in 2012.

Phoenix, I feel your frustration, but there is no evident error as you stated. A few dozen users here, 500 million users there. No SE or iPhone 7 complaints here. Same iOS.. My 6S started having issues with 9, they battery will fail at the 1 year mark, maybe 400 cycles? Of course it is not normal. But i have zero shutdowns, maybe in a few months. Why I got Apple Care until summer 2018, and am skipping new iPhone buy until I know getting solid power. Another thing- some users were told being unable to replace the battery if it was fine. Based on that, does it mean your battery did not pass the tests?

"Seems that Apple wrote some software code that is no longer compatible with some older batteries rendering them useless. 100% functionality before the upgrade." Did not think the day would come, I agree with 97.35% of what you wrote. Barring cosmetic changes, such as "older or defective." I will blame neither the iOS nor the battery for how it all started, focusing on resolution only and the actual shutdown. I will steer away from design. You are welcome to revisit links dating back to 2010, these things happen(ed). Sometimes a reset triggers it, or just random new iOS 7, 8 or 9. They all have safeties built in. The bottom line is how to resolve it, and getting the best support, no runaround. Once resolved, the iOS is no longer the issue, which means that the owner can move on.

Everyone is having some issues in Battery including me. Then why the **** Apple is silent on this issue? Are they expecting everyone to go to Court for a solution to this problem? Mobile Quality very worst and Worst Service too..

I think very few people are having the issue, only myself had it in my group, with hundreds of millions of users seemingly unaffected. I joined the forum late but supposedly all those that tried resolution fixed it through battery or phone replacement, as I did. My battery was 14 months old, 620 cycles, failed 3 months after updating. May have been draining with iOS 9 too. But over 500 cycles, used and done, per Apple specs. Listening to Beilsarius I remembered the school science, especially the electrolyte/amperage shutdown combo sub 40%. Next day I got my new Genius Bar battery, issue was gone. Disappointing battery life, but rewarding science.

You do realize that very few people actually go onto forums and post about thier problems right? For every person here that reports the problem there are probably thousands of people that don't report it. This is common sense. Please tell me you know this?

Phoeny here (which is not Phoenix nor Phoney 🙂 ),

I hope you do realize that only a minimal percentage of users, experiencing issues, decide to join the forum; this is the reason why you read only a few frustrated comments in here.

I didn't put my battery under test since I don't have an Apple center close to me and,obviously, I can't stay without Iphone for a week or more waiting for a predictable result...plus,I'm not going to pay any extra cash for something Apple must solve ( how lucky I am,the battery failure began a few days after my warranty expired).

Everybody is telling me that I have to swap battery to solve the issue but one thing is clear,Apple is going to lose a customer since they're not providing us an explanation or,at least, an acceptable solution.

Ciao from Italy

"For every person here that reports the problem there are probably thousands of people that don't report it. This is common sense. Please tell me you know this?" How do you know this? Has Apple released to you its RMA numbers? Do you mean normal hardware wear? Shutdown with drain? No shutdowns. Even if millions, we do not know. Pure speculation example.

I get it, - Fooo ee Niii- Italian. I was born in Milano. Pages ago Beisarius mentioned Apple's RMA estimates as to how many iPhones it repairs weekly. He was derided as speculation yet they were real numbers, and now people try to guess 1/1000(s) figures? 😕. There has always been replacement parts behind the store counter, long before this issue. I like the way you put the 'minimal percentage' users because:

I noticed Melanthius has been slightly tweaking his points, I admire that. It's easy to read the links and discover that there is more to phones than just OS OR Hardware, and there are many factory-built sub-OSes inside.

arrivederci!

Just wanted to update about my iPhone 6.. I began having battery drain as soon as I updated to iOS 10.1.1. I reported this few months back. Gradually the battery drain got worse and worse and I could literally watch it drop by 1-3 % with each text I sent. Then the automatic shut downs started without warning. I could be at 80% and it would shut down. Other times it would go to 19% and then shut down and then immediately jump up to 70% as soon as plugged in. As the months went by, my phone got worse and worse until this week as soon as it was unplugged, within 5 min of reading emails or surfing the internet, my phone would shut down completely and it would take it some time before charging enough to come on. Also at night, I could leave it charging only to wake and see it blinking red as if it never charged only to come back on a few hours later. I never experienced any of these things prior to iOS 10.1.1. Finally yesterday, I broke down and bought a 3rd party battery and had it put in and so far everything seems to be doing ok. The battery seems to be holding a charge and so far no more automatic shut downs. I will keep you posted if anything changes. Once again, I had no problems with my battery before upgrading to the iOS 10.1.1.