iOS 11.4 battery drain

[Tried to edit my post once the cable issue was solved.]

What is the freaking problem with Apple!?!? Are they **** bent on my next phone being a Samsung?! My 5S went from 70% to zero when 11.4 loaded! Red flashing empty battery and forlorn lightning cable. I restarted the phone twice, and it came back to 70, but started draining fast. My 6 was unfortunately already loading 11.4 by then. I will try to regress to 11.3.1 or any other working version. Both phones are in low-battery mode and plugged in. Not looking forward to traveling far from a charger at all. I have no confidence in Apple at all right now.

And now I am finding out that 11.3.1 is unsigned?!? For crying out loud, Apple! At least you could have rolled out this idiotic plan of yours when the next Samsung Note model comes out. Now I need to decide whether to buy a Note 8 or stay pen-less in a 9. If this unsigned 11.3.1 won’t take, and I still have this problem tomorrow, then it’s over. But I’ll be joining the 11.4 lawsuits for sure.

Turning wifi off is a non-starter if you require wifi to assist your cellular reception in a tall office building or other cellular-unfriendly locale.

My 6 has gone down 12% today, but I drove to work with GPS on, sync’d my Garmin, and am typing reply now — this last bit, reading replies and typing mine has cost 3% of the 12.

My 5S has stayed at 100 so far, but I have done nothing to it other than check the lock screen.

The only difference from the epic-meltdown of last night has been that I charged both devices all the way to 100%.

If you are still having trouble after a good stint at 100%, that may be a sign to take drastic action. In my case, I have taken note that the next Note may be coming out soon.

Good info and many thanks. I will go that route.

It might be in Apple’s best interest to change the name of this forum or to better define the purpose to “consumer to consumer” hints or comments.

We are all trying to incite a riot with the hopes that Apple might do something with all good intentions to get our expensive phones fixed when it wasn’t the consumer’s faults. The forum does show that that this is not an individual operator issue.

Thanks for clearing this up.

If I had to guess I would expect the ”comments” on this discussion haven‘t gone unnoticed by Apple (with or without the aid of a riot!), and the fact that those using the lastest beta are seemingly reporting better battery life goes some way to back that up.

It’s just sometimes, no matter how frustrating or painful the issue is, all that can be done is sit back and wait, I like many others would like Apple to be a little open about things, and I wouldn’t think it would dent there reputation to have an area on the web site that kept users updated on known software issues, a little like that for there various services.

But until that day comes, we have to use what’s available to get info to Apple and then sit back and trust a resolution will be forthcoming no matter how hard that may be with a problem like this that literally staring you in the face every time the device is used.

I wish I had your confidence in Apple. Earlier this year I went through the same thing we're experiencing with an iOS update ruining my batteries. They finally gave up and told me I had "vintage" hardware (myiPhone 5 and iPad 3). They no longer service them and my only solution was to buy newer ones. I got a new iPhone. But this will be my last one.

Fool me once, shame on Apple. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Contacted Apple Support and went to Chat. A notice came up that they would be with me in 2 minutes. After 20 minutes I gave up. Hopefully others are trying to contact them also. I will try again after a while to see if they respond to the case number.

They can will the battle and lose the war.

If this isn't fixed and I am finally tired of having to keep my phone plugged in all the time, they won't get any more of my money. That is all any of us can do.

I have had Android before and there are some Apps that they don't have.

However, I need a mobile phone that is mobile.

PS: My iPhone 6S does have a middle finger emoji. I guess it was meant for this purpose.

I’m facing pathetic issue with battery drain when I updated to ios11.4 . I’m not even able to use my phone for 2-3 hours. Back to iOS 10.3.3 it was working perfectly fine whole with a one time charge . I don’t know what the **** with Apple . Either they don’t test before releasing or what. I want to downgrade my iPhone to iOS 10.3.3 .

I contacted Apple support, which I recommend we all do. I’ve detailed my interaction at 11.4 Battery Issue.

They did not offer any knowledge of an issue or an immediate solution. They’ve sent my case to engineering. Perhaps thousands of cases from those of us frustrated may get some attention?!

How do I downgrade? This 11.4 release is horrible on my 6s. Makes my phone worthless since the battery is draining so fast. The last time Apple did this on the 4s people were forced to upgrade HW and the cost for change is too high and not feasible for a family. I’m not doing this again. This is terribly poor customer service Apple!!! It impacts not only customer satisfaction but also customer loyalty.

Can someone tell me how to downgrade?

I have opened a ticket with Apple as suggested on your email below and no news from Apple until today.

People are completely frustrated of course because Apple just a new IOS and it is us who are getting prejudiced. I am personally very disappointed with Apple, without mentioning that I’ve already spend a fortune (I presume like many other people) with batteries, screens etc - all this because I was thinking it was my phone! Let’s be honest, since the release of the IOS 11.4, Apple has not taken any responsibilities ..

Isabela Moreira

Come on Apple! How can you guys not be aware of this battery drain issue? Sounds like another scam to me to get people to buy new batteries or phones. My phone was working perfectly until I installed iOS 11.4. There are countless numbers of people having this problem and you claim that you didn’t know about it. Please release a fix now!

Just got off the phone with Apple Support. They were no help at all and said iPhone 6 Plus is an old phone and incompatible with new software update. He suggested I check my battery health, location settings, wifi etc. I had checked prior to calling and all were good. Apple is trying to place burden on the users, and not accept responsibility for bad update. Apple has no plans to fix the issue. He suggested I buy a new battery! What a scam - there was nothing wrong with my phone until I installed iOS 11.4! And a two year old iPhone is considered old - seriously? Curious logic, considering my husband installed 11.4 on his iPhone 5s and it works fine. Wake up Apple!

Texts and FB Messenger, some use on FB, Emails, made two short calls.

Surfed the web for a short time.

Did not want to push too hard first time.

I’m sure many others use their phone more than I do.

WiFi is off now. Looking to see if it completely drains the battery from this point.

This past Sunday I charged it normally, left it on with no soft reset. No use. Wanted to see how long it would last.

Completely charged ....lost 100% in about 12 Hours.

According to battery life info, I have 92% capacity use. Don’t know if that has any bearing on it.

Going to keep trying.