Battery drain on iOS 14.6

Try this; 

Settings -> Apple ID -> Find my -> Find my iPhone -> And turn off ‘find my network’

For AirTags to work Apple devices need to constantly ping Bluetooth and U1 signals from devices which will drain a lot of battery over a day regardless of them both being low powered

You will be loosing the ability to find your iPhone or iPad if the battery is completely dead but they only just added that anyway so life will be as it was before the iOS 14.6 update 

I did have this issue. Since my last answer on this thread, it has not recurred. Steps I took which might have helped:

I removed old apps, which I had not recently used, especially travel apps. I can download them again if needed. My theory is that some of those apps had tracking capabilities which have been stymied by the recent changes in the App Store.

I have moved entirely off of Apple's Podcast app, to the Overcast app.

As an aside, my impression is that the latest changes to the Podcast app broke it. I have used the Podcast app since its inception. Never before have I had to deal with the app just hanging during use. Something in the Podcast app, for me, seemed to be associated with battery use.

You and whoever wrote that is incorrect

A ‘rechargeable battery’ is just a capacitor, the difference in material is mainly to do with how much capacity it can hold per volume of the battery and integrity of which it can hold capacity 

Anyone reading this that’s old enough to own a Nokia 5110 might remember it had a fat Nickel–cadmium battery, the 6110 a slim lithium ion battery and the 6310i an ultra slim lithium polymer battery which were all interchangeable with a better battery life ironically the slimmer the battery and also a longer life which the 6310i was famously known for having over a week long battery 

This manufacturer fabricated method of charging your phone whenever you feel like it only surfaced when they started integrating batteries into phones and as most people know now they started slowing them down in line with battery health to give users the illusion the device needs replacing which obviously increases phone sales which they were found guilty of but not many connected the dots on the bigger picture 

Where is my proof of this? Myself and a few friends buy new iPhones every year, I charge my phone and every other rechargeable device I own from 0-100 every time, my friends before following my advice used to charge their iPhones and devices whenever it was convenient to charge it for them so they never lost power…

After a year their iPhone battery health was between 72-86%, mine is usually 96%, even now being a day 1 owner of an 12 pro max my battery health is 99%, Apple made it easy for people to see but give false information on how to maintain it, but honestly tell you what they will do when it’s now damaged 

It is impossible for iOS 14.6 to damage battery health, I have seen a few people comment on the podcast app draining a lot of battery but I’m not sure how it would do more than any other streaming unless for some reason it was writing more data to the flash storage than it needed to 

Other than that leaving the ‘find my network’ setting on IS definitely draining everyone’s batteries quicker as you’re all powering Apple’s service at the cost of your devices, to be clear you can still have the ‘find my iPhone’ setting on as this uses different technology to track and not constantly pinging a location 

Let's see... who should I believe...someone who doesn't seem to understand the differences between the electrochemistry of a NiCad and a Lithium Ion battery and who believes that including a battery health indicator was some sort of conspiracy to make people buy new phones? Or an engineer with 50+ years of experience?

The app Podcast is definitely draining the battery. I go to bed with 100 % battery, listen to 1 hour of downloaded podcast and my battery is at 57 % this morning. It can’t be anything else my Wifi and Bluetooth are off !

During the day if I listen to a podcast the phone becomes very hot and then battery loses 20 to 30% for a 30 minute podcast. For me Podcast is the culprit. So I don’t listen to podcast anymore. It’s not a solution but what can I do?

I read that 14.7 is coming early July and it MIGHT resolve the issue. I wonder how Apple can resolve an issue when they aren’t acknowledge a problem?

Will see…

I don’t use the Apple podcast app, I use Spotify so no direct experience with that issue

That being said I do have some other battery optimisation tricks you could try?

First always use WiFi over cellular where possible as it’s a shorter distance and less of a struggle to send and receive data so less power is consumed, having Bluetooth switched off does save power but not much these days as the technology is much more optimised than it used to be 

Second and this might be the podcast app problem, turn off ‘background app refresh’ completely it will generally save you a lot of battery power especially if you have a lot of social media apps on your phone

Thanks.

ALL my app refresh are turn off. Most of them are inactive anyway, I don’t use social média. Find my phone is off.

My battery is always on economy mode. I don’t listen to podcast anymore!

And with all of that effort I still have to charge my phone twice a day, it use to be one every 36 hours!!

So what is your verdict ? Did Overcast solve your problem?

I just download Overcast because my battery couldn’t take an other week of Apple Podcast. Hopefully it will solve my battery problem when I listen to a podcast.

Yes I tried this. I’ve been to the Apple store had long conversation with the staff, they reset my phone, I installed everything from the beginning and nothing changed. I’ve been told that there won’t be any update at the moment.

This battery drain is so annoying, I always have to have a charger with me every time I go out and I’d rather off having a battery that lasts a decent amount of time without the use of chargers. Btw I have iPhone 12 and I don’t use it much

So a quick update. Reading some of the posts, I have disabled the « find my network » thing but not sure this makes any difference. My average screen time over the last week is 2h35 so it’s not much. And with WFH, the phone is hooked up to Wi-Fi for 97% of the time.

I have to say that, from being quite a “smug chap” because I didn’t need to recharge battery before ios14.6 and poking fun at the family members with an X and 11Pro needing to charge their devices, I don’t look so clever now with my 12 Pro Max. Last night I had to recharge at 10pm with 10% battery remaining.

Hi,

Same problem here. Very light use of my phone and extreme battery drain

The only thing that help me was to disable Apple Podcast. I now use Overcast when I want to listen to a podcast. And even with this change I have to charge my phone once a day instead of once every 36 hours before 14.6. So I am hoping Apple will do the right thing and correct the battery drainage in the next iOS!

Good luck, hope this help !

I noticed my iPhone 7 Plus has battery problems for the last week. Fast draining battery charge. I don’t know when my update to 14.6 happened but it is 14.6 now.

I also have noticed the phone getting hot.

Also, like many comments here. App Store app showing a large % of the battery usage: 57% of battery usage over the last 10 days is App Store app, 57% with 38mins on screen and a whopping 6mins background!

I did enable 1Blocker to run a firewall for me. That is 3rd most battery usage over ten days: 3mins on screen, 126 hours background.

I have noticed that lately all of a sudden my iPhone 11's battery got discharged much faster in the same usage scenarios. Today I had ~20 min of Navigations via Google map + 1 hour of reading news in Chrome via cellular data. Probably a bit of Viber chat. And it took 33% of battery! Madness... Literally, percentage numbers were decreasing right before my eyes. iOS 14.6. At the same time, battery info shows optimistic 98% of battery health :-D

I did this (turned off Device Management (inside System Services inside Location Services), did a restart. When it came back on I went into Location Services > System Services and "Device Management" was back on.

Are you sure this works?