Battery draining faster after updating iPhone to iOS 17.4

As a follow-up to my original post after updating to iOS 17.4.1, the only way to avoid a quick draining of the battery, is to charge my battery on a high output charger overnight, let the battery drain quickly in the morning, as it does, then quickly recharge up to 100% again. This somehow brings my battery back to a more normal discharging pattern. 🤦‍♂️

Perhaps try to use Feedback direct to Apple, instead of using

open discussions page sections. Their people only 'moderate'

but rarely intercede here, on personal levels with anyone.

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

//www.apple.com/feedback/iphone/

Main Apple support Feedback pages for 'Hardware & Software'

are portioned into sections; some areas blur, and maybe unclear.

You may share ideas or thoughts, across several Feedback topics.

"Apple welcomes your feedback on its products."

Begin by selecting a product below:

Product Feedback - Apple

//www.apple.com/feedback/

"To comment or report any problems you experienced finding

information on our Website, visit the Apple Website Feedback

page. • Please read Apple’s Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy

before you send us your Feedback."

PS: for certain issues with patchwork fixes or resolved through

sequential software updates on supported devices, there may

be a cure if not temporary patch; try those suggested; and try

to shut down and restart to see if the process gets competed.

..Most recent iOS 17.4.1 should be available direct from Apple..

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=update+iPhone+iOS+17.4.1&t=ftsa&ia=web

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Downgrade back to 17.3.1 it’s the most stable / only update your software after reading reviews from different continents / also, immediately restarting downloading the update / that’s an unwritten rule when using Apple devices

i have had this issue as well so i downgraded to ios 17.3.1

I have an iPhone 12 and my battery is dranning SO MUCH FAST, something about 2% per minute, i just use Instagram all day, no another social media, no TikTok, no X, nothing.

Its overheating all the time, cannot use while charching because looks like a pan cooking a egg. I did system reset/hard reset, but don't solved it, plus, now on this iOS version i having a BIG animation lag on control center, weather app, i dont know why, looks an iPhone 7 perfomance...

iOS 16 was the best version for me, no heating, no lag, no drain issues... what is going on Apple? Do you want to play with your costumers again? I dont say that just for the 12 model, but the 11, 13, 14, 15, all these, plus, pro, pro max. JUST FIX IT!

Same here on the 13 Pro Max with 85% battery health, before 17.4 my battery drain was pretty normal, charged the phone at night, got me through the whole day, Hope Apple will fix the issue soon with a new patch, maybe 17.4.1 lets hope :)))

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Same problem also, my wife 11 Pro Max (battery health at 82%) won't make one day while would easy go two days prior to 17.4.

My 14 pro seems fine however, biggest difference is I have no social media apps on that phone.

i’m running iOS 17.4 (21E219) on iphone pro max 14, battery drain is so bad started work at 8am and 4 hours later, i’m down to 29%. also charging is super slow and can’t even get to 100% in 6 hours. gonna try updating to latest dev build and see if it improves.

I am located in Germany and I need to recharge my iPhone 13 Pro (battery health 95%) twice a day since 17.4. I am not a power user and before "upgrading" to 17.4 (now on 17.4.1) a 100% charge was lasting about two days. It is very sad that Apple does not appear to be able to fix this issue, I have moved from Android to iOS mainly because of the good battery life of iPhone devices...

The setup described in my previous posts (on the page) seems to have brought the battery life of my iPhone 13P back to normal levels when idling or browsing the internet with Safari or Firefox.

However, there are still battery drain issues with specific apps. For example, yesterday evening I consumed about 50% of the battery capacity (from 100% to about 50%) while reading an article (1h and 46min screen on, 1min background) via the Wikipedia app (version 7.4.7, about one month ago, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238).

While reading the article, the device was overheating and the battery drain was dramatic. I'll try doing the same via a browser and report back but it seems quite obvious that iOS 17.4.1 does not behave as expected.

Since 17.4 my phone has been having glitches. Apps aren’t loading correctly. Issues with sharing within apps such as Gmail. Restart phone screen doesn’t load right and is unresponsive. All signs of something crashing and causing issues. I suspect something is possibly crashing and also causing a battery drain. The worse part is having to do a force restart and loosing all new photos and messages and recent call information. Hopefully Apple is listening to figure out what is happening.

I left my iphone 15 promax at 100% battery on sleep mode last night. Normally, it would be 95% after 8 hrs of sleep. After this update, today I woke up at 60%. Something about this update is draining my battery exponentially more

Same here. Just got a brand new iPhone 14. “Upgraded” from my 11. The 11 ran the older software version, but this new phone automatically set up the 17.4 update. Battery drains more than twice as fast as my old 11 did and that one had 76% battery health compared to the new 14’s 100%. I thought it might have just been the phone but after seeing all these responses, it’s clear that it’s the update. I’ve never had this happen with any updates in the past so the whole ‘updates do a lot in the background at first’ is bs. Please fix this, Apple!

I'm facing a severe battery-draining issue on my iPhone 15 Pro Max after updating to 17.4.1. I charged the battery in the morning at around 9:30; in the afternoon, by around 2:30, it was 17%. Since I'm at work, I haven't even used any social media except for a little bit of X. For now I have stopped all background refresh and notifications and waiting to see how it goes. Waiting for Apple to fix this quick.

I was using iPhone SE 2020 and have my new battery replaced a 4 weeks back Especially after update to 17.4.1 Yes it was draining faster for me it loss of 10% in 50 mins with less mins of usage this totally not acceptable

Also my iPhone fast charging not working as expected

Usually it will take 30 mins for 50% but now it was talking more than 50 mins for the same.

Even though background app refresh is Off and Apple is not at all taking care of the customer complaints