Battery 11.3.1 again...

[apolloa]

Hello, Im currently tired of commenting, asking, and seeing this issue all over the place. I dont really know what is happening in Apple but it seems that Battery is not getting fixed anytime soon. My iphone 7 is about 1 year old, and since ios 11 I get quick drains of battery (about 10%) within minutes of use.

Sadly I thought that this was getting fixed on iOS 11.3.1 but it keeps heating up a lot and then theres the drain. Battery health apparently 86% which is quite fair, but I dont really think it reflects its performance. Also im afraid about damaging the battery when the phone heats up while using safari or just texting someone.

My 6S gets this issue exactly, despite iOS 11.3 claiming my battery health, and third party apps claiming my battery health is perfectly fine and it’s running in performance mode only!

After iOS 11.3 it was fine for about 3 weeks then it started to drain and it’s definitely worst under the latest update.

Basically Apple have broken my phone but claim it’s fine IMO. Or they do have a design flaw they are trying to hide which I think is also true but I’ll just wait and get a new iPhone this year at some point.

 

[poorcody]

I'm sick and tired of seeing these comments. My 6s had no battery drain issues on iOS 10.3.3. Battery drain started immediately after upgrading to iOS 11. My battery was at 86%, so I had Apple to replace it. But despite having a brand new battery, there were no noticeable improvements in battery life. Not at all. Zero. At that time, it was still possible to downgrade to 10.3.3, which I did, and that completely solved my battery drain issues.

Had the exact same experience (except too late to downgrade). Tried for months to figure it out. Battery health was listed at 98%. Finally gave up and got an 8 Plus. No battery problems with that. Restored from my 6s+ backup. I think there is a 6s issue with iOS 11, but I could never isolate it to anything.

 

[Dan Bihn]

I have a 2 year old iPad Pro 12.9" -- I traveled all last week with just it and was marvling at its battery life. Then I updated to 11.3.1 this morning and it drained the battery in just a couple of hours (primarily using OneNote -- as in the past week).

 

[C DM]

I have a 2 year old iPad Pro 12.9" -- I traveled all last week with just it and was marvling at its battery life. Then I updated to 11.3.1 this morning and it drained the battery in just a couple of hours (primarily using OneNote -- as in the past week).

Not much to really go by if we are talking about an update that just happened hours ago basically.

 

[axari]

iOS 11.3.1 is like a hell in my iPhone SE(95% Capacity), too much battery drain.

 

[apolloa]

My battery health is 87% and the biggest battery user is Safari at 70%, i’d say it’s a bug or hardware issue with these batteries draining so fast under 11.3.1

 

[minimo3]

Had the exact same experience (except too late to downgrade). Tried for months to figure it out. Battery health was listed at 98%. Finally gave up and got an 8 Plus. No battery problems with that. Restored from my 6s+ backup. I think there is a 6s issue with iOS 11, but I could never isolate it to anything.

I Just replaced the battery on my 6s. Erased all content and settings, installed 11.3.1 and setup as new iPhone. Turned off Bluetooth, background app refresh, most notifications except email and messages and installed about 10 apps. Using only the stock Apple mail and messages, calendar etc. let the battery run down to 10% then charged back to full to calibrate, then I let it sit for 24 hours to finish indexing etc. I can literally see the battery percentage drop every minute as I’m typing this message. It’s down to 80% with 45mins usage. So don’t bother trying to do anything, there’s nothing you can do to extend your battery life. As a comparison I pulled out a 1 year old SE and did the exact same procedure. It lasts at least 50% longer (on an old battery)

 

[FeliApple]

I have a 2 year old iPad Pro 12.9" -- I traveled all last week with just it and was marvling at its battery life. Then I updated to 11.3.1 this morning and it drained the battery in just a couple of hours (primarily using OneNote -- as in the past week).

It is probably indexing but you should not think it will necessarily improve. Maybe it doesn't and iOS 11 effectively decreased battery life. Lesson learned for next time, stay in its original iOS version.

