Health app draining battery on iOS14

How do you disable the problem? For me, I am trying a few things...

1. Turned of Privacy > Motion & Fitness (Fitness tracking) - Have since turned it back on and it seems to be ok
2. Disabled Health in iCloud setting (have not turned it back on)
3. Turned off sleep and handwashing in Watch
4. Turned off my watch (I have since turned it back on and testing out time - initial reports are not showing Health battery usage going up) (did not turn sleep and handwashing back on)

Other people have stated backing up and restoring solved the problem... I have not tried that yet. Assuming it has something to do with the watch... Mark

I have the same problem along with a bunch of others. This all happened after the update to iOS14

• I can't see my fitness/activity data
• Can't unpair apple watch
• can't pair new apple watch
• clicking on general in watch app causes crash
• can't delete apps from the homescreen
• can't open apps from the search bar
• can't backup iphone
• screenshots don't make flash

And a bunch of other stuff....

I went to an apple repair store and they could not find a solution. I'm very concerned about losing all of my activity data considering I have no backups.

Exact same issues here. My iPhone 11 Pro Max has been 100% charged, I closed every single app, and battery is at 40% within 4 hours while literally not using the phone during that time. I have reset my phone and watch over 10x in last week and doesn’t help.

My health app is using 80% of my batter while not even using and I am unable to disable Health or Sleep apps.

I experienced the same issue on iOS 14 / WatchOS 7. Very fast battery drain, overheating phone. Extremely frustrating.

However, the latest updates (14.0.1, 7.0.1) seem to have solved the issue! I recommend everyone to try upgrading before doing any phone resets / data wipes. Hope this helps.

Same issues here! i noticed today that they released an IOS 14.1 software update although it did not notify me, I manually went in and checked. Installing now so crossing my fingers that this fixes the Health/watch issues!!!

I had the same issue. You should talk to Apple support so they can log the issue. I found the fix for me which was settings -> general -> background refresh and turn it off for all. It fixed it. Instead of my phone dying in an hour and the Health app using 80% of my battery, I’m able to use my phone without it dying. Not really a fix but definitely a good temporary solution. I was surprised it worked because health app is not in the list of apps for background refresh. Hope this helps.

Toughmonkey - I would just reset the device - erasing all data. Then it will take you back through the start up wizard and you can restore a back up. Make sure you do a backup before the erase all data and settings.

Basically as others had said. this is all assuming you have an iCloud storage account. I have the 2TB account and therefore don’t use a computer based backup. I’ve read that others have had issues backing up to computer as the computer has been confused by the presence of Petabytes of data, whether it exists or not.

In Settings>Your Name (Apple ID)>iCloud>Apps using iCloud>swipe off Health App.

This was a precautionary step to stop it trying getting confused trying to back up Petabytes of data. Whether that was necessary or not, I don’t know, but I followed the advice of others and it seemed to work. My Health App data that was already backed up restored correctly after the next steps....

To backup your device: Settings>Your Name (Apple ID). On this page choose the device you wish to backup. It’ll list every Apple device you have linked to you account to select the correct one >iCloud Backup>Backup Now

It asked me if I wanted to backup before I erased my phone.

To check the status of your backups for peace of mind: Settings>Your Name (Apple ID)>iCloud>Manage Storage>Backups. On this page it should list your backups. Choose the device and check when the last backup was. If it’s up to date in line with when you last backed up then you should be good to go.

Now you’re ready to press the nuclear button. Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content And Settings.

Follow the onscreen instructions from here. It asked me if I wished to keep my carrier’s details to which I said yes. After it had finished deleting it detected my iPad and setup my Apple Account with a funky moving image that my iPad scanned and allowed to sync settings. Then it asked if I wished to use my Backup (yes) and off it went.

I needed to set up my Face ID and Apple Pay details, but other than that everything else came down. It took about an hour for all of my apps to come down, and 30,000+ photos but everything returned to normal. Afterwards I remembered to resync Heath App to iCloud and all apps and devices are behaving as they should. sleep tracking worked last night and the Activity app is showing all data, current and historic.

This is on iPhone 11 using iOS 14.0.1 and Apple Watch 3 with Watch OS 7.0.1, with all fitness apps including Health App, Activity, Runkeeper, MyFitnessPal, Nokia/Withings Health Mate that were previously not working correctly now syncing between devices.

It was a royal pain to have to do it all, but it’s been over 24 hours and everything is behaving as it should.

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - As I mentioned, I got my size down to the actual size. I turn off icloud health (you won't lose the data) on the phone, did a clean install (reset all data and settings) and then turn icloud health back on. This will give you a fresh start. I didn't do a restore but I think you could do that as well. Just my actions....

Factory reset and restoring to a pre update backup worked for me, haven’t turned the sleep feature on since the restore and everything is back to normal.

Same exact problems here

I have iwatch 3 and haven’t updated to 7 and my phone is still being drained by health

Same here. Haven’t updated 3 watch and experiencing same issue.

anybody winning with more than 43 petabytes? 😂

(would love to know how to fix this, but it doesn’t seem to cause any problems other than a visual in storage...)

I called Apple support and did a factory restore while in recovery mode then downloaded my previous iCloud backup. It seems fine now 🤞🏻