Battery drain after iOS 14 update.

Totally agree. This is the same exact issue cause that I reported in my posting a few months ago.

The evidence is overwhelming that the battery problem is caused by ios14.

I am surprised as how apple is not responding and remains silence.

Perhaps apple doesn't mind to have their legal team handle this issue because the number of affected consumers is growing.

Is there somehow we can actually take this further? Clearly calling them gets you nowhere. I refuse to buy a new phone or battery, when its obviously not an isolated incident. My phone is basically useless unless i carry a portable charger with me! Most of the time the battery isn't even flat when it switches itself off and on again.

with all do respect, I spent weeks allowing apple engineers and tech monitor my phone and analyze my data but they were contradicting against each other. They admitted there was nothing with my phone and that my battery was in good shape. Yet, they couldn't tell me what the issue was. In the end apple techs asked me to have them replace my battery on my own cost but they refused to guarantee if the battery replacement will solve the problem.

No wonder, because there is nothing wrong with it.

It is the ios14 that has caused this mass power drain issue.

The solution is that apple admits to the problem they have caused then work on a solution.

No body is perfect, not even apple.

The consumer should not pay the price of apple's mistake.

Divide an conquer, trying to make this matter as much individual it can get. I have three apple devices and they all suffer from increased battery drain after 14.2. upgrade. Se1 se2 mini5. Just tell to your grandma that i should cooperate with engineers. Fix it! Thats global. I recommend to stop wasting our time and do some real work in fixing it.

I see. My message was reply to your point but to apple admins reading the forum. See my second reply.

Sorry but suggesting support is waste of my time. If it was individual device yes, but not all. This is global. I am really considering factory reset on all of them if 14.3 wont fix it. I do not have apple due to fancy reasons and this hw costs quite a lot of money in my country. I like it because it is stable device. I am just concerned about the usual silence and such recommendations to check with support. Batteries are in good condition, subject od their age and usage.

I'm having this issue too. I have a 6s Plus and it has to stay plugged in and charging at all times otherwise the battery will drop from 100% to 1% within a few hours of unplugging it. According to the battery health area, the maximum capacity for my phone is 84%.

Apple needs to fix this asap because my phone is practically unusable when I'm away from home and unable to charge it.

I have installed 14.3 beta on se1 and enabled information sharing. I am going to use the popr se1 for such experiments from now on.

From what i have read since 14.0 there are problems with battery drain and pr answer is wait until new ios does reindexing. Wow how much money they are paid to write this 😀 wait till the 14.2 fixes that

on all:

disabled background sync of apps, the 3 apps i installed since 2018 and kept

Reset ram it kind of slightly helped the mini5, but that has huge battery compared to my other social apple devices and one does simply not recharge that device daily.

I am well aware now about the result of factory reset and the upgrade choices available after.

if it just was not the poor battery that on apple is so poor anyway i would not be nagging so much. Bye bye for now 😀

After 70 minutes of playing music, battery usage meter is useless jumping up after restarts and moving few 5 6 points down after restart finished

ios 14.3 is not worser than it was, i can say try for your self if it makes any difference to your hw

After 2.5 hours od streaming music, battery from 25% to 1% se1 with 83% battery condition. Maybe the 14.3 ios is better, can not say now. Time will tell. It is not worse. For someone with phone only on charger whole day it can not be worser to update. What will you loose when looking at this from whole day on charger perspective?

Refer to the recent news article: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54996601

Apple has been held guilty by the court, for throttling the speed of older iPhones with the newer software updates. Apple's claim is that reducing speed on older iOS devices helps conserve battery health/life on these phones, especially when upgrading to newer iOS versions. Since Apple can no longer throttle older iOS devices, as per the court verdict, therefore, the newer software may be taking a toll on the battery health/life of older iPhones with the latest iOS. Users should have the choice to downgrade his/her iOS devices to an older version of iOS (v13 or earlier) in order to prevent the battery drainage issue. However, it seems Apple has stopped iOS devices from downgrading from iOS14.1/14.2 to an earlier version. Which means, unfortunately, at this point it seems all the older generation iPhone users are stuck with accelerated battery drain issue until Apple releases a software fix . Battery drain issue is such a basic bug, which could have been captured during the testing. Apple should be well aware of this issue before iOS 14 release. I do not see a fix on this anytime soon.

Are you suggesting to use battery saving mode ?

The mini5 does not suit to the old device yet and still its battery drains much faster when below 20% than before. Happened to me last week twice that it shut down. And o use that device for web brosing mostly. First time since i bought that device.

Nor the iphone se2 and it drains like 5% overnight, saw someone weiting this on the forum already.

Basically you will clearly notice that something is hooked up on the 20w charger which did not happen before. So yes its global. I guess bbc wont tell us what to do. No offence ment 😀

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Battery saver option doesn't work. Even with no background refresh/apps open, the battery life drains significantly faster than it was in iOS 11/12/13. Just for your reference, 2 weeks ago I have changed my iPhone battery through Apple service centre. My battery health is 100%. Of course BBC article is not meant for recommending how to save battery life, it is just meant for reference to how Apple is held guilty by the court for throttling older iOS devices.

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i see that clearly, i read something about for example repair is difficult with 3rd party hw, about apple service in shops, well stories. I just do not see that relevant to current situation. If apple will not fix it or will not issue a statement on how to fix it in settings i do not know which os/hw manufacturer to use as substitute for what i need. Nobody will pay for my expenses and it was quite expensive already. The feeling about apple being guilty is like chinese landing on moon. Distant.

i hope apple will not ignore this, because going out to change battery in winter and partial lockdown is just ridiculous reason. I go out to work, bring children to kindergarten, important stuff. not to repair accesories

I had upgraded my iphone 11 with 14.2 update after that I am observing my phone battery getting drain very fast (2-3 hours) even I am not using it, the phone battery capecity is 90% I bought this phone last year after its launch. Please rectifiy this issue as soon as possible, this was my first iphone after this battery issue now I am feeling very dispointing.