iOS 14.7 Battery Drain
After updating to IOS 14.7, my battery is draining so fast. In 12 minutes of after fully charged, battery dropped to 89%. My battery health is 99% now.
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After updating to IOS 14.7, my battery is draining so fast. In 12 minutes of after fully charged, battery dropped to 89%. My battery health is 99% now.
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I'm not ruling out a battery drain problem, but you can't judge battery drain related to a new iOS version within a day of the installation. Every update has some housekeeping to do (varies by update) which takes a lot of cpu time and thus a lot of battery draw, and generates heat. Variables include what needs to be done and how much stuff is on your phone. For example, an update with only some security fixes may only need a few minutes to do its after update chores, while the update a few years ago that changed how each photo was stored and indexed took many hours on a phone with a lot of photos.
For this 14.7 update, on my old iPhone 7 with little on it, it used close to 100% cpu time for several hours and got quite warm. But the next day it was fine. My iPhone 11 went quite a bit faster and also was fine the next day. I didn't try to run from the battery or draw any conclusions about battery draw (or performance, since a lot of cpu usage elsewhere can make the phone feel sluggish) until at least the next day.
When I do updates, I take the case off so heat can dissipate better, insure the battery is fully charged, back up the phone, reboot the phone, then with the phone plugged into a charging block, do the update and then leave it connected to the charger until the phone has cooled down to room temperature for at least a few hours, and then keep it on the charger as much as I can for the next 24 hours.
I have to keep mine on the charger 24/7 now and keep it on low battery mode! They have not mentioned anything about a battery issue. They have not even attempted to address or fix the issue on the battery drain! They are really trying to loose millions of people by not addressing or fixing the issue!
iOS 14.7 is draining battery!!!!!
Friends, my phone which was left to charge overnight, was at 100% in the morning. Today at 10 am I upgraded it to 14.7. Now It's 6 pm and my phone is at 3%. By the way, my phone is almost brand new iphone 11 256gb one month old. Battery health 🔋 100%. This is not an update, it's killing battery! So far I have had my phone running almost for two days. But today just 8 hours…
Updated to 14.7 and noticed almost immediately the drain on the battery. Apple fix this! I dropped $2000, and the least you can do is keep your stuff up-to-date and stable. At this point this is a paperweight, because I can’t use it for work anymore. To say the least, I’m ******.
i just updated my phone to 14.7 last night woke up this morning to a reduced battery health from 100 percent to 99 percent. My phone is also overheating like its going to melt! And for an update that only took less than 3 minutes it is using up over 9GB of storage out of the 32 GB i have on this iphone 7 i just freshly purchased. I am not pleased with this result there is no option on my iphone to delete the update as id say the update more than likely removed said option.! If this continues i will be filing a complaint other than this. From very *P****d O*F Customer.
I have this same problem. New iphone, completely battery managed per every Mac IT suggestion. Great battery life until this update. Usually needed a charge every 3 days or so ONLY, with same behaviors. No social media apps installed or anything pulling data on my phone, with the exception of manual mail and some texts. Did a test with a 100% charged phone at 5am. Put Netflix on for 2 hours - normally fine (usually doesn't touch much battery life at all). Drained from 100% to 35% in 2 HOURS. I saw the drain on the battery life section and it's dramatic drop. Sigh. Is there anything to do about this?
I wish the same thing, because I have experienced the most efficient battery life of Iphone 12 lineups on IOS 14.3
now i am on IOS 14.7.1, but overheating and inefficient battery life issue still persist.
It's so frustating.
Thanks for the help and suggestions, whizkid11! I did a restart directly after. No help. I only noticed because I use my phone for very specific things and it's not cluttered. I did find a 14.7 download and have it as a backup if needed. I'm going to continue to monitor progress. I'm hopeful that Apple will address this because it's SO remarkably different. I will continue to test ideas and post progress if any. :)
Also, I took screenshots of the battery life (in settings) for a 2 hour period. What was used and how it went down so quickly. From 5am-8am. 5am-6am=fine. 6am-7am=drained 50%. 7am-8am=fine. The only thing running was Netflix. Interesting :)
Same with me while studying for physical therapy licensure exam. Lasted super long with much heavier, intensive video use along with heavy graphics in anatomy apps. Good luck on the Bar if you haven't taken it yet! Great accomplishment!!
Thank you. Same to you!
Just to update. I’m at 50% at 4pm with intermittent use since 10:30am. I never got down to 50% even at bedtime running 14.3. I’d say it’s comical but it really ****** me off.
Thank you for this good, solid advice. Perhaps I've jumped the gun. - I'll wait a few days and see if it's sorted. I didn't know how updates were administered and how different generations could react to said update. I'll give it some time, as suggested. Question - if battery problems continue, are there next steps? Thx. :)
I updated my device (iphone 12) from IOS 14.3 to 14.4 in early February.
In 2 days of usage, with similar activities, I realized that my device battery was draining faster than usual.
I gave it more time, because some people said it could be part of re-indexing process.
unfortunately, the issue still persist and it's already too late for me because apple no longer signs IOS 14.3
I followed every IOS 14 update release, with the hope that latest IOS update could resolved it.
however, it's just stay the same (sometime even worse).
my bro (he's using 12 pro max, frequently for playing game) noticed the issue more clearly.
many 12 pro max reporting that the battery life is great on their device no battery drain and heating issue shown after running on ios 14.7.1? i can't understand so why the performance and battery issue are so differ?
this is ridiculous i’ve had the phone for 6 months and always got a full days use with a full battery and since i updated if a couple days ago it drains so fast and i have to charge it multiple times a day. I’m seriously considering switching to android… the only reason i even updated it was because of the stupid dimming issue that started two weeks ago out of nowhere and was told updating would help but guess what? it didn’t help ANYTHING and now the battery is screwed. Apple is trash now
iOS 14.7 Battery Drain