Am I the only one with this issue? Yesterday, or the day before that, I updated my iPhone XR. One thing I've come to notice is that, since I updated it, the battery drains pretty fast. I'd say I'm an average user and I could go the entire day and it wouldn't reach 20%. Now, around 4PM, after being fully charged around 5AM, it's down to 50%. I just find it weird, knowing that I'm an average user, my average screentime is around 2 hours a day, so I don't know what's up.
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I have been part of the group that has been impacted by severe battery drain of ~1% every 5-15 seconds since updating to iOS 12.1.4.
I tested the options mentioned in this thread, and have found that the issue seems to be related to app data download connections and/or downloading new data on the device (downloading an app from the app store, opening an app that needs to fetch new data, fetching new content by pulling/swiping down to refresh within an app, background app refresh, etc). I have confirmed that this issue occurs in both native apps such as Mail, App Store, Podcasts, as well as 3rd party apps.
Close all apps this did nothing, and the battery continues to drain. If not immediately, on the next background app refresh.
Power cycle (restart) device you can see evidence of some people's theory that there may be something going on with battery percentage calculation. After the battery appears to have severely drained, a power cycle will show the battery percentage back closer to what you would expect the usage to be prior to the draining event. A power cycle will likely still result in the device attempting to fetch new data, and more often than not will resume battery drain
Turn off Fetch New Data (Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Fetch New Data > toggle Push to off) + Power cycle device battery continues to drain
Turn off Background App Refresh (Settings > General > Background App Refresh > Background App Refresh > Off) + Power cycle device At first I thought this solved the issue while I was at work for a few hours in the morning, but when I started actively using my phone a bit more the battery drain started again
Delete Skype for Business + Power cycle device This is where I discovered that the issue is not isolated to only 3rd party apps doing things in the background and adversely interacting with 12.1.4... I tried this because some people indicated that they thought it may be related to Skype. I thought this worked for a while as well, until I opened my native iPhone Podcasts app and it started downloading new podcasts. I then watched my battery start draining at a rate of 1% every 5 seconds (I could hear a clock ticking beside me and timed it)
Turn off Bluetooth + open an app and pull down to initiate data fetch/download connection battery continues to drain
Turn off Wi-Fi + open an app and pull down to initiate data fetch/download connection battery continues to drain
Turn on Airplane Mode + open an app and pull down to initiate data fetch/download connection oddly enough, this doesn't always seem to work in interrupting whatever process is trying to download new data, and in some of my testing the battery would continue to drain.
Turn on Low Power Mode (Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode) + open an app and pull down to initiate data fetch/download connection this has been the only solution that I have been able to use to consistently and reliably keep my battery from draining. If the device is plugged in and charging, it will turn Low Power Mode off once it reaches a certain percentage (89%? 90%?) so you'll need to turn it on again once you unplug
Switch to a different device with <iOS 12.1.4 I have a spare backup iPhone 6S which is still on iOS 12. Apple will not allow me to restore from backup without updating to iOS 12.1.4 so I did not complete this test
Factory reset + restore at this point I did not have the time nor the patience to attempt this, but I did see that it did not resolve the issue for another user
Again, it seems like the only way to reliably stop the battery drain is to break or interrupt whatever connection is trying fetch new data by turning on Low Power Mode. I do have a lot of apps on my phone that I use regularly, which I'm assuming is the reason I may be impacted more than others since there is a lot of background activity happening with each additional app.
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tl;dr the battery seems to drain significantly when downloading new data or making a connection to fetch new data (unclear which it is, specifically), and the only workaround that reliably helps is to turn on Low Power Mode (Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode)
ipad pro 11"
so i did a full factory reset last night.
100% charge this morning, no use, background app refresh turned off. 6 hrs later battery is now 80%. a bit better than before reset, but i dont think it should be using any battery, if i am not using it. i have an 5 yro ipad which has not ben updated, and it does not use any battery when sleeping.
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
It certainly looks like false information.
It doesnt explain why my 6S is behaving normally with the same OS.
Again if the phone looks like it is going crazy standard remedy is
DavidS4001 - This is the precise issue that I am having.
I have also tried hard reset, followed by "restore from backup," followed by "restore as new," to no avail. The phone craps the bed within 5 minutes after taking it off the charger, and when I plug it back in, it has between 90-100% charge.
