iPhone SE (2020) 14mth old SE2 battery life = abysmal

[Al Rukh]

My new SE3 on its longest day – 12 hours screen on time. I’m in the UK and haven’t reinstalled the COVID close contact app.

But what is the purpose of this stat? Clearly the phone has been plugged in during the 24-hour period. Not hating but it would be great if you can share a full day cycle without any charges in between.

 

[jav6454]

I'm plugging it in twice a day because its charge literally won't last longer than 3-4 hours use. And by 'use' it can be as little as just streaming music to my APP's, let alone using the screen.
Besides which it's 2022, iOS should (and probably does) already have battery management features that prevent the battery being degraded by being plugged in too often.

Have to admit i'm half tempted to migrate to an Android device, after being an iPhone guy for 10 years now. There are literally dozens available with this ballpark screen-size, rather than being limited to a choice of two (iPhone SE3 / Mini). I'm struggling to believe any of them have a worse battery.

EDIT: Probably not too difficult to find an Android phone with a USB-C port as well, instead of lightning, even though on the one hand Apple was pushing USB-C onto us before we were really ready for it with the 2015 Macbook, but on the other hand seven years later they still won't fit it to a bloody iPhone.

The OS already has battery optimization. Have you checked the battery stats to see what is draining your power in a 3 hour span?

 

[MajorFubar]

Good suggestion...I'll look now

The answer today is FB mostly (62%), which makes sense considering I've been catching up on posts in the groups I'm in. Screen on time 3:36, battery now 20% from 100% this morning. Have to be honest, I've seen it worse than that. This one of the better days.

 

[jav6454]

FB and anything social media will drain your battery quickly as they are constantly using the radios and screen power. 4 hours sound reasonable for drain given this tidbit.

I'd say lay off using too much social media.

 

[theriddler]

But what is the purpose of this stat? Clearly the phone has been plugged in during the 24-hour period. Not hating but it would be great if you can share a full day cycle without any charges in between.

Today, no charging. 12 hours with 8 hours of that with the screen on.

 

[MajorFubar]

To be fair my SE2 could do that, for about 10-11 months. Report back in 2024 and let's see how it's holding up then

 

[CG4323]

I bought an iPhone SE2 back in July 2021. The battery is so bad that moderate use during school hours (small amount of YouTube, sporadic Safari, and streaming music to some AirPods via Spotify throughout the day) by the time it's 2:30 PM my battery is already at 20%, and has been in Low Power Mode all day. Not fun.

 

[MajorFubar]

So here's a new-to-me occurrence.

Plugged it in to charge last night because it was down to 17% (which equates to literally 10-15 minutes left before death), and this morning I got up to it only showing 40% charge. Thought, that's weird. Unplugged it and brought it downstairs. Within 20 minutes it was up to 100%.

With tongue pressed firmly in cheek I formally nominate my iPhone SE2 as a 'first' under two categories: first self-charging iPhone, and fastest charging iPhone: so fast the battery meter could only show the increase as two bars:

I think it's fair to say that my iPhone's battery is, to use a Britishism, utterly shagged, within the space of less than 15 months since purchase. At least my 6S battery lasted four years before being noticeably this bad.

 

[alpez]

Initially I was impressed with the battery life of my new SE2 I bought March 2021, It replaced a 5 year old 6S whose battery could plummet from 100% to 68% in the 35 minutes it took me to walk to work listening to Apple Music on BT headphones. I cut it some slack because heck it was five years old after all.

But fourteen months in with this SE2, I feel I'm heading the same direction, with the battery health now 85% which is classed as "significantly degraded", even though I'm convinced my use is way less than many others who have their phones loaded with dozens of apps and basically live their lives staring at their phone-screens. (And yes I always use optimised charging.)

I haven't ever kept a phone for less than two years but I'm tempted to trade this in and buy an SE3 and hope it's got a better battery. The battery on this SE2 would be lucky to last 3 hours continuous use. EDIT: Just to preempt anyone suggesting a better iPhone, I want to stick with the SE range because firstly I want touch-ID, and I don't want a huge screen that my one hand can't reach the corners of.

My 6 months old SE2 battery is decaying fast, and im not using it much, it's the small size of the battery thats the problem, not only the SE2 its more like all apple phones have to small battery and ios 15 on top of that 😬
My gf has a $100 xiaomi 9 with 5000+ mAh battery and she's a heavy user and dont have problems like me ... and she had it for soon 2 years !

Have to change battery in my se2 soon and not going to buy a phone with smaller battery than 5000 mAh in the future !

 

[SteveManila1960]

Back in 2015 I bought an iPhone 6. I was a really light user and the battery lasted 3 years before hitting 78% battery health and needing a replacement.

Exactly one year ago today I bought an iPhone SE 2020 and I use and rely on my phone much more than I did back in the old days. Battery health is 90% so I will probably only get somewhere around 2 years out of this battery.

I can live with that I prefer a small phone and a home button!