Strange iPhone battery problem

coffeehound

Sandtree said:

My iPhone 6s went funny on its battery too all of a sudden... battery health was still low 90s% so deemed reasonable but you could discharge it fully with one hours play of Tetris but also almost fully recharge in under an hr on a 5w charger which shouldnt have been the case. The obvious option was to replace the battery but the screen had been replaced previously with a non-genuine etc so bit the bullet and upgraded. With my relatively light use I am now back to a 2 day run time from a single charge.

Yes, same sort of progression here; clearly the battery health indicator is worse than useless!  I went for an 11 and am pretty pleased with it, though with an otterbox case, it is the about size of a house brick

ripplyuk

@Sandtree Which one did you upgrade to? This 12 mini is showing screen-on time as less than an hour. Even my old phone manages 4-5hrs. 

Sandtree

ripplyuk said:

@Sandtree Which one did you upgrade to? This 12 mini is showing screen-on time as less than an hour. Even my old phone manages 4-5hrs. 

I've gone to the standard full size 13 and with my modest level of use I comfortably get 2 days of use out of it... probably never dropped below 20% yet so could maybe get a good part of a third day in too but not tried. With similar use on my iPhone 6s I was having to recharge 3-4 times a day

Did consider the Mini and had read reviews about people saying to get the Mini + the MagSafe battery pack is an ideal solution if you want a smaller phone and to combat the Mini's small battery but I prefer the larger screensize (though wouldnt want a Pro Max)