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Photos runs in background and drains battery like crazy

Recently, I've been noticing my battery level drop a lot, my iPhone says it’s 91% Healthy, yet photos running is the highest cause of battery drain and it goes from like 70% to 50% in like 10 minutes where it used to take like 50 mins. Is it my phone?

Posted on Feb 5, 2021 8:16 AM

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Posted on Feb 5, 2021 8:22 AM

Bg app refresh menu doesn’t show photos app

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Feb 5, 2021 8:19 AM in response to Watrmeln

If you have iCloud photo sync enabled it will transfer photos to iCloud, which uses energy. Photos will also sort and index your photos, however, that only happens when you have made changes to them. You can go to Settings/General/Background App Refresh and turn it off if you don’t want this to happen except when you open the Photos app.

Photos runs in background and drains battery like crazy

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