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"Find My" is draining my battery even though I have turned it off.

I turned off "Find My" in iCloud in settings and set location services to "never" for the app, nonetheless "Find My" is consistently in the top spot for usage in the battery app. I have the same problem on both my iPad Pro and iPhone X so I think it's iCloud related. Just today my iPad Pro dropped from 94% to 79% in about 5 hours without ANY use. The only advice I got from Apple Support was to restore my iPad, but I have a feeling that won't solve the issue and it will be a big waste of time. One thing I haven't tried yet is powering down my device and deleting it from iCloud.com. I would of course prefer to use "Find My" without the terrible battery drain but short of waiting for iPad/iOS 15 I am at a loss for what to do. Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi

Posted on Jun 23, 2021 11:31 PM

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Posted on Jun 24, 2021 5:44 PM

Thank you for the reminder Chattanoogan, due to family circumstances I'm at home 99.9% of the time and my iPad never leaves the house and the only place I could really leave my iPhone is in the car. Ideally I'd like to keep this feature on but I'm currently spending more time charging the iPad in particular than using it. If I can't isolate the problem I'm going to either go ahead and try the full restore or wait for the iPad OS 15 beta and try that, since my iPad isn't my primary computer. Thanks.

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