iOS 11.4 battery drain

Yesterday visited an authorised service center and ordered for new battery. it takes a week for the same, lets see if things improve after the battery replacement but i have my own doubts that discharge rate wont stop i feel and it looks there is no fix for the same in IOS 12 too. So its time to shift android very soon

Apple contaced me yesterday on a commemt I have written here in this forum.

So, they do reads or at least scan what we think about battery drain issue.

Instead of support they told me they deleted my message with bet#a release 12 not fixing the issue hundreds of users have. I must not communicate anything about issue in this forum here,

Unbelievable. No more money for apple products.

That act looks ridiculous to me. In todays world everything is transparent and open and users opinion matters a lot.

Instead of focusing on the problem, stopping one talking about it wont help apple in anyway instead they loose credibility in front of us for sure. I hope they also read my this message and take corrective steps as we all are users of apple from few years and valuable customers and i dont expect they suppress a voice of a customer.

The strange thing is also that it occurs different from day to day.

Last Saturday in the morning it was plugged in but very hot and 100%. I only listened to deezer music wireless. After 50 minutes without active display battery was 20%. I did not use the phone for anything else. Before 11.4 it was >12h.

Today, I sm using it at home actively since one hour with battery decreasing by only 7%.

At work today it was draining battery so quickly that only flight modus was possible to keep it alive.

Evidently there is something underhanded going on. It can't check for the originality and authenticity of the charging cable if the device is switched off. The device won't charge if it is left on. I had top power it off in charging state. May be the software code that checks for it or what measures and displays the battery level is to blame. How else can anyone account for the displayed level to jump between 9x% to 1% and back every few seconds? Why should it reboot when the displayed value is above 90% ? May be someone needs to hack the system and reverse engineer it to find if there is any code or routine that checks the manufacturing date of the device and behaves accordingly to scare and force the user into spending money to replace the device. I wouldn'd put it past Apple as they aim to reach $ 2 Trillion market capitalisation.

Yes,

It’s apples way of tricking you to buy into the new iPhone upgrade. I’m switching to android I’m tired of it I bought a new 6s just under a year ago and the battery life is unacceptable for the cost.

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.