iOS 12.1.4 battery drain

Update - after changing a few settings (most of my settings were already set to save battery life) late Thursday woke up yesterday and it had dropped from 95% to 36% (still terrible considering nothing should have been running - battery showed it dropping steadily overnight with no usage - powered the phone off - then on - charged the phone most of the day yesterday. Went to bed at 83% power last night and woke up to 83% power this morning - success.

Restoring the phone to factory settings will fix it. - it wont fix everything i just lost

So will restoring from a backup fix it for most users. - nope

Just restarting the phone will fix it for some. - nope

Deleting Facebook fixes it for a lot of users. - didn't have to begin with

And just waiting a few days will fix it to give the phone time to finish its housekeeping. - nope

Any other ideas, or can we all now agree that the software has an issue that Apple should be fixing, not me spending my weekends for them...

Lock screen will turn off after 5-10 seconds but a lot of them thru the night will have an effect. Maybe part of the 18%?

do not disturb may help. Anyhoo lets see what difference a day or two makes.

Edit: Lawrence types faster!

Had the same issue here with 15 month old iphone 7 . Battery dropping from 100% to 30% in 3 hours with 0 minutes of screen turned on. Connecting the phone to it’s charging block for 15 min would bring the battery status to 96% but would not hit 100% even after 5 hours plugged in. I simply powered off the device for a minute and back on did the trick. I have been running on the same charge for 16 hours and my battery is at 68% still... hope this lasts !!

hi Peter

appreciate your comments, thankyou.

But here's the thing. i also have an 5 yro ipad, which is a clone of my ipad pro, running exactly the same apps, and same setup. Only difference is, it's running ios 12.1.3. It would be lucky to loose 1% battery overnight when sleeping. When using it, the battery drains quickly, the reason I bought the new ipad, ironic really.

Im getting notifications to update to ios 12.1.4, yeah sure, not.

Hi Heyyou2, no problems.

Miku-39 you may be getting very close. If something is in constant wifi communication then maybe the high bandwidth used simply looks like bad connection.

If it was me I would want to go the extra step and clean out the thing but then as a pensioner with no social media accounts I guess I have the time.

Having same issue after updating this useless / useful software. I don't have confidence about battery life after this. It drains very fast with battery health of 87%.

Siri is consuming **** lot of battery. It seems these are all nothing to do with apps or anything, it is with software because either not downloaded any new apps or not using for 24 hours...

i never come come across like this since 3 and half years and it started after updating to latest version of software.

could anyone help us all

many thanks

Sir, thanks for reply, I tried with all these settings but still it is draining fast.

i thought that this problem is with old phones but after seeing this problem is exist in latest cells also I got shocked.

Then I need to wait till new software update by having hope of getting fixed with that...

many thanks

What will really help is to plug it in overnight. Then you don't care how much battery it uses, because it will be zero. And the phone will be fully charged in the morning. If you turn on automatic backups it will also back up the phone to iCloud every night when the phone is locked and connected to power and Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi stays on when the phone is connected to power).

You really are in denial. Not sure what you motive is. In the time it has taken me to read this thread on my pc the battery level on my phone has dropped 10%. The only use was to check battery level before and after.

Peter, thank you for your persistence and dedication in this unrewarding thread, you've been doing a great job. As the tomcat who was courting a skunk said, "I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand." I'm going to drop off the thread and focus on users who actually want help.

iPad on All day but not used before IOS 12.1.4 100% battery at end of day.

NOW AFTER IOS 12.1.4 BATTERY 26%.

ipad plugged in all night, the unplugged each morning.

who cares what apps are running! The only difference is the IOS version!

iPhone after IOS 12.1.4 dead after 8 hours, before 38% after 16 hours.

Can I get the prior IOS version?

Why should anyone have to do this? I have done all of the above steps and more. I dont have facebook, so it cant be that. This morning I used waze and podcast. Same as I do everyday and here it is at 50%

My battery consumption was fine last week before the update installed. It was lasting all day and I was able to do everything I needed to do. Now the battery is at 50% even before midday. Nothing else has changed, yet my battery is lasting at least 50% less than what it was just last week. If anything I have been avoiding using the phone to try and conserve battery.

There is obviously an issue with the update, Whilst your suggestions are great, the fact remains that they didnt fix the issue

and yet you don't think there is an issue with the update despite recommending a long list of these things to do, which I may add take a lot of times and haven't solved it...

just admit there is something wrong with the update, that is why people are providing annoyed responses, it is your attitude as though we have done something wrong, when in fact we are the victims here.

There are so many of us without the problem and several on here who actually tried a full factory restore and got rid of theirs that it is pretty clear there is an app or setting that is incompatible with the update.

Maybe its Apple’s bad, who knows.

we are not apple and we don’t have to accept or admit anything. If you really did a full restore and still have a problem after 48 hours I would get the hardware looked at.

Or you can sit on your hands and shout #victim