iOS 9.3.2 horrible battery life

[MikeElmendorf]

Both my wife and I are experiencing a precipitous decrease in battery life on our iPhone 6Ss since upgrading to iOS 9.3.2.

Apple's advice is to restore and restart, which is absurd.

How many others are seeing poor battery life with the update? Looking around, it hardly seems to be a unique problem. Hopefully there's another update that fixes it.

 

[kurpaige]

Look at your battery setting and see if something is acting up. My wife's app was my fitness pal. Removed it and all was good. Wasn't a problem before the update.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Not me. I don't notice any change. Some are reporting better battery life. Are you and her using your phones more? There may be a few apps that need to update. These 3 things are what uses battery most.
Screen brightness
Push notifications
Location services

 

[MikeElmendorf]

Nothing was changed other than the update. All apps are up to date.

On my phone, biggest user now is mail. Dramatically increased since the update, although no changes with accounts or usage. Similar on my wife's.

 

[TurboTiger]

I have no issues with our iPhone 6, 6S & two iPad Airs.
Check the Battery Usage in Settings to determine if an app is eating away at the battery life.
Good Luck

 

[vegas33139]

Credit where credit's due to Apple. Since I upgraded to 9.3.2, may battery life is excellant. Saying that, I am a light to moderate user. After my last full charge, I had 37% left after 3 days.

 

[gpo1956]

Mike, I'm experiencing the same thing. Absolutely terrible battery drain.

 

[Chuck_IV]

Definitely odd why some have poor battery life while other have same/better. Wonder if the changes are model specific.

Personally, I don't notice a difference with my 6S Plus.

 

[Annie_M]

I am not having any issues since updating to 9.3.2. I hope you can figure it out!

 

[JanuarJaguar]

It can consume a lot of time trying to setting up the devices as new, OP.

 

[Just_Me_D]

Both my wife and I are experiencing a precipitous decrease in battery life on our iPhone 6Ss since upgrading to iOS 9.3.2.

Apple's advice is to restore and restart, which is absurd.

Why is it absurd? Apple cannot know how your device is configured and they cannot know whether or not an app is fully compatible with the update. Also, downloads and installations can become corrupted on occasion and therefore, the advice they gave is legit, in my opinion.

How many others are seeing poor battery life with the update? Looking around, it hardly seems to be a unique problem. Hopefully there's another update that fixes it.

my battery life is as it was prior to updating. Excellent, thus far.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Nothing was changed other than the update. All apps are up to date.

On my phone, biggest user now is mail. Dramatically increased since the update, although no changes with accounts or usage. Similar on my wife's.

The big battery user for mail is the push notifications. Check all your notifications and turn any unnecessary apps off. Sometimes an update will mess with how things are set.

 

[Fit24]

My battery life is the same as it was before the iOS 9.3.2 upgrade.

 

[Keldog]

For me, it was the Facebook app that went rogue. I deleted it and my battery life is back to normal. I set up a shortcut to the mobile site for the time being.

 

[Ledsteplin]

For me, it was the Facebook app that went rogue. I deleted it and my battery life is back to normal. I set up a shortcut to the mobile site for the time being.

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[Joe Owens]

My wife and I are having the same exact issue of massive battery drain after installing 9.3.2 and here's the scary part: I backed up my phone and did a full reset, then set it up as a brand new phone so I am running nothing but ios and native apps. No mail. Nothing else other than phone and messaging.
And the result is that with zero usage and no 3rd party apps to blame I'm still burning through a full charge in about 8 hours of standby.
Verdict? POS 9.3.2 blows.
I read on another forum that a Genius Bar staff member diagnosed a customers 9.3.2 phone and found a service repeatedly crashing and restarting was causing his battery drain, fwiw.

 

[Keldog]

Yea, 9.3.2 is apparently not a happy update. Maybe 9.3.3 will help.

 

[metalchick719]

Some of these negative stories about iOS 9.3.2 are a little scary. I've been holding off on updating my 6s, especially as 9.3.1 seems to have finally settled in on my phone and the battery life seems better than when I first updated.

 

[kuldeep singla]

Both my wife and I are experiencing a precipitous decrease in battery life on our iPhone 6Ss since upgrading to iOS 9.3.2.

Apple's advice is to restore and restart, which is absurd.

How many others are seeing poor battery life with the update? Looking around, it hardly seems to be a unique problem. Hopefully there's another update that fixes it.

i m also facing the same battery drain issue after the 9.3.2 update ..i loose almost 15-20 percent an hour at stand by .. more over i bought it from usa and currently i m at different place so i can't even swap my fone ..looking forward for support .. if anyone has a solution to this please let me know
contact - [REDACTED]

 

[Snappy Phoenix]

My iPhone SE's battery was amazing on 9.3.1, I would get 2 days of heavy usage or 3 day of light usage on it.

I just did a factory reset on 9.3.2 and the battery is fine again.