Home & Lock screen battery usage 47%

Me too.

Same here. iPad Air, iOS 8.

I Have the same issue not sure I thought was becaus I had handoff aka airdrop enabled I then disabled it but situation has not improved must be something else.

I solved my problem doing a clean install, and disabling location to weather. But, this way I can't see weather on notifications...

Me as well. Would love to solve it.

I used to get five times the life in standby that I do now.

Glad that worked for you. That suggests there is some about the conversion or rebuild process -- like data processes that goes on after the update -- that eats up battery life. If so, then over time that work should be done, and the battery life should return to normal. In past updates it would take a couple days for the databases etc to rebuild themselves.

So far it's been more than a week and I haven't seen a significant improvement.

I noticed that before the clean install, location services were on all the time (arrow icon on the top bar). Apparently it was being used by weather app (even with the app closed). This could be the reason why my battery started to drain faster than before.

Then, after clean install it disappeared. It only appears, related to weather app, when I open Today View on Notification Center.

I have been having this issue off and on since the 8.0.2 update. I seemed to fix it, then 8.1 brought it back... thought I got it in order again, and mostly, it runs ok..then suddenly the battery just drains like crazy! Granted... my phone is about a year old, so probably is about time to replace the battery anyway... but it's this unpredictability that is bothering me! I almost have to keep it plugged in at night now because I use it as an alarm clock, and a couple of times, the battery has nearly totally drained within just a few hours of sitting there! Last night, I know I looked at it in the middle of the night and it was at about 85%, but then this morning, suddenly, it had dropped to less than 10%! Same thing earlier this week. It was sitting on my desk by my computer and it had been fine and suddenly the insufficient battery symbol was flashing! If it were just the battery going bad, I would have expected it to consistently drain, but it seems fine some days.

One thing I did consider is that we have some apple charger cables and some cheap, third party ones....and sometimes it seems that, while they seem to charge the phone, that the charge doesn't hold as well... but it isn't consistent either. I do know that the colorful ones target sells are NOT good! they cut off some of the sound when plugged in (video, text alerts etc), and if you try to use it as a data transfer cable to your computer, the transfer seems to get stuck.

nathan_h wrote:

Me as well. Would love to solve it.

I used to get five times the life in standby that I do now.

Respectfully, I fail to see how this "me, too" reply "solved" elisio's question.

"Home and Lock Screen" refers largely to push notifications. Prune those in preferences, disabling those that aren't necessary for you, and this percentage will decrease.

I had the same problem after setting up my wife's brand new iPhone 5S.

In the evening, it was fully charged, but the following morning, the battery was dead, claiming that the "Home & Lock screen" had eaten all the battery.

The cause ?

I had stupidly changed the Settings \ General \ Auto-Lock setting from "5 minutes" to "Never" .

This meant that, throughout the night, the screen never turned off... which is why the battery was dead by the morning.

This was the case for me. Thanks for the help

Yes! Thanks for the reminder. I had changed my Auto-Lock to "Never" when I had to use my iPad as a remote control to advance PowerPoint slides (using the ProPresenter app). I didn't want the folks presenting to run up against a lock-screen and get frustrated while speaking. Forgot to set Auto-Lock back until reading your post (and a dead iPad overnight). Thanks!