I installed iOS 13 on my iPhone 6S today morning and since then i have pretty high battery usage.I checked battery and saw photos using a lot of battery on the background.How can i fix this it is literally killing my battery.
iPhone 6s
I have an iPhone 6S, with OSX 13.3.1. I have had the same problem where, Photos eats up 50% and more of battery usage, even when I am not using the photos app during the time period I'm seeing reports for.
I noticed this started soon after I started using the "Albums" ... the Shared albums feature. The Photos app really became started performing poorly, it would crash when trying to work with the albums, whereas, it never crashed before, the phone started getting hot, the battery dropping like mad, etc.
Recently I got really fed up with it, anyways I downloaded everything I could from the shared albums, and disabled the shared albums. After 3 days it seems to have solved the problem. To disable:
Settings > Click on your face, the top Apple ID menu > iCloud > Photos > Turn everything off, especially "Shared Albums."
The photos themselves are backed up I believe as part of the backup of the phone. Periodically I move all the photos off the phone, and I have my own methods for simply backing things up using multiple external hard drives. I believe this is the best, most flexible, cheapest, safest way to do backups.
Thanks! Good luck,
Kevin
Negative :( Same problem back again. iPhone heats up and battery drains as fast as seen before. All the way down from 100% to 10% within less than 5 hours, and doing almost nothing with it. It starts usually when I did little bit with photos (taken a picture or using Photo app for checking my photo. Very very odd.
I will now delete all my photos off from my iDevices and iCloud, in the hope this will fix the issue and starting from scratch. Will backup all photos on my PC.
Another hope would be to wait for iOS 13.4, which is probably due for next month.
This is what also happens to me. Anytime I take a photo or edit a photo and save it, the iphone begins the heat up and draining process. @atrider - let us know how your "fix" works. Curious to see if any continued issues.
Same exact issue here! They exchanged iPhone, started as a New phone and still happens. Nobody knows what’s wrong with it at Apple... Did anybody fix it??
Exactly the same issue here but it’s Music app in my case. No active subscription, nor downloaded music.
Does somebody having the issue has an Apple Watch?
UPDATE: yesterday, a couple hours after unpairing and pairing again my watch S3 (not sure if this has anything to do with it), the Music app stopped draining my battery.
UPDTAE 2: the problem is back. Once again Music app is killing it. The unpair / pair watch S3 solution lasted only 1 day. Crap.
I upgraded to 13.3 and still have the problem. This is truly frustrating.
Oh thanks. That’s a good info. I’ll give it a try.
@markfromberlin - let me know how that works out for you. I’m still experiencing the same issues here.
So I will try it after the feedback provided by @sheepcc after 1 week. What I tried was to reset all settings. It didn’t help at all.
Just a quick update, it didn’t work. the photos app background activity is back again, even I have deleted half of my photos now only 1500ish photos in the phone. APPLE SUCKS
I have the exact same problem. My phone is two months old is burning hot all the time and photos is using 90% of the battery. Any ideas are welcome. Thank you!
Good to hear that I am not alone with this issue and still don’t understand why Apple can’t fix this issue!
Has anyone like me a huge amount of photos on their phone? I am really thinking about deleting them and to shrink my library in order to solve this issue.
I have about 18.000 photos, after deleting roughly 5.000. And about 450 self-made small video clips
iOS 13 Photos - Background Activity High Battery Usage
