iOS 11.4 battery drain

Unfortunately for me I bought iPad simply because that was the only way for me to video-chat over Facetime with my grand daughters on their iPods. That is the only use I have for it.

Now I am trying to convince my daughter to install Google Duo on their current devices so I can get rid of my iPad and have a far superior video-chat experience even over dicey internet connections. Believe me. You should try it. Facetime does not even come close.

One thing is certain. Apple made a boo boo, big time. My iPad sort of reboots even when the power is well over 40 to 90%. It initially displays 1% after reboot and then almost immediately displays a few percentage point less then when it rebooted. Again I can use it for a 2 -3 minutes and the cycle repeats. It behaves the same even when connected to the powered on charger. In real life I have yet to come across a single rechargeable device where power consumption of the device is greater than what the charger can put out. So even in use the device does get charged, albeit slower than otherwise. Actually I have clients running their laptops directly on the chargers WITHOUT the battery in place. My 10 year old Galaxy POP Gingerbread battery is still going strong. My 6 year old Galaxy Grand duos can go for 10-12 hours on a single charge without rebooting or shutting down. My 4 year old Redmi 2 Prime goes for 36 hours on a single charge. Need I say more?

Yes you are right. When am talking of the battery issue the store guy tells me to upgrade to one more stupid iphone with a cost that will get you a decent low end petrol seconds car in India😁

I am also tired of this battery issue on my 6s, still its not worth to sell it in exchange for any other mobile as I paid rupees 50k 1-1/2 years back. seems apple in no mood to hear our voice, hence i decided to replace the 6s with a new battery and keep for home usage and now shifting to Android and Nokia 7 plus an excellent mid range phone with snapdragon 660 under the hood and 3800mah battery which gives you 2 days back up with moderate usage and cost me INR 22k also you can buy beautiful notch display phones like huwai p20 lite and a new on honor play just for INR 20k in india. hope apple doesn't delete my message and learn for it

recently bought a ipad 6th gen 9.7 from singapore for INR 25k and upon usage of a week felt its not that useful for anyone at home as all the video calls are with whatsapp these days, so successfully sold the same in india for INR 24k and got rid of a white elephant

I very strongly feel it is the stupid charge level measuring software routine that is screwed up. So I found the best way to charge is to power it off when charging. Even my nearly 10 year old Samsung Galaxy POP battery is still working. I use it for remote control and playing music to bluetooth speakers.

Unfortunately you lose contact with outside world if you do this. I can because it is an iPad that has only one single use for me. Facetime with my granddaughters on their iPods.

So you are saying the replacement phone battery too is draining fast ? So what will they do do next ? Replace it with model X?

Why do they keep blaming the battery when the problem lies elsewhere, like in the OS? IMHO it is really stupid to have to replace complete hardware because the OS is screwed up. How else can one reconcile the fact that the charge level keeps switching between 1% and whatever it really is. May be 10 % or 95 % or anywhere in between. It simply goes through the cycle of reboot every couple of minutes I try to use it and the display is on. Apparently the techs at the service center are not really very smart. They simply follow the chart pasted on their white boards without thinking out of the box.

A Li-Ion rechargeable battery is most certainly not a toothpaste where nothing more will come out after it has been squeezed dry. They still charge but with diminished capacity. Why should the battery behaviour/response change so drastically just by OS update? "Upgrade" would be a wrong word to use because in reality it is a major downgrade.

Even Apple knows there is a problem with this particular update. Why is there no option or method to painlessly revert to the previous version just like "system restore" in Windows ? Or something similar to recovery boot of Android system or ADB ?

Or better still, why nor follow the Unix pattern on which it is based? "Don't fix unless broken".

yes exactly !! and apple is just screwing themselves without focusing on OS patch to fix this issue and probably doing wrong marketing of "upgrade" where no stupid will pour in so much money once again on a unreliable product for sure. I feel its time to say bye bye costly apple.

I do not see any pattern in battery drain issue.

Yesterday I lost 80% within 20min.

