Battery Life

[addamas]

I don't know what to say... because I am not sure what helped for battery drain in SE.
As someone mentioned I turned off and on location services and did force restart (both hold power and restart till Apple logo appear ).

Results for today (32% left - I am sorry for Polish language here but you will figure out what is what ):

Wifi + 5h on LTE / 2G (when had bad coverage) [mostly 2-3 bars]
Offline podcasts, one mail fetch every 15 mins (thanks Apple and Google for Gmail on native app ).
Far the best usage I had ever... ok almost no phone calls but had a short iMessage talk and downloaded few updates via WiFi...

 

[Nisaja]

That's mostly podcasts and music.

 

[AmazingTechGeek]

iOS 10.0.2 with only Safari

 

[mrex]

What is iAd? I have now a new app called iAd on the list consuming the battery.

 

[klover]

What is iAd? I have now a new app called iAd on the list consuming the battery.

Apples advertising module (powers all those adware ads you see in apps).

 

[pentcp2]

Please can someone who has the ability to do so check if the excessive kernel logging is still happening in 10.0.2? Thanks.

 

[CE3]

I can't help much but close all apps before you go to bed and see if it still drains overnight, i loose 0% with all apps closed. I know you are not meant to do but i do find, watsapp, fb, even messages now keep doing stuff in background.

Also 10.1 hopefully will fix this battery drain!

The beta has fixed the battery issues and standby drain for me. Anyone who's been having problems since iOS 10 should install the (non-beta) update that was released today.

 

[Scrib]

I've upgraded to 10.0.2 today and I'm noticing a different behavior already (for the good). In the GM release, the usage of the device was not following actual usage, it was high. If the phone was 2 hours, 30 minutes since being pulled off the charger, it would read say well over 1 hour of usage, when that wasn't the case.

Now, with 2 hours and 30 minutes since being pulled off the charger, I have 25 minutes of "usage". Battery on the 6s is at 98%. Too early to tell, but certainly the "usage" reporting is down, comparatively.

Edit, using a 6s.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Did you restore and set it up as a new iPhone?

Check your battery capacity using coconut battery.

I installed the latest iOS 10 update and reset all the settings today. I installed Coconut Battery and this is what it shows. Do the results mean my battery is not in good shape?

 

[imaginex20]

I installed the latest iOS 10 update and reset all the settings today. I installed Coconut Battery and this is what it shows. Do the results mean my battery is not in good shape?

Your battery is shot

 

[Apple_Robert]

Your battery is shot

I was afraid of that. Thanks for the reply.

 

[thebro20]

Its odd, before updating my phone, i was on 10.0.1 and coconut battery showed 80.6% battery capacity. After updating today to 10.0.2, it now shows 67.3% battery capacity.

wether its right or wrong, for the past couple months my 6s has barely been able to last 5 hours with light usage, usually about 4 1/2

 

[mmartins25]

Does the 10.0.2 fix the battery drain on iPhone 6s?

 

[imaginex20]

Its odd, before updating my phone, i was on 10.0.1 and coconut battery showed 80.6% battery capacity. After updating today to 10.0.2, it now shows 67.3% battery capacity.

wether its right or wrong, for the past couple months my 6s has barely been able to last 5 hours with light usage, usually about 4 1/2

Take it back to Apple. That battery should not be anywhere near 80% nor 67% capacity.

 

[yep-sure]

I just called Apple about my battery issues on the 6S. Their remote diagnostics said my battery is fine (I think I'm at about 83% capacity, which I guess is acceptable for an 11 month old device).

The operator said to install 10.0.2 as "it will fix the battery issue". It has been better since I disabled Raise to Wake, and I'll give 10.0.2 a go, but I'm fed up with the 6S's battery in general, and I miss the smaller form factor so I might just go and pick up an SE and ditch the 6S. :|

 

[mazdamiata210]

I just called Apple about my battery issues on the 6S. Their remote diagnostics said my battery is fine (I think I'm at about 83% capacity, which I guess is acceptable for an 11 month old device).

The operator said to install 10.0.2 as "it will fix the battery issue". It has been better since I disabled Raise to Wake, and I'll give 10.0.2 a go, but I'm fed up with the 6S's battery in general, and I miss the smaller form factor so I might just go and pick up an SE and ditch the 6S. :|

I'm on 10.0.2 and it doesn't seem any different... I'm going to completely kill my 6S+ and see if it fixes it. If not I'm staying on 9.3.5 until 10 has all the bugs worked out

 

[Morac]

I have a 3 year old iPhone 5s which I don't use anymore and the battery capacity on that is 77%. I find it hard to believe battery capacity could drop below that in less than a year.

 

[DomC]

I just called Apple about my battery issues on the 6S. Their remote diagnostics said my battery is fine (I think I'm at about 83% capacity, which I guess is acceptable for an 11 month old device).

The operator said to install 10.0.2 as "it will fix the battery issue". It has been better since I disabled Raise to Wake, and I'll give 10.0.2 a go, but I'm fed up with the 6S's battery in general, and I miss the smaller form factor so I might just go and pick up an SE and ditch the 6S. :|

Interesting. I called today about my 6s as well. Never said 10.0.2 would do anything to the battery. In fact I found their questioning and suggestions pretty pedestrian. They ran the diagnostic but the conversation ended with basically an open-ended "OK then, good luck"-ish sort of non answer to the issue.

 

[^^BIGMac]

Never said 10.0.2 would do anything to the battery.

Simply because the people don't have any idea what is going on.

 

[thebro20]

Take it back to Apple. That battery should not be anywhere near 80% nor 67% capacity.

After a hard reset it's now back to the 80.6% capacity. I have an appoinent with the geniuses on Saturday but doubt they'll do anything. On the phone Apple support ran diagnostics and said the battery was "perfectly fine", so I imagine the store will too.

 

[DomC]

Simply because the people don't have any idea what is going on.

Definitely got that feeling both on the call today and at the store yesterday.
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After a hard reset it's now back to the 80.6% capacity. I have an appoinent with the geniuses on Saturday but doubt they'll do anything. On the phone Apple support ran diagnostics and said the battery was "perfectly fine", so I imagine the store will too.

Sounds very familiar to what I've gone through. They actually started talking about replacing the battery for $79 if that's what I wanted. On a phone less than a year old!

 

[masands]

The battery is much better on my 6S Plus. I didn't have any drain previously but it was noticeably shorter than 9.3.5. For example my usage had dropped to 6-7 h from 8-9 h. With 10.0.2 and almost a full day it's around 7.5h of usage and 14% left. Looks like it's fixed for me.

 

[thebro20]

Definitely got that feeling both on the call today and at the store yesterday.
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Sounds very familiar to what I've gone through. They actually started talking about replacing the battery for $79 if that's what I wanted. On a phone less than a year old!

Haha I'm glad they didn't do that to me otherwise I'd be mad. I'm still with in the Apple care period for another month and a half, I feel like the battery shouldn't have degraded this much. But I could be wrong I suppose.

 

[mazdamiata210]

Haha I'm glad they didn't do that to me otherwise I'd be mad. I'm still with in the Apple care period for another month and a half, I feel like the battery shouldn't have degraded this much. But I could be wrong I suppose.

Better than exploding

 

[matt550]

My battery seems much better today. I switched to FireFox and haven't touched Safari. I'm at probably 3-4 hours usage and 13 hours standby 40% battery. The past few days it would have been 2-3 hours usage, 8-10 hours standby and 20% battery...we'll see what happens in the next few days.

I was dead set on returning the phone last night. Now I'm pretty convinced it's a software issue and can be fixed...