Battery drain on iOS 14.6

Its probably not just airtag ping. Cpu activity is at least twofolds with 14.6.

mine was 6-8% before now not less than 15% unfortunatelly we cant see which process causes this problem.

look at parabolic graph. Its just simple tasks.

Having the same issue ever since updating to 14.5 on my 11 Pro. It just drains a lot while being locked and doing nothing. I don’t use the Podcasts app at all - I even deleted it, but it doesn’t seem to be the culprit. I already completely restored my phone with my Mac twice - once with a local backup, once with an iCloud backup after trying 14.7 public beta, which also didn’t help. It’s not even funny anymore - I may barely use my phone throughout the day, and it will still go down to 30% or lower by the time I go to sleep, and it never happened prior to 14.5. It was easily a two-day phone sometimes, and now it barely lasts a day doing nothing. It’s also always a bit warm when I pick it up, which means the CPU is doing some work, but it never shows any background apps in the battery stats. I scrolled through the analytics data and found some logs of some ‘duetexpertd’ having a high CPU usage for too long, which could be the cause of the problem. I’m still debating if I should try the iOS 15 beta to see if it’s fixed though. Don’t want to run into other stability issues and bugs.

I also have my old 7 Plus, and despite it having a dead battery with 69% capacity, it doesn’t have this issue, and it lasts much longer in standby than my 11 Pro with 88% capacity.

This night starting from 1am my iPhone 12 drained from 65 to 0 before morning starts so I lost my alarm clock in the morning and lost my doctor appointment. And this is iPhone 12. 2 month new with 100 battery life.

App Store was responsible for 50% of my battery use on my iPhone 11 since last updating to this - I turned off / down all the settings for the App Store in settings, updated all my apps and then did a hard reset. You can see the point let last night when I did this and it seems it may have resolved the issue as prior to this my phone was active all the time.

Here are some resources that may help.

• iPhone Battery and Performance - Apple Support
• Maximizing Battery Life and Lifespan - Apple

I deleted everything and installed ios 14.6 from scratch via downloading the ipsw and using a macbook.

Installed a few apps that i need more and trying again. so far so good. much better than before. slope of level graph is lower

to whom who were affected by this issue try installing with itunes and look what happen

I'm a developer and using Xcode tools I can see that a process called 'appstored' (a background daemon for the App Store) is constantly running at 50% CPU. Looking at the Console logs I see it is trying every 0.05 seconds to download "com.MonkeyTaps.Motivation.watchkitapp" (there's probably nothing wrong with that app, but that's what my phone is continually trying to download). I have deleted the app from my phone. Rebooted phone and watch. Restored my phone from a new backup (after deleting the app). But the App Store constantly wants to download this file.

Putting the phone into AirPlane mode seems to stop it, but that's not really a solution.

Putting the phone into low power mode doesn't stop it either.

i just contacted apple support . i too face the same worse battery life.

i got a chat support. and i have a transcript. would that be useful to anyone? or anyone in my same case

all she told was a bug on any unupdated apps.

High power use here, also, iphone XS. Upgraded to 14.6 on 24th.

Culprit in my case appears to be the Apple podcast app.

On the battery screen in settings, the podcast app is shown now as using 44% for the last 24 hours. The description reads Background Activity. Yesterday it showed 55%. Maybe usage is dropping, or maybe it is just early.

I have done perhaps two soft resets (up volume, down volume, hold side button) in the past couple days. I haven't tried, yet, closing the podcast app to see if that stops the drain.

I haven't had these battery drain issues before with upgrades, even with 14.5 and 14.5.1 when others were reporting the problem. I did have the podcast app issue downloading old podcasts with 14.5.1 and dealt with it.

If this will level out in the next days, I'm ok. But if this goes on it will be a problem as the drain is rapid and heavy, and I wouldn't make it through the day.

I have an 11 with 100% battery capacity and am amazed at how quickly it drains after this last update. I could go 2 or 3 days before having to charge previously and now with the same useage I don’t even get 24 hours between charges.

Update: I deleted the podcast app, did a soft reset, and then reinstalled the app earlier today. It seems to have made a big difference in battery use, unless the reason for battery drain was something else. Will know better in the morning. The confusing thing for me is battery usage by app in settings for the podcast app is still high, but the trajectory of battery charge is not near as steep as earlier (and on top of it, I have Evernote sync'ing notes).

Removing and reinstalling the podcast app didn't fix the problem. It looked like it because the battery drain initially seemed to have been less than before because before it just dropped right off before, and after reinstalling the app the slope was less steep when I looked at it. But the drain accelerated as time went on, and within an hour it was down to 77% from a full charge.

Standing by.

Yep - also the Podcast app in my case. Obvious by going to Settings -> Battery. Sometimes it's just higher than normal, taking 50% off the battery with an hour or two of podcast listening. A couple of times (right after taking it off the charger in the AM) it burned the whole battery down from 100% to 10% in about 20 minutes while in the background.

Aside from that, the Podcast app is just buggy and the UI is bad. Clearly, they're working on the UI in iOS 14, but it still is relatively terrible for an Apple product. I suspect all those changes are related to it being the battery-drain culprit.

Absolutely horribly bad. I checked my auto brightness as one person stated and no help here. I was @ 100% at noon and had to charge again at 6 as I was below 20%. Apple needs to do a fix on this TODAY. I need a newer phone and it’s maybe time to look at something besides apple.