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Why is my ipod touch battery life so bad?

I got my Ipod Touch 6 gen in August of 2017. I was so excited, i worked all summer for it. But then I turn it on, and use it for a few days, and i notice somthing. The battery life was absolute crap. I thought that it needed to get used to doing functions internally or something, but it just kept happening. It went from 50 down to 20% in a matter of seconds. I turn it off, do whatever for a few mins, and suddenly it's at 20%. This bugs me so much, and i dont even use it anymore! Im thinking of selling it. Any suggestions to fix it?

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 7:40 PM

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Posted on Sep 6, 2018 9:43 AM

FYI,

Playing games that are CPU, RAM, graphics and battery intensive can chew up battery life pretty quickly.

I don't play a lot of complex games on my iPod Touch.

I use my 6th gen iPod Touch mainly as a music player, fitness tracker using my Pebble watch and watch app, some video/streaming video playing, messaging, some sketch and note taking and occasionally for web browsing and email.

I get about between 16-20 hours of music playing and only about 8-10 hours of music playing music over a Bluetooth connection to a Bluetooth speaker.

I get about 4 to 5,-5-1/2 hours, or so, if I am consistently playing in-device or streaming videos from online.

If streaming video from an external Bluetooth device source, it’s much closer to 4 hours.

If using my iPod touch for web browsing, sketching and/or note taking, I get about between 6-8 hours out of my 6th gen iPod Touch.

Constant screen use is where the battery life really diminishes on an iPod Touch.

So, you want to keep the screen brightness down as much as you can, but is still comfortable to see and use.

Music playing is really where the iPod Touch gets its most longest battery life.

In standby mode, or sleep, I get about between 2 and 3 days between charging.

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Sep 6, 2018 9:43 AM in response to Tallguy5641

FYI,

Playing games that are CPU, RAM, graphics and battery intensive can chew up battery life pretty quickly.

I don't play a lot of complex games on my iPod Touch.

I use my 6th gen iPod Touch mainly as a music player, fitness tracker using my Pebble watch and watch app, some video/streaming video playing, messaging, some sketch and note taking and occasionally for web browsing and email.

I get about between 16-20 hours of music playing and only about 8-10 hours of music playing music over a Bluetooth connection to a Bluetooth speaker.

I get about 4 to 5,-5-1/2 hours, or so, if I am consistently playing in-device or streaming videos from online.

If streaming video from an external Bluetooth device source, it’s much closer to 4 hours.

If using my iPod touch for web browsing, sketching and/or note taking, I get about between 6-8 hours out of my 6th gen iPod Touch.

Constant screen use is where the battery life really diminishes on an iPod Touch.

So, you want to keep the screen brightness down as much as you can, but is still comfortable to see and use.

Music playing is really where the iPod Touch gets its most longest battery life.

In standby mode, or sleep, I get about between 2 and 3 days between charging.

Aug 22, 2018 6:28 AM in response to Tallguy5641

Hello Tallguy5641,

Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities. I understand you've had some trouble with the battery life on your iPod touch, and I have some information that may help.

Have a look at the articles below for some helpful troubleshooting steps.

About the battery usage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

iPhone Battery and Performance - Apple Support

If you run into any trouble, please reach out again.
​Best Regards.

Sep 6, 2018 9:21 AM in response to Tallguy5641

Have any of you tried a hard reset of your iPod Touch 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 iPod Touch?

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.


Try re-adjusting your iPod’s screen brightness to a lower, but still comfortable intensity.


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.



Good Luck to You!

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