iOS 11.4 battery drain

My iPhone 6 was working perfectly fine until I updated to iOS 11.4 and ever since I did that my battery is draining rapidly even without me using it at all. I used to go a full day without charging it now it may last half a day. I am just wondering if something got turned on with this new update that I have to turn off to save battery life. It is just weird I have not done anything other than update the iOS and now this happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted on Jun 1, 2018 6:33 AM

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Posted on Jun 12, 2018 12:13 PM

To everyone having battery issues on iOS 11.4.

What has everyone tried?


Have any of you tried a hard reset of your iPhone 6/6S by holding down both the Home and sleep/wake buttons until your iPhone goes to black and restarts with Apple logo, then release the buttons?


How much free data storage space is left on your iPhone?

iDevices need to always maintain, at the very least, between 2-3 GBs, OR GREATER, of free data storage space.


In Settings app, under General settings, Reset panel, at the right bottom of the list, Reset All Settings.


In Settings App, Battery, check to see if any apps/processes are eating up your battery.


In Settings app, General settings panel, turn OFF Background App Refresh for any apps you feel do not need constant data updating/Internet updating in the background when not using the an app OR turn OFF Background App Refresh entirely/globally for the entire device.


Do the same in the Settings app under Notifications.Turn off notifications for apps you do not think you need notifications for and/or edit the different ways you receive notifications to help with performance by not always using all the notification methods together.


In Settings app under Mail, you may want to set a longer fetch time or set your iOS Mail app to only manually fetch your mail ONLY when you launch the iOS Mail app.


In Settings app (NOT from the iOS Control Panel) turn OFF Bluetooth when not using any Bluetooth devices.


Also, in general, if you want a faster IDevice, on all of my iDevices, I turn off most of the iOS motion graphics eye candy, by simply turning ON Reduce Motion in Settings app, General, Accessibilty settings.



Make sure you aren't running 30 -50 OR EVEN MORE background apps in the iOS 11 Control Panel/App Switcher.

If you are, you need to quit the bulk of these background running apps by tap and hold a finger on an app window in the switcher and slide your finger upwards to quit an app. You should be able to use more than one finger to quit more than one app window simultaneously.


Also, make sure you don’t have 20-50 OR A WHOLE LOT MORE of active website tabs running in the web browser.

If you do, greatly reduce the amount of active website tabs your web browser.




Some minority of user have been turning ON and leaving ON iCloud backups continuously backing up on a constant and daily basis.

If you are one of these users, in Settings App, tap your Apple ID, then tap iCloud, then find iCloud backup and turn off iCloud backup and only turn this on to do daily backups either when you are not using your iPhone for a prolonged period of time (like when you are sleeping), then turn iCloud backups OFF when actually using your iPhone.


OR


Only perform your backups on a lesser time schedule.( like twice a week, once a week, once every two weeks, once a month, etc.).



Any large amount of background running apps or active processes that have to constantly go out to the Web to fetch data ALL THE TIME is going to slow down ANY iDevice and also, severely impact battery life.



In addition to all of the possible fixes and solutions presented, another iPhone 6S user, in another single posting in the iPhone support communities, suggested to go into Settings, General, Accessibility, Increase Contrast and turn ON Reduce Transparency.

Your iPhone 6/6S won’t look as pretty, but that user reported that his iPhone 6/6S speed improved considerably.



If none of this, so far, has helped your iPhone 6,/6S,


What about doing a complete backup to iCloud or iTunes on a computer, then do a complete erase and reset as new in the Settings app under General, Reset then restore your backup from iCloud or iTunes?



If still no joy after the erase and restore, hammer Apple with constant feedback about the iPhone 6/6S issues here.


iPhone Feedback


http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


This is THE ONLY avenue to get Apple’s DIRECT attention to any and all iPhone 6 issues!

IF no one continues to post regular feedback about iPhone 6/6S issues, Apple will NEVER know there is an issue and will never correct it!


Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the appropriate Apple personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.



Good Luck to You All!

