Severe overheating after iOS 14.6 update on iPhone7

After updating on 15May 2021 my iPhone is severely overheating and having battery drain issues worse than I've ever seen after any update. Some high level troubleshooting showed the podcast app used 50% of daily charge even though other apps were in heavy use, even gameing apps. The phone overheats to the point of being painful to hold if podcasts are playing and I've sat and watched the battery lose charge as fast as 1% per minute while podcasts are playing, in addition the native podcast app itself has severe lag and unresponsiveness issues. Is there any bugfix coming out ot other workaround anyone has found until then? I haven't been able to listen to the news for more than 30 minutes at a time before the phonegets too hot to hold and I have to power down and let it sit cooling for 10 - 20 minutes. I'm concerned about battery and phone damage as it stands now

iPhone 7, iOS 14

Posted on May 28, 2021 1:27 PM

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Engineer_and_hiker

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Posted on Jun 20, 2021 7:38 AM

I found a solution to iOS 14.6 Podcast app draining my battery and overheating my phone.

Exit Podcasts.

Select Settings.

Scroll down to Podcasts and click on it.

Scroll down to Automatic Downloads.

Turn off "Enable When Following".

(You might also consider turning off Cellular Data" if you don't want Podcasts to use megabytes you pay for.)

(Consider turning on "Block Downloads Over Cellular").

Exit Settings.

Open the Podcast app.

Select Library.

Select Shows.

Choose the first Show.

Click on "..." (three dots at upper right).

Choose Settings.

Turn off "Automatic Downloads".

(Consider turning off "Notifications".)

Click Done at upper right.

Click the back arrow at upper left.

Choose the next show, click ..., turn off automatic downloads, click Done, click the back arrow.

Repeat for all your shows.

This will stop the automatic downloads of unwanted shows that are overheating your phone.

In addition to turning off automatic downloads, I also turned off notifications to avoid being notified about every new episode for every show.

If any Apple people are reading this, I suggest that you communicate to internal app developers that they should choose default settings that do not overheat the phone, or drain the battery, or overfill the memory, or overuse data.

1) Automatic Downloads should default to off.

2) Background Downloads should default to off.

3) Notifications should default to off.

4) When I go to Settings, Podcasts, and turn off Automatic Downloads, this should turn it off for all shows. I should not have to go to each show individually and turn off Automatic Downloads.

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