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iPhone 12 mini Abnormal Battery Health Decline?
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My iPhone 12 is at 100% and my wife’s 12 Mini is at 93%. Both purchased on same day: 8th Feb 2021. We both are heavy users so usage is roughly same. Her phone’s battery health started dropping since last month and 1% lost every week. I got AppleCare Protection Plan by calling their CC and when Wife called in they said AppleCare Protection plan has been discontinued. She has to take either AppleCare+ or disconnect the call. 😂
My 12 Pro Max is now down to 91%. I don’t really care what the battery health is, but the phone doesn’t last nearly as long as it did a few months ago. I really hope there’s a program or something for these phones.
I wondered this morning if Apple somehow knowingly cut corners on batteries due to COVID to meet their deadline of Nov and we are now seeing the fallout. It's weird that the number of posts about fast battery drain keep increasing in frequency.
I agree. A lot of people are complaining about poor battery life & rapidly declining battery health on their 12 series. This shouldn’t be happening considering the phones haven’t been out for even a year now. There were multiple rumors about apple using cheaper batteries in the 12 series such as this article. The battery complaints could possibly be a direct consequence of this.
If true, puts a bigger 😁 on me. So many users here, “5G and 120Hz or bust!” You got 5G support, was it worth it?
Well nothing really changed except the fact that now we will not be able to reuse the same phone for 5 years with no maintenance. So Apple is making money by selling either AC+ or changing batteries for cash in 1-2 years.
Also a lot of people on this forum are updating yearly, so they will not even notice battery cheap out.
Well, not quite another 8 months.
Just hit 98% today; I don’t check every day, but this is the first time I’ve seen 98%. Hmm…
Once it hits 99, 98 (like my 12 Pro Max started doing way back in late Feb., early March), the decline seems to be extremely rapid. At least in my phone it is. 😒
It's not just you, My phone hit 99% in late May (bought the phone on December 2nd), and it has been a slippery slope ever since. In around 3 months, I've lost 11% battery health on my 12 Pro Max, and the usage time has reduced drastically. Just waiting for it to hit 80% (hopefully under warranty) and get the battery replaced.
I have the 12 Pro bought on launch day. It is at 87% battery health and can’t make it through the day without charging. My old phone X that went to my grandson still has the original battery and is at 85%.
I like my current phone so am not planning on updating in the fall but will need to get a new battery. Just hope the replacement batteries are not as bad as the current one
I like my current phone so am not planning on updating in the fall but will need to get a new battery. Just hope the replacement batteries are not as bad as the current one
I got my 12 mini on December 7th, and today my battery health dropped to 89%. I have been running the iOS 15 betas, so that could very well be contributing to the issue, but my battery definitely does not last as long during a day as it used to. I typically will charge overnight and then have to juice up the phone on my drive home in the afternoon. Yesterday I had the phone plugged in, and it indicated it was charging, but the battery charge level didn’t budge. Device also has a tendency to get hot while doing minor tasks like checking Outlook or Telegram messages.
Edit: the low battery use on Wednesday is because I was using my android phone that day, so the iPhone stayed at home off the charger.
Edit: the low battery use on Wednesday is because I was using my android phone that day, so the iPhone stayed at home off the charger.
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It does seem temps climb high when doing any Internet involved tasks in the later iOS 14 releases. I’d say it also seems to use up more power but, I think, that’s more of a placebo in losing track of time while browsing, streaming, etc. I don’t recall at the moment if it’s all network activities (e.g., streaming a movie from a NAS or other local source).
I'm down to 87%, so a 13% drop in 10 months of owning the phone... Wow, the value for money is killer!
My mini was bought on 17/02/21, and this is my battery
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Down to 85% now. At this point is there anything that I can do to pretty much degrade the last 5% so Apple will be forced to change the battery?
My 12 Pro has been having battery issues for a few months now - I think right around the time of the first iOS 15 betas, but maybe before.
I had been watching battery health and for the first five or six months, it held firm at 100% - I was impressed, battery life was awesome. To that point, I don't think I ever even had the phone get warm to the touch. Then I started noticing some random battery drain issues - around the same time, my battery health display started tanking and within probably a 2 month period, dropped to 88% (my GF has a Xr that was purchased new & gets a lot more use, and her percentage is 89%). Since, it's held steady at the 88% mark now for around 2 or 3 months.
Since I started having battery drain issues, I also get overheating at times. Sometimes when indoors on wifi, inexplicably - but terrible overheating in sunlight. In fact, I can't use the phone in daylight & browse the internet for more than maybe 5 min before the screen starts dimming & will quickly get to the point you can't even see it in sunlight. It's really irritating, especially considering I came from an iPhone X that would overheat in daylight and dim the display a level (then stay there until it cooled) - and when I got my 12 Pro, I was really happy the issue seemed resolved (for the first 5 or 6 months). Now the phone is nearly useless in daylight.
5G vs LTE doesn't seem to affect the overheating. Seems like I can nearly completely drain the battery when away from my desk in about 6 or 7 hours of somewhat moderate use.
Anyone seen anything similar? I'm doing a backup and preparing to try a restore to see if it fixes the issue. Probably should have tried that a while back.
I had been watching battery health and for the first five or six months, it held firm at 100% - I was impressed, battery life was awesome. To that point, I don't think I ever even had the phone get warm to the touch. Then I started noticing some random battery drain issues - around the same time, my battery health display started tanking and within probably a 2 month period, dropped to 88% (my GF has a Xr that was purchased new & gets a lot more use, and her percentage is 89%). Since, it's held steady at the 88% mark now for around 2 or 3 months.
Since I started having battery drain issues, I also get overheating at times. Sometimes when indoors on wifi, inexplicably - but terrible overheating in sunlight. In fact, I can't use the phone in daylight & browse the internet for more than maybe 5 min before the screen starts dimming & will quickly get to the point you can't even see it in sunlight. It's really irritating, especially considering I came from an iPhone X that would overheat in daylight and dim the display a level (then stay there until it cooled) - and when I got my 12 Pro, I was really happy the issue seemed resolved (for the first 5 or 6 months). Now the phone is nearly useless in daylight.
5G vs LTE doesn't seem to affect the overheating. Seems like I can nearly completely drain the battery when away from my desk in about 6 or 7 hours of somewhat moderate use.
Anyone seen anything similar? I'm doing a backup and preparing to try a restore to see if it fixes the issue. Probably should have tried that a while back.
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I have a SE2020 I bought on launch day. Right now I’m at 90%. It seems like it held steady for awhile and is now but there was a while where I was losing about 1% a month.