iOS 10 Battery Life Draining Too Fast? Check These 9 Helpful Tips

Is your battery draining faster with iOS 10? It shouldn’t be, but some people have felt that updating to iOS 10 has reduced the battery life on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you suspect that updating to iOS 10 has changed your battery life for the worse, read on to learn some potential reasons for this, as well as some reasonable solutions.
0: Wait! Are you using it more?
iOS 10 brings a lot of improvements and changes to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch experience, a side effect of that is people tend to use their devices a lot more right after updating to a new iOS release. Well, when you use your device more, the battery drains faster.
This is a very common occurrence with new iOS updates as people explore the new features on their iPhones and iPads, so consider this if you feel the device is draining faster than usual… maybe you’re just using the device more than you realize?
Fortunately it’s really easy to check how long you’ve been using your iPhone or iPad since it was last charged, which should give you an idea of battery life and your usage. Go to “Settings” and then to “Battery” and scroll down to see “Time Since Last Full Charge” to see the usage and standby times, which gives you an idea of how well the battery is performing.
1: Plug it in overnight
This might sound like odd advice, but one of the best things to do after updating to iOS 10 is to plug in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, let the screen turn off, and do nothing for an extended period of time. Letting it sit plugged in overnight while you sleep is perfect for this.
This can help because iOS 10 does a lot of indexing and scanning of your pictures and data in the background, for features ranging from Spotlight to new Siri abilities to the Photos sorting and searching functions. While you can certainly use your iPhone or iPad while those background tasks are taking place, the device might appear slower or might seem to have a rapidly draining battery, when in fact it’s just iOS 10 doing what it needs to do to be entirely usable. For large devices that are nearly full of photos and other stuff, the indexing and maintenance processes can take many hours, sometimes extending beyond even 12 hours. So wait a day or two and make sure it has been plugged in and not in use for a notable amount of that time.
2: Restart
A common trick that may help battery life is to restart the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You can do the typical restart of turning the device off and then back on again, or force reboot. Sometimes a simple device reboot does the trick.
3: Follow the Battery Life Advice in Battery Settings
New to iOS 10 is the ability for the device to specifically recommend battery saving suggestions to prolong battery life. Typically this means making adjustments to usage like reducing the devices screen brightness.
- Go to Settings > Battery > look for “Battery Life Suggestions”
You’ll see what is offered for your device, then follow that advice. And yes, it’s good advice.

You can then tap on each item to jump directly to it in Settings. And yes really, reducing your screen brightness will have a big impact on battery life.
4: Disable Background App Refresh
Background App Refresh is a nice feature but in practice it tends to consume more battery life by allowing apps to do more activity in the background. Thus, disabling Background App Refresh tends to increase battery life, and many users don’t even notice the difference from turning it off.
- Open Settings and go to to “General”, choose “Background App Refresh” and turn the top switch to the OFF position to disable the feature
5: Use Reduce Motion
Reducing the amount of visual effects in iOS may offer a minor improvement to battery life:
- Go to Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion > ON
Note doing this will cause iMessage effects to not work so only adjust Motion if you don’t care about the fancy message lasers, slams, and confetti type effects.
6: Disable Location Services You Don’t Need or Use
Location services and GPS usage can hit the battery particularly hard if they are used extensively, so disabling some of the location features can help your battery last longer.
- Open Settings > Privacy > Location Services
- Adjust settings appropriate for your usage, setting to “Never” or “While Using” as needed per app and feature
This is universally good advice for prolonging battery life and doesn’t apply just to iOS 10.
7: Backup and Restore
If your device is really struggling with battery life draining rapidly with iOS 10, you might want to try backing it up and restoring it. This is a common troubleshooting technique and it’s likely what Apple will walk you through if you contact their support line.
You’ll want to backup your device to iTunes or iCloud, then restore the device to that newly made backup. This entire process can take a while, but it can sometimes help.
8: Fed up? Consider a downgrade
If you’ve tried everything, you’ve let the iPhone or iPad sit plugged in for 48 hours unused, none of the recommendations work, and you’re just entirely fed up, you could always downgrade back to the prior iOS version. This is only available for a limited time as Apple continues to sign the older iOS 9.3.5 builds, and to be done properly it requires access to a backup made from iOS 9 as well. If you’re interested in this rather dramatic approach, you can learn how to downgrade iOS 10 to iOS 9.3.5 here.
