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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Dec 17, 2019 7:40 AM in response to Fborgia

I've been suffering with battery draining issues on my iPhone SE since blindly jumping across to iOS 13. The only improvement I managed to make has come from a factory reset and clean install of fewer Apps at the same time as stripping Location services right back to a minimum, turning off background updates, lowering screen brightness, removing widgets, turning off raise to wake etc. This made my phone barely usable without being continuely tethered to a mains supply or powerbank, even after updating to 13.2.3. My iPhone battery health has been and still is 97% and since having these issues I've been careful to only charge my phone to 80% with periodic recharging to 100% due to the apparent increased need to recharge my phone. I also had instances (like others) when I first upgraded to iOS 13 where the indicated battery level would drop off a cliff down to 1% and on one occasion I left it for almost 24 hrs without plugging it in! Anyway I've now taken the plunge and updated to iOS 13.3 after much deliberation and the results so far are very promising. After updating this morning I left the phone to fully recharge to 100%, so from 7:15am this morning to 1pm the same day, whilst listening to Apple music on my ear pods for my 40min journey to work and light use (including a short phone call) at work my indicated battery percentage is still 90%. I hope this helps you and others to find a solution to the apparent battery draining issues, if updating to iOS 13.3 alone doesn't fix the issue.

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.

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