iOS 14 Battery Drain and Heating Up

Since installing iOS 14 my battery has been discharging at an insane rate, in two hours it went from 80% to 26% basically sitting on the desk, it's too warm to keep in my pocket and if you do even a minimal amount of activity, checking e-mail, scrolling twitter, replying to messages, it becomes almost too hot to hold. Battery health shows that the Health app is using 52% of the battery as of now, the next highest app is mail at 7%. Health is not an app I have opened or that is running, I don't know the last time I did open it but it seems to be the culprit? I have closed all apps, restarted the phone, force restarted the phone and it continues to heat up and discharge and usage from Health increases.

iPhone 11 Pro

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 4:01 PM

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Jan 3, 2021 10:30 AM in response to JBrown79

for me the issue started after the ios 14 update and when I started using my physical sim again. I was. using an esim before. on eSim the phone ran smooth with no issue whatsoever and battery lasted very well. once I started using a physical sim the heating began. Today I noticed my phone got so hot the past few days my phone cover (rubber material) actually expanded and got loose.

I did a bit of digging and turns out a specific type of physical sim is causing issue. please refer to the link given.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/fix-for-ios-14-battery-drain-overheat-issue.2257549/

Sep 23, 2020 4:18 PM in response to axelriet

That was the first thing I checked and none of the data makes sense. First Health was using 52% of the battery even though the app was inly running for 2 minutes. That finally cleared up and now it changes daily. It shows some apps using 30% of the batter and being open for 2+ hours even though screen time is less than 20 minutes. I tried deleting the apps but there was no delete option and the - wouldn't allow me to delete them, I had to restart my phone just to delete. Now daily it's different apps, some I don't even use that are using insane amounts of battery. Wireless charging is at a trickle and wired charging overheats dramatically. Apples solution now is it must be hardware and since no store are open I have to send it in. It's not hardware, it's an 11 Pro, less than a year old and worked perfect until iOS 14 was installed.

Oct 9, 2020 12:19 PM in response to JBrown79

Are you spiritual? Believe in God, angels and ascended masters? This is an angel number showing you what you are currently doing, focusing on or thinking about at the time you see that number. Angel numbers has been showing up for millions of people's iPhone's in form of a "battery number" for a couple of years now.

Next time this happens to you, notice what battery number is showing up and how long that particular number is shown to you. If that number is shown to you and not even go down 1% for a long time, take it as a sign and google "angel number ##" for the meaning of it.

I have my angels showing me angel numbers in form of a battery number many times a day. Sometimes my battery drops from 70% to 1% in an hour, but stay on 1% for half a day. I can still call people and watch videos in that time, iPhone doesn't die. It's like it actually has 70% battery but it shows only 1%. When that happens, it's a sign from your angels.


Oct 26, 2020 9:35 AM in response to SimonB63

I'm having trouble with the Apple Mail app so I agree that the problem does not seem to be coming from the app itself. I really can't delete the mail app so I have set all of my email accounts to manual update. Even that doesn't seem to help. The app will calm down for a while but kick back in sometime latter. I think there's something amiss in iOS itself.

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