Some iPhone 6 models are only 6 to 10 months old. Apple sold the iPhone 6 until September 2016, ie, until four months ago.
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Apple Possibly Planning to Launch iPhone 6 Battery Exchange Program [Updated]
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Whether its a bug or the battery, neither have been fixed nor addressed as a problem
#FAIL
Apple is just a crapshoot lately. Pathetic as I loved their products.
#FAIL
Apple is just a crapshoot lately. Pathetic as I loved their products.
I was afraid of that. Guess I'll stick with it and wait for them to admit there's a problem (if they ever do). I was hoping to hold out for an iPhone 8 which means my 6s Plus will need to survive for another 20 months. Yikes!
This would match my experience with a January 2016 warranty replacement iPhone 6 as well. In the cold I have seen shutdowns happening at as high as almost 60%. Warming the phone up again and it will be able to reboot. Sometimes the battery percentage gets to something close to what it was before the shutdown, sometimes it'll stay at 1% for up to an hour.
True but why won't Apple replace iPhone users phones with issues? Battery related
It is quite likely that older iPhone 6 models have a better performance than newer ones if the problem occurred during production while the iPhone 6s was the current model and thus might have affected only iPhone 6 models whose batteries were produced around the same time as the affected iPhone 6s models (ie, during the second year of iPhone 6 sales).
I have this exact issue on my iPhone 6S+ - shuts down around 30-40% when its just a little cold, maybe 20F. And it happens after being exposed to such temperatures maybe a couple minutes - its not even out in the cold long enough for the phone to actually get cold! Nothing extreme - very mild winter so far this year.
I'm really leaning toward believing that the root of the problem is how iOS is reporting the battery level. I think something changed in iOS 9 -- which is when the battery problems started occurring for me, as I recall.
The reason I think it's software and not hardware is that three or four months ago, I went to an Apple Store because my iPhone 6 was only charging intermittently. The actual problem was a giant piece of lint in the Lightning port; but before the Apple technician removed the lint, she plugged my phone in to do a diagnostic. She said the battery was reported as healthy.
I know I've been having battery issues with my iPhone 6 for at least a year now, if not a little bit longer than that. Maybe Apple's diagnostic tests on iPhone batteries are faulty? That's always a possibility. Assuming the test is good and my battery is actually still healthy, that means the culprit almost certainly has to be the software.
The reason I think it's software and not hardware is that three or four months ago, I went to an Apple Store because my iPhone 6 was only charging intermittently. The actual problem was a giant piece of lint in the Lightning port; but before the Apple technician removed the lint, she plugged my phone in to do a diagnostic. She said the battery was reported as healthy.
I know I've been having battery issues with my iPhone 6 for at least a year now, if not a little bit longer than that. Maybe Apple's diagnostic tests on iPhone batteries are faulty? That's always a possibility. Assuming the test is good and my battery is actually still healthy, that means the culprit almost certainly has to be the software.
I sold my wife's iPhone 6 to eBay using their quick sale program and the phone was denied and sent back for "poor battery". Would be nice if they implemented this.
Same experience. Out of nowhere, it dies and then bounces back up to a healthy percentage after being plugged in. Too many people experiencing this on non-S 6 models to make excuses that all the batteries are just bad from use. Something is going on that should be addressed by Apple.
I agree with you. I just think Samsung would behave the same as Apple if they could. It's only because their devices were catching fire that they had a return policy that looks more helpful than Apple's.
As an owner of a device that's got this battery problem (but hasn't according to Apple) I can't disagree with your point that they should admit that there's a problem and just get on and sort it out.
My wife's 6 also does this. We ended up buying a battery case to help her get through the day. I've given up on Apple fixing this on their own.
The Touch ID on my wife's 7 will simply not work. We can set up multiple fingers and it will function fine for about a half a day. Then it simply stops working and we have to re-set her fingerprints. She's found it so frustrating that she's simply given up and just types in her passcode. Also, on the first 7, it would not log in to iCloud. That process would lock up the phone every time. And all her saved text messages vanished (even when restoring from a backup) with no apparent way to get them back.
Mine was consistently below 10% at 10pm under my normal use these last few months. It still barely passed Apple's test, but I got it replaced under AppleCare+ for an intermittent headphone jack issue that I had looked at 3 times in the last few months. Now I'm ending the day with 50%.
I was getting similar random shutdowns at 30% and it would start back up with 1%, but jump to 30% when I plug it back in.
I was getting similar random shutdowns at 30% and it would start back up with 1%, but jump to 30% when I plug it back in.
Isn't it worth pointing out that Apple explicitly refrains from denying that there a plans for a narrow iPhone 6 battery recall? Not everybody reading the quote might have noticed this without the extra highlighting.
I still use my iPhone 6 from time-to-time and my kid likes to play games on it too. Compared to my other 6 iPhone models, the 6 battery is the worst (after they swapped the 6s battery on our 6s of course). The iPhone 6 that I have acts the exact same way as the 6s that we have BEFORE the battery was replaced. I'm sure it's nearing the end of its usable life. Like others have mentioned, my iPhone 5 (that is obviously much older than the 6) has an A-OK battery in it after all this time.
To me, this is an obvious case of "we know there's a problem, but we're under no obligation to do anything about it and we won't".
As such, I'm going to be sure to get an express replacement of my iPhone 7 plus before my AC+ warranty is up. The screen "clicks" on the corners when you press on it. So yeah, send me a new one Apple. In like... a year or so.
To me, this is an obvious case of "we know there's a problem, but we're under no obligation to do anything about it and we won't".
As such, I'm going to be sure to get an express replacement of my iPhone 7 plus before my AC+ warranty is up. The screen "clicks" on the corners when you press on it. So yeah, send me a new one Apple. In like... a year or so.
Or the fact the article states "UPDATED" in bold print and the OP stated it twice in bold after the fact Macrumors updated the article . The first post was on page one. Not sure now you would miss this once, let alone twice for double posting with less than four pages of comments.
In any case, this recall didn't seem legitimate from the start and at least Apple confirmed the inaccuracy before some may have been looking forward to the recall.
