iOS 11.4 battery drain

It really irritates me when Apple either ignores the problem, tries to get $30.00 out of you for a new battery when there’s nothing wrong with your battery to begin with. At the cost of these phones you would expect better service 😡.

Agreed. That cool heads are required. It should be escalated though and a short statement saying that Apple are actively working on the fix would be welcome. Most companies put their hands up early these days to avoid negative press.

Подключаюсь к данной проблеме. Заряд слетает очень быстро. При новой прошивке телефон с зарядки почти не вытаскиваю. Аккумулятор у меня очень свежий, сбоев по заряду до этого не было. Решите пожалуйста эту проблему. Или давно бы уже сделали откат прошивки. Потому что чем она новее, тем быстрее дохнет телефон.

It’s an issue with the 6, 7 and some 8s. Mines an iPhone 6s Plus which seems to be on that list hit by this drain issue. But like others it’s a confirmed issue with the WiFi, I’ve tested it over and over. It’s present in beta 11.4.1 and in beta 12.0 I’ve ran both IOS and there is no fix.

This morning after full charge overnight to 100%

Phone not plugged in for about an hour

All in Low Power Mode

Used for Hot Spot

Ran a few Apps

Usage 49 minutes

Standby 54 minutes

Battery Charge is now at 58%

I have also noticed that when I loaded 11.4 my Battery Health (Beta) was around 91% and is now 88%

I assume the Battery Health monitor is a Beta test. Is that correct and if it is monitoring the battery constantly could t be also eating the battery????

Time to plug in again

I have been avoiding any updates such as 12 Beta 2 but might have to try now

robfromcirencester wrote:

...and a short statement saying that Apple are actively working on the fix would be welcome. Most companies put their hands up early these days to avoid negative press.

Couldn’t agree more, I have supported Apple for longer than I care to remember and I still consider they produce the best kit when you take design, user experience and performance into account, but when things go wrong there attitude with regards to keeping the customer updated leaves a lot to be desired.

I suppose it’s this “no blame, sue everyone” culture we have to thank for this, hold your hands up and someone wants to then make money out of it. Still, I feel Apple could release info in such a way that would keep us up to date without appearing to except liability, they do have a very good legal team after all.

Gogogagetipod wrote:

It’s an issue with the 6, 7 and some 8s. Mines an iPhone 6s Plus which seems to be on that list hit by this drain issue. But like others it’s a confirmed issue with the WiFi, I’ve tested it over and over. It’s present in beta 11.4.1 and in beta 12.0 I’ve ran both IOS and there is no fix.

From what I’ve seen, and there’s quite a few discussions ongoing at the moment, most iPhone models can be affected, even the new X, but it only seems a smattering of each model (ie. not all 6 or SE models).

If you then consider that an iTunes Restore as New makes no difference (which should never happen) then you can only conclude that somehow the last iOS release is not compatible with “some” internal iPhone components.

I’m not sure about iPad’s, they may have some of these “components” as well but I would consider the larger batteries could hide the issue fairly well. The above is just my guess but without Apple giving us some feedback we will probably never know what actually is behind this problem.

Got really warm when WiFi was on while charging. I had pretty much everything turned off that you could on the phone in order too get longer usage, however even doing that and turning the screen brightness down as low as I could wouldn’t stop the battery drain. It’s almost llike something was running using heavy data usage. I’m on beta IOS 12 second release and they seemed to have fixed it.

As I reported earlier I HAD the same problem. Dead battery the next morning, excessive drainage. I went through my phone settings and turned off all the features that I don't need, and don't use. I noticed there were some features on that were not on prior to the update to 11.4. I shut things off like notifications, location services, a couple other things that would keep the phone "actively" running. Like I said, there were services and features on that were not on prior to the update. I then shut the phone off completely (rebooted). Started it back up, charged to 100 percent and my phone is acting normal again and my battery drainage problem appears to be gone. I'm guessing the update turned on services that allow it to operate with the new update features in the IOS and perhaps this may be the problem. It worked for me and by the way my wifi is on all the time at 5G. If you haven't done it already, carefully go through each and every setting and see what is on/off. Maybe this is the problem. Worked for me.

Very happy it seems to have worked for your iPhone.

I turned off everything possible shortly after downloading 11.4 as the Web articles suggested,

It helped some but is no where near what it was prior to 11.4.

I have noticed it isn't as hot as it was right after downloading 11.4 so I am sure it helped a little.

The 11.4 update is completely horrible for battery life. It seems okay if I don't touch my phone at all. However if the screen goes on and I do anything the battery drain is crazy. I used maps for 30 minute drive and it took +20% of my battery. That is with me plugging it in when I noticed the drain. If I use the safari browser or make a call or any app then my phone gets extremely hot and I have to stop using it. The 11.4 update is okay if don't use the phone. However if you use your phone in any manner the battery drain and heat issues are just crazy.

Just got off the phone with a senior advisor. Absolutely no help. He told me it was the battery and I need to replace it.

I had an advisor check out my phone and he determined it was not the battery. I have reset my phone to a new phone. The same issue. I asked this senior advisor to check out this support group and he wouldn't. I also asked him to check with the engineers to find out when they were going to come up with a fix and he told me, all I had to do was change that battery and if I wouldn't do that or reset my phone to a new phone then he couldn't help me. I guess it's time for a new brand of phone. Sick of paying outrages prices for something that doesn't work.

Like I everyone else in here I’m having the same problem with severe battery drain on iOS 11.4. First off before this I never had a problem so I don’t see these gimmic fix’s, such as not using certain WiFi’s, making sure all my apps are always turned off, etc, as a solution rather a bandaid for the problem. Whether they are doing it or not apple should take responsibility and fix this problem in a timely manner instead of letting their customers suffer. I recently went out of the country, came back, and had this problem. My mother who was here in the states with the same phone (iPhone 6s) also had the same drained issue. I talked to Verizon they said it was my phone. So I went to Apple then they said it was my battery and the problem was Verizon’s new cell tower firmware, in all fairness it did need to be replaced, however after it only marginally fixed the problem. My mother who rarely uses her phone couldn’t leave her phone on standby for more then 2 hours without almost completely dying. I couldn’t even be on the phone 10 minutes without it almost completely dieing. Went to Apple the said battery was fine on her phone and said she had to many things running, what?! Ok I’m sorry if news, email, WiFi, Bluetooth, txt, call or too many things running in the background for the battery to handle, however, never had this issue before iOS 11.4. So I did some research I heard some people had better luck on iOS 12 beta. Installed it on my phone again only marginally better. At least now my phone won’t die within 2 hours on standby, but when I’m using it still ***** the life out of my battery just as quick as iOS 11.4 and it doesn’t matter if WiFi is on or not or on 5g or 2.4. At this point Apple is garbage, has been since jobs died, to me the only fix is waiting for the new phones to come out and get the pixel 3. Googles where it’s at now. Apple is not transparent every where you go they point the finger at the other guy with no real answers. I’m not going to waste my time making sure everything is in a particular mode to make sure my battery can last 3 hours ?!?! Screw that goodbye Apple. I’m tired of waiting for the next update to solve the last updates problems, apples just a revolving door of problems.

With background app refresh and location services off, battery life is normal. WiFi is on. So the combination of BAR and LocServ is where all the battery loss appears to be going.

Can others please confirm the same.

When I took my battery problem to Apple store, they just suggested me to change the battery, even though it was still at 82%. The problem remains as is, even after the battery change. I spent the money for nothing :(