iOS 13 Photos - Background Activity High Battery Usage

Will turn the iphone off and on after every charge work for you ?

Same issue here. I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 13.1.3 and for the last 10 days my Photos background activity accounts for nearly 80%. It drained my battery to zero in 4 hours this morning. I worked from home and the phone was on wifi, so I feel like it is some sort of iCloud backup/syncing thing (which I only allow on wifi). However, in Photos is says "Updated Just Now" and I can find no indications anywhere of what it is actually spending these CPU cycles on.

The "maximizing performance" article posted by corbin35 is irrelevant. This is not a rouge or poorly written 3rd party app but a system app. Obviously since it ran to 0 this morning, it has been rebooted. And that's not the first time this past week -- it took 6 hours last weekend to burn down to 0.

I have an SE, 18 months old. battery Health is 92%. Battery charge runs down rapidly in iOS13, it seems worse (subjective opinion) in 13.2 then in earlier 13 releases. I had NO battery capacity problems in iOS 12. Apparently there is no path to revert (my understanding is that recovery mode will just reinstall current 13.2 release and I no longer have a backup of the phone on iOS 12, even if I did it would be too old to be useful).

This is a mess, I expect the phone to be functional throughout the day, now I'm constantly looking for a power source. I'm a fairly light user, can't imagine the pain a power user goes through with this release.

I am having the same problem. Genius bar employees couldn't figure it. They exchanged it out for a new phone TWICE!. Activated it as a NEW phone and 2 days later, Photos showing consumption of 15 hours in background up to 82% battery usage. The back of the phone is uncomfortably hot. This is frustrating. Anyone got a solution(s)?

Same issue here. I did call Apple twice but they had a ridiculous suggestion that I should use my phone without backing up the data. How am I going to use an iPhone without any 3rd party app???

My battery continues to be used for over 100 hours of Photo app usage without any solutions. Apple support... they don’t do anything and they continue asking me if my iCloud is connected or not. I have disconnected the iCloud since I’m having this problem and continue telling them.... i guess they don’t really know what’s happening with the ios13....

Just adding my screenshot to the bunch. This is so ridiculous. I expected the Apple store to have some kind of proprietary software to run diagnostics on the phone to see what the process is actually doing, but that is not that case. Apple's online, phone, and in-person support have all suggested the same things that I already documented in a previous reply.

Any news regarding this topic? I still have the same problem. Turn on/off helps but it’s not a solution. How Apple can’t fix this bug? I mean yes ok, I have a mit of photos. But why can’t we just stop this indexing thing?

Thanks for the update. What the ****? I was thinking about deleting some of my 22.000 photos but when I see that you’re having the same struggle with 1.500 I might overthink this idea.

Apple, what the ****?!

@sheepcc - Thank you so much for your response to this issue. I believe mine is the same issue. I don’t sync up my iPhone to my Mac Mini. So what app did you use to select and delete those corrupted photo files? Appreciate the help!

i just used the Mac Mini photo software, turn on info for one image, it will show name of it, and use keyboard to go through all photos, delete long name ones. I think you don’t need to sync photos to PC.

Guys, don’t want to be overexcited but seems like the new iOS update solved the issue finally. Since I updated my phone and after 3-4 charges I have still no issue with my battery. Background activity is dropping every day.

>>And reconnected with my Apple ID and iCloud. Still same problem.

Little amentment: same problem when photos came back because I re-enabled photo sync on my Macbook and ipad. Then photos came from there first into icloud and then into my iphone.

It's not only they are not trying to fix this issue.. it's more about they are ignoring it! The staff in store, the cs on the phone, none of them know anything about it, and search online i find this is a problem since 2015! The only thing I can think is they are incompetent to fix it!!!

I tried dealing photos with the long file names and it initially worked for a few hours then as soon as I takes s picture, Photo begins heating up again. Why can’t Apple fix this issue? So frustrating!

I have had this problem too with two successive 11pro iPhones. I have backed up and restored 3 times, once wiping the phone completely and reinstalling everything manually. Sometimes background photo levels are in the 80% even with normal day to day office use.

What is more the background refresh is chewing up data whether on cell or WiFi - sometimes 10GB a day and I am not streaming anything. Just emails and texts, the odd facetime call.

I have to carry a wall socket and battery pack everywhere. Not what o expect from a $1500 top of the line phone. Genius bar people have been beyond useless trying to rectify this. All started with the Ios13update which bricked my iPhone 8 plus.

Genius Apple!!

This has been happening since Nov. I am a