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How is your battery life with iOS 10? No difference? Is it better or worse? Did the above tips help? Let us know in the comments below.

No battery issues here, in fact battery life is noticeably improved over iOS 9.3.5 on my 6S.
I can’t help but suspect that Rob is not being honest. In fact, I suspect he’s a plant, from Apple. No one’s battery life has been improved by the iOS 10 update.
No one.
Agree fully that battery life for my iPhone is seriously comprised after iOS software upgrade, i.e. Really BAD.
I use my iPhone basically for phone calls and taking photos – hardly ever. Most of my location sites are disabled. But to no avail.
My iPad is the main device used as I carry it everywhere. Also have iMac as base file storage
Noticed that for new Mail after OSi 10.0.2, I can’t delete as group all existing emails on iPhone. Bummer. I have 3 Apple devices listing emails – iMac, iPad & iPhone. The Mail list not useful is iPhone -and I want to delete the daily barrage in bulk at once. No more.
Hate the new start page. Pain to get to my normal menu app page.
Really feel like a fool installing latest SW – but Apple harasses you regularly to do the new installs.
Do you know how to delete the new start page?
You can turn off the widgets on lock screen here https://osxdaily.com/2016/09/25/disable-widgets-lock-screen-today-view-ios/
I am neither a plant nor an Apple plant. iOS had no noticeable affect on my iPhone 6 and I am finding that battery charge on my new iPhone 7 Plus is better than the 6. I use (and used) low power mode (wish Apple would make that the default setting). Everyone who is having battery problems should try it.
iOS 10 battery seems good to me. I think people use their phones a lot and then it drains. Everyone is messing with the iMessage gifs etc
The battery life on my iPad Air has been dramatically worse. I used to be able get 1.5 days of heavy use on one charge, now it’s down to six hours. I’ve tried many of the suggestion above, which were also suggested by Apple support via Twitter, to no avail.
Same here with my iPad Air and iPhone 5s. I thought that this coincided with a failed attempt to switch over to Century Link WIFI (they managed to screw everything else up so I was predisposed to believing that they somehow managed to break iOS too) but I am back on Comcast and am having the same problem.
You may have residual information from the previous iOS that is not shutting down when iPad is locked – check battery usage and standby information. Recommend backup and restore, then restore backup again, if issue persists, restore iPad and setup as a new device, then choose what items to re-sync. A clean install and resync is guaranteed to help improve battery life over a restore of backup.
Using phone very lightly and battery life goes fromm 100% to 63% in about 15-20 minutes. Have been using an external battery to make it theough each day. I used to be able to moderately use my iphone 6 for about 15 hours.
My iphone’s 5 battery lasts much longer. Good update!!
I see no difference in battery life.
Not using any iOS 10 effects or fancy stuff, location services and background refresh off, all the usual – just watching the battery life tick away (100% down to 74%) in 45 minutes. Won’t get through the day at this rate. Have been avoiding the upgrade, not sure what i tapped to agree the upgrade – didn’t see anything that I absolutely had to have. On wifi typing this, down to 71%.
You don’t say which model phone you have, there is no question some of the older models 4s and early 5s are starting to have battery problems but I think that is just age, I know I’m slowing down a bit at 78.
If it is an older model consider a) replacing battery b) adding a battery pack or c) upgrade to new phone, with all the goodies in iOS 10 now and in the future this could be the best option.
If none of the above applies I hope you can fix the problem, some of the suggestions offered here are good but nobody knows your phone like you do so have a dig around and decide if everything on there (2000 pics 1500 emails?) are absolutely necessary, I have this conversation with my wife regularly as she refuses to delete anything including many videos of grandchildren which I explain can be stored elsewhere.
I have a 6S+ and mine is doing exactly the same thing. Seriously, you’re suggesting removing emails? Crazy. I’m probably going to switch back. Today it literally went from 100% at 1pm to 6% at 3:30. All apps closed and removed all “background refresh”. This is silly.
iPad seem to drain quickly; avoiding upgrading my phone.
I wish there was an off switch for all the gratuitous effects (yes, motion reduction helps, but no it just reduces the effects)
Overall battery life is much better with my iPhone 5 under IOS 10, EXCEPT when I listen to music through Bluetooth in my car.
