My iPhone battery draining faster after iOS 17.4.1 update

Agree with other posters here. I use my iPhone 12 to check email, look at Instagram once per day, for texting, occasional phone calls (imagine - using a phone as a phone!) and listening to podcasts for 30 minutes to 1 hour to help me fall asleep. I’m NOT taxing the phone at all. Battery was fine until last week’s update. I am now closing all apps and leaving the phone in low power mode after it has been charged. I “reset the network” because I think that helped once before. Not this time. I’m very disappointed.

I hadn't noticed a battery drain at first, but now it seems that active use of a Bluetooth-connected device (headphones, bike, speaker) drain my battery at lightning speed.

A 30 minute bike-ride to work with active Bluetooth-headphones on the ride drained my battery with 25%, which normally would have drained maybe at the absolutely most up to 10%.

I can feel the phone (Iphone 15) heating up when I use a Bluetooth-device and it will cool down when I stop the usage. I've never had that problem with my current phone or the earlier Iphone 12.

Same here, something is wrong with that version.

I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max and before this update I never have battery issues.

Now when I charge it it always show me an advice:

Charging on Hold

Charging will resume when iPhone returns to normal temperature

I've been experiencing the same battery/charging issues after the update. When I contacted AppleCare, they did a diagnostic over the phone and said it had nothing to do with the update, but rather, was an internal physical issue. It's validating to have found this thread with others experiencing the same. What do we do?

I also expreried the same issue. I brought an iPhone 13 Pro With 85% battery capacity and I had it in ios 17.3. After the ios 17.4 update I lost 3% of battery capacity within 2 weeks and now the battery dramatically drops after 5-6 hours of usage from 85 to 20%. I wish apple could fix the issue by rolling out the ios 17.5.

Same here.

iPhone 13 mini.

year old now but still 96% battery.

Rarely use more than 50% battery in a day.

At 5pm today it is at 19%, had to charge yesterday at 6pm, never had to charge before.

Had 30 mins screen time.

Think Bluetooth is a real issue.

Phone gets really hot when connected.

This needs sorting.

Also noticed iPhone tracking was back on and was getting messages from apple saying some one in China was trying to log into my iCloud account.

Not sure if that was related.

Updated to 17.4 1 this am. Was at a birthday party, took a couple pics 5 to be exact. Battery went from 98% to 4% in about 6 hrs with very little usage.

It’s definitely iOS 17.4.1 update that is draining everyone’s battery. My use hasn’t changed at all.

My 12 Pro also draining much more quickly after 17.4.1 update. Absolutely fine beforehand.

It’s not my battery. Updated to 17.4.1 last night, battery dead at 4:20pm with no change in everyday usage. It never dies. iPhone 15 Max Pro.

My usage habits have not changed. I don't push any apps.I got my iPhone 14 Pro last February. I use Facebook, mail , camera sometimes . I am diligent on closing apps. I used to charge every two days when it got below 50%. Now I have to charge daily and its gotten a lot lower in percentage left.

My iPhone 14 Pro Max is draining super fast the last few days. Yesterday I dropped below 10% which never happens. Today I’m down to 25% after only 5 hours. That’s crazy depletion I’ve never experienced.

Same here, from the moment I've updated my iPhone 12 Pro to IOS 17.4.1, the battery started to drain REALLY fast - I used to not charge the phone at night and waking up after 8 hours of sleep with 5-10% battery drain, now I wake up with no battery at all. also on daily usage - I have to charge 2-3 times, I used to stay start the day with 85% and end it (10:00-20:00) with about 30%, after the update it's just impossible to go out without a portable charger..

Last update, I literally had 81 percent battery health now its less than 61 percent! This update had been draining my battery faster just to sell me an official battery. I feel like buying an alternative because of this scummy move

I too have has severe drain problems since 17.4.1, maybe it is a temporary gimmick to get people to upgrade phones? btw it's not like Apple hasn't been successfully sued for things like this before https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-starts-sending-out-iphone-batterygate-settlement-payments-what-to-know/ . Hopefully everyone is aware of such disgusting practices. I hope also that Apple is honest and sincere enough now to not delete this post.