Battery drain on iOS 14.6

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

You can restore it from a backup or restore it as new and then restore your backup. But, the key is to restore it using a computer. That is the only way you get a fresh copy of iOS installed.

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

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.

Hi Everyone I ran an experiment and its the Podcast app draining the battery. I charged the battery and then closed the Podcast app and the phone is back to sipping energy. We need an update

Keep the battery on Power saving mode and optimise the location access and background refresh for apps until the fix comes. The problem seems not happening with iPhone 8 or lower.

the slope is even steeper for me 96% health iphone7

I turned off Find My network and battery life improved around 30% , but still much faster than 14.4

You need to plug your phone in to a computer and restore with finder (Mac) or iTunes (windows) which will reinstall iOS.

this was the only thing that solved my App Store 50% battery use.

What does the battery setting say is using the most power?

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.

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.

Hi Rouhaan. I see that you are having issues with battery trouble after updating your iOS.

it takes a lot of power and CPU usage to get a new update running, so give it a few days and come back, and report how the phone is doing. Also,you can try restarting it. Hold the power button until you see the menu come up. Slide to power off, then wait a maybe 20 seconds and power it back on.

Yes, me too, but it has improved with time. It seemed to be the podcast app in my case, with huge percentage battery use immediately after update. Took 3-4 days for usage to drop. Now battery use is normal when I leave podcast app closed. YMMV.

I’ve also narrowed it down to the podcasts app.

something that has seemed to help is to unsubscribe to a bunch of different podcasts. I was at a library of over 300 podcasts. I narrowed it down to 200.

jerel2u,

Right on all counts. Indexing and other background processes after an update often result in a period of faster than normal battery discharging. Often barely noticeable, but the impact of 14.6 was EXTREME. I updated on first day and the fast drain freaked me out. I was one of the early posters here.

Then, suddenly, by Thursday morning 6/3 (JST) things were back to normal. My drain seemed to be caused by Music background activity. Later Thursday, I got notifications that songs X, Y, and Z were no longer available. Connect the dots, and we can assume my (large) music collection was going through some massive re-indexing, possibly in preparation for the lossless options on the way. Perhaps the same with Podcasts, but I don't have that app on the phone.

I have a fast internet connection. If one's connection is slow, it might take longer for power usage to return to normal. Battery drain times are now at least as good as they were before 14.6. Wishing all the same luck.

You may be onto something with that theory. To update an app, open App Store, press your photo in the top right, then once in the next menu, drag down from your name and photo. Dragging down like that does a force refresh to look for new updates, after that, just press update all.