Battery drain on iOS 14.6

I've put my xr into power saving mode hopefully it works. I've always had the screen brightness on auto. It's just frustrating that every so often when apple do updates battery drain is an issue. Hopefully ios 14.6.1 will fix it when it's officially launched 🤞

There is problem in ios 14.6 . If some users not facing problem then its not your concern ? Most of majority of people facing battery drain and heating issue on ios 14.6 they are not lying . Its worst update ever i seen . So please check it out take some responsibilties apple for your faults .

in my iphone 11 pro battery health reduced 3% now its 95% and my device is 9 months old. Its a software issue there are many apps that not work properly with this update the use lot off battery and device getting hot. Apple should have to fix issue in ios 14.6.1 before ios 14.7 release . Please apple fix that issue . Its almost end of ios 14 now . So please focus on stability , heating issue , and battery drain.

Battery draining issue occurred when i updated to 14.5.1, i tried 14.6 and it got worsened. i am not using podcast app, and music collection is less than 200 songs. I have iphone 7 battery health is 96%

cpu-x app shows 10 to 20 % of cpu usage when idle. That was less than %10 , around %4 to %8 when it was 14.4

the problem does not occur all the time but something hits when browsing safari, or doing some other simple things. phone begins to get very hot and battery drains very quickly, like 3% or more in a minute. closing all the apps does not solve the problem immediately, sometime it stucks to drain battery couple of minutes more after i close every app. a few times i needed to turn the phone off.

my wifes phone is also iphone 7 , i clean installed 14.6 with itunes on it, different apps were installed and that occurs on her phone either.

it looks like some process goes into a loop or something and consumes lots of cpu power and battery.

and there is not any process manager for ios and we cant see which app or process causes this problem.

i wish apple signs 14.4 or previous versions i would definitely like to go back.

hope apple will fix this fiasco

riatemp,

Yes, it seems back to normal, battery as good (better?????????) than before. At least as good as before. I have about 30GB of music on the phone. Do not have Podcast installed (use Overcast). Screenshot of last 24 hours attached. (About 8am JST)

No heavy use yesterday, but still had more than 50% this (very) early morning. Did NOT do an erase/restore, but did turn completely off and on a few times in the problem days.

I thought it was just me at first but in the last three days it plummets from full charge to low-power mode when, usually, I get two days out of a charge. In all cases, the App Store is the number one consumer of battery, even after I have explicitly swiped the app so that it is not running.

I have turned off background downloads to see if that helps.

For me it’s only standby that’s the issue. Normal usage seems to consume about as much charge as usual, maybe just a bit more. Because when I actually use the phone with Safari, Apple Music, Tweetbot, YouTube, etc., it drains only marginally faster than in standby, the battery usage graph ends up being very even. I just completely turned off Background app refresh half an hour ago to see if it’ll do anything. I doubt it will, but still worth a try. But it seems like all we have left is to wait for Apple to fix this with 14.6.1, 14.7 or whatever the next version will be.

i checked the analytics. PerfPowerServices also seems to exceed 50% cpu

processes which require internet connection via wi-fi or 4g and phone calls seems to drain enormous amount of power.

when i load a few web pages consecutively in 10 15 seconds battery level decreases %1. when i switch to airplane mode and use any app it looks fine. maybe modem firmware is the problem.

The update re-evaluates the battery health of certain handsets in order to provide a more accurate indication of battery health. Battery drain is not the same as a drop in battery health.

This thread is about battery drain.

Mine also

Used to start my day with 100 and by the day ends would have been at 40-45.

Now after 14.6 battery health dropped two percent from 100-98 in just a week.

battery life also terrible

for a 21 minute FaceTime audio call 8% battery is used up.

for a normal browsing of 1 hour 15% is used.

this is not the case before

just a mere 4-5% for one hour of audio call

and not more than 8% for one hour of browsing

expecting apple to solve soon

any tech guy out there to help me with any setting change??

please help me out

Shaun.everywhere wrote:

Normal, no

Yes, it is normal.

Expected if you mischarge your device, yes

There really is not such thing as "mischarging" your device. Pretty much the only thing you can do wrong is letting the battery drain to 0%, especially if you then leave it that way.

When to charge your iPhone or iPad - Apple Community

You and whoever wrote that is incorrect

A ‘rechargeable battery’ is just a capacitor, the difference in material is mainly to do with how much capacity it can hold per volume of the battery and integrity of which it can hold capacity 

Anyone reading this that’s old enough to own a Nokia 5110 might remember it had a fat Nickel–cadmium battery, the 6110 a slim lithium ion battery and the 6310i an ultra slim lithium polymer battery which were all interchangeable with a better battery life ironically the slimmer the battery and also a longer life which the 6310i was famously known for having over a week long battery 

This manufacturer fabricated method of charging your phone whenever you feel like it only surfaced when they started integrating batteries into phones and as most people know now they started slowing them down in line with battery health to give users the illusion the device needs replacing which obviously increases phone sales which they were found guilty of but not many connected the dots on the bigger picture 

Where is my proof of this? Myself and a few friends buy new iPhones every year, I charge my phone and every other rechargeable device I own from 0-100 every time, my friends before following my advice used to charge their iPhones and devices whenever it was convenient to charge it for them so they never lost power…

After a year their iPhone battery health was between 72-86%, mine is usually 96%, even now being a day 1 owner of an 12 pro max my battery health is 99%, Apple made it easy for people to see but give false information on how to maintain it, but honestly tell you what they will do when it’s now damaged 

It is impossible for iOS 14.6 to damage battery health, I have seen a few people comment on the podcast app draining a lot of battery but I’m not sure how it would do more than any other streaming unless for some reason it was writing more data to the flash storage than it needed to 

Other than that leaving the ‘find my network’ setting on IS definitely draining everyone’s batteries quicker as you’re all powering Apple’s service at the cost of your devices, to be clear you can still have the ‘find my iPhone’ setting on as this uses different technology to track and not constantly pinging a location 

I noticed my iPhone 7 Plus has battery problems for the last week. Fast draining battery charge. I don’t know when my update to 14.6 happened but it is 14.6 now.

I also have noticed the phone getting hot.

Also, like many comments here. App Store app showing a large % of the battery usage: 57% of battery usage over the last 10 days is App Store app, 57% with 38mins on screen and a whopping 6mins background!

I did enable 1Blocker to run a firewall for me. That is 3rd most battery usage over ten days: 3mins on screen, 126 hours background.

ios 14.6 it is verry bad for me man. Using iphone 11 and i have battery level 100% and after update battery level is 98%… return to ios 14.5.1

Youtube can halp you more for this. Search on youtube: downgrade ios 14.6 to ios 14.5.1