Have anyone started to face battery drain in iPhone 13 after iOS 16.1 update..?
i wasnt facing a battery issue in ios 16.0.3 but today onwards after new update i have experiencing a drastic battery drain
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This seems to have solved my problems:
https://www.droidwin.com/iphone-calendar-app-excessive-battery-drain-fix/
Numerous users have voiced their concern that the Calendar app is hogging an astronomical amount of battery from their devices. Users have reported that if they check the Battery stats for the past 24 hours, then the Calendar app is sitting right there at the top, running for over 15 hours in the background and around 83 hours in the last 7 days.
Correspondingly, it seems to hog around 40% of the battery which is definitely not what one would expect from an app belonging to this domain. What makes the matter worse is the fact that Calendar isn’t even present under background app refresh, so you cannot disable its background activity as well. With that said, there does exist a nifty workaround that shall help you resolve this bug. So without further ado, let’s check it out.
Nearly all the users who were getting bugged with this issue had one thing in common- they were all using the Apple Watch. Upon further debugging the issue, it turned out the issue is the watchOS. So here’s what you need to do to rectify this bug once and for all.
That’s it. These were the steps to fix the Calendar app excessive battery drain issue on your iPhone. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
I tend to agree, I turned off photo sync, made no difference.
turned phone off, then on again.
much better, phone back to normal battery use.
Turned photo sync on again, normal battery use continues.
Go figure 🤷🏻♂️
Something deeper definitely going on!
I backed my phone up on iCloud, I plugged it into my MacBook Pro, found my phone in the finder. Synced the phone and then restored it.
when it booted up I connected to the wifi and chose to restore backup from iCloud. Chose the latest backup and the rest is history for now.
So... I am happy to report we have a "Good New/ Bad News" situation... The "Restore" solution from Madz solved the "daytime" battery drain, but Find My continues to hammer the battery overnight (nearly 100% utilization and loss of ~25% total charge). I have switched "my location" to another device (14), and behold -- nearly immediately, my 13Pro stopped draining the battery, and my 14 started... Net/net -- Apple has some "splainig" to do and bugs in Find My (Bluetooth scanning) to quash...
PS: Maybe Apple can "phone the friend?" :)
I'm not sure, but in case you are using astrology lockscreen in normal focus or in other focus consider changing it to default cause it's drain a massive battery. to be safe you can delete any other wallpaper. Never leave location, bluetooth always on, disable it from setting. Some user suggested turning off icloud for contact. I did turn it off for apple native app like contacts, calendar, reminder, etc.
Also some information in case others don't know never charge <20% and past 90% to extend battery life. Do not believe over charging technology in smartphone. Do not use your phone while charging unless for texting and minor activity to see information in app (instagram, youtube is a no, it's heat the phone). I don't get crazy battery drain but my phone did drain faster and need to charge twice a day even if i don't use it, often times get hot. This last for a week. Doing a factory reset with itunes at first not helping, i wait few days and it's gone (including turning off icloud for contacts and other apple apps). It's normal now, just my psychology playing me cause my older phone is realme with 4300mah and the battery capacity is insane. I could play game for hours, only need to charge it once a day. I can't do that in iphone 14 pro but the experience iphone is offer is outgrow the android. I love it and won't go back. Unless android bested iphone.
I turned off Live Activities under Face ID and passwords, scroll to the bottom to disable it. After 3 hours I’m still at 100 percent.
Turn off Live activities and don’t use widgets on Home Screen. That fixed my battery drain. Charging, turn off clean energy charging under battery settings to charge faster.
Last night I recovered my iPhone through my mac, the battery issue seems to be fixed today. Anyone who has this issue could try this way.
Restoring via Mac / iTunes and disabling iCloud contacts sync has solved it for me... iOS 16.x.x is Apple's version of Microsoft's Windows ME (junk)...
My iPhone 13 Pro has lost 45% of its battery in two hours this morning, still excessive battery drain due to Home & Lock Screen using between 50-64% of my battery. Here's what I've done to try to remedy this (nothing has helped):
I've now spent hours trying to remedy this problem, since Apple's only response was "wipe the iPhone and reload from your iCloud backup", which I had a feeling wouldn't do a **** thing except waste a few hours. I now have a phone that has most of the useful features disabled, and which gives me 4-5 hours of battery use, even when not using it. This is clearly unsustainable. I know that not everyone is having this problem, but it seems that the Home & Lock Screen battery drain issue has been around for years (Google it!) so you'd think Apple would know what was causing it by now.
My iPhone 13 Pro has lost 45% of its battery in two hours this morning, still excessive battery drain due to Home & Lock Screen using between 50-64% of my battery. Here's what I've done to try to remedy this (nothing has helped):
I've now spent hours trying to remedy this problem, since Apple's only response was "wipe the iPhone and reload from your iCloud backup", which I had a feeling wouldn't do a **** thing except waste a few hours. I now have a phone that has most of the useful features disabled, and which gives me 4-5 hours of battery use, even when not using it. This is clearly unsustainable. I know that not everyone is having this problem, but it seems that the Home & Lock Screen battery drain issue has been around for years (Google it!) so you'd think Apple would know what was causing it by now.
16.1.1
i never thought contacts would had anything to do with battery drain. Yes ! My contacts showed excess data either. Turned off icloud for contacts. lets see if it works
Wuhuu 🎂 iOS 16.2 updated and looks good - Contacts iCloud backup turned back ON and data consumption dip back to earlier normal - seems no drain so far.
After an update of 16.2 and turning contact sync on I am good to go and back to normal.
Updated this morning (iPhone 14 pro), experiencing the same. My phone can also sit on the charger for an hour and will be the same battery life as before. If I restart my phone, it’ll update to the correct battery life.
iOS 16.1 Battery Drain