The iPhone then gets notably warm in a matter of minutes.
The heat dissipation itself explains the battery drain.
But why does my iPhone overheat with Music playing through Bluetooth ?
I must add that I had noticed such heat problems starting with IOS 9.3.4 or so.
I have been observing the behaviour of battery usage for last couple of days on iOS 10 and found out Messages App is eating up battery and long background activity(can’t be stopped as no option for default apps) especially when using all new features like digital touch, hand writing and gifs. Messages App taking up-to 70% of all background activity so eating battery like a cake. Apple need to fix it asap.
Yes ! it’s exactly the same for me, message app is taking over 65% of battery use, mostly in background! amazing!
Is there a way to disable the “improvements” on Message App ?
Battery life has much decreased since the update… Please Apple, fix it asap !
Battery life noticeably less on my 5S with iOS10 but not earthshakingly so. What concerns me more is that ever since I loaded the iOS 10 Public Beta and now the general release, the phone runs noticeably warmer and sometimes feels almost hot, indoors with air conditioning. I presume this is all the new processor load iOS10 puts on the older processor?
Iphone 6s here, i performed a clean ios 10 install. Battery life is worse for me in comparison to ios 9.3.5. The only way battery is now decent is not touching the phone, if i start usingt it opening safari drops battery 1%, each single action feels like is gonna drop 1% more…
I found this article after searching to see if others had the same battery issue I’m having since the update. My phone was left sitting – I was elsewhere and the battery dropped like lead. I’ll be trying these tips for sure!
I have a 5s- have noticed dramatic draining of battery life- no change in use and have deleted or disabled majority of apps. I can watch the battery drain by the minute and need to have external charger at all times. Sucks cause the new features are cool!
Hi there, I cant find “battery suggestions” when I go to the menu as described there is nothing suggested.
I hany 5S with ios10.
I noticed that for my phone, too – I imagine it’s because there are no suggestions available
Also do not find any “battery suggestions”. And both my iPhone 5C and iPad suck up battery use like Nestle sucks up water.
Using and sending messages with all those crazy GIFs gobbles battery like mad. Go ahead and send them, but then delete those messages (as fun as they are to look at). Tell your friends the same.
My iPhone 5, after last update to IOS 10, just switch off @ 63% of battery. It didn’t happen the day before the update. The battery is not flat, just the phone switches off. I connect the charger and it restarts with 63%. Strange
Hi, found airdrop was now turned on and never use it so turned that off. A few other apps I had installed recently were set to update in background with no need so turned them off. It seemed to drain quicker and normally get a day decent use and re-charge at night.
I’ve definitely noticed issues. Rebooting temporarily helps. This morning, I was at 54% after browsing facebook and playing a couple games for a few minutes each. I plugged the phone in, made sure it showed “charging”, turned the screen off. I came back about an hour and a half later, phone still “charging” but now the battery was at 10%. Before upgrading to iOS 10, I used the phone in exactly the same way, but I could even leave my most power-hungry app open and the screen turned on, and the phone would still charge and stay at 100% until I unplugged it. The battery life dropping that fast *while it is charging* is a serious issue.
24 year Mac user so don’t give me a lot basic advice… I know what I’m doing… iOS 10 update to iPhone 6splus had been a disaster battery wise and the damn thing is hot all the time as well … started dat at 100% and barely turned it on on —!itvshut down at 8 pm
My battery is draining mostly in standby mode ive had it on me fir half an hour and its already down 5 %
Any tips?
New IPhone 7. Fully charged at bedtime. Down to 75% by 6 am! Battery won’t last all day. I had no problems with ios9 and IPhone 6 s. Will try tips I read about.
Since iOS 10 install battery % drops even when iPhone 6 is in standby and phone now also quickly gets hot during browsing. Long time iPhone user, I’ve disabled all unnecessary features but why have a smartphone if most of it is disabled so battery will last the day?
Battry life getting worst after i updated IOS10 in my I6… pls suggest how do i save my battery life… when the battry comes to 15% my ph gets off … it is very irritating.. can i expect any good version update from Apple for increasing battry life ????