 

[poorcody]

I Just replaced the battery on my 6s. Erased all content and settings, installed 11.3.1 and setup as new iPhone. Turned off Bluetooth, background app refresh, most notifications except email and messages and installed about 10 apps. Using only the stock Apple mail and messages, calendar etc. let the battery run down to 10% then charged back to full to calibrate, then I let it sit for 24 hours to finish indexing etc. I can literally see the battery percentage drop every minute as I’m typing this message. It’s down to 80% with 45mins usage. So don’t bother trying to do anything, there’s nothing you can do to extend your battery life. As a comparison I pulled out a 1 year old SE and did the exact same procedure. It lasts at least 50% longer (on an old battery)

Yeah I agree. I did similar tests, even tried turning off cellular and all location services. There seems to be some low-level problem. I don't even want to add up the number of hours I wasted experimenting, not to mention the months of irritation trying to figure it out.

As a software developer I can see these things happening, but I think it is really outrageous that you cannot downgrade to the last version. Their mistake made my very expensive phone unusable. You should be able to restore to the state you bought the phone in.

 

[Mlrollin91]

iOS 11.3.1 is like a hell in my iPhone SE(95% Capacity), too much battery drain.

My battery health is 87% and the biggest battery user is Safari at 70%, i’d say it’s a bug or hardware issue with these batteries draining so fast under 11.3.1

iOS 11.3.1 only contained security updates - no bug fixes. There is absolutely no way that the software changes in 11.3.1 affected your battery life. It is either a corrupt issue with your install or a rouge app/processor. iOS 11.3.1 contained nothing that would alter performance of the device.

And 87% battery health is not that healthy.

 

[Corgirat]

Yeah I agree. I did similar tests, even tried turning off cellular and all location services. There seems to be some low-level problem. I don't even want to add up the number of hours I wasted experimenting, not to mention the months of irritation trying to figure it out.

As a software developer I can see these things happening, but I think it is really outrageous that you cannot downgrade to the last version. Their mistake made my very expensive phone unusable. You should be able to restore to the state you bought the phone in.

I agree with you. No matter what level your battery capacity drops to, the phone should be performing the way we bought it for. If that’s getting too difficult for the battery, then they should give us a pop up reminding us to replace battery. They shouldn’t be messing with OS to slow our phone down. It’s different if they are slowing their own phone down I don’t care, but don’t do it to ours. I seriously believe the throttling has thing or two to the shortened usage time. Because I can see how much usage time as affected by the os update on iPhone 6s and that’s about the time throttling was released.

 

[FeliApple]

That's a shame for the ones that are having problems with the 6s. I'm using mine on iOS 9.3.3 and currently it is at 80% with 2 hrs 21 minutes of on-screen usage...
This is to prove that iOS updates do harm battery life. One more thing: my battery isn't new, it was never exchanged. It's at 96% with 220 cycles.

 

[C DM]

That's a shame to the ones that are having problems with the 6s. I'm using mine on iOS 9.3.3 and currently it is at 80% with 2 hrs 21 minutes of on-screen usage...
This is to prove that iOS updates do harm battery life. One more thing: my battery isn't new, it was never exchanged. It's at 96% with 220 cycles.

That's actually petty good battery health.

 

[FeliApple]

That's actually petty good battery health.

Luckily, it is! But what I meant to say is that it is the original battery, never exchanged, and performance remains top-notch, in my opinion, because I haven't updated. I directly compared my 6s to other 6s running iOS 11 and mine wins every single time in speed, and probably on battery life, too.

 

[minimo3]

That's a shame for the ones that are having problems with the 6s. I'm using mine on iOS 9.3.3 and currently it is at 80% with 2 hrs 21 minutes of on-screen usage...
This is to prove that iOS updates do harm battery life. One more thing: my battery isn't new, it was never exchanged. It's at 96% with 220 cycles.

I have a 100% health battery with 2 cycles. I’m at almost the same on-screen usage 2hrs 32mins and I’m at 52% battery left! That’s how powerful 11.3.1 is!

 

[C DM]

I have a 100% health battery with 2 cycles. I’m at almost the same on-screen usage 2hrs 32mins and I’m at 52% battery left! That’s how powerful 11.3.1 is!

