Battery drain after iOS 14 update.

Try a factory reset and restore your content from iCloud. Use iTunes to do this reset.

With older iPhones it helps turning of, all, Sire and turning of wifi, twice. Tweak your device to the lowest data usage or if necessarily on wifi, for exemple photos backup, when you are recharging. Good tweaking can take a while.

Try to find an Apple store to determine, test, if your battery is still in good shape. There will be an update coming up I read, that gives better insight on the battery's health. But indicates that it will only be for an iPhone 11?

Maybe you need to find out if your phone has a hardware related problem. This should be fixed before any software related issue.

At an official Apple store or reseller they can test your Apple hardware.

Thanks for posting. The reports discribed are suffering from drastically battery discharge after updating to a new os. Very cold weather in wintertime can cause a battery flaw as well.

Apple is coming up with new analyzing utilities in a future update.

My battery health is more than 80, though I had the issue everybody is talking about here. Right after the update to 14 iOS, battery dies less than a half day. Before the update my battery served me almost 2 days.

You are not alone in this problem. This has been going on for months- since Ios14’s first release. we’ve all been posting about it ever since(trying to find a work around/ fix.) but it’s been really painful. some folks seem to have found solutions but others not so much. I’m giving iPhone 1 more try but if this continues, I’m going Samsung like those who’ve already given up. Sending you lots of good luck in your hunt for a fix!

This is crazy! Both myself and sister in laws phones are loosing battery hard core after last updated as well. Please send out a new update and correct asap Apple! We pay way to much for this crap to happen. No its not our battery needing to be replaced. It was just fine before update. Thank you.

My iPhone XR is also draining battery unusually very fast. I checked my battery health which is 93%. Still draining fast.

is it another technique of making people change battery/ phone ???

an unhappy customer

I am experiencing what a lot of others seem to be as well. My iPhone 8 was working swimmingly until the update I did overnight. Now my battery life drains exponentially more after the update. Please fix this, the optics of this make it seem like a money grab, forcing people into upgrading their phones.

I too had experienced my battery draining way to quickly with the release of version 14 software. I tried all of the supposed fixes and nothing worked. So I decided to start turning off different services until i found one that fixed the problem. And I finally did. The culprit is Siri. Go to settings-Siri & Search-Disable "Allow Siri When Locked." Before I made this change my phone would use 35-40% of battery during the night when not in use. Last night it used 0. So far today battery usage has been minimal.

14.6 is absolutely abysmal!

Before the update I would consistently get between 2 and 2.5 days use out of my iPhone 12 pro max.

Immediately after updating to 14.6 I now get 1 day max out of the battery.

I saw people saying it was the podcast app causing it, but this is not the case, as I do not use podcasts on my phone.

The above "fix" of turning off siri when locked is not really a "fix" it means losing a feature which you should not need to have to do just to get your batter working as it should already be!

First of all, how long has it been since you updated? As mentioned before, battery usage will be higher for the first 24 - 48 hours after an update as the phone needs to rebuild several internal databases.

Second, just because one person saw success shutting off Siri doesn't mean that Siri is somehow responsible for battery draw; I do not have it shut off and see zero unexpected battery draw.

However, I don't understand why you would want to go two to 2.5 days between charges; most people put in on a charger overnight and leave it there until they need to leave the next day, and put it back on a charger when they return home.

This did NOT fix battery drain issue. Although it looked like it worked it was only a coincident. I turned Siri back on when locked and battery drain is fine. So I guess other apps upgrading could have been the issue. Sorry for any confusion.

My SE will 'freeze', than suddenly (in a few seconds) produce a black screen. Nothing responds, but on plugging in the charger the battery symbol with its red line at the base appears, and it reaches 100% in about an hour. Happening about twice in three days, but not during the same function.

Hi, I also have this issue with my xr

i am just using this phone less than 5 months!!!!

my 6s also had this issue because it was refurbished so I replace my crappy 6s with 10 r and I still have this issue!!

I might need to switch to android again:(

In our circumstances, I know the cause. It's Find My iPhone which sends my location to Apple frequently and when it does, it locks on for several minutes and repeats the process many times.

Most people don't know that there is a hidden menu in Privacy>Location Services. Then scroll all the way, down to the end.

Tap "System Services". Now scroll to the bottom again. Toggle "Status Bar Icon" to on. You should then see a transparent or solid arrow appear on the top of your screen. Find My iPhone will not show up in your Battery Usage section. However, Settings does and that should be a clue right there if you didn't have the Status Bar Icon enabled earlier. My battery healthy percentage took a beating since iOS 14 was installed.

I disabled Find My iPhone on several people's iPhones and they no longer have this battery drain problem.