Has anyone else noticed that Wallet is draining battery quickly since 14.5 update? In battery usage it shows 1 minute or less of activity for Wallet but that it contributed to around 30% of battery use over a day. I have noticed it a couple days in a row.
iPhone 11 Pro Max
I'm almost certain that this is a bug with Apple Card family sharing.
My iPhone (XR on iOS 14.6) and Apple Watch (series 3 on watchOS 7.4.1) have been draining battery way faster than usual the past few days. Normally they both last two days between charges, but have been lasting only 9 hours or so. I’ve tried restarting both devices, removing background processes, and updating the watch to watchOS 7.5. The same thing is happening on my wife’s iPhone (same as mine) and watch (series 6 on watchOS 7.5), even though there's not much in common with our phone/watch usage patterns.
I then noticed on the iPhone’s 10-day battery history that Wallet had used 35% of the phone’s battery life in the past week. This wasn’t showing in the 24-hour battery history for some reason, even though the battery decline was steady throughout the day. The 10-day history showed that battery usage was close to 100% on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday but not on Saturday or before Thursday.
I then realized that I had activated Apple Card family sharing a couple weeks ago and switched to it as my primary iCloud payment card, but no purchases had been made until Apple subscriptions auto-renewed this week. Those transactions happened on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, exactly when the battery drain was happening. I use Apple Wallet NFC with other cards all the time, but haven’t used the Apple Card other than these renewals.
Based on this, it looks like there’s a bug with Apple Card family sharing that’s draining battery only on days that the card is used (or maybe only on days that it has scheduled transactions). I’ve switched all payments off of that card for now, and hopefully that will solve the problem.
Same Thing happening to me. 1 min of screen time but using 60% of battery. We also have a shared Apple Card and my Apple Watch is dying too. Hopefully this thread will pick up some steam.
I don't use Apple Watch but I will have occasion to use Apple Pay today. I'll let you know what happens.
Wow! Yes, I didn’t notice that. I have a 12 Pro and over 10 days the wallet has used 57% of the battery.
Do we have to do anything to implement the fix, or was it on their end?
It was on Apples side. It wasn’t even an update. It was just back to normal.
Still not working for me. 46% battery use by wallet in last 24 hours. Come on Apple… get this fixed please!
Well, I'm on 15 and it's still there, so...
I'm currently going back and forth with Apple support to (hopefully) get them to understand that this is a software problem and flag it as needing attention. Stay tuned.
Jon did the battery drain get better after yesterdays update?
Yes having identical issue 48%
My update: I’ve been without the drain for 2 weeks now. I stopped sharing my Apple Card with my kids first - that did nothing to help. Then I removed the card from my wife’s phone (who is an account co-owner). My phone still says she’s a co-owner, but it’s off of her phone now. Since doing that, I can open the app, use the card and everything’s normal battery usage. I’m going on 2 weeks of that working. I also changed location for the wallet to be only when using the app. That alone didn’t do anything to help, but I still have that setting on. I do not have an Apple Watch.
Wallet draining battery in iOS 14.5