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Jun 11, 2018 2:37 PM in response to footmarshian

You mean like this all over the web?

Apple iOS 11.3.1 Release Has A Nasty New Surprise

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/8cgjk3/ios_113_battery_drain/


Or this all over the web:

Apple iOS 11.2.5 Release Has A Nasty Surprise - Forbes


Or this all over the web:

Is your iPhone's battery life terrible on iOS 11.1? Here's a temporary workaround | ZDNet


Or this all over the web:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2017/09/21/ios-11-killing-your-battery -life-yes-heres-why-you-dont-have-to-do-…


Or this all over the web:

https://bgr.com/2016/09/13/ios-10-battery-life-iphone-ipad/


Or this all over the web:

http://osxdaily.com/2015/09/21/fix-ios-9-battery-life-problems/


How about this all over the web:

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/14360/flat- earth-truthers-youtube/


Or this:

https://www.thoughtco.com/best-cases-of-alien-abduction-3293341


The point is that "all over the web" is absolutely meaningless. Most of it comes from posts in Apple Support Communities, so it is simply positive feedback - People post a problem in the forum - the press picks it up from the forum - people in the forum simply quote back what was posted by them originally. Complete circle.

Jun 12, 2018 2:54 AM in response to sterling r

iPhone SE : 2 years old
Battery Health : 85%

Battery Performance Management : Applied
Wifi : Off

Location Services : Off

Background App Refresh : Off

Low Power Mode : On

Auto iCloud Backup : Off

Analytics (iPhone & iCloud) : Off

App Store Auto-Update : Off

App Store Video Auto-Play : Off

Siri : Off


Besides all these battery saving tips, my iPhone SE battery drains too fast. 35% loss overnight and it got turned off (Around 35% approx at 3 AM and the phone got switched off when I saw at 10AM)


All after iOS 11.4 update!


Immediate fix required. It's literally irritating, investing huge money for such unstable OS

Jun 12, 2018 7:34 AM in response to Zide99

Same issue. I have a two year old SE which already has response issues; battery drain was immediate. Read all the tips to turn off this and that...and I have very little “on” - why should I have to stop using the device as it was meant to be used? Why have features you can’t use because they cause major batter drain? Please fix this.

Jun 12, 2018 8:27 AM in response to Blueeyes6012

Right I had this same issue yesterday. Leaving my house, my phone was on 95% and when I came back a few hours later it had dropped down to 50% with no phone use at all during those few hours. I think this had something to do with the recent 11.4 software update that I made on my phone a few days ago. Is there a way we can downgrade to the previous software update because I do not want my battery percentage dropping dramatically like that with minimal to no phone use at all. If anyone can think of any suggestions or resolutions on how to preserve battery percentage please let me know, thanks!

Jun 12, 2018 3:06 PM in response to Zide99

What I am finding now after having responded to this thread is that my battery life is being drained from the incessant emails notifying me of further posts about battery life. (For the North Americans, this is ironic). I wonder if anyone knows how to switch them off.


Otherwise the battery life seems to be getting a bit better this evening: it’s lost only 8% in over 7 hours, without resetting network settings.

Jun 13, 2018 4:48 AM in response to sanj02

I have this problem on my Ipad Pro. Before 11.4 I could go for around 4 days before recharging. But now it doesn‘t even last for a day. In my current charge, I have 14 hours of stadby, I watched youtube for 1.1 hours and did 20min of browsing and I am now at 6% remaining. Just to write this message it took 3% of the battery. This is ridiculous. Considering the battery size in an Ipad pro there is no way it should drain that fast and everything was fine before 11.4. Please Apple fix this quick.

Jun 13, 2018 7:06 AM in response to Zide99

I'm having the same exact issue. My battery health is at 88%, but I can sit and watch my iPhone lose battery life even with no usage or anything running in the background. I used to be able to go all day without charging it, now I can barely go 3 hours. I want to downgrade to 11.3 but I'm not sure how. I hope Apple fixes this soon!

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