Cold weather shuts down my iphone

JenHuedy

Yup. My iPhone 5 would die when I had it in my jacket pocket or arm band and it was below 25f or so. I had to keep it next to my skin on cold runs until I got a FlipBelt. I haven't had that problem with my 7, but I always have it in my FlipBelt. That keeps it close enough to keep it warm even on single digit runs.

NorthCascades

TMW2119 wrote: »

Spliner1969 wrote: »

TMW2119 wrote: »

I have a 5S. The weather channel says 33 but feels like 21. I was running into the wind. I keep the phone in my jacket pocket but I pulled it out of my pocket to check the time. My husband has the same phone and his does the same thing. It happened to me once before when the temps were below 30. I'm up for a new phone, but if the 6S does the same thing I might need to get something like a fitbit. Do you need your phone turned on for those to work? I'm clueless as to how they work.

Sounds like a weak battery to me. Cold can make batteries go dead faster, but generally if it has good life and wasn't mostly dead when you started it shouldn't be all that bad. Certainly not bad enough to shut it down half way through a run. I had a 5 that had terrible battery life, and the 5S's were no better. They worked great for the first few months then I started noticing having to charge them late in the day. Cold made it worse. You may want to consider upgrading when you get the chance, my 7 stays charged for more than a day, even on days I use it for working out for 1.5 hours in the mornings. I put it on the charger anyway at night but it usually has 20-30% left.

My wife only charges her 6S Plus about every 3 days, it has a massive battery. But too bulky for my tastes.

The phone has been with me for a while. It was charged above 80 percent when I left and still above 80 when it turned back on. Thanks for the tip on the 7!

FYI, it's not that cold weather zaps the power out of batteries, it's more like it prevents it from getting out. Still have all their charge in there and once they warm back up a little, they work fine.

Photographers in really cold weather bring spare camera batteries and carry them in pockets inside their coats to keep them warm - for this reason.

CafeRacer808

NorthCascades wrote: »

FYI, it's not that cold weather zaps the power out of batteries, it's more like it prevents it from getting out. Still have all their charge in there and once they warm back up a little, they work fine.

Photographers in really cold weather bring spare camera batteries and carry them in pockets inside their coats to keep them warm - for this reason.

As a photographer who's shot in cold weather, I concur.

jessef593

Why were you running in -50 degrees celcius?

islal

It's common for phones to drain the battery really fast in cold weather. I made a cosy out of the top of a worn out wool sock. If it's really cold I put a hand warmer next to my phone.

Bluepegasus

I agree with the others that have said this is normal, the cold just does that to lithium batteries, it doesn't drain, it simply cannot function at that temperature. It's not a problem if my phone is next to my skin so it keeps warm, there was one particularly cold run where I got the phone out to take a picture and the cold wind almost immediately made it die. A few minutes of the phone back in my belt warming up, it came back on.

Charlene_1985

My phone did that today too. The wind chill was 8; came back on in the house and it was at 64%.