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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Posted on Jun 8, 2020 8:04 AM

in that case it is apps that have not been modified to run on the new OS and have runaway background usage, Viber fir example.

or a busted phone.

Nothing in 13.5.1 itself is causing this.

So to test this ( yes effort required)

  • backup
  • restore to factory settings as though you were selling it - see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201351
  • Set it up with your apple account
  • Check battery usage in that vanilla environment.
  • Restore from backup.


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Jun 8, 2020 7:39 AM in response to LD150

As I said already, others (3 that I know of) _who actually have this battery issue_ have already tried this method to no avail. So it apparently has nothing to do with this, but is something else. If I knew it would actually help, I would have tried it by now. But so much effort for nothing, no thanks.


Will do some tests with an old iPhone 6 I still have lying around.

Jun 9, 2020 3:33 AM in response to LD150

You’ll have to explain to me how there’s any difference between the binary being pushed as an OTA update versus via your Mac tethered. The update is verified before being installed. For the record, I have three different devices on the new release, and one of them was updated directly from my MBP and still having extensive battery drain.

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