MUCH worse battery life. I’ve been keeping only a few programs running at any time, turned off GPS for the majority of apps. Will try some of the other apps but as an example, I start the day at 100%, having the phone plugged in all night, then have listened to Audible for 15 minutes, looked at Facebook about 10 minutes total, looked at the weather, looked at 4 texts (none with animation) and played three games of Words with Friends. My battery is currently at 46%. I started using the phone at 6pm and it’s currently 1:30pm. Ummmmm yeah… no bueno.
my 6plus is eating battery since the update to 10 and it sucks
My 5s downloaded the update without my authorization on Sunday night. On Monday the battery drained very fast. This issue has continued all week. Also, all of the sudden I received dozens of new FacebookFriends that I never requested. Now going through blocking them. I received no benefit from the “upgrade” and want to downgrade to prior iOS. Not happy.
Try going to setting, general and click on background app update and turn it off.
Both of our 5S phones have noticeable worse battery life. Mine is maybe 1 + year old and my GFs is only 6 months or so. I go to bed and my phone is 1t 100% and wake up to it at 60-70%. Before the upgrade it would only be down to maybe 97% overnight. I can start at 100% and play some games and it is under 50% in 20 minutes or so when before the upgrade it would only go down to maybe 65-75%. Same thing with my GFs newer 5S.
APPLE wants you to upgrade your 6, software knows your on 6=drain battery
Apple just released a new upgrade to 10 lets see if that works. I hardly us the phone an charge would last 2 to 3 days now it is about 12 hours.
After updating 10.0.2 battery drain fast 9.3.5 is too good
if you updated your iphone to iOS 10 .0.2say goodbye to your battery life
Battery life has shortened since update to IOS 10 on my iPhone 6. Fully charged in the morning, 12 hours at work with a little useage during 30 minute lunch, by the end of the shift lower power mode warning is coming on. Wasn’t this way before the update.
I went looking for articles after my iPhone 6 has been losing battery crazy fast after upgrading to 10. Frighteningly fast. And, no, I haven’t even using it anymore than usual, I haven’t played with any upgrades. Haven’t used messaging anymore than usual.
Just did the upgrade to 10.0.3 and my battery is draining before my eyes!!! The original 10.0 was fine. Today’s update has done something to my phone and in the time it took to type this it has gone down 9 %
Hi again. Updated to 10.0.2 and I totally disabled my background app refresh (item 4) and it seems to be working. 100% to 86% today but if u use it looks like it is draining fast so I will turn down brightness and see how it goes. Will update in a day or so
Unbelievable how bad this is. I have a 6- Fully -charged this a.m. and by 12 noon by create text, checking emails, phone calls-battery is nearly dead. Yes, I’m using it but no more than normal. I should’ve waited until I got my 7 but it’s taking so dang long to get it. I wanted at less something new. I don’t know that there is a fix.
iPhone 7plus with iOS 10.2 and the battery is draining like anything even when I’m not using it- and the phone becomes red hot – come me on apple sort it out!
Apple has a bad habit of turning bluetooth “on” after many updates, for no apparent reason (10 included).
Check that?
I noticed the battery drain right away and no my habits haven’t changed in One day. it makes me upset ppl give advice like turn off app refresh and lower the screen brightness…. how come I have to do that now??? I didn’t have to do that before. the issue is the software. Bottomline it’s worse. my phone even gets hot to the touch with Bluetooth on. I hope this gets fixed soon.
My iPhone is fine. Didn’t use my iPad at all after upgrade but it totally drained battery and it’s now taking a looong time to recharge
My iPhone 6s battery drains much faster. I’ve done everything in the recommendations. After the new patch, it’s not as bad. After two hours this morning down from 100% to 41%. before it went to 20% in 2 hours. Maybe this is a ploy to get me to buy a new phone.
Apple products with the latest OS should be banned from the market.
My new iPad Mini 4 (1.5 months) usually worked up to two days of moderate use or 10 hours on one battery charge.
After iOS 10 battery doesn’t charge over 75%, drops fast to 15% and sometimes turns off by itself.
Tried all imaginable optimization steps for no avail.
Ridiculous.
My departure from Apple is secured now.
Their stupid obsession with corporate bottom line will kill the company.
Battery runs down in front of my eyes even if I am not using it. Iphone 6 gets super hot, too. Phone doesn’t last the morning anymore after charging all night. This all started with the upgrade I did a few days ago.
