iOS 18 draining my battery
Last night (17/09/24) I upgraded to iOS 18 update but this morning when I started using the phone, my battery drained out very quickly - anyone had similar issues.
any solution please ?
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iPhone 14
It’s the photos app. I’ve had things like background app refresh, dictation and location turned off for years. I have about five (non Apple) apps installed (no social media or entertainment type) and I use my iPhone 15 Pro primarily for talk and text which never accounts for more than 5% of my battery use, even on a heavy use day. I went from holding a two day charge to charging twice a day immediately after iOS 18. I noticed in Battery Heath that Photos was using 32% of my battery in the background which was alarming because I don’t use Photos in that capacity, and for the fact that I have background refresh disabled. My solution was to turn cellular data off for Photos entirely. (Settings > Apps> Photos > Cellular Data> toggle off) It’s been about a week and my battery is holding almost the same charge it did pre-update. I hope this helps!
Apple has essentially overhauled the utility app into their own version of social media, riddled with unnecessary AI and it’s working as such. Imagine it as uploading 5,000+ photos and videos to Instagram all at the same time. As long as you connect to WiFi periodically, your photo’s will continue to sync to iCloud. I don’t use the app much, but I can’t find any reason to have Photos running on cellular.
Side note: I do not connect my iPhone to WiFi on a regular basis. If you are constantly connected to WiFi, this fix likely won’t work for you as the app will continue to run in the background via WiFi and there is currently no way to disable this function (hence the issue).
I don’t think anyone has a solution… we’re all waiting on Apple to get off their buttocks and fix this as the iOS 18.1 did absolutely NOTHING to remedy ANYTHING that we’ve been experiencing that’s driven us crazy! 🤪 The huge battery drain, the hot phones, the loss of WiFi… c’mon Apple! Do you want us all to buy the far superior Samsung phones?!? The ones with much better cameras and NO ANNOYING NOTCH at the top???
I have had bad battery life on my 15 pro max since ios 18. Then 18.0.1 comes along and I'm still having bad battery life. I do hope they fix it soon because I want to go back to charging every two days and not every day. I have Apple Care+ so I think I'm going to go ask for a replacement because so far 18 hasn't impressed me at all.
My iphone 13 pro max battery draining drastically after updating to iOS 18. My Battery Health reduced to 77% just in a week of time from 84%. Unbelievable. Apple made this update to drain the batteries so that people choose to new phone to increase the sales or what????
This has been common issue on all iphones i have used since more than 10 years.
really disappointing Apple.
My battery is draining like crazy because of the Photos app working in the background it drained 11% already since I woke up this morning, even though I didn’t use the phone this much, this is happening after I installed the iOS 18.0.1. Can anybody please help with any solution for this?
It's been 24 hours since I charged the phone. 70% with regular use. Feels like I have my old phone back. My situation will not be for everyone. I actually like that I have a phone back vs a cluttered app box. Going to consider this matter closed for me.
For others, I hope a solution is found for you, either by Apple or some other method.
Already did that, no change.
Example: fully charged yesterday 10:30pm, unplugged, left over night, this morning at 06:00am 18% battery left.
A full reset is also not an option, sorry. You can't expect people to do full resets after every update and spend hours if not days to get everything working again.
Yes, I know we have backups, but there are plenty of apps that won't backup completely for security reasons, banking and so on.
Compré el Iphone 16 hace 1 semana, y desde el primer ciclo de carga la batería dura muy poco para un télefono nuevo, y que según lo oficial su batería dura 22hrs de uso en video.
Desde que lo desconecto a las 06.30am hasta las 05.00pm ya tengo un 15% de batería.
My iPhone 7 had better battery life than my iPhone 16 pro max. Unbelievably horrible battery life. It’s stunning how awful it is. The phone isn’t worth $2000, and it’s behaving like I bought it from the dollar store.
Along with generally draining faster since the iOS 18 update, when I plug my phone to charge it will show a very quick increase of charge over just a few minutes, but if I take it off the charger, it drains back to the same level it was before charging in less time than I had it on the charger.
I have the same issue with battery drainage since updating to 18.01, 50% down in 12 hours when on standby. iPad also getting very hot. Never had an issue before upgrade 2 to 3 day life.
is this the same issue as battery drainage in MacBook which I’ve had for 13 months cannot leave it on standby. Apple have ignored this issue when contacted.
Wrote in via Apple Feedback, bug report and linked this thread.
I don't have time to call in, hang around with support, who would then advise to wipe my phone and start fresh. I used to do fresh installs on the computer and iPad in the past; but these days; there's just way too much information, apps, login credentials and what not on a mobile phone. It would take weeks to start from scratch.
Anyway. Sent the link to here, so they will hopefully read up ... and not make further claims when somebody calls in that they've never heard about this issue.
Well, I used my iphone 15PM for 1h30 min … dropped from 85% to 35% and it is now just 5 PM.
A few ordinary little use things, it is just crazy … with deleted home screens, removed weather widgets, disabled the entire ring system at home … and the battery is still linear drop as if I used the phone non stop … but it has 1,5 hr of screen time?!?!
I run both Pixel and iPhones and so far Google is making an attempt at improving battery life in their software but have other bugs or issues... Apple is too complacent and Apple sycophants are the problem
Post ios 18 my phone battery degraded from 100% to 96% on iPhone 15
pro and my other phone iPhone 15 to 98% and count cycle is just 118 in iPhone 15 and 230 in 15 pro. Not sure others too have seen this
after updating to iOS 18 aswell my iPhone 13 battery has drained so quickly I might need a new battery because last night my phone was at 40% and this morning I woke up to it being at 8% and 2 minutes later it went down to 6%. Does anyone have any tips to prevent it doing this
iPhone battery draining after iOS 18 Update
