iOS 9 Battery Drain is a hot topic now in the Apple users community. Apple iOS updates caused battery life consumption for a lot of Apple devices nowadays. Recently who updated their device to iOS 9, most of them faced battery drainage issues. Considering this situation we are going to show you, how to fix battery drainage problems or unexpected battery life consumption in 9.0, iOS 9.1, iOS 9.2, and iOS 9.3.

iOS 9 Battery Drain intro

iOS 9 of Apple brought many new awesome features and fixes with this latest update. But it created a vital issue with the battery life of Apple device which upgraded device to the latest iOS 9.3.1 version. This is exactly the Battery Drainage issue. Is not it really unexpected? Apple’s service must not have any negative effect. Every update must be tested well before its delivery.

iOS 9 Battery Drain Battery Usage

How can you get rid of iOS 9 Battery Drain?

We are really concerned to help every victim of this battery drainage issue. And we are determined to help all victims out. This guide is for then who runs iOS 9, iOS 9.0.1, iOS 9.0.2, iOS 9.1, iOS 9.2, iOS 9.2.1, iOS 9.3, iOS 9.3.1, and the new iOS 9.3.2 beta to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Each user must keep these tips and fixes in mind. Battery life can betray you anytime, so the user has to be prepared for it.

Step 1: Check your Apps

The moment you noticed the unusual battery drainage on your device, the first step you have to take is; to have a hard look at the Apps installed on the device. You have to check your App performance. To do that, go to “Settings” and then go to “Battery” and identify with the Battery Usage tool and new changes by iOS 9. Get to know the apps that are consuming up the battery charge from the Battery Usage Tool. Get informed which app consumed most of the battery charges within the last 24 hours. Get into the deep analysis by tapping on the little clock to know the exact time of most battery consumption.

iOS 9 Battery Drain Check your app battery percentage

A sort of app will consume battery the most during the “screen on” and some are used to attack your power during “screen off”. If there is something odd to you, just try to update the app (considering its good review). If updating does not help you out, reinstall the app or uninstall the app completely to check if the battery life of your device improves a bit or not.

Step 2: Check by uninstalling Facebook

The Facebook app consumes a huge charge of a battery in the different operating systems. Recently there was a suggestion by The Guardian that Facebook still causing huge battery drainage. Another test report was, that Facebook consumes an average of 15% of total battery life.

So if it shows that uninstalling Facebook improves your battery life, then keep it uninstalled.

Step 3: Enter into “Low Power Mode”

The brand new feature of iOS 9 “Low Power Mode” permits users to extend the battery life up to 10% to 20%. To enable this mode you have to go to Settings. From settings, go to Battery and then go to “Low Power Mode” and enable the option. By enabling this option, your Apple device will limit many options and features which were needed to control yourself. This “Low Power Mode” extends your battery life by several hours.

iOS 9 Battery Drain Low Power Mode

Step 4: Switch on “Airplane Mode”

If you are confirmed about the battery drainage of your device, check if you are in the spotty cellular service area. Basically, it is very tough to search a signal for a device when it is in this area, and it causes your battery life drainage swiftly.

At this moment to get rid of battery drainage, quickly enter into “Low Power Mode” or “Airplane Mode”. Devices are in “Airplane mode” and never search for a better signal or any connection available within a short distance.

Step 5: Incapacitate “iCloud Keychain”

Go to iCloud Keychain and disable it. Many apple users said that after disabling this option, they see a huge difference in battery life. So it might work for you.

iOS 9 Battery Drain iCloud Keychain

Disabling instruction of “iCloud Keychain”: Browse “Settings”, then go to iCloud and then Keychain, after that toggle off the option “iCloud Keychain”. If you use “iCloud Keychain”, and it does not bother Battery Life, you can turn the feature on at any time.

 Step 6: Control “Refresh Apps run on Background”

Apps you don’t need refresh automatically in the device background, just disable the feature called “Background App Refresh” which is built-in with iOS. It might be helpful to recover from the iOS 9 Battery Drain.

