Battery drain on iOS 14.6

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.

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?

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".

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

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?

My iPhoneSE II has the same Rapid-Battery-Drain-bkz-of-AppStore problem that others have noted here.

The "full restore solution" seems like a kitchen-sink response, but I will give it a try.

Thanks for the info!

• Mark

It’s an XR at 85% but even so the difference between today and yesterday is significant