iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 13.4 battery drain problem

Help. My 2017 iPad Pro 10.5 now has a battery life of 2 hours of safari use compared with 8 before I upgraded to 13.4.. I recently changed to a brand new battery, which has excellent health. I’ve turned off all the background activity in tips and done a full wipe and restore and nothing helps. Clearly the iOS. What are Apple going to do re recognising/fixing the issue. At a time of lockdown this is a joke.

By the way, Scopionwinger : I also have the iPad Pro - and battery drain from 20 hours to 4 on a charge - my device was very functional and useful prior to this update - now it's in a terrible state and I feel really cheated - fingers crossed for us both -

Yep... downloaded 13.4 on my xs max and battery is really bad, drains very fast. My battery is 95% BTW and did a full restore and STILL sucking the life out of my battery.

Obviously an iOS problem..😒

It's not the fault of apps though - if I use Safari 50% of the time it's going to use 50% of the total power - and if we can't use apps then why do we have devices ? I have deleted and reinstalled apps and it doesn't help. Clearly an iOS problem -

Please don’t patronise me. I have excellent WiFi, I haven’t moved house, I have done every reset known to mankind, am not running any superfluous apps, have a brand new battery but battery life is a farce.

Telling us it might be a wifi or App update issue is ignorant! We downloaded the “upgrade” and the battery is draining like a mother.. before the did download it wasn’t..I did everyone of your so called fixes and it didn’t work, like many many many others...so fix this with an iOS upgrade or don’t and I like many others will get a Samsung!! Thanks!!

No, it isn't ignorant, it is based on real world experience on a decade of iOS use and it is smart.

If you tried everything I suggested and after a week your battery use hasn't settled then contact Apple Support directly by clicking on the Contact Support link on the top right of this page. Or did you already do that also.

In the future you should really read any Terms of Use you agree to. This is a user to user technical support site operated by Apple. I can't fix anything. And i you, like many others (what kind of polling did you use?) want to buy a Samsung I'm all for it, go buy one now. They never have battery problems.

I have a XR and since the new update to 13.4 I've also noticed my battery draining a lot faster. Hopefully Apple will address this problem and upload a fix. Can't believe someone's fix was to put it on the charger more often. Brilliant

A week? It’s been since it came out, so yes some of us are experiencing battery drains do to this upgrade and did the exact same GD thing you did to fix it but it didn’t work..so they need to fix this instead of ignoring it, which is ignorant if they do!!! Sorry to disagree with you, well not really!!

That's really not helpful and comes across as sarcasm. My iPhone 7 has been charging very slowly and draining very quickly since the iOS13.4 update - it is clearly an issue. This combined with the disappearance of the magnifying glass cursor tool when editing on the phone has drained my confidence in Apple as a company and I won't be buying any more of their products until we see an upturn in their acceptance of responsibility for these problems. Remember, we've been here before with the MacBook Air keyboard failures.

The same here, my batteries on iPhone and iPad used to last for 3-4 days, now I need to recharge everyday. I am hardly using the iPhone 11 promax. Maybe 2 hours / day playing music.

What a mistake to update and not wait until I read these posts. I am very very upset that I rushed to update. I normally do after a few weeks.

@Keith Doherty3: "The person that marked to issue solved was one just like yourself experiencing battery issues and griping loudly and not one of those looking to try and help and not an Apple or level 7 above as you put it !"

I was under the impression from the short time I've been here, that only Apple or Forum Moderators can mark threads as solved.

Is that not the case?

If so, maybe one of you can unmark it, as the problem clearly isn't solved.

I also note my entire previous post seems to have been removed in full.

This doesn't endear the Moderators/Apple to users like me, and the dozens of others in this thread, when posts you personally dislike are just eradicated in full.

It's ever so slightly fascistic.

L.Finch (USA)

Laurence no it’s not the case anyone can mark thread solved . Usually through not always its post initiator .

As this thread is now 12 pages long it’s easy to loose your own previous comments .

Again just to make it clear Level 7s and above not not in the pay of Apple and these forums moderated with a very light touch in the main.

Things only get deleted if a contributor “dobbs” you in for abuse, intimidation and/or advertising.

No, only the Original Poster can mark a post as solved and they can also mark two helpfuls. Other people can create additional helpfuls by clicking on the helpful box.

No, his previous one was deleted with some of mine. And I'm moderated with a light touch that is a surprise to me. Also, if you go back and read the Terms of Use, there are other reasons for things being deleted.

@LaurenceFinch, solved and helpfuls cannot be removed, even by the moderators. There are articles and the Terms of Use that will help you get up to speed.

Keith Doherty3 wrote:

Things only get deleted if a contributor “dobbs” you in for abuse, intimidation and/or advertising.

I would add a small qualification to your excellent post. The Host do not rely on reports alone. They also read posts (all of them!) and spot things that they deem inappropriate. Also, just because a post gets reported doesn't mean it gets deleted.