Battery drain after iOS 14 update.

No one should pay for a battery replacement, if the battery is within the normal operating tolerances, especially by apple's own spec.

What I have been hearing is that the new widgets introduced with ios14 is the root cause of the battery drain issue.

I am just tired of apple playing games with the consumers.

There are many affordable alternatives to iphone out there.

But if you have to have apple then good luck to you.

My battery continues to rapid drain . It’s crazy fast! Every day, Multiple times all day long . I’ll watch it now go from fully charged to 1%..1%?! It’s utterly dangerous...what if I’m in a situation without an ability to charge? In the middle of a pandemic? Seriously?! My phone & battery are fine. It’s this unfixed iOS sucking the life out of my phone In seconds (before my eyes). Thousands of us have repeatedly posted about this. Where is the fix on this?? Pleeeease help, Apple!!

Me too. The iPhone 7 Plus upgraded to iOS 14.4. It was fully charged. Then in a matter of an hour went from 100% to 0%. The phone wasn't even being used throughout that time. The battery was working perfectly well before the upgrade. I contacted Apple who informed me that I need a new battery. Why this sudden requirement based on a new iOS upgrade? That can't be correct. It has to be something to do with a fault in the upgrade, not a a problem with the battery. Is this some sort of 'scam' to get us to all buy new batteries - or even worse to have to buy a new iPhone? Neither is an acceptable outcome of an iOS upgrade from Apple. Please get this issue fixed Apple with a fix to the upgrade - one that does not result in catastrophic battery drain please. At present, our expensive and hard worked for iPhones have become utterly useless.

I have an iPhone 6S purchased second hand. Just updated to 14.4 and have been having similar issues as others. It can go from 100% down to 60% in under an hour and then goes to 1% shortly after that. Oddly, I've been able to run it 1% for hours.

My battery health is at 89%. Still evaluating it, hopefully, it is a software bug.

Great suggestions re: clearing safari and closing google. It hasn’t solved the issue of the lightning fast incredible battery drain from 100% to 2% that happens right before my eyes , but at least it’s one less thing that adds to it. I sure hope the Apple folks get out a fix for this issue soon... I’d really like to avoid the hassle of moving over to Samsung....

There is a software issue and this has affected more than 10,000 of iPhones. It’s not something we are doing wrong. Apple needs to fix this ASAP! Or refund us all 1,000$ We pay good money for their products because they’re reliable. This is absolutely insane 😡

This is my 6th iPhone and, like all past OS updates on aging iPhones, the battery is immediately compromised. The truth of the matter is that this Apple's way to get you into a new iPhone. Planned obscolescence - simple as that.

Striving for yet another ios next year number 15, it will be a lot of work to comlete. Apple has more and more products that needs to work seamless together. Maybe the people who own there device should have an option to bail out of a brand new ios again and again. An option to get security updates, no force for a new one. Will be a good one, while the race for another os continues. Or bring the aim down to a new os once in tree years, maybe once in five to get a better result.

Great question - maybe (?) but the only way I’ve found is to do a manual download (so don’t check the auto download for those updates) and then decide if you want to take the risk (& push through the download yourself). Problem is that you may have to to wait to hear if there’s any blowback before doing that...& we didn’t know about the ios14 issue until it was too late...so...

You are making great points. It’s actually what my friends who having this same battery drain issue are talking about . We’re seriously considering dumping our iPhones. Feeling forced into a consumer corner with this Which kind of hurts to say out loud but this is really a bad thing (My friend used his phone cause he’s self employed. I use it to stay connected to older folks who are struggling with isolation cause of the pandemic).

Not easy if you want to stay connected. Older ipones on a older ios run a bit longer. A second Finn brand telephone could be usefull. They run for a long time.

I did a lot of tweaking an find out how my iphone 6s is idle for days.

My iPhone is continue to be hot without touching it. My battery is draining fast, check battery health is at 97%. Already charged my phone 3 times since the update. Please help, I hope my phone won’t blow up.

I have the same battery draining issues

I have tried putting my phone in RFID bag to ensure no WiFi access but since installing 14.4.2 overnight battery drops from 100% to 24% but only takes 45mins charge to get back to 100%

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.

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.