Something somewhere seems off as that's not typical.

 

[msvadi]

Something somewhere seems off as that's not typical.

From my experience, this is actually pretty typical for iOS 11 and 6s.

 

[Corgirat]

Luckily, it is! But what I meant to say is that it is the original battery, never exchanged, and performance remains top-notch, in my opinion, because I haven't updated. I directly compared my 6s to other 6s running iOS 11 and mine wins every single time in speed, and probably on battery life, too.

How can we let Apple know of this?

 

[FeliApple]

I have a 100% health battery with 2 cycles. I’m at almost the same on-screen usage 2hrs 32mins and I’m at 52% battery left! That’s how powerful 11.3.1 is!

That's terrible. It's awful that a perfectly working phone is hindered by updates. It even has a new battery! The worst thing is that it would probably be incredible if it remained in its initial iOS version...
Also, wearing a battery out with sheer amount of cycles would take really long. (In my experience, which might not be representative of every user, before anyone says that.) If it drops at all...
I have an iPod Touch 5G on iOS 6. Used it like crazy. Hundreds of cycles of shooting videos with full brightness. It would die in no time because of the nature of the activity, so it has a lot of cycles. I made a battery test with 20% brightness and web browsing in 2012: 6 hours and 15 minutes.
Made another one, iOS 6, same usage, in 2015: 6 hours and 20 minutes. Made another one, in 2018, iOS 6, same usage, 20% brightness too: 6 hours, 30 minutes. Absolutely no variation after hundreds of cycles. Why? Because it is on iOS 6. It's first version. I compared it with iOS 9 iPod Touches and it's a world of difference both in performance and battery life.
The same with the 6s. It is currently on 46% battery remaining with 5 hours and 3 minutes of usage. It will probably just barely last under 10 hours of on-screen usage. Only under two hours less than a 7+ I had. It's amazing.
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How can we let Apple know of this?

Don't worry... Apple knows. Of course they know. They just want that adoption number to be as high as they can push it to be. Nothing we can do, other than what I do... Don't update.

 

[saudor]

If you have snapchat, instagram or facebook/facebook messenger, that is likely your problem. They continue to run in the background even with background app refresh off and the app closed. Its not a "dumb phone" you just need to find the cause of the problem. iOS will hardly have things run in the background, more times than not, its a third party app issue.

i meant "dumb phone" aka the opposite of a smart phone in the context of having no apps and disabling everything the point where only texting and phone calls are enabled.

Ill try force closing every app when im done but not sure how much difference it'll make. turning off iCloud seems to help though.

 

[wmdunn]

Yeah I agree. I did similar tests, even tried turning off cellular and all location services. There seems to be some low-level problem. I don't even want to add up the number of hours I wasted experimenting, not to mention the months of irritation trying to figure it out.

As a software developer I can see these things happening, but I think it is really outrageous that you cannot downgrade to the last version. Their mistake made my very expensive phone unusable. You should be able to restore to the state you bought the phone in.

I hear your frustration! It's sad that Apple, hasn't figured out how to put the customer first.

 

[C DM]

I hear your frustration! It's sad that Apple, hasn't figured out how to put the customer first.

Is that why there are so many great customer experience stories involving Apple?

 

[techblogger911]

I have iPhone 6S and I updated to iOS new update 11.3.1. But the problem after installing the update is, it is draining battery quickly.

Like I have a battery about 70% and after 15 minutes it reduced to 25% without doing anything.

Anyone facing same?

 

[C DM]

I have iPhone 6S and I updated to iOS new update 11.3.1. But the problem after installing the update is, it is draining battery quickly.

Like I have a battery about 70% and after 15 minutes it reduced to 25% without doing anything.

Anyone facing same?

Battery 11.3.1 again...

 

[wmdunn]

Is that why there are so many great customer experience stories involving Apple?

Sarcasm aside, Apple does seem to put profits above listening to it's customers. There is an air of "we know best, what the customer needs" that continues to be the elephant in the room. I'm not looking for an argument, but my sense is there would be many who agree with my opinion.