Apple needs to fix this battery draining issue! It is totally ridiculous! Was this on purpose to make us buy new batteries or make us get the new i7
Iphone5s and recently updated to iOS 10.0.2 and for the first few days noticed a slight increase in battery drainage but nothin too out there. Plugged in my phone to charge for 2 HOURS (starting from 63%) and reached an decent charge of 92%. Unplugged it and in 20 minutes, I kid you not, battery went from 92% to 68%. For five of those minutes I was on the google app. WTF. Apple please fix this ASAP!!!!
Thank you for the tips–I tried them all…but to no avail on my 5 :-(
And thank you to all who took the time/effort to write about their woes…at least I now know that it’s not an isolated issue with my ‘iBaby’! Just reading all of these comments took my battery down 10%..& it was already on ‘low power mode’…unbelievable!!
My husband’s 6 took the upgrade without any changes to his battery so hopefully Apple will figure out another upgrade for those of us w/ the older models–soon! Thank goodness for external batteries!!
I am also having battery life issues and heat issues ever since the morning after my update to 10.0.2. My 6s had been working just fine under 10.0.1, but now my phone goes from 100% charge to under 80% with no actual usage… just on my drive to work. The phone is noticeably warm to the touch. I could typically go for close to 2 days without charging if I had to. Now, the phone is dead in about 5 hours with only moderate usage. This is really an embarrassing update from Apple. I have been a very happy iDevice’s user since the very first iPod and have never experienced an update that was this poorly vetted prior to release. I certainly hope that they release a patch quickly.
I never ran out of battery before the upgrade. Now I am having to recharge during the day and barely making the rest of the night. Charging overnight still. I’m going to try the recommendations above but am not
Pleased at all with the battery life!
On an se the battery is getting exhausted by 4 in the arve. Before it lasted all day with about 30 % left at night
Back again. My battery is now good. Go to your Bluetooth devices and remove them ” forget this device” and then reinstall your devices. Let me know how you go
Fully charged this morning from being plugged in overnight, got my kids ready for school and within a half hour my battery went from 100% to 73% just by sitting on my night stand and unplugged. Didn’t even pick it up or turn on the screen! Not very user friendly ios 10! Using a iPhone 6
Battery life is noticeably less on Iphone 6, by about 1-2 hours. I’m trying all the tricks to cut down on battery use, but it’s still not as good as before 10.0.1.
Using a 6 Plus and battery drains faster with iOS 10 than before. Same usage time, same apps. Used to be proud I never had to recharge until night but now I have to. Really disappointing :(
Horrible battery life with ios10 on my iPhone 6S. One thing I’ve noticed is that it’s constantly waking up on its own from sleep mode. Don’t know if that’s because of the lift to wake or something else.
i have an iphone 6, i used to get home after 12 hours of listening to music ALL DAY with around 50-70% battery left, the day after i update to 10 my phone was on 20% by dinnertime, i put it on airplane mode and lost 10% in 45 mins without using it at all, theres most definately something wrong, i think they do it on purpose to get u to buy a new phone
iPhone 6s purchased in April. I have experienced significant decrease in battery power. I lost over 60% over my workday and I barely use it considering I am a teacher. And just opening this window and scrolling through alone, I have used 3% of my battery. messaging is taking 37% my battery today and I’ve only sent five text.
Battery is definitely worse. I upgraded to iOS 10 today and haven’t even used my phone for hours and was shocked to see the battery at 10%. Normally my battery doesn’t drain hardly at all when not in use, iOS 10 has really screwed something up.
You expect short battery life after installing a new iOS as it sorts itself out in the background but after a while battery life is still awful with my iPhone6S
After upgrading to iOS10, My phone “6S” model battery is getting down fast, Is there Any way to improve the battery life???,
Help me.
I truly haven’t seen any change in battery life with my update. I periodically go through every section of my settings to make sure they are how I want them–turning off background app refresh and location services, etc. I do all I can to save battery life without removing the fun from my phone.
For me, it’s a combo of the phone plus iOS 10.0.2. The iPhone 7 was heating up during the restore process uncomfortably without the case on. When it charges idly, it is warm too. I played music in the car and ran Waze and it heats through the case within 15 minutes. I replicated the restore and charging process on my 6, and it remained cool throughout the processes. I rebooted a few times too. I ran a sleep tracking app and the 7 was drained by 31%, while the 6 was drained by 23% in 5 hrs 23 mins on same iOS and backup files.
