8.4.1 iOS Update battery draining quickly & overheating

Did Apple replace your phone for you. They should have being that it was their software that messed up your phone.

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DDid Apple replace your phone for you? They should have being that it was their software that messed up your phone.

Well I was wrong. My 5s is still FUBAR, even after downgrade. I also turned off touch ID and that had no effect

Hi,

Same here with iPhone 4S and iPad 4. This iOS 8.4.1 made both totally useless piece of HW 😟. I can't believe this happened with Apple, seem the quality has taken a drastic fall. Fix this ASAP!

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I have the same issue and its caused by this. The update seems to have triggered a re-scanning (and re-upload to cloud) of all my photos. If you go into Settings -> Photos & Camera you will probably see it 'Preparing XXXX items...' or 'Uploading XXX items'. When that process completes it will calm down but it takes several days 😟

Exact same issue for me after 8.4.1 update. Drains like never before from 100% to 0% with about 4 hours of moderate use. It also is heating up irregularly. iPad seems to be suffering too. I do see that it's currently uploading 2 photoshop iCloud on my iPad. Can't check iPhone as it's powerless. Ipad has used 8% power while I've found this thread and read it using LTE network. Yikes.

As an update to my issue:

I had turned off Wifi and Bluetooth for most of today, and the drain was significantly less. I was sitting at 21%, which is still ridiculous for halfway through the day, but that's another story.

Then I turned on Wifi and BT, and it INSTANTLY dropped to 1%, then shut down.

I tried this again, and only turned on Wifi. With battery at 18%, turning on Wifi made the phone go to 1% and shut down within 10 seconds.

I'm so utterly disgusted with this phone right now.

I tried the hard start and my phone seems to have calmed down. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Good luck everybody!

gmacdon76 above may be onto something. I checked settings >photos & camera and saw that over 1000 photos were being uploaded to iCloud, but only when wifi is available. I haven't been on wifi for awhile and phone is holding charge pretty well. It may be that if you're using wifi, battery is draining because of uploading. Maybe try turning wifi off. IDK, pretty bad on Apple's part either way.

After updated, i have exact same issue and even i got refurbish phone because of battery drain problem and still remaining same issue.

this is definitely an update problem. My phone is new iPhone 6+ (3days) and my battery went from 100 to 48% within 2 hours! I did nothing unusual as I would on my old iPhone 6. my phone is noticeably hot. Not only is the battery a problem but sometimes my phone doesn't respond. Especially while texting where there's a complete lag! I did a hard reset. Worked fine for the first day. Now the problems are back!

Most people who've updated are experiencing this problem, including me. In the next update (iOS 9) which is going to be released early next month is most likely going to fix this. They're even adding a power-saver option to make your battery last longer. So everything should be good in the next update.

Hi, a question to the ones that downgrade to 8.4: battery problem was solved? Thanks

This is so worrying. I fully charged my iPad mini overnight, and then unplugged it, put it to sleep, and into my briefcase. During lunch-break i took it out, and the iPad was incredibly hot, with Battery at 58%. Looking at the usage, it said that "Facebook background activity" was responsible for 85% of the usage??

My iPad used to have excellent battery life prior to the 8.4.1. update, but this is both inconvenient and dangerous with the amount of heat it generates.

In the time it's taken to read these posts and write this item, it has dropped 5%, and I'm doing it on my PC!!

What on earth is going on?