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I'm still getting drain and have also tried disabling iCloud, a couple of nights ago I turned off location services and it only dropped bout 1%, but i use apps that need permission to use so can't leave location services off, I've also noticed that if I'm in same room as WiFi router there is no drain but when i go to bedroom this is where the overnight drain happens even though I've still got full bars in my bedroom, could there be any interference with my phone and my computer by any chance, that's what I'm thinking now, maybe I'm mad lol!, it's just annoying the drain when the phone is fantastic on battery using it, or could it be the Intel chip? Any thoughts?
 
New phone update. Again every feature of iPhone turned on and device paired with Apple Watch. Charged to full and left it

Usage: 23min, Standby 9hrs, 19min still at 100%!!!

A whole lot of email and iMessages came in

Amazing

Last phone would be at 90% with the same usage
 
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New phone update. Again every feature of iPhone turned on and device paired with Apple Watch. Charged to full and left it

Usage: 23min, Standby 9hrs, 19min still at 100%!!!

A whole lot of email and iMessages came in

Amazing

Last phone would be at 90% with the same usage

Do you really think the phone used 0% of power during those 9 hours? Apple fakes the percentages to make it magical.
 
Do you really think the phone used 0% of power during those 9 hours? Apple fakes the percentages to make it magical.

Perhaps u are right

But again this is day 2 of using my replacement

Day 1 I got again 7hrs+ of usage at 20% all safari, Apple Music streaming and whatsapp

With my previous phone I got the 20% warning after about 3-4hrs+

So unless apple can create energy out of fake percentages I'm getting much better battery.
 
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Do you really think the phone used 0% of power during those 9 hours? Apple fakes the percentages to make it magical.
That's not how voltage estimates go for batteries, especially at the extremes (full/empty).
 
I have an appt at apple store tomorrow night for same battery issues discussed here. I was convinced for a while this was software related but not so sure now. The last couple of nights I have turned my phone off and lose 15% in battery percentage. I am now thinking there must be some sort of hardware issues with a batch of these phones. I can't understand how it could lose this much while powered off??!!
 
Perhaps u are right

But again this is day 2 of using my replacement

Day 1 I got again 7hrs+ of usage at 20% all safari, Apple Music streaming and whatsapp

With my previous phone I got the 20% warning after about 3-4hrs+

So unless apple can create energy out of fake percentages I'm getting much better battery.

Sure, but your previous phone had an "old" battery, whereas the battery of your iPhone 7 is brand new. Now, the battery life of your replacement is now 8 hours or so; so what ? Enough to yell "Oh my gooooodness, I can use my new iPhone 7 a whole day !!!!!!!!!!!" ???? "Oh my God, look at that, Apple have made a new iPhone with a 7 hour + battery life !!!!!!" They can make phones that just work !
 
Sure, but your previous phone had an "old" battery, whereas the battery of your iPhone 7 is brand new. Now, the battery life of your replacement is now 8 hours or so; so what ? Enough to yell "Oh my gooooodness, I can use my new iPhone 7 a whole day !!!!!!!!!!!" ???? "Oh my God, look at that, Apple have made a new iPhone with a 7 hour + battery life !!!!!!" They can make phones that just work !

I made 1 post on how my replacement phone had the usage time of apples quotation on the website as a followup to how my previous phone had a bum battery and as a way of proving it could be hardware vs software. U as a means of increasing ur post count by 1 come into a thread about battery life and comment that I was shouting in praise...

I had my old phone for about a month. Using your rate of battery life deprecation, an old phone should last about 1hr only after about 6 months.

I powered up my 400+ day old Phone 6S+ and reset it to a brand new setup

I powered up my "old iPhone 7 plus" that Im returning and did the same

left them both untouched same position in the house. Next morning the 6S+ was 100%, 7 plus shows 91%
 
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Guys what's causing the drain does anybody know, could it be the WiFi chip or something to do with the location services?
 
