iOS 11.4 battery drain
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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!
when are they going to send us an update for fix the bug?
I noticed this immediately after downloading 11.4 - definitely didn't have this problem beforehand. 😠
I have the same issue, since the 11.4 update my iPhone6S has been loosing 40~50% charge overnight.
This is definitely an issue.
This was NOT helpful, as the issue is clearly linked to the ios 11.4 version.
I am using iphone7 and have this problem since I have installed ios 11.4.There is no proper solution shared by apple..How can we overcome this issue
I have this issue with my iphone 6s but not my iPhone 7. It’s also on my iPad. Rolling back now.
I have the same issue with iPhone7 and all the problems look exactly the same as Zide99 described it
Hello Community,
Resetting my network settings under Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings...
...did NOT help me in the slightest!
I have this bug too 😟, 70% loss during the day without using my phone... And I'm unable to downgrade now 😟
Hi can you please explain how you were able to down grade to 11.31 OS. I accidentally downloaded the 11.4 on my iPhone 6s and my battery is draining like crazy
Thank you
You can no longer downgrade from 11.4.
exact same problem here...
lasting 1 day easily in 11.x and now i reach 50% in the first 4-5 hours of the day!
Thats impossible!
must be fixed!
so annoying!
just came from Android and now iOS is ****!!!
I have the same problem: My battery is losing power since the last update faster than I can load... waiting for a new update to correct this problem !!
I have the same problem. Since a couple of weeks I can Not use my GPS. The store Gas checked the Hardware. Everything seems to be ok. So I think ist is 11.4, too?
Has anybody else the same Problem?
Good to know and nice to hear good stories too :). (To bad mine isn’t but let’s hope they will fix it soon)
iOS 11.4 battery drain