I reset network settings and deleted all my apps (a lot and all non-native apps!). Rebooted. Same thing when I redownloaded each app individually When it comes to heat. While on airplane mode for 8 hrs 23 mins with the sleep tracking app on, the iPhone 6 was drained by 23% while the 7 was drained by 40%.
I’ve since reset the iPhone 7 and set it up as a new phone so I am not running from a backup in case ther is any corrupt file carrying over from any of the apps previously. Turned off background app refresh for over 90% of my apps, turned off auto brightness, turned off many notifications and location services for most apps that asked for access. Turned off Siri spotlight search completely. I redowbloaded all the apps to test the phone out. When it downloaded the apps, 85 became warm but half as bad as initially from the restored backup. However, charging is still warm which I didn’t experienced on all previous iPhones I’ve owned/own. Here’s a log I’ve typed up too.
After all apps Downloaded today:
Battery still eating up fast
Setting up 1 bedtime alarm
1 regular alarm
1 weekday alarm
Battery changed from 75% to 74%
Craigslist search for 2 items, tapped to view 3 items, 75% to 72%
Typed battery notes in this portion and it went from 72% to 71%. Crazy. I’m typing this out and it went from 71% to 66% lol. Disappointing.
Just updated to iOS 10 and it’s the first time I have ever instantly regretted my decision to upgrade. I have a 6S and up until this morning, could easily hold a charge all day with lots of use. My phone was at 98%, updated and within 20 minutes it was down to 66%. I’ve turned off all background apps, location apps, brightness down and anything else I can find to reduce battery. Message app is earing 48% of my battery and I can’t find a way to reduce that. The battery is literally draining in sleep mode. I’ve had iPhones 3, 4, 5 and now 6 without problems. If I had known this morning what I know now, I would have NEVER updated. Am going to try and downgrade.
I have a iPhone 7 plus well this is my replacement phone because the battery was horrible. Well I got the replacement yesterday afternoon and so far in the past 22 hour have had to charge the phone 3 times. This battery sucks.
Hi there, why is that i cant find “battery suggestions” on the battery settings?. 6s here and its already IOS 10.
My battery life is way worse with iOS 10. I’ve never had a battery die this freaking fast. Never! I’m not doing anything different than before. It’ll be 100% & not even an half an hour later it’s down to 20%. & now it dies when it’s in between 10% & 20%. It’s doesn’t even wait to get to 0% to die anymore. Ugh this sucks. If they don’t fix this ASAP, I won’t be able to handle it much longer.
on my iphone 6, battery life went from lasting more or less 48h to 6-8h after ios 10. Time to downgrade or buy a Samsung.
My iPhone battery life went down 50% in 2 hours!!! And the phone turn it off @ 20%!! What is going on!!
6s, and yes the battery drains faster. My hope was that the 10.1 beta will solve it. NOT: it’s even worse. Beware…
Update: as a user mentioned twice: network reset + iOS 10.1 beta helps. At least me. No unusual battery draining anymore, no unusual heat. Back to normal here.
I have 6plus. Battery draining like crazy without even using the phone much. It even shuts down at a medium batter % level….like 64% battery, shuts down automatically saying 0% battery. When I plug it again, it reboots and come back to 64%. If I immediately off plug again, it again goes back to 0 and shut off…Any help??
Iphone 6+ here. I was able to use the phone the whole day. Now I need to charge it 2x a day. Background app refresh is enabled BUT I cant disable it. Please help.
You have to love those who respond that their battery life is just fine. But, if that were the case, why then are they posting in an article talking about bad battery life? Curious. They are either Apple plants trying some PR tactics that will never work or they are trolls just trying to be that one Internet bully who feels safe behind anonymity.
I too am having the battery life issue with my iPad Mini 4. I’m actually watching the battery life drop 1% every few minutes while not even touching it. I own an android phone so I know what features to turn off and all about the brightness and other battery draining components.
I never use location, never have Bluetooth on unless I use it at the moment, screen brightness is low, manually check email, turned notifications off and background app refresh on most all my apps, and turn off wifi when there’s no wifi around. There is no reason my battery should be dropping so quickly after upgrading to ios 10 from 9.3.5, which was far better.