I reckon gps
I think it's the GPS too, i tried turning off location services a couple of nights ago and the battery only went down 1%, my battery went from 52% to 32% last night, getting fed up with it now turning this and that on/off, I'm going to erase all content and settings and set up as new
 
yeah

I honestly don't see how location services would cause any difference in battery drain. It would only use it if certain apps you used needed your location to use.

For me I left location services on and it made no real difference battery life wise.
 
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yeah

I honestly don't see how location services would cause any difference in battery drain. It would only use it if certain apps you used needed your location to use.

For me I left location services on and it made no real difference battery life wise.
I guess it could theoretically if there was a hardware fault, otherwise I agree unless something is requesting location continually it shouldn't cause any difference.

For some people with standby drain they can't find a solution to anything is worth a try ;)
 
I have an appt at apple store tomorrow night for same battery issues discussed here. I was convinced for a while this was software related but not so sure now. The last couple of nights I have turned my phone off and lose 15% in battery percentage. I am now thinking there must be some sort of hardware issues with a batch of these phones. I can't understand how it could lose this much while powered off??!!


So had my appt tonight and they gave me a new phone. Like many others I tried everything to figure out the battery drain and it just got to the point of being super annoying. All the tests they ran on the battery of course were fine but there was a fault of random restarts but I never noticed this at all?? I still think mine was a hardware issue as my phone powered off would lose 15% over night. My advice is save yourself a headache and just swap out for a new one. Yes stock could be an issue (I got the last one they had of my model tonight) but it is not worth it. So far so good with the new one I got.
 
So if we turn off the location services option completely, does that disable gps completely?
No that's the point the chip is always powered it seems.

Someone needs to set up as brand new and perhaps disable location services during setup as well. See if that helps if at all.
 
Do you really think the phone used 0% of power during those 9 hours? Apple fakes the percentages to make it magical.

they don't "fake" the percentages. They clearly say that its just an estimate to go by and its not 100% accurate.
 
Set the phone up as new yesterday and woke up today and it's still no different, nearly 20% of a drain overnight, I've tried everything from enabling/disabling point of view. I don't know what else to do now, I bought the phone from the apple store online because I wanted to lower my monthly phone bill and not have a 18/24 month contract with high bill, I live in Ireland so there is no store i can walk into, if I get onto apple they will probably tell me to send the phone for testing, but I'd have no phone then and for how long, my feeling now is that this is a hardware issue with the radios wifi/GPS, since I got the phone there has been 3 updates from 10-10.1.1 and it's no different, got to say I'm disappointed after giving €1050, any advice on what to do?
 
Can u still purchase apple care?

If u can then they can do an advance replacement.

I did a DFU reinstall and same thing.

Left it one, 80% next day
 
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Battery drain over night: 25% even when the iPhone was completely turned off (no standby). I changed it in the Apple store and now everything is fine!
 
Guys anyone that's still getting the overnight drain i have solved the problem for myself at least, yesterday i turned off the weather app and WIDGET just as an experiment and i only lost 1% overnight, no ****. This was really annoying me to think i was losing 15% average overnight doing nothing, as a replacement i have used the weather channel and it also has a widget that i have set to (while using app) in the location settings, hope this helps as it's fixed my problem after a month, lol!
 
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Guys anyone that's still getting the overnight drain i have solved the problem for myself at least, yesterday i turned off the weather app and WIDGET just as an experiment and i only lost 1% overnight, no ****. This was really annoying me to think i was losing 15% average overnight doing nothing, as a replacement i have used the weather channel and it also has a widget that i have set to (while using app) in the location settings, hope this helps as it's fixed my problem after a month, lol!
What do you mean by turned off the weather app exactly? Do you mean you set location services for the weather app to never and turned off its background app refresh?
 
Yes trust me this was the problem for me, what i have done is go to location settings and set weather to never or delete app, up to you! and then go to widgets on homescreen and edit, disable or remove weather, for me at least there was problem with the weather app and i had already set phone up as new but it didn't fix the issue until i removed and stopped using the weather app/widget, i was losing 15-20% in standby overnight but i only lost 1% last night and yes i have background app refresh off but i had off anyway so it was the weather app/widget for me that was the culprit.
 
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