iOS 13.6 overheating and battery drain issues

I have the 11 max pro and the same thing is happening. Battery is dead in a few hours. It’s constantly becoming extremely hot. I can’t keep it on the charger for longer than 20 mins without it feeling like it’s on fire ! What is being done about this? How can I fix this? My phone is no more than 6 months old.

That should not be happening as Iphone 11 Pro Max has a very good battery, it can easily last you 2 days of full use on a single charge, try to restore it from itunes, backup your data on your iCloud which you think is necessary following your important apps, see if this helps then will see its further result.

I think Apple once did it in iOS 6, 7 and 9. After that they’re all trash especially the notorious iOS 11. (iOS 12 ain’t too bad I’d say when compared with iOS 13.6). Let’s see how will iOS 14 go!

P.S. Your English is fine and understandable at all.

Back it up

Reset it to factory settings (Settings, General, Reset, Erase all content and settings),

Set it up as new, and if it still overheats to the point the warning comes on have it fixed on warranty.

only restore from backup if it runs cooler

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This is a super frustrating issue and should be given top priority at Apple.

While I appreciate the community putting heads together to come up with helpful fixes, restoring the phone to factory defaults and rebuilding the phone app by app and setting by setting is pretty much the exact opposite of the whole point of the platform and shouldn’t be looked at as any sort of a solution. “Fixes” like that make Apple lazy as it gives them a fake workaround to throw at people. This isn’t a problem with an odd 3rd party app - this is their update. The Netflix app does this. Wyze and Ring cam. Pretty much anything rendering video in 1080 or higher.

I godda go. My fingerprints are about to be scorched off and my battery is about to die.

I’m able to resolve the issue by power cycling the device. It lasts for a day or two then comes back out of the blue randomly.

The difference between my hot phone and my cool phone earlier was ONLY the Apple update. Not sure what your point is. It’s clearly a problem with the update.

To give an example analogy, say you have a leaky kitchen sink. Maybe you bought a defective part or something. Who knows. But the restore and rebuild approach is akin to demoing the whole kitchen and rebuilding instead of just fixing the sink. It’s dumb. The problem is, Apple will actually give that to people as a “solution” when it is clearly their job to fix the leaky sink (to continue the analogy).

A lot of people don’t have time to spend hours and hours messing with their phones that they spent upwards of $1200 for after a minor update either. One of the major selling points of a platform that is twice as much as the competition is how well it’s supposed to work without the fuss.

I have posted in a previous response resetting the Following settings under general then reset:

location & privacy

then power the phone off and on.

if the problem still persists then reset:

home screen layout

then power the phone off and on

if the problem still persists then reset:

network settings

then power the phone off and on.

hope this resolves your battery and hot iPhone issues. It did for me.

Yes thank you, all workarounds and fixes are welcome because there will be many causes that may need to try several workarounds . I hope someone comes back to you with a result. I can't test it because I don't have the problem but hopefully someone will.

I am having IPhone x for past one year, My device is perfect upto IOS 13.5 when i updated to IOS 13.6.1 my device is getting slow and battery drains quickly what should i do for this issue, my battery health also in peek performance !

I’ve tried factory restore my iPhone 11 Pro Max but all the same glitches were transferred back. The battery percentage drops every 3 minutes even if I leave it idle. The battery health drops by 1% every 10 days. Wth is Apple doing

I too was automatically updated and my new SE not only got wicked HOT but it actually gave me a WARNING that is was an emergency & to shut off my phone ..!!!

our Sarasota, Fl iPhone store is closed ( again) so I don’t know how to have it checked out. ???

Thanks...D

13.7 just came out and it seems to have made the issue better for me. The phone isn’t getting hot, although the battery life doesn’t seem as good as it was prior to the .6 update. Could just be in my head though.

Tried 13.7 and the battery drain went into hyperdrive. Literally. Doing the update took 10 minutes in which time the battery drained 17%. Even plugged in it was actually losing power and didn't manage to charge when plugged in a whole day - dropped to 40% at one point. Overnight it did not recharge either - I had to turn off the optimised battery charging to get it to actually charge, going from 29% to 78%, when normally it would recharge to 100%.

I am trying the icloud hack suggested by MarcBr8 but in that time alone it has dropped 10% just doing the phone restart.

My SE 1st generation is not suffering the same problem but both phones on a recent tourist trip were not performing the same as before - they would not last a day on camera function. I'm afraid I'm seeing the same repeated messages from the experts here implying we the users are at fault but no actual working solutions.

I’ve called apple,twice. They’re no help. Both said to get it repaired at an apple store. I get about 25 minutes from a full charge. Prior to 13.4 it was perfect. Apple refuses to take any responsibility for the update drain issue. I’m now running 13.7. No better only worse.

my Data plan is useless now as I cannot take my device out of the house. Overnight drain is about 60%. What a sham.