Battery drain on iOS 14.6

I’m having the same issue. I use my phone to listen to podcasts during the day. The UI is awful with the 14.6 update and drains my battery (while getting the phone hot). I have an iPhone 8 and was thinking of upgrading, but now I’m thinking of getting something other than an iPhone. There’s no reason for this performance.

My iphone x, iphone 9 & 8 and ipad air pro have been terribly draining battery after upgrading to ios 14.6. Even if the gadgets are off, they are still draining batteries. I need help. Anyone? Thank you in advance

Apple, you fail users again and again. I have been using Iphone since 2007 September, it is hilarious of how you can fool consumers again and again. How hard it is to give decent battery life. Alll phones, all ios updates, same issue. Pathetic !

J-aylaisabela wrote:

My iphone x, iphone 9 & 8 and ipad air pro have been terribly draining battery after upgrading to ios 14.6. Even if the gadgets are off, they are still draining batteries. I need help. Anyone? Thank you in advance

There was never an "iPhone 9".

Try this; 

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

Your devices are still pinging for AirTags and other Apple devices even when they’re off with this setting on

Thanks for the advice, but that is not my issue. My battery drains and my phone gets hot when I try to listen to podcasts using the “Podcasts” app. This happens even if the podcast was downloaded to mr phone. The issue does not happen at any other time. Thanks

Hi,

I had the same issue with “podcast”.

My solution was to retired

« Apple podcast » for the moment and I downloaded «Overcast» to listen to my podcast. So if Apple does resolve the battery drain problem in a future iOS I’ll go back to it if they don’t I can still listen to my podcast.

Like I said not a permanent solution but enough to only charge my phone every 24 hours.

Good luck !

For me, this issue was caused by both the Music app and Exposure Notifications. Disabling Exposure Notifications was simple enough, but for the Music app, it turned out to be caused by “Automatic Downloads,” which ran the Music app up to 59 minutes per hour in the background.

Recently however, even switching Automatic Downloads off doesn’t seem to complete eliminate the issue. Sometimes Music will behave for an entire day or even a week, then suddenly start running 50+ minutes per hour in the background, draining my battery very quickly throughout the day.

There appears to be a bug with the “Download in Dolby Atmos” toggle, which may screw up the Automatic Downloads toggle. If you mess around with “Download in Dolby Atmos,” you’ll occasionally notice that toggling that switch will occasionally change the state of the “Automatic Downloads.” There must be a link between the two that’s causing Automatic Downloads to be enabled even when the switch is disabled.

So now I am totally confuddled. The battery drain on my iPad, which as I have noted in previous posts, had gone from normal life (significantly over a day) to less than 6 hours with the advent of 14.6; suddenly last weekend returned to normal. Nothing obvious changed, or was changed, other than the charge life. I am grateful, but don’t know what happened.

Now this week, my iPhone began exhibiting the exact same symptoms. It stays hot much of the time; won’t charge above 77%; and has very limited charge life.

Can anyone explain?

Every since iOS14.6, I also faced this issue, caused by App Store, especially noticeable during the night: battery drain between 50% and 75% in 8hrs from a fully charged battery.

I've tried everything possible: unpair/pair Apple Watch 1, reset my phone Xs to factory setting and reinstall everything from a backup made last April (yes, I did loose quite some data in the process!!!), remove any app from the phone that was no longer supported in iOS14, disable 'Background App Refresh', etc.. but nothing worked. My only option to prevent this was to disable 4G and WiFi from my phone during the night.

But finally yesterday, iOS14.7 was released and this morning, although I kept my phone connected to internet through the night, I was happily surprised to see that my battery consumption was back to normal!!!!

What happened to Apple's high quality products??? I'm willing to continue paying the price but it has to be worth it!!!

I really hope this is the first and last time I have to go through that after an iOS update!!! Else I will have to seriously reconsider how I spend my money!!!

Hi all, so just wanted to update that with ios 14.7, there's been noticeable improvement in performance (less laggy/micro-stuttering when transitioning from and to different apps) as well as shorter time it takes to fully charge my phone. However the battery drain rate remains the same as 14.6 :(

After updating to 14.7, the battery drain is not as bad. I am still seeing the App Store background activity at %50+. This is with the background refresh and auto-updates disabled. Not sure why this is still happening.

You’re not alone, brother. It’s shocking how bad it is

Auto Brightness is and has been turned on all the while and still seeing an impressive battery drain since updating this morning …

they have failed to fix battery again and again and again😡😡😡