iOS 13 draining my battery

is anyone else’s battery draining with ios13

iPhone XS

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 10:36 AM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2019 3:59 AM

If your battery is really draining that fast, check the report of what applications are using Battery, as there may be something incompatible with iOS 13 that is in a tight loop.


If you don't want to do that, take your phone in to be examined.


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Oct 5, 2019 7:15 AM in response to Fborgia

I am having this problem with my Xs Max too since the update. I can fully charge my phone to 100% at 3 pm and when I wake up at 6 am, my phone is stone cold dead. That is not actively using my phone during those hours - I have a landline for calls and surf on my iPad.


Settings tells me my battery life is 100%. There were absolutely NO battery issues before the update. It is clearly related to the new iOS. It was a night and day difference.


The only app reported using the battery beyond 2% is my calendar- which is crazy high (80%) considering I don’t even use it on my phone. I have gone in and turned everything off that I can for my calendar and set it to sync only to 1 month back (my preference is to sync everything, but I can’t live with these battery issues).


I have changed all my display settings to what Apple recommends for battery issues. No impact on my battery.


I have done the soft reset every day at least once - pressing each volume button, followed by long press of the other side button until Apple logo appears.


Their clearly is a battery issue with the new iOS and I am beyond frustrated and how long Apple is taking to fix it.

Oct 9, 2019 6:24 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

I have something very similar with my iPhone SE since downloading iOS 13. My battery drains very quickly.

It shows that apple mail is using up a lot of the battery, a completely disproportionate amount to the amount of time I've been on it. For example the battery will go from 100% down to 19%, it shows that 53% of the activity has been Mail, and yet I've only been on screen with that app for 2 mins, and not at all in background. Also it seems to have difficulty downloading some basic messages in mail and isn't always synching what's been read. It was fine before iOS 13. Oh yes and apple wallet no longer works from the closed screen. It's a real nuisance.

Oct 31, 2019 4:23 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Agreed: 13.2 did not solve the problem. I was really hoping 13.2 would let me get through more than a half day before the battery was fully consumed by (per battery statistics) Safari. I’m having to charge 2-3 times per day or stay within a cord length of a power outlet, which pretty much makes an iPad much like a corded phone chained to a wall. This didn’t happen until iOS 13 and has persisted through every subsequent release.

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