Weather Channel and other apps draining battery despite background activity being turned off

Certain apps even with background app refresh turned off will still refresh occasionally, such as when you open it, push notifications, or fetching data for a widget. As KiltedTim states, I suggest you uninstall the Weather Channel App and use the native iOS Weather app. Fun fact, it actually gets most of its data from the Weather Channel so having a separate app is useless.

Background App Refresh is not the same as the Background Activity noted in your Battery Settings. Background App Refresh is strictly the UI elements that are updated, so they are current when you launch the app. Background Processes are timed activities that the developer chooses to run at certain intervals that you cannot prevent. Those are noted in your Battery Settings, so you can choose if the app is worth it for you considering the effects it has on your battery. The Weather Channel app has always been power hungry, probably due to poor coding by the developer and unnecessarily using the background processes too frequently.

vbryce wrote:

And I’ve noticed that I started having a blue location arrow popping up on the top of my devices that doesn’t go away until I manually close the app. This just started a few days ago so not sure what changed??

The app changed. There was an update 1 day ago, 4 days ago, and 1 week ago. If you do not have the latest update from yesterday, then try that update to see if they have finally fixed it. Otherwise you will need to wait for a fix from the app, it is not something that Apple can fix. Apple provides the tools for you to see how the app operates, such as the location indicator and the Battery usage, so you have the information needed on whether you want to continue to use the app or get support from the Developer of the app for when to expect a resolution.

The weather channel app has always been bad about that.

Get rid of it and use something else. The native weather app is pretty good...

Mine just started doing this as well and out of the blue a couple days ago. I haven’t changed anything and it started draining my battery overnight. I now have to manually close the app when finished to make sure it doesn’t stay open in background. This is happening on my iphone and iPad.

vbryce wrote:

This seemed to work! Thanks so much for helping!

No Problem. Bugs are introduced in apps all the time and it is only the Developer that can solve those problems.

And I’ve noticed that I started having a blue location arrow popping up on the top of my devices that doesn’t go away until I manually close the app. This just started a few days ago so not sure what changed??

This seemed to work! Thanks so much for helping!