Here is your problem. Anything more than 1% per hour on standby is not normal. Something is killing your battery in the background.
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iOS 9.3.2 battery vs 9.3.1 battery
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Here is your problem. Anything more than 1% per hour on standby is not normal. Something is killing your battery in the background.
If you don't kill apps from the app drawer you better disable Background App refresh, it almost useless.
Also check if icloud drive or icloud photo library is stuck uploading stuff.
Also check if icloud drive or icloud photo library is stuck uploading stuff.
As I mentioned, deleting Facebook did wonders to the battery life of my 9.3.1 phone. Try it see if there is any difference.
With light web browsing, my iPhone 6 is at 5h usage and 2 days standby with 40% remaining. in so far as my phone normally goes that's pretty decent. My iPad gets ~11h of pretty sustained use (new toy). 9.3.1 has been pretty good to me overall.
Everyone might find this interesting. I changed my iCloud password then signed back in on the iPhone. I have everything in iCloud turned on with the exception of Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. Everything appears to be working normally again.
Only 3 minutes usage in 1h38m of Standby.
Only 3 minutes usage in 1h38m of Standby.
My previous iPhone 6s plus had the same issue as yours. I asked for a replacement since it happened just 2 days after buying my new iPhone.
Current one works well so far. I am happy with it.
I upgraded from 9.3 Beta 7 to 9.3 Official. Battery was absolutely dreadful on a 6S Plus. Could barely get 4 hours on Safari (4G/LTE).
Transfered all my contacts to iCloud (pain in the arse) and did a fresh install of 9.3.2 Beta 1 and set it up as a new phone, Reset all settings after it was setup, charged it to 100% and then did a hard reset. I am on 8 hours Usage and 52% battery (4 hours of that usage is Near Lock in the background which wast a 2% so nothing really, so technically its roughly 4 hours real usage).. Huge difference now.
Transfered all my contacts to iCloud (pain in the arse) and did a fresh install of 9.3.2 Beta 1 and set it up as a new phone, Reset all settings after it was setup, charged it to 100% and then did a hard reset. I am on 8 hours Usage and 52% battery (4 hours of that usage is Near Lock in the background which wast a 2% so nothing really, so technically its roughly 4 hours real usage).. Huge difference now.
As suggested in this thread, I signed out out of iCloud. Battery life today, with regular heavy use, gave these results. iOS 9.3.1 turned out to be even better than the previous version. What should I do to get the battery life to stay this good while being signed in to iCloud? Dfu is not an option.
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Try changing your iCloud password. Sounds crazy but I found some references back in 2012 to a similar iCloud issue that was solved this way...and it worked for me today. Android phone is back in the drawer and my iPhone is cranking again.
Isn't the real test turning all the iCloud features you used to have on back on and seeing how that goes?
Sounds like you have made progress but not having iCloud on isn't a true test of whether the battery improved? I'm up for increased battery life but need iCloud mail etc on for sure
Why is DFU not an option? If you do a backup and restore your phone will be back to the way it was. TouchID and Apple pay would be the only things to set back up.
It is now, iCloud has all the same things turned on now that used to be before I updated to 9.3. That would be all iCloud features except Mail, Contacts, and Calendar because I sync those with Google. Every since I changed my iCloud password, everything has gone back to normal. Strange but true...and like I said, I saw a similar solution back in some tread from 2012 which is what led me to try it.
i know. but i just surf the web and read books and read the news on news app
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i have faceebook and youtube, however the background refresh, notifications all are off and i dont even use it, still do i need to delete it?
Since installing iOS 9.3 I've been having big battery problems on my iPhone 6, it's generally draining around 25% (at a guess) faster than it used to, but also has become very patchy at lower levels - sometimes jumping from 30% to 20% in moments (for example), sometimes running out at 10-20% indicated (so even less life than the faster drain would indicate!). I figured my battery had just reached "that age" but I've never had this problem since using iPhones from the 3G onwards...
