iPhone battery draining after iOS 18 Update

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

Posted on Sep 17, 2024 2:06 PM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2024 2:11 PM

Give it a day or so and then see if things improve on their own. Your iPhone is doing a lot of background work after an iOS upgrade, particularly such a significant one as this, and that can take quite a bit of battery power to complete. Check again tomorrow or perhaps Thursday and see what the situation is.


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Sep 20, 2024 10:41 PM in response to Mis73

Actually, such battery drain is a norm after each iOS upGrade and some iOS upDate. It will recover eventually.


However each upGrade will tax the battery a lot. My older iphone 11’s battery health always degraded with each upGrade. For the last upGrade from iOS 16 to iOS 17, I put the phone on a towel with an ice pack below during the upGrading process 🤣.


I am choosing not to upGrade my old iphone 11 and iphone 15 plus this time.

Oct 25, 2024 12:38 AM in response to özgur290

Me facing same issue after updating to iOS 18 and i am waiting until iOS 18.0.1 but still facing same issue. So i manage to send my iPhone 14 Pro Max to Apple center to change new battery because first i think it was my phone battery issue (85% Battery Health). But then i'll decided to trade in my 14 Pro Max to brand new iPhone 16 Pro Max and guess what, i felt same battery performance on my new 16 Pro Max same as my previous 14 Pro Max with 85% Battery Health. So for sure 100% this battery drain issue come from iOS 18 update not from device itself.

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