iOS disables flashlight when battery is low

Thank you for starting this thread rempedaal.

I just wanted to confirm to anyone that may be looking, that the 11.0.2 update does fix the flashlight issue on the iPhone 6. The frustration I went through searching for this solution almost made me destroy my iPhone and go buy an android.

Btw, Users like anypats and from0toHero can go find the door. Your condescending remarks were not helpful, necessary, or appreciated. Let’s see how you feel after you pay exorbitant amounts of money for a product, and someone starts shutting off the features you bought it for. 🙄

Curiously, turning low power mode on and off seems to make it possible to turn the flashlight on.

We're all just fellow users here; you can tell Apple of your frustration here:

Product Feedback - Apple

If you turn the low battery mode off you can use your flashlight

As stated before, send feedback. Those solutions you suggest aren’t available. However reasonable you believe them to be they aren’t viable as things currently stand.

11.2 seems to have fixed this issue for me.

Any of you simply ranting are in violation on the Apple Support Communities Use Agreement. You can read what you agreed to here:

Apple Support Communities Use Agreement

Note the following: Post constructive comments and questions. Unless otherwise noted, your Submission should either be a technical support question or a technical support answer. Constructive feedback about product features is welcome as well. If your Submission contains the phrase "I'm sorry for the rant, but…" you are likely in violation of this policy.

Apple will not read any of this so the only way to let them know of your frustration is to use Product Feedback - Apple. And lastly, is this seriously that big of an issue for people? First world problems. Hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, floods but my flashlight doesn't work. Buy a small LED flashlight from Walmart for $1. But be sure to keep extra batteries on hand as they'll probably start to go dim when the battery reaches 15%.

kaylanx wrote:

Couldn’t agree more. This has been driving me crazy since I updated. I was about to write a post very similar to yours.

Did you submit your feedback to Apple? They are the only ones who can effect any change.

Have you contacted Apple Support. I don’t think this was programmed in intentionally. Tonight I tested and flashlight worked at 10%, 9%, 8%, 7%, 6%, 5%, 4% and then my iPhone shut off completely. Clearly this isn’t happening for everyone.

Contact Support. This isn't happening for all users.

Right now I'm working with a senior advisor about this issue on my 6 plus. So far we haven't figured anything out. On iOS 11.0-11.0.2 anything below 20% I couldn't use it now on 11.0.3 it works at 15% but 14% and lower I can’t use my flashlight. He ran diagnostics and some other tests and sent them all to the engineering department when I get more info I will follow up

I agree I recently was in my car driving home from work late at night. I was in my grandmothers car which I had never driven in before. I didnt know that the headlights where automatic and I couldn’t see anything. I pulled over and tried to use my phone to see anything and I wasn’t able to see anything because I couldn’t use my flashlight to locate anything in the car. I wasn’t even able to see where to turn the car lights on! I was a horrible experience and I am still shaken up especially as a new driver. It would benefit many people like me if this feature was disabled or at least if we were given the option to disable it ourselves. It has come to make my life very difficult. I think apple would care that their devices had multipurposes and I’m sure they will try to fix their problems to please their customers, they always have in the past. I really like this company and all their products and I hope they make this change.

This is a saftey feature my friend. Let’s say you have 3% battery and u decide to use the flashlight. The led use alot of power and it will deplete the 3% very fast, and it will even dipp below the 0% and this hurts the battery very much. A matter of fact the battery will die and your mobile will be a brick. This happened to me with 2 different palm devices. Apple helps you to avoid such a scenario by not allowing the led with low battery. Mybe 20% are to conservative. But better conservative than a brick mobile.

I'm on the newest 11.1 beta. It has not been fixed yet. Prevented me from using my flashlight to find a gas leak.