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iOS 11.3 drains battery slightly faster on iPhone SE

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Not sure if is it just me. Does anyone else experience faster battery drain with new 11.3 update?
 
I haven’t experienced any change with my SE.

But, sorry for asking, how many times have you actually had to charge it since the release on Thursday?
Might be worthwhile waiting a bit longer to be sure there is actually a change.
 
I am experiencing it now on my 6s plus a full charge is not lasting the day on light use but it dose feel quicker But I can see a 11.3.1 update very soon as there never has been a new ios with good battery out of the box with anew new update
 
Wando64 said:
I haven’t experienced any change with my SE.

But, sorry for asking, how many times have you actually had to charge it since the release on Thursday?
Might be worthwhile waiting a bit longer to be sure there is actually a change.
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I charged it about 4 times already. It seems like there is more stuff going on in background than in previous versions.
 
I've noticed this too on my iPhone 6, I hope it's just the first few days needed to adjust the system
 
I also notice that battery usage times have changed (increased) since iOS 11.2. I believe the new battery monitoring software that's still a beta that was installed with iOS 11.3 is at fault. I guess we'll have to wait for the next update to see if Apple has corrected it.
 
nox5 said:
Not sure if is it just me. Does anyone else experience faster battery drain with new 11.3 update?
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Same here, too much battery drain on 6 month old battery, iPhone 5s. But Speed and stability is improve.
 
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Yes on a iPhone 6s Plus.

Barely get 5 to 6 hours usage.
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Ditto I am the same I was hoping it was just the indexing problem but it seems to be just the same I barely get 6 hours out it on light use but I am dreading work tomorrow as I will be using it heavily so will update when I find out how long it takes to eat the battery on heavy use
 
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Battery usage on iOS 11.3 on my iPhone SE after a couple of cycles. Seems ok to me. Would have got more as I was using the GPS chip for an hour or so.
 

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Going back to previous iOS version to see if it makes any difference.
 
I will note that I did a hard restart this morning and battery seems back on track!
 
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Google can help! Type in the model of phone you have (the most recent models have slightly different methods) and “hard restart”.
 
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ANDJOE said:
Google can help! Type in the model of phone you have (the most recent models have slightly different methods) and “hard restart”.
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I've tried this on my iPhone 6(coming from 10.3.3) and the battery drain in still there
 
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Same here on iPhone 6s Plus. Had major random battery drains until 11.2.6, problem seemed to mostly go away, and now with 11.3 is back with a vengeance. Battery can drop 20% is 45 minutes for no apparent reason, then just stop. Happens almost every day. Done all the standard things to fix. New battery health indicator says battery is at 98% health.
 
Same here on my Iphone SE. I have gone back to ios 11.2.6.
Did Apple prevent us from going back to ios 11.2.6 today?
 
I do get faster drain on my iPhone SE, however, I started using an Apple Watch at exactly the same time so I personally can't say which of the two is responsible. What overheads does an AW incur generally?
 
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