iPhone 6 Battery Drain - Please Help! :(

I would suggest a full restore via iTunes on your laptop

 

What about looking at app-specific battery useage?

 

it may have been updating all your apps in the background if auto update was on?? bluetooth on?

 

You could also just wait a day or two and see what the battery is like after fully charging it. You've had it for 4 hours. Seems a bit early to be panicking...

 

If you restored the phone from a backup that's likely your problem. Especially if you had drain issues before.

Start the phone as new and re-set everything up. Always do this for a new phone.

 

Is there a way to save your contacts if you do this? I would love to set up as new, but I dont really want to take a really long time to manually add my contacts back.

 

You should be using iCloud or Gmail to save your contacts. That way there's never a concern about losing contacts, since it's always synced to the cloud.

 

My battery was draining pretty quickly all day long. However, I came home and gave it a full charge and it seems to be much better.

 

Note that brand new iPhones needs to have their battery indicators calibrated. This means going from a full charge to zero and charging it back a couple of times (at a minimum, one charging cycle).

 

I agree with the others and would NEVERTHELESS use the cloud for my restore when you can get it done 100% in about 10-12 minutes via an iTunes backup.

 

Backup your backup...
When you set up as new, iTunes may overwrite your backup so you'll lose it if you did decide you wanted that backup back..

I charged my 6 up to full when it arrived. Got 5:33 usage, mostly 3G with maybe an hour of WiFi.
Charged up to 100% then got 7:27 usage. That was mostly WiFi, with less than an hour of 3G.

Charged again to 100% and switched wifi off, and will see how this charge goes.

My 5S was worse, usually get between 4-5 hours on that.
Certainly not the stated times that Apple mentions in the keynote and on the website.

 

OP - I would LOVE to have your battery usage.

My scenario.... Plugged it in yesterday to full charge and did a Clean setup, nothing from backup except iCloud contacts.
Loaded my apps, did all sync'ing, etc. plugged in to iTunes.

Turned off BT, iCloud, Location except for Find my iPhone and maps, killed a lot of notifications, etc. It was fully charged this morning so I left the house.

Between 9:45-10am to around 1pm battery drained to zero. There was no service where I was so I turned off LTE and Cellular Data with turning it on periodically. I basically hardly used it but for a few messages.

I got 3.5 hours usage with 5 Standby. Way worse than old iPhone. I feel something is wrong with mine and no draining/recharging is going to fix this one.

 

I am wondering that, about a corrupt iCloud account.
I did set up my 6 as new, but it's the same iCloud account as I had on my 5S.


Example of corrupt settings being around on a new device - iPad safari tab reload. I'd set up my iPad air as new, added my iCloud account, email, and installed a few apps. It was reloading tabs when I only had 3 open and no other apps (had literally just switched on the iPad). After resetting settings (Settings- General- Reset- Reset all settings), my safari tabs stopped reloading so much and could have as much as 8 open before I noticed reloads.

Please update us on how you go, not adding the iCloud account

 

Which carrier do you have?

 

I want to do this, but I have 9000 photos from my camera roll that I still want to have on my new phone.

I restored from my previous iPhone backup, and would prefer not to use iCloud to backup all those photos/videos.

What's the best way to get all my photos/videos back on my new phone and not restore from an iTunes backup from my previous phone?

 

You can transfer the photos to your computer then sync photo albums off your computer to your iPhone.
With a mac it's easy, it uses iPhoto's albums, smart albums, events, for you to pick to put photos back on.

Not sure how it works on a PC/Windows, but I think the option's there on iTunes for you to pick photos to sync onto your iPhone.

 

AT&T I don't think that matters at all tho.

 

if you have an ipad w same icloud acct and settings then i think you could rule out a corupt icloud acct if it works ok. removing safari bookmarks sync helped a couples yeras ago. but think they fixed that

 

I have similar numbers for my 6. Now I rarely got more than 4 hours streaming radio on my iphone 5. I ran down my six last night. Plugged it in all night. Full charge ready to go this morning. After the full charge I got about 12hrs standby and a few minutes short of 6 hours usage time*. No radio streaming, just web surfing, boom beach and just genera messing around with it. I set it up as new and synced safari and contacts from icloud. It is charging up now and I made sure the device is turned off for this charge.

*disclaimer: The first few hours the brightness was up pretty high. I forgot I had turned it up to help run it down last night. So we will wait and see what tomorrow brings.

 

DFU Mode restore.

Spotlight is always culprit. And, Background App Refresh...

Also, changing Mail app setting to manual, instead of Push/Fetch

 

I'm not sure it charges whilst it's off?