At night it was hot but 100% loaded. I disabled all wifi, mobile, bt - and list another 30% overnight.

Just now using it for 30min actively and only loose 3-5%.

Dont‘ know....

You are fortunate you can use it for 30 minutes straight. In my case in a couple of minutes it first goes blank then into "reboot cycle" and then displays the desktop first with just 1% battery level and then in a few seconds with about 3% to 4% lower level before it went into that loop. If I don't use it then it retains the power with hardly any usage at all. But as it is I can't do anything at all.

BTW it I connect the charger and leave the device switched on then it does not charge at all. I have to first get the device into displaying "charging mode lightning symbol' and then without disturbing the cable power it off. Then it will charge to 100 %. Strange behaviour indeed.

I am wondering why the dev team could not analyse the logs to identify which processes are running and consume this massive battery time.

I followed all the power save features you can read in the multiple websites to fix the 11.4 battery issues, nothing helped.

I will request one more time to look into my issue and analyse my phone behaviour.

If say finally advise to buy a new battery I will go to the next Samsung Mobile shop.

You have hopes ! They are probably the most shameless company in the world. Why else would they lock out every independent manufacturer from making anything compatible and charge dollar for a dime worth of hardware?

I think they are going to be thoroughly ****** off with something I read today. Someone has come out with a inductive (wireless ) charger for their phones and watches.Best part is it can charge both simultaneously. They most certainly don't have the technology to measure the magnetic strength or field pattern to disallow this. So how will they sell their exorbitantly priced cordless chargers? Or will they revert back to strictly wired charging only so they can continue to gouge their customers ?

One thing is certain. Not spending a penny more on absolutely anything Apple.

I don't think it is a battery issue at all. I read it differently.

They have some kind of sensor routine in software that recognises the attached charging cable for authenticity. Now this will either throw an error message and trigger another routine that prevents charging of the device. Sohow some one effed it up and the routine / sub routine goes haywire and does not read the battery level correctly and triggers a shutdown / reboot or what ever. Just goes on to show that they don't really have the collection of the smartest software engineers. What else can explain almost instant change to bad behaviour of the battery in 2 hours. A perfect case for "before and after being f***ed".

I was locked out of my iPad itself. After this update it wanted to re-authenticate my identity. That was something that has never happened in the past. Unfortunately it would not remain on long enough for me to enter my username password and the additional answers it required. It would simply go into reboot cycle even when the battery level was at 90+%. I finally managed it online from my desktop PC with the help of LastPass. The GUI was not exactly user friendly nor intuitive.

I have exactly the same issue, battery drains like nothing i've ever seen. Yes i use apps etc occasionally through the day but only for short periods. I've now taken to bringing a charger to work as it dies halfway through the day. Iphone 6S.

I suspect it's turned on some sort of location services that is constantly updating, this kind of thing constantly drains battery. I've found if i simply turn my mobile data off, it lasts a lot longer, but then what's the point of a data plan if i turn my data off? - Then i won't be getting my emails etc.

It needs investigating and fixing ASAP

It could be but I doubt it. First of all how could this crop up suddenly and only upon the OS update? In any case it would also take longer to charge the device and heat up the charger due to this short circuit.

In my case the charge remains pretty much topped up until I try to use it. Then the 1 minute use, display blanking, reboot, displaying of 1% battery level and then 3% to 4% less then the last display cycle starts. All the notifications and other things keep going ion the background. I am just going to keep maintining the charge level and generally avoid using it except to check the battery level. This in the hope that Apple will do something to fix the problem without admitting that they royally f***ed up the last update and it will work on my device..

Hi,

I opened a chat and requested an analysis after my 6S lost 45% on my way to work - not using any functionality. They found that my battery does‘t meet the „high performance“ requirements introduced with 11.4

They will replace the battery which is compatible. Just to mention the battery was replaced just a year before with a replacement program.

It‘s free - so I give it a try.

PS: a simple notification before the update that clearly says the battery isn‘t compatible would be better. Why should I agree on an update which makes my phone useless?