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How to stop IOS 11 battery full beeping

With the upgrade to IOS 11 when charging my phone, when it reaches full the phone starts beeping. This is very disturbing at night and requires me to unplug to stop the noise. This then leads to a 90% charged phone by the morning. How can I stop this unnecessary alert?

iPhone 6, iOS 11.0.2

Posted on Oct 5, 2017 11:47 AM

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Posted on Apr 26, 2018 11:52 AM

This is by far the most frustrating thread I have ever read. On one side multiple people, myself included, are posting about exactly the same fault symptoms. On the other there are basically 3 people who refuse to accept what they are being told and keep insisting that the posters have faulty phones/batteries/chargers or whatever. Let me make this perfect clear. With so many people posting about exactly the same issue then it isn't bloody lint in the charging port! I'm an engineer working on very high tech equipment and these reports would be sounding alarm bells right back to our factory. OK, you haven't seen the problem yourself. Lucky you. Lots of other people have though, and just mindlessly repeating the same advice is totally unhelpful.

What we do know is this. The phones affected are at 11.2 or higher. It seems to mostly affect wireless charging. Multiple charging devices are producing the same effect. It's a bug and Apple need to acknowledge and fix it. The workaround posted by one user is so far the only useful bit of advice.

For the record I have a 1 day old iPhone 8 Plus with a brand new Dockall D100 charging base and it pings when the battery is full and the screen displays the full battery icon. And there's not a speck of lint anywhere!

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Jan 4, 2018 5:57 AM in response to Chitakrm

Chitakrm wrote:


I’ve been having the same problem since I installed the last update 11.2.1

It is very annoying. The beeping starts when the battery is almost 100% and keeps it up every minute until I disconnect it from plug in power. I have tried it with multiple different power cords, outlets, and types of power, even computer and TV. So it is a bug in this software.

Or, there's something wrong with your charging port. Have you attempted to clean it?


We just have to convince Apple that they made a mistake in the update and it is not our power source. Seems they would notice that every iPhone owner is having the same problems with their plugs. Right?

Actually, very, very few people are having this problem. I understand that doesn't make it any less annoying if you're the one with the problem. But, it's a pretty good indicator that the problem is with your device, not with iOS 11.2.1.

Jan 4, 2018 6:45 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I have cleaned it even though it is a relatively new phone. I have read many posts about this issue all over the internet in the last 24 hours. And as you see in my message I have used every type of charger, USB and plug in and multiple plugs and computers and cables. And every time it starts beeping I look at the battery percentage and it is 100%. Then it keeps on. Started doing this exactly after the last update. Sorry it is not my phone or any other devices.

Jan 4, 2018 6:59 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Also there are articles about battery problems,including this one in USA Today and Forbes magazines. There are probably more. I’m continuing searching for a fix. Think about it. If it was the problems you mentioned why does it only start beeping at exactly the second the battery is 100%. It would be beeping right now at 96%. But it will start when it reaches 100%.

Jan 4, 2018 11:20 AM in response to Chitakrm

It is YOUR PHONE. It is not my phone. It is not my wife's phone. It is not my iPad. It is not my wife's iPad. It is not IdrisSeabright's iPhone. It is not hundreds of millions of iPhones, or there would thousands of posts about it.


Believe what you want to believe, but you will have the problem forever through every version of iOS if you don't troubleshoot the problem with your phone.

Jan 30, 2018 3:04 AM in response to Panamaglen

I have also this problem since the last IOS update (11.2.5), with battery case connected :

when I use the phone, the main battery is drained a little; then, when the phone is locked, the case's battery charges the main battery to 100% again, and then I get the bzzz notification. Very annoying... it's all day.

Maybe something was changed in 11.2.5 concerning the batteries management ?

Jan 30, 2018 6:55 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I wonder how long it will take apple to determine that whatever they did in version 11x has made many phones behave differently. It might be a combination of software and hardware but it’s DIFFERENT and broken. Not throw the phone away broken, but wake me up one more time in the middle of the night and throw it out the window broken.

Jan 30, 2018 6:58 AM in response to BK123

BK123 wrote:


I wonder how long it will take apple to determine that whatever they did in version 11x has made many phones behave differently. It might be a combination of software and hardware but it’s DIFFERENT and broken. Not throw the phone away broken, but wake me up one more time in the middle of the night and throw it out the window broken.

The likelihood of it being a software problem is small enough to be discountable.


What happens when you charge the phone with the included Apple cable without the charging case?

Feb 1, 2018 9:59 PM in response to Panamaglen

I was having the same problem. Really mad I couldn’t charge my phone without this annoying problem. I have new iPhone 10 and brand new Anker wireless charger. It worked great until I upgraded my OS. Anyway I just plugged the charger pad into the wall USB adapter that came with my new iPad and it stopped. Still ridiculous but hope this helps.

Feb 2, 2018 6:19 AM in response to beckyfrombishop

beckyfrombishop wrote:


I was having the same problem. Really mad I couldn’t charge my phone without this annoying problem. I have new iPhone 10 and brand new Anker wireless charger. It worked great until I upgraded my OS. Anyway I just plugged the charger pad into the wall USB adapter that came with my new iPad and it stopped. Still ridiculous but hope this helps.

For whatever reason, the phone isn't making a proper connection to the Anker charger. If it's new, I'd see if you can get it replaced.

Feb 5, 2018 6:10 AM in response to Panamaglen

I am also having this problem with my brand new IPhone X (so I am 99.9999% sure it is not lint in the charging port!) and am using non-apple charger and lightning cable - so this may be a problem. I have found a workaround that stops the phone from beeping at night when reaching full charge:

http://osxdaily.com/2017/04/24/silently-charge-iphone-ipad-no-sound-buzz/

Feb 5, 2018 6:21 AM in response to 4frank2

4frank2 wrote:


I am also having this problem with my brand new IPhone X (so I am 99.9999% sure it is not lint in the charging port!) and am using non-apple charger and lightning cable - so this may be a problem. I have found a workaround that stops the phone from beeping at night when reaching full charge:

http://osxdaily.com/2017/04/24/silently-charge-iphone-ipad-no-sound-buzz/

What that article explains how to do is top the noise that occurs when you plug your iOS device into a power source. If the procedure outlined in the article is working for you, then your phone is working as designed: sounding an alert when it is plugged in. It's not making a noise when it finishes charging.


However, if your phone was continuously making that noise, all you've done is silence the alert, not address the underlying problem of an intermittent connection to the charger.

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