iOS 13.5.1 battery drain

The battery drain from background activity in iOS 13.5.1 is horrible. Happens on several apps, currently Bloom berg and Teamsnap. Same problem on my iPad and my wife's iPhone Xs. Come on Apple, this needs to be fix now!

iPhone XS

Posted on Jun 5, 2020 8:28 PM

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Jun 8, 2020 7:10 AM in response to TexThomas

I have the same issue here!


iPad Pro 11",

Model MTXN2LZ/A


Updated to iOS 13.5.1 a couple of days ago. Battery goes from 100% to 80% even when turned off overnight.


Hope there is a fix soon, it doesn't make sense to have it plugged to the AC all day long, I am a graphic designer and use Procreate heavily which will make the issue even worst if I am not close to the AC.

Jun 8, 2020 12:36 PM in response to TexThomas

Experiencing the same issue which few people are having, was 24% charge on my Xs Max and went to bed at 12am with all background apps clear, WiFi, mobile data, location, bluetooth and everything off, checked in the morning at 9am the battery was 12% with nothing happening on backgroud, it only eats up 4 to 5% max in overnight charging was on 13.4, bad decision on updating, did a factory reset and back up after updating to 13.5.1 shhhh.

Jun 9, 2020 6:41 AM in response to LD150

Or, I will explain what I do. When I install a new OTA update, no matter what it is, I always restart my iPhone and erase everything completely, I do not make backups because the applications that I use are few and my photos and others are on iCloud.


And even so I have the problem that it heats up and consumes too much battery, it has nothing to do with the way in which or how I update it, because I always do the restore, and can confirm that, since I installed 13.5.1 my battery It is very bad, I have 95% since I changed the battery for a new one in a legitimate Apple store.


So the theory that there is a poorly optimized application does not apply, because they are the ones that I have always used since 2016, as I mentioned. I restore my phone from time to time and have never experienced this until 13.5.1 from 10.1

Jun 9, 2020 8:41 AM in response to Mikey Watson

Mikey Watson wrote:

You are not helping on this thread at all. Mine is great... well good for you...

The fact that there are not huge numbers of people (just about the same number as we see after every single new version of iOS comes out), indicates that it's not an iOS problem. There is something wrong with your hardware or the configuration of your individual phone. I understand that troubleshooting such a problem is difficult and so it would be nice to believe that a system software update would resolve the problem, that's not usually what happens.

Jun 10, 2020 6:46 PM in response to TexThomas

I am using iPhone SE first generation, I also suffer battery drain after upgrading to 13.5.1. Before upgrade, there was no battery drain problem on 13.4.1. I found that it happens in After midnight time Even I have enable reduce battery mode. It dropped dramatically. Please really check the reason and FIx ASAP. It really Affects too many people.

Jun 11, 2020 7:22 AM in response to LD150

Monitored it for a bit.

Then restored from backup. Which took a long time.

Did not think to change any mail settings. How would the common average lay person know to do that? Apple support on phone didn't mention it. I think changing settings is good for the people doing research and maybe other users on this message board...But it does little fix the problem in the short term. It can help kick the can down the road and see if you can use some other app as a work around until it's "fixed." I get that. But, I mean if you're using your phone as you normally would with the apps that are essential to your work and lifestyle and it's all hunky dory. And then you update and it's suddenly "broken" and then you disable all the apps you actually need to get it to work again. Then it's not really "working" is it? :)


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