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#298635 3-Jul-2022 08:45
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Wife's 6S has started losing charge rapidly. She charges it, uses it not a lot, then its at 1%

 

Ive gone through the usual things to see if an app/setting is hogging it, updated all apps, etc all seems ok

 

I charged it, did not much on it, charge % is normal and stable. 

 

Checked it this morning its at 1%. Battery Health is 83% so not horrid. 

 

Charged it at 8-10pm last night. Activity meter shows almost zero activity since then. The battery level green bars are high, as expected as it was just charged, very slowly decline till midnight which is normal, then bang, (at midnight oddly),it plummets to 1%. Its as though the battery health is more like 20%. Works fine (although it does seem to lose charge faster than my iPhone X (84% Battery Health) then it just loses all charge instantly. That it did that at midnight last night is probably a red herring.

 

Is the battery done and dusted? Its never been a high use phone, apart from her walking in the back yard for a half hour with it playing music most days. Or has its calibration screwed up?

 

TIA

 

 


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  #2937713 3-Jul-2022 08:56
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Yeah sounds like standard iPhone behaviour when the battery needs replaced.



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  #2937762 3-Jul-2022 09:17
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Pretty normal behaviour for a stuffed battery.


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  #2937764 3-Jul-2022 09:24
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Cheers, they seem to be about $85, whats a good Apple/Apple certified  place in ChCh? 




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  #2937766 3-Jul-2022 09:27
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tdgeek:

 

Cheers, they seem to be about $85, whats a good Apple/Apple certified  place in ChCh? 

 

 

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  #2937777 3-Jul-2022 10:18
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Linux:

tdgeek:


Cheers, they seem to be about $85, whats a good Apple/Apple certified  place in ChCh? 



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Could not disagree more!
I’ve used the mall booth style and ended up with a battery that died after around 6 months. Low price often means low quality (the mall part was probably a clue).
Personally now I would go to an authorised apple dealer or someone using genuine products and check their reviews online - someone like Service Plus.




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  #2937788 3-Jul-2022 10:24
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@MrGadget " Apple certified " so clearly I am not talking about the non authorised dodgy phone repair agents in malls


 
 
 

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  #2940289 10-Jul-2022 08:33
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I had the battery replaced on my dads iPhone 6 at service plus Chch a couple of years ago. Was around $90 from memory. Definitely worth going to them as they’re apple authorised.

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  #2948711 31-Jul-2022 23:02
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Plus make sure they are using a genuine Apple battery. Not a third party battery.

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  #2949396 1-Aug-2022 17:12
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My wife's iPhone 6s had an identical issue after upgrading to the latest iOS.    Her battery Health was at 92%, but usage behaved precisely as you described after the upgrade, making the phone practically unusable.  I took the phone to an Apple service rep for battery replacement, because of the now unstable battery, but the tech suggested we should instead recalibrate the battery. https://www.appledystopia.com/how-to/calibrate-iphone-battery/ describes how this is done and over three days the phone battery performance has returned to normal.  Success!  So if your battery Health is above 80%-85% or so, this is certainly a zero cost fix.   Apple's official website advocates this also, but in less detail than the link provided above.


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