iPhone 6 battery drain

wolfyboy555

Having problems with my iPhone 6 battery. It seems to drain quite fast. For example, today I took it out of charge about 11am and was browsing safari and Facebook until about 1. Battery dropped down to 60%. Then I received a phone call and battery straight away dropped down to 43% and then it died mid phone call. When I plugged it in again it started back up with 43%. It has happened a lot usually when I get below 40% that when I go to use it, it will just die completely. Any suggestions?

SarahMollie

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

Having problems with my iPhone 6 battery. It seems to drain quite fast. For example, today I took it out of charge about 11am and was browsing safari and Facebook until about 1. Battery dropped down to 60%. Then I received a phone call and battery straight away dropped down to 43% and then it died mid phone call. When I plugged it in again it started back up with 43%. It has happened a lot usually when I get below 40% that when I go to use it, it will just die completely. Any suggestions?

Humm that doesnt sound great TBH, might be sending that back if I were you. How long have you had the device?

In the mean time, I read recently that Facebook is the biggest drain of any iOS app so maybe turn it off in the background when you're not using it?

Gumbo

Facebook accounts for 62% of my battery drain currently.

wolfyboy555

SarahMollie wrote: »

Humm that doesnt sound great TBH, might be sending that back if I were you. How long have you had the device?

In the mean time, I read recently that Facebook is the biggest drain of any iOS app so maybe turn it off in the background when you're not using it?

Had the phone just over a year now. Its actually a refurb since the first one bent about this time last year:roll eyes:

I went into my battery settings and yeah Facebook had the highest usage. I turned off 'background app refresh' in the settings. Is this how to turn to off in the background?

guil

Facebook will still run in the background even with background app refresh disabled. I think you should try restoring in iTunes from a backup and if that doesn't work try restoring as a new phone.

wolfyboy555

Finally got around to sorting this out today. I tried restoring the phone but it has been getting worse and worse so was onto apple on live chat. They ran diagnostics and said its a hardware problem with the battery. I am out of warranty and they were quoting me something like €320 for out of warranty repair. Rang support today and it was €75 to replace battery. Said I still wasn't happy since this is the second phone I have had to send back (first one bent) and I would rather put the €75 into getting and android phone. I was put through to a supervisor and he waived the fee. I have to send it off in the post to get it fixed.

wolfyboy555

Just got my phone back today. Its a refurb I assume and its not the same one I sent off. Was using an old nokia for the last week. I doubt the iPhones battery will stand up to the nokia one.:D

Blazer

I think the latest release definitely drains the battery way faster than I'm normally used to.
I've downloaded the latest beta as it's getting excellent praise for battery use.