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I also had major battery issues after updating my 6+ a couple weeks ago, but somehow they've resolved now. I'm not sure why or how things got better. At first
by jeffwass 10y ago
I also had major battery issues after updating my 6+ a couple weeks ago, but somehow they've resolved now.
I'm not sure why or how things got better. At first I could see the battery power dropping in almost real time. Using safari for a few mins would bring me from 90% to 80%! (Eg - more than 1% drop per minute).
I then disallowed almost all apps permission to refresh in the background. But that didn't really help much.
I also noticed the phone seeming warmer than usual. But I wasn't sure if I was imagining that, being biased by the quickly-depleting battery.
Agreed that the battery usage tool isn't very helpful. I think it just shows which apps were used by % of time in foreground, not by multitasked allocation. Eg, this was dominated by Safari and mail for me.
I also let the phone completely discharge a couple times and recharge fully. Some people say this can help condition the battery, though I'm not sure how much truth to that for these batteries.
But after a few days things just went "back to normal", and I went back to getting a fully day's use of charge. I haven't changed my permissions back, so most apps remain without background execution priveledges. I haven't noticed any limitations to my productivity with this change.
FYI - I basically charge my
phone daily, overnight when I go to sleep. I'm usually around 20-30% when I plug it in for the night.
- cyberferret 10y agoGlad to hear you got yours back to normal. When it first started happening after I upgraded, I read up on it, and a lot of reports said to expect degraded battery for the first few days at least while the email app caught up and reindexed all mailboxes and iCloud did a fresh backup of up of the existing data. I have about 6 email accounts on my iPhone each with gigabytes of data, so I happily put up with the heat and battery issues for a while. But nearly two months later, the problem continues unabated. The heat is a real worry as it is too uncomfortable to have in my pocket anymore (the metal edges become almost too hot to touch), and I am wary of charging it when I am not nearby to monitor for any problems (oddly - it doesn't seem to heat up so much when charging, but I want to be 100% sure).