I don’t even use iMessage or any of the new features so I don’t know why my battery life is dropping so much. This is yet another Apple failure by an inept CEO that is nothing like Steve Jobs and knows nothing about the business. Ever since Jobs died Apple has done so many stupid things and has come out with one failure after another.
Case in point, the removal of the headphone jack. It’s been proven that the sound via lightning jack is not any better, but Apple had an agenda to push their 160 dollar airport earphones. Also,their new iPhone 7 has design flaws that cause the units to blow up, just like Samsung Note 7, and also the phone makes buzzing clicking noises among other issues.
All in all, Apple might be a good product but the CEO needs to have the same determination that Jobs had when it comes to Apple devices. No one enjoys spending nearly a 1000 dollars on a new phone just to have nothing but problems, including battery life. Even if you buy the phone under Verizon’s monthly program. There should not be this many issues.
My opinion: Such an expensive (in fact overprized) phone must work flawlessly with ALL the features switched ON. It’s a bad joke that we have to strip down a “top smart phone” to a year 2000 brick phone to save battery power. Pathetic.
iPhone 6s and battery drops by the 10s from texting. I don’t have push / automatic fetch or background app refresh on any of my apps. I use my phone for texting and talking at work. I have never had problems making it through a day. Today a little after lunch I had no battery and no charger being that I’ve never had issues. Bad update
Soon after I started reading this post, my battery at first was 70 % and now it is 28% , the worst upgrade ever, moreover being a die hard fan of iPhone is making me to rethink twice on should I be using iPhone on…these guys are asking to lower ur brightness for better life, are these guys kidding using this phone from one year and never lowered brightness for the sake of battery
Have an Ipad Mini 2. Without doubt the battery is expiring significantly more quickly after IOS10 was installed. Previous could go for days without a recharge, now at least once a day. Plus charging time seems v slow.
10 sucks the life from my 6s battery in no time…wtf?
iPad mini 2 battery drained 1st day of iOS 10. It normally lasts 2-3 days and today was a light usage day. Battery said 46% used in Home and Lock screen. The only change I’d made was setting the Bedtime feature of the clock. Turned that off, will charge overnight and see what happens tomorrow.
My iPhone 6 has the same problem: Battery drains very fast and phone get’s very hot. The phone was working well until I upgraded to iOS 10.
Thanks for all the comments. Very helpful to know that it’s not just my phone; it’s happening to many of us…
I’m going to do as the article says to do and it charge over night to see what happens. But I’m thinking I will probably have to downgrade back to 9.3.
I don’t see “Battery Life Suggestions” on my iPhone 5!
Same issue here…the phone (6) gets hot now and battery life plummets. 8:37am and it’s down to 53% from an hour ago. Standard use of checking some morning emails and news feed. Turned off everything not needed.
Calendar also won’t load properly.
Reset the phone, charged it over night, etc. considering a restore now.
And the iPad (Pro) battery has been draining faster as well; no change to use latter either. 🙈🔫
Same here. My phone doesn’t last through the day and I even put it on the charger at my desk at work during the day. My iPad has been the same way, I just don’t use it as much most days. I’m checking to see my options.
Severe battery drain since update
I have iPhone 6 and since upgrading to ios 10 my battery life is not lasting 6hrs tried all the solutions and not improving any other suggestions
Installed iOS 10.0.2 last night on my 6+ before bed and my phone was at 97%. Did not charge or use my phone while sleeping (11pm – 6am) and my phone was at 3% in the morning. It was also hot. Tried the reboot to no avail. Phone won’t hold a charge and have been unable to get a full charge all morning. My location services are off. App refresh off. Brightness low. Only have cellular data for my needed apps. very frustrated. I usually only charge my phone a little while in the morning and it lasts me all day.
OK the Messages apps and stickers use tons of battery. If your battery is bad, delete the stickers that come from people in Messages, and don’t send them or gifs. They eat battery like crazy.
Since I upgraded my 6s to IOS 10, I see my battery as low as 50%, which never happened before upgrade.
Since I upgraded my 6s to IOS 10, I see my battery as low as 50% i about 5 hours, which never happened before upgrade. Before upgrade it would go 12 hours and never go below 80%.
My battery life on a 6 is not as drastic as some have stated but it is worse. I have done a clean install and then restored my apps from a backup. So far so good. If this doesn’t work I’ll do another clean install and start as new. Manually installing one app at a time.