Battery drain on iOS 14.6
my battery life on iOS 14.6 is terrible… is it just me or anyone is experiencing this thing too??
Its so worse…
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So after putting up with this issue of the App Store using around 50% of my battery each day for nearly two weeks (and with activity levels at 100% every hour, with almost all of it in the background) I contacted apple support online chat. They suggested a few things that I had already tried and so we went to the full restore whilst the phone is plugged into a computer. So I reset my phone 11 via my Mac (following their instructions) and then I restored via iCloud backup .
I have now had ten hours of normal battery behaviour; usually by this point in the day my iPhone would be nearly dead. It is still on 56% 👍🏻👏🏻
So if anyone on here is struggling with battery life since iOS 14.6 was released and has tried a number of things but not yet tried the full restore plugged into a computer (which is better than an untethered restore according to the apple support chat representative) then I would urge you try it. Yes, it is a pain resetting the phone and waiting for it to restore from backup (and I now need to reconfigure my banking apps and wallet) - but I'm very happy that the problem seems to be resolved.
Cheers
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Such a terrible battery drain on IOS 14.6 .
apple should be held accountable for this!!! No more games to sell your new phones.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Unfortunately, I don’t have a Mac but I will wait for other iPhone users to post their feedback after trying this.
A mac isn’t essential. Windows and iTunes can do the same thing.
May I ask if deleting the Apple podcast app was the solution to this problem? Thank you
I have deleted it and re-added it multiple times. I've even restored my iPhone and set it up as new.
It's still an issue.
I reported this several times during beta testing.
h do you do that. My phone is in French usually I know but not this time. Put find my iPhone off ?
Do you mean restore it as a new phone? Not sure if you have instructions on how to do that. Can't say I'm very tech savvy!
Please fix this, my concern is if this battery consumption problem would decrease battery health/life quickly.
in my experience after 4 days I update to 14.6, I've lost 2% of my battery health.
same here iP 11 Pro went from almost 3 days to barely 1 :(
I listed to a 55 minute podcast while mowing the yard. Lost 26% battery.
It's beyond ridiculous.
My iPhone 12 Pro, 14.6 software battery draining very fast.
After iOS 14.6 my battery drains real quick. Drains battery faster than my charging speed. I’m exhausted. Will they fix? Lot of important works ahead. Waiting for a soon fix at least within a week.
My iPhone 11 has been great myself I get 10 to 12 hours screen time ! At least 9 anyways and that’s the regular iPhone 11 no drain issues on my end
Battery drain on iOS 14.6