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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Aug 27, 2018 10:50 PM in response to gurrala

Believe me you won'r regret your decision. As and when actually needed, may be after 3 - 4 years of use, you will be able to get the battery replaced for under 10% of the phone cost. From what I understand the battery charging circuit is totally hardware controlled. OS does not screw around with it. In my case unless I power off the OS my iPad won't even charge !!!

Aug 31, 2018 5:05 PM in response to boris168

@boris168 - You can't. When Apple releases a new iOS or updates therein, it offers a very narrow window of time for downgrading before it signs off on previous versions. Even if that weren't the case, iOS v. 11 is a *complete disaster.* It never should've been released and pity the poor soul, like yourself, who's stuck with it. (I am as well but mine was a completely unintentional 11 downloading so I cannot be blamed.) By far the worst iOS software that Apple's ever put upon its customers. The takeaway here is to be aware that the window for reverting to the previous iOS version is super small and plan accordingly.

Sep 9, 2018 10:16 AM in response to afromprescott

Hello everybody ... the discussion forum seems to be very quiet. Does anybody got the battery drain problem SOLVED ?? I am sick of waiting for Apple ... 10 testing versions ... and none of them solved the problem. If someone is thinking that Apple is planning to solve the problem with the NEW IOS Version ... forget that.

I have call again Apple on the phone ... and support says that there is nothing that they can do (and again are saying that battery replacement solve our problem). We all know that this is not the problem, a lot of persons have made the battery replacement and the problem persists. What to do more with this stupid/crazy/repugnant situation ??? Any tip ?? Thanks

Sep 9, 2018 10:26 AM in response to jvale74

When I tried to reply, I received "Unauthorized" and figured I was blocked. Tried several times and finally got in.

Everyone is probably just sick and tired from being sick and tired of Apple.

I am just waiting on 12 and staying close to a charger. If 12 doesn't solve the battery drain then I will definitely go Android. If it does help then I will stay with my phone until I absolutely need a new one. At that time I will then decide which way to go.

I can stay unplugged for 1 to 4 hours depending on usage.

Sep 11, 2018 10:36 PM in response to Zide99

Hi!

Today morning during my travel I switch on some video on my iphone...of course the battery wac 100%. After 1 hour the battery was 45%. So...a p p l e you are very weak company you can't solve this problem in 2018 year. I a p p l e think I will buy a new iphone? No ... never... I will be use my SE till his d e a t h...even I have to charge the phone every hour.

Sep 18, 2018 5:47 AM in response to julianfromwerl

Same situation for me ... new version 12 did not solve the battery drain issue ... as I have already informed before.

I knew that as I was doing tests before version 12 was lunched. We need to do something guys. This is not acceptable.

I am going crazy ... and my battery that had 87% of life ... now goes on 80% after these 2 months charging it several times a day.

Sep 24, 2018 7:09 AM in response to jvale74

As a last chance I loaded IOS 12. It isn't any better and perhaps even worse. Apple has added more battery monitoring features and the "screen on" vs. "screen off" time hasn't changed in days. It doesn't appear to work. My largest drain is "Home and Locked Screen". Could that be draining the battery? When the phone is locked?

Anyway as I stated "last chance".


Apple won the battle on this one. However you have lost my business. I will NEVER buy another Apple product.

They should be ashamed for their lack of support.

Oct 12, 2018 7:51 AM in response to Zide99

I read somewhere that a sequense of disabling and enabling various settings (4-5 different settings) would improve battery performance. I did try this on my old iPhone 6, and for sure it worked fine - significant improvement.

However, I did not remember where I found the description - do anyone else know? I have been asked to do the same for another iPhone 6, but cannot find the description.

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