To enable this feature, Tap on “Settings” and then go to “Background App Refresh” and now turn the feature off. For better performance, you can turn off the complete feature instead of turning off one by one app.

iOS 9 Battery Drain Refresh Apps Run on Background

Step 7: Turn off Location Services

When Location service is turned on, it consumes a huge charge of your device battery. You can try the iOS 9 Battery drain by turning the location service off. For that, you may go to Settings, then go to Privacy. After that go to Location services and toggle the option off. Now compare the Battery life performance.

iOS 9 Battery Drain location services

Step 8: Turn off “Push Notifications”

You can improve your iOS battery drainage by turning off “Push Notifications” from settings, then going to Notifications, and then turning off the app that you intended to disable push notifications.

iOS 9 Battery Drain Push notifications

Step 9: Turn off Motion & Fitness

iOS 9 Battery drain Motion & Fitness

You can try to fix your problem by turning off “Motion & Fitness”. To disable this option you may go to “Settings”, then go to “Privacy” after that go to “Motion & Fitness” and just disable this option.

 Step 10: Turn Off Undesired Indexing in Spotlight Search

By turning off Undesired Indexing in Spotlight Search, you can save a big portion of your battery life. To disable it, go to “Settings” and then go to “General” after that “Spotlight Search”.

iOS 9 Battery Drain Spotlight Search

 Step 11: Turn Off Automatic Update For App Store

When your Auto Update is enabled for App Store, it may cause also your battery life drainage. So better to keep it turned off. And when you need to update your apps manually. To turn the option off, go to “Settings” then go to “iTunes and App Store” after that go to Turn Off “Updates” from the Automatic Downloads section.

iOS 9 Battery Drain App and iTunes Stores

Step 12: Bluetooth, Cellular Data and Wi-Fi

Just keep enabling your Bluetooth, Cellular Data, and Wi-Fi when you need them really. Otherwise, keep them disabled. It will save a good portion of Battery life. Because these options continuously consume battery charge. This is a great step to solve the iOS 9 Battery drain issue.

Step 13: Arrange and Manage Display

Apple devices use a set of sensors. Among those sensors, one sensor is used to adjustment of the screen automatically. This sensor works well sometimes, but sometimes it behaves badly.

During the iOS 9 Battery Drain, you must off the Auto Brightness. To disable “Auto-Brightness” go to Settings after then go to “Display and Brightness”, then go to “Auto-Brightness”, and now select “Off”. When the option is disabled, you got to adjust the brightness manually.

iOS 9 has a quick access option for Auto Brightness. By swiping up from the bottom of your device screen, you can pull it up.

Step 14: Restart Your Device

In iOS battery drainage you also try to restart your device. If device restarting does not help you, try a hard reset. For a hard reset, Press & Hold down the “Home Button” & “Power Button” simultaneously for 10 seconds. Your iPhone or iPad will restart automatically and will perform the hard reset. Don’t worry, you will not lose any data.

Step 15: Reset the All Settings of your device

This Resetting process could be just for 5-6 minutes. When resetting is completed, it will take your device to its factory defaults. Your files or data won’t be deleted by this reset.

To reset your device, just go to the Settings option, then go to “General”, after that go to “Reset” and Tap on “Reset all settings”. After that put the passcode when it asks for the passcode.

iOS 9 Battery Drain reset all settings

Step 16: Downgrade the iOS to an Older Version

By downgrading your iOS, you can get rid of iOS 9 Battery Drain. You can learn here, How to downgrade iOS. It can remain helpful till a newer version will be released.

Step 17: Restore iOS 9 Update

If the above tips don’t work for you, you can go for a Restore of your Apple device. You can assume that it might be the ending try. All data will be deleted from your device by restoring the iOS.

From the backup, you can restore after the update of iOS 9. If this procedure won’t help you out, you can try the following procedure again (not restoring from the backup).

For that, connect your device to iTunes via a computer. After that from iCloud Settings, Switch off the option “Find my iPhone”. Now, from iTunes click on the “Restore” option. Complete the iOS 9 reinstallation. After completion, now click on “Restore from Backup” and get your all data/ information/ back to your device. You can also choose “Setup as a new iPhone” to set it up newly. The whole process could take around half an hour to finish.

Step 18: Contact Apple

iOS 9 Battery Drain Apple office

If no Tips & Tricks help you out, now is time to take your device to an Apple Store for a thorough diagnosis. And they will diagnose the problem and will suggest you the solution. Either you can contact or talk to an expert from Apple Support Online.

N.B: A newer feature is available at iOS 9 is Night Shift. This feature converts the screen color temperature. By selecting this option, your device will automatically synthesize the display by detecting your location & time. From the control center, you have the option to disable the Night Shift mode. You can access the option by swiping up from the bottom of the device screen. By entering into “Low Power Mode” will disable Night Shift option automatically. By using this feature you can solve your iOS 9 Battery Drain problem.

Night Shift features only available for iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, iPad mini 2 or later, And iPod touch (Generation – 6th).

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