iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 13.4 battery drain problem

had a nice convo with an apple rep today! About how its not a coincidence that 2 iphone se’s both went kaput one right after the other. After updates. One happened to have a battery replacement awhile back and was just coming off the warrenty the other never had a problem both wont charge or turn on. Apple says its the device and has nothing to do with updates. Want over 200 dollars to fix it. Apple needs to be sued again! For purposely killing phones! I was a life long apple person but im done now ill be going with something else as soon as i can

This has been a roller coaster ride for my iPhone XR. I started to experience must faster battery drain just after install IOS 13.4 and by following advise in this forum, stopping Siri, and a variety of other recommendations was able to reduce the drain to a point before the IOS update. Then I installed 13.4.1 thinking there might be a fix. Battery drain started again with all of the "fixes" installed. At this point my Contacts are consuming 68% of my battery drain but have been access for 1 minute of screen time. I am not sure where to start on tackling this issue.

No one should be having to disable all apps, to fix an iOS issue, because - by its very nature - the problem lies within the iOS itself. Such fixes defeat the object of owning a £700 smartphone. What next? Tell people NOT to use their phones at all?!

Sheesh!

Thanks. I've done that a few weeks ago when I first started following this forum. I've turned off all Background Refreshes, Stopped Syncing iCloud contacts, deleted the initial set of apps that were shown as draining my battery, stopped all uploads to Siri and turned off Siri, changed Fetch New Data to manual, removed all apps that I have not used in the past 6 months. I'd hate to have to delete my Contacts just to see if this would correct the Battery Drain. One thing that I recently did was to add Avatars to many of my contacts to show various organizations. Could this cause excessive battery drain? I'd appreciate thoughts and guidance on this before spending more time battling this problem. thanks

YES, you are completely right. I disabled everything you can disable so that every 20-year-old Nokia phone has more functions compared to my iPhone and every time I use it I get more angry and disgusted when watching the STANDBY-BATTERY-DRAIN particularly as Apple even PREVENTS ME FROM DOWNGRADING to an earlier system to solve the problem - it has become such an arrogant and haughty company - I don’t find words for it. Apple patronizes its customers as they were little children.

Now, that would be rather strange, since I have been through numerous updates on various iPhones and I have never experienced the professed effects of such "reformatting". If that would be the case, we should be rather accustomed to it by now, shouldn't we? Of course, I do hope that this is the case, but then I would also hope that the "reformatting" is over soon :)

Well, I am not so sure that one wouldn't encounter such problems on other platforms as well, and it is highly probable that this affects just a tiny percentage of users, and therefore it doesn't register. A mere blip on the horizon.

But as it clearly isn't happening because something users do, users can't fix it, either. And if it would be caused by something like what I experienced with my old SE a couple of years ago, that a work mail account repeatedly and uninterruptedly sent requests which went nowhere and therefore drained the battery in no time, that is neither a fault by the user, because any mail account should be working properly with Mail, shouldn't it? If that is not the case, there should be a warning about it, and at least people at Apple's support should know about it, but they didn't, so I would say that it is a bug in Mail.

Now, this can be caused by something similar, something which doesn't affect all users, but it shouldn't be left to users to find out what that may be. I was lucky to stumble across the solution after well over a year and I got myself a brand new phone even, and the problem was fixed by moving the account to Gmail's own app, which obviously works as it should.

What causes this I don't know but what seems to be clear, is that the fault is hidden among Apple's own software.

i didn't mean me suing them i meant whom ever started that other lawsuit im just not gonna use apple anymore when my contracts up. And i cant wait till the next update as their update killed the phone it doesnt turn on period and it wont restore at all ive been thru troubleshooting process theres nothing i can do they want 260 something dollars to repear it which they tech wont be able to do cause the other phone that happened to have a battery replaement and was still just at the warrenty was not ablt to be fixed and they sent a new one so repairing it would be buy a new iphone se for 260 something dollars...

My iphone 11 won't respond after update to ios 13.4. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The screen is black and a can't turn on the phone. I try charge the phone, but its don't fix the problem. The iphone simplily won't respond. HELP ME, PLEASE!!!

Unfortunately having worked for an IT company who sold Macs, looking after over 500 of them at one point & having dealings with Apple I can tell you that Apple make Microsoft look like the best company that there ever was.

You don't get to be the richest company in the world by admitting you have a major issue with your operating systems & devices.

I tackled a few of their tech guys on roadshows not long after OS X came out about various things that caused Macs to Kernel Panic & had many many threads like this one but every answer was the same.

OS X is great, really really stable & fast & we are doing all the things you say are causing problems but without the kernel panics so you must be doing something wrong.

If I was then I was doing it wrong on over 100 client's macs by just getting it out of the box & running updates, setting up mail etc.

Well the issue remains and we are stuck with a useless iphone After telling about my issue with the battery drain the moderators were saying rude things cutting acting as if they were the exalted ones and I was I lower and then blocked for saying I had tried everything and nothing worked. It seems relentless getting an ios upgrade fix for this issue https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7614097/New-Apple-iOS-13-KILLING-batteries-iPhone-owners-battery-life-drains-quickly.html

I read several times that the OS maybe needs to reindex its file system, or something similar. That’s improbable ; such a behavior could occur with a major version update (12.x to 13), but not with a minor version update (13.3 to 13,4), and even less with a revision change (13.4 to 13.4.1).

In the current period where contact tracing will become a major way to help fighting the pandemic, if yo have to put your phone aside one or two weeks every month for an hypothetical reindexing, or worse, if your phone juste become useless, the pandemic will last for a very long time.

Before you buy a Pixel, Samsung, Huawei and everything on your list realize that they use the same type of battery as the Apple and be sure to go to their forums and see if anyone is complaining about battery life. Or the battery blowing up.

Battery isn’t the problem as all these people complaining had a perfectly working phone and battery before these updates. I know that you are a top level 10 or whatever but if it looks like a fish, smell like a fish and swim like a fish... it might just be a fish. And honestly i think we are now the fish.

they sure did

Apple will pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of slowing down older iPhone models to compel users to buy new ones. 

The proposed settlement agreement requires Apple (AAPL) to pay the owners of certain iPhone models $25 per affected device, totaling a minimum of $310 million and a maximum of $500 million, according to documents released on Friday in US District Court in San Jose, California. The amount each user receives could increase or decrease depending on how many claims are filed as well as any additional legal fees and expenses approved by the court, the document added. 

The settlement agreement, which is subject to approval by a judge on April 3, caps a legal battle that's gone on for more than two years during which Apple tried to ease a global backlash.

apple must lobe people like yourself. I am sure thatyou find it acceptable to pay 800-1000$ plus for a phone that will be render useless in a couple of years

btw lots a people refered to SE as a 5se

The "iPhone 5se" was the name rumored for Apple's 4-inch iPhone before it launched on March 21, 2016 as the "iPhone SE." The iPhone SE combines the body of the iPhone 5s with many of the internals of the iPhone 6s, such as the A9 processor and 12-megapixel camera, resulting in a powerful but compact device.

but hey you are the level 10 expert. I loved apple design but I now hate their support or lack of. If you don’t mind spending your free time monitoring uninstalling and reinstalling software for a « phone » well good for you. This is why you are now a top level 10 specialist;)

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