For those on iOS 11...

[Mac-lover3]

Hello!

I was having some terrible battery life on iOS 11, 11.1 & 11.1.1, by terrible I mean getting max. 4 hours of screen time with moderate usage - on an iPhone SE (Safari, Music, light gaming, texting,.....)

Yesterday I decided that I had had enough of it. Connected my phone to my Mac. iPhone in DFU mode and restored and started of clean (no iCloud back-up restore or full back-up). Set everything back up in the evening all my apps, logged in to all my apps, set up my mailboxes again, etc.

Today I got 6,5 hours of screen time and quite a lot of standby time too!

I hope this can help some people that are having some battery issues.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Thank you for posting this. I am a large proponent of restoring your phone as new to fix battery issues because it has always worked for me. Glad it worked for you and hopefully more people will continue to attempt this in order to solve their issues, because it really works.

 

[Mac-lover3]

Thank you for posting this. I am a large proponent of restoring your phone as new to fix battery issues because it has always worked for me. Glad it worked for you and hopefully more people will continue to attempt this in order to solve their issues, because it really works.

Always trying to find solutions! I contacted Apple first to check my battery but was still at 91,4% so everything was fine on that side. One problem about this you lose data for some things that you cannot restore (Health data). Still glad it worked.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Always trying to find solutions! I contacted Apple first to check my battery but was still at 91,4% so everything was fine on that side. One problem about this you lose data for some things that you cannot restore (Health data). Still glad it worked.

Health data can now be restored if you have it toggled on in iCloud. Its no longer backup dependent and you can get back all your acute vey, achievements and workouts (for your Apple Watch) as well.

 

[Mac-lover3]

Health data can now be restored if you have it toggled on in iCloud. Its no longer backup dependent and you can get back all your acute vey, achievements and workouts (for your Apple Watch) as well.

God that's stupid.. It was still there thanks for letting me remember it! I'm happy now!

 

[JM]

were you getting 6,5 hours before updating to ios 11? (and is that 6-1/2 hours? Just clarifying because I've seen some people use , instead of .)

I'm still on 10.3.3 waiting until there is mostly good news from people who updated to 11.

Thank you

 

[dk001]

Hello!

I was having some terrible battery life on iOS 11, 11.1 & 11.1.1, by terrible I mean getting max. 4 hours of screen time with moderate usage - on an iPhone SE (Safari, Music, light gaming, texting,.....)

Yesterday I decided that I had had enough of it. Connected my phone to my Mac. iPhone in DFU mode and restored and started of clean (no iCloud back-up restore or full back-up). Set everything back up in the evening all my apps, logged in to all my apps, set up my mailboxes again, etc.

Today I got 6,5 hours of screen time and quite a lot of standby time too!

I hope this can help some people that are having some battery issues.

BTDT - didn't help my battery life but it did help with the app / springboard crashes I was getting.