However - On my local area Facebook group today someone posted about having exactly the same problem and asking if others are too, turns out quite a few are! Same symptoms I listed, we've checked usage and it looks "normal", nothing suspect, had firmware installed long enough for any indexing (whether a real phenomenon or not) to have long since completed and have ran full 0-100% charges with no improvement.
Is anyone else here having this issue? Any suggestions aside from what I've mentioned? Apple seem to be getting more and more sloppy in my experience lately so I'm not sure if this really is a real bug in the firmware or not... I'm not talking an imagined slight decrease in battery life here, it's noticeably worse and has been for weeks and I can no longer trust the phone at lower % figures due to big, instant dips and battery dying at random % left up to 20%+ (24% indicated shutdown being the worst I've noticed!).
However - On my local area Facebook group today someone posted about having exactly the same problem and asking if others are too, turns out quite a few are! Same symptoms I listed, we've checked usage and it looks "normal", nothing suspect, had firmware installed long enough for any indexing (whether a real phenomenon or not) to have long since completed and have ran full 0-100% charges with no improvement.
Is anyone else here having this issue? Any suggestions aside from what I've mentioned? Apple seem to be getting more and more sloppy in my experience lately so I'm not sure if this really is a real bug in the firmware or not... I'm not talking an imagined slight decrease in battery life here, it's noticeably worse and has been for weeks and I can no longer trust the phone at lower % figures due to big, instant dips and battery dying at random % left up to 20%+ (24% indicated shutdown being the worst I've noticed!).
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My 6s battery has taken a major hit recently, specifically during my commute to and from work. I used to use 20% over the hour it takes, with constant music playback and the screen on for at least 40 minutes of that (whilst on the train).
Lately however, I've been burning nearly 50% with exactly the same conditions. I've assumed it was my network's data signal strength, as standby time is exactly the same, and so is usage time whilst on wifi.
Prime example, I walked for 10 minutes to the central station in the city from work, which has full 4G signal, and lost 8% of battery with the phone being used purely for imessage. No music. Almost seems like a combination of screen on and data signal strength.
Something is definitely amiss.
Lately however, I've been burning nearly 50% with exactly the same conditions. I've assumed it was my network's data signal strength, as standby time is exactly the same, and so is usage time whilst on wifi.
Prime example, I walked for 10 minutes to the central station in the city from work, which has full 4G signal, and lost 8% of battery with the phone being used purely for imessage. No music. Almost seems like a combination of screen on and data signal strength.
Something is definitely amiss.
I don't really see too much wrong with my battery life in my 6S+, I'm on the latest and greatest OS, and after going through my phone for about an hour in total (looking at the news, playing a couple of quick fix games, streaming music) I'm down to 83% and it's been off the charger for about 5 hours. No different than previous. It sounds like a bugged software update, but I'd talk to Apple about it because it could be hardware related.
Hi Jimrod! I have the exact same problem on my iPhone 6. Battery got crazy, just like yours. I'd also add that sometimes when it drops sharply, when I plug it in, it charges (or just shows % change) rapidly as well.
In general, I used to be able to go though a normal day of usage on a single charge, now I need to recharge during the day. I'd estimate my battery to be 30-40% worse now. I'd highly appreciate a fix for this, if there is one :-/.
Using a 6S plus with Samsung chip and my battery has seen a significant drain since updating to 9.3.2 - and the phone gets unusually hotter than normal. I plan to downgrade soon as I can't use this current version as it is too problematic in terms of battery life.
Yeah, I've tried to use the phone "normally" or actually less than usual this last week and it's definitely a problem, at least since 9.3.1. The last couple of days I haven't noticed any big jumps in life but the drain is still noticeably faster, I'd expect to be ending the evening at around 40-50% based on usage but instead I'm plugging the phone in when I get home from work at around 6:30pm because I'm already in the 30's. When I left it overnight I woke up to 4%, a little too close for me relying on the alarm!
So it definitely seems a real issue, for a number of people at least. How do we report this properly?