So out and about in Southern France today, my daughter then asks me to take an iphone pic as she’s just run out of battery and her phone shut down.
Go to take a picture with my phone seconds later and it too then shuts down in my hand, and I know it was at least 70/80% charged. I power it on again and all is fine. She does the same and hers powers on too, with 5% charge left.
Any ideas apart from freaky iphone targeted emp conspiracy theories?
Interesting. Three things:
1 - The new Apple thing of resetting your device if not used for something like 72 hours?
2 - I turned my iPad on yesterday morning and went to make a coffee. Looked at it five minutes later and it was on the Apple logo. Thought it had either crashed she rebooted or had frozen. Screen went blank so I pressed the home button and it had apparently shut down. Rebooted it and all was fine. No clue what happened.
3 - operating range temperature. They’ll often turn themselves off if you start them up in one temperature range and move them to another. So, I was in Prague and it was minus eight outside. Started my phone indoors; went outdoors and it died instantly. The next day on advice I started it outside and… it was absolutely fine.
iOS 18.2 installation maybe?
I had a 5s back in the days. It had 2 years of life when it started turning on and off alone. It started sending messages or calls alone or not recieving messages at all…
The thing is very nice but since that day i changed for the chinese stuff.
Yeah I could kind of figure an ios update thing but for both our phones to do that within seconds of each other, next to a giant, extremely well lit Christmas tree, was peculiar.
What’s in the box?
Iphone updates are usually done over wifi since they are so large. Were you on a wifi network?
Nope, out and about. I think it was the tree…
I suspect it’s alien origins - probably sucking all the energy out of our phones ready for an invasion. Hopefully covered in the documentary over Christmas called Dr Who!
Either the Russians or Ancient Aliens.
Yes, it’s what i figured.
I updated my iPhone at the weekend to iOS 18.2
I had a full charge in my battery and did the update.
When it came back on my battery was in the red.
I switched off and on the phone when it started I had 92% battery again. 
A couple of decades ago we had a Vauxhall Vectra, and took many holidays in Vaucluse, to the north earth of Avignon. We always made a sort of pilgrimage up Mt. Ventoux (Le Geant de Provence), parking at the summit next to the radio relay station.
When we parked at the top, the central locking would not work. Before the ascent, and after the descent, usually parked at the bar in Malaucene, the central locking was fully functional.
Some serious field strength up there!
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