iOS 11.4 battery drain

is it just me or does iOS 11.4 drain battery life faster 🤔🤔

Posted on Jun 8, 2018 6:40 PM

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Posted on Jun 12, 2018 7:28 PM

Have 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,Reset, Reset Network Settings, try resetting your network settings.


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 can, also, negatively 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!

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Jun 14, 2018 11:27 PM in response to DwankyDan

Hi!


I have a theory about this and here are my observations with an iPX;


Prior to 11.4

* Wifi disconnects during device sleep/standby (both @ home 2.4/5 and @ work)

* Emails aren't fetched during sleep/standby for the built in email client - a manual refresh fetches them though


Post 11.4

* Wifi is now active during device sleep/standby - kind of how I remember it was in the earlier days with iPhone

* Emails are now fetched automatically (which I expected it to be normal behaviour)


I'm not sure what to make of these observations though, the change in Wifi sleep behaviour could affect certain AP/Wifi configurations I guess. With more background processes going active when Wifi always active might also affect certain applications like mail clients during night time..


This thread is about the Wifi going inactive;

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8188526


Just my thoughts in a complex issue.


Kind regards,

Per

Jun 19, 2018 4:01 PM in response to yatika154

I had posted that iOS 11.4 was killing my battery even though I tried many ways to install and re-install it and had tried re-setting network settings etc. etc., all to no avail. I finally decided to try iOS 12 beta 1 and everything worked fine for several days. Today Apple released iOS 12 beta 2 - as soon as I installed it, my battery life got killed again, as bad or worse than iOS 11.4. My recommendation is to install iOS 12 beta 1 but DO NOT INSTALL beta 2. I reverted back to iOS 12 beta 1 and am a happy camper again!

Jun 28, 2018 6:29 AM in response to CK1907

It will be one month tomorrow since I did the upgrade and battery still draining fast no matter what I or the Apple Store tries. I have an iPhone6. I went back to Apple again yesterday to see if there isn't something else they can try and he said other than sell me an iPhone8 all I can do is bear with it until Apple sends out a patch (if the do, his words) or wait for the upgrade to os12. If 12 causes the problems that 11.4 made then I don't want the upgrade.

Jun 25, 2018 3:49 PM in response to lileve

The reason for turning off Bluetooth, WiFi or putting the phone into Airplane mode is merely a way to stop the battery from going flat overnight. It is not a fix and does not identify the cause of your problems!

You say that you don't have a car or use Bluetooth. Do you use any iCloud services like backup, syncing contacts, calendars? Do you use the phone as your Hotspot for the wifi iPad Mini? Until you answer these types of questions, no-one can help you get to the bottom of the problem.

It seems that the iPhone 6 has it's own issues that compound this issue.

Also, criticizing other users that are publishing the results of their own testing that doesn't agree with your set of problems does not help anyone!

We all share a common goal and that is to get Apple to fix this problem!

Jun 26, 2018 1:32 AM in response to yatika154

We are finding work-arounds but Apple does not help at all solving the issue.

This is not the right way.

I've also noticed that once draining my phone goes hot. This process is fast and is not reflected in battery usage report that you can find in settings. Since the update my battery health is also deteriarating. First hit of it just after the update was 4% (from 92 to 88%) and not it goes down 1% a week on average (it is already at 84% level).

So, by the end of this year I surely will need to oreder a battery replacement. This should be at cost of Apple not ours.

Jun 26, 2018 3:47 PM in response to McMakem

I've now had exactly the same experience. iPad was emptying its battery overnight, now it's completely back to normal, loses 1-2% overnight. I didn't change anything, was simply waiting for a fix. I agree with the background indexing theory, which would explain why everybody is having different experiences. Some simply have more to index than others. I hope this ends up being the result for everybody. In the meantime, what an astounding case of communication failure from Apple over this mess. Silence and denial - it's like an MBA case study for how not to do business. There is an interesting level of negativity building towards this brand that many once loved.

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