My choices appear to be wasting an evening at the Apple Store, or carrying around my Anker external battery until iOS 12.2 is released. Either option is frustrating and sucky, and should not have to be an option in the first place.
hi all,
iPhone X
before IOS12.1.4, during night, when I went to sleep 100%
in the morning 100%
after 12.1.4, a drain is present, even no app is reported.
please see below the 22:00 - 23:00 interval:
background app refresh - off
thank you,
robert
Both my wife and I are on iPhone 6s. She had been encountering sudden drop off of power (from 100% down to 20% in the time it takes her to get to work when she's not using the phone, and has it on airplane mode). While troubleshooting her phone I updated mine to iOS 12.1.4 and I'm now having the exact same problem. I can't go two hours without having to charge my phone, despite minimal usage. On both phones I have virtually all background refresh switched off, location services set to minimum, all analytics and advertising switched off, and emails set to fetch. None of this has helped. Our iPhone usage has not changed in the past two weeks, but we both have a sudden change power drain. As as example, I was fully charged an hour ago and down to 20% after using it intermittently for an hour. I understand screen time can make a difference, but I should be able to get through an afternoon using my phone without having to rush to charge it. I'm not a tinfoil hat type, but it feels like planned obsolescence.
hi all,
an important point is many reported Low Power helps.
@peter pointed the effect of the Low Power
Siri is not working w/o net.
could be Siri?
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and some thoughts...nor so happy ones.
I switched to iPhone X last year from Samsung S8+.
Just because I wanted to try Apple and wanted to move as away as I could from Google.
I wanted something that smells quality, professionalism.
I do not regret my step.
Moving from Google Drive to iCloud was a painful one.
Mostly because of Drive.
But this battery drain make me crazy.
Yes I know software releases can sometimes be full of bugs.
I have GoPro (many models) and Garmin (many products) and I went trough many software upgrades, officials and betas.
But, I want to tell you...I did not see this coming from Apple.
just me.
robert
No, the press (Forbes) hasn’t said anything yet so we assume most of the half billion iphones are ok.
So, two more tin foil hat conspiracy theorists have failed to notice that the OP and several others have brand new models of phone and ipad. To what model do you think Apple are trying to make them upgrade?
I have plenty of apps running well on my old model. I am not advocating running without apps permanently, just until you identify what whacky app combination you have installed that is causing it. It’s entirely up to you. Sit on your hands or fix your problem.
I checked battery usage graph on the top. I see the difference before and after updating last night. My battery slightly reduce once I was at iOS12.1.3. Comparing to today, my battery are consuming dramatically. I have checked the battery usage and it tell me that Youtube and Apple Music are consuming the most of my battery which my phone does not have been like this until I updated iOS to 12.1.4.
It appears that many are having similar issues; no changes in the way a phone is set up and used, but once the update was applied, the battery drain accelerates rapidly. This happened to my 6s and my Ipad 5th generation which is less than a year old. I traded in the 6s for a 7 (as there were other issues) and the brand new 7 drains the battery fairly quickly. I did not use a backup in restoring my new phone after purchasing the 7 in the event the backup was corrupt, so it was a brand new install. I find myself plugging in my Ipad and new Iphone whenever I'm at my desk rather than leaving it unplugged as I used to do. I hope with the number of posts related to this, Apple will address it soon.
I have relatives who went into an Apple store and resolved their battery draining issues as one of the tech suggested reinstalling an older OS on their phones. My son-in-law uses his Iphone for work and would sit and watch the draining drop within minutes. I don't know how to access an older OS but would definitely do it if I could without having to drive an hour to an Apple store. Does anyone know how to access a pre 12.1.4 OS?
I'm willing to try 12.2 as it can't be any worse than 12.1.4 (I hope).
It did seem to help. I've only had it loaded for about 12 hours so am keeping an eye on it. I also went through all of the preferences to make sure they were using the least amount of battery. This was never an issue for me before 12.1.4 though.
It's good to find information that others have this same issue, although it's certainly not good that this is happening.
I have just experienced the same problem with my iPad6 battery, although I've had iOS 12.1.4 for a few months now without incident.
Until now I've had no issues.
This morning, my iPad unexpectedly had no battery.
I do charge it on a regular basis, and have optimized all my Settings for healthy battery life
My battery 'chart' history shows a graph that just drops to nothing, despite also showing very low usage during the same 24 hr period preceding the loss of power.
The only thing different was my use of Pages, which showed as 90% of my use during the last 24 hours. With iOS 11 I'd used Pages with no affect on the battery.
I'm not willing to rebuild my iPad on my own, and am taking it to Apple.
Smart decision to go to Apple. It just seems like apps are using more battery than ever before for some strange reason. My relatively new Ipad also drained fast after the 12.1.4 update. I just installed the 12.2 update so am keeping my fingers crossed.
that's why happened to me, the battery sat at about 62% for a few hours after playing music/podcasts during that time. All of a sudden the sound stopped and the phone had turned off. When I turned it back on, the batter reported in at <10%. After an overnight charge, my iPhone 6s seems to doing ok today. I'm going to give it another 24 hours including a full charge over night tonight.
iOS 12.1.4 battery drain
