iOS 11.3 - Photos excessive background activity/battery drain

Same issue is plaguing my IOS experience and rendering my Iphone 7 / 256GB into a phone that is always connected to a charger.

Battery info of the last 7 days shows 26 minutes of screen time and 30,9 hours of background activity (52% in total).

• 117000 photos
• 4500 videos
• Icloud Photo Library = on
• Optimise Iphone Storage = on
• Upload to My Photo Stream = off
• Icloud Photo Sharing = on

Same problem with mine just updated to 11.3.1 and same

Battery went flat over night just sitting on my desk.

Anyone have any ideas to get around it as Apple will never mention they have a problem.

Last 24 hours 1 min screen time. 7.9 hours background 62% battery.

Someone on another forum said they got rid of deleted photos in trash and it fixed things.

I have no deleted files in trash so I deleted something and cleared it from trash.

See if it makes things better.

nope still draining away.. if it was a app by a non Apple dev I would of deleted it..

turned on data for photos see if that is the problem maybe it trying although cannot connect.

Although last night it was sitting next to the wifi router 😟

Would be nice for once Apple to say yes its a problem 11.3.2 will be out in 2 weeks to fix sorry.

Not just 11.3.2 gets released notes say fixes bug where photos drain power.

Same problem. 1 year old 256 gig iPhone 7plus. 27000 photos. (But that should be irrelevant. Many were put on from my PC.

Can’t take a quick photo and send it right away. Wait 5 minute or close the app and restart first. Slow and frustrating. I’ve had iPhone 4,5,6 and now 7+. Seriously considering android next time. My kids swear by them.

I believe phones are purposely slowed down and battery’s don’t last as long as my old iPhone 4 did. They want us to upgrade minimum every 2 years.

Fix he problem please. 😡

Same problem. 1 year old 256 gig iPhone 7plus. 27000 photos. (But that should be irrelevant. Many were put on from my PC.

Are you giving your iPhone enough time over night to get the background processing done?

When you import photos the Photos.app will scan them to recognize faces and objects.If you import 27000 photos at once, it will take many days to complete the scan of the photos. Even my Mac needed two weeks to scan 50000 photos for thousands of categories like birds, Christmas trees, bridges, and more. Give your ipHone time to get the job done and keep it up and running during the night, connected to power.

Most of these photos have been on phone all year. Phone used to be snappy fast. Was awesome. Battery lasted long time. This is a new problem since recent updates. My iPad2 did the same thing. Slowed down to useless. Even after deleting almost everything including my photos. It’s ovcioisly a software thing.

-When you take a photo and want to send as a text you shouldn’t need to stare at it for a few minutes and close the app first before it finally works. Also I now need to charge phone before I’m done work. My battery health says it’s good still. 88%. If changing battery would fix things O would do it, but I think problem goes deeper

I did a factory reset. After that things were fine for a day or two but now Photos is constantly updating and all the problems with slow updating of the library and a disastrous battery life are back.

I think that should not the case: the results (faces etc) are kept in Icloud + synced across devices.
Previously that type of analyzing was shown to the user as a counter that showed how many photos were left to sync. My problem is still the constant state of Photos "updating" that never stops and that was the case before I did the factory reset.

I think that should not the case: the results (faces etc) are kept in Icloud + synced across devices.

That is wishful thinking. The faces are synced between devices, but Photos is still analyzing the photos on each device again for categories and faces.

No. The annalysis has been done for ages and has already finished from the reset. I went through that before when I first got my iPhone X. This problem began spontaneously, months after all the faces had been identified.

Exact same problem. iPhone 8. ~120,000 photos. Started in iOS 11.3. Wiping phone, re-adding iCloud Photo, replacing with ANOTHER iPhone 8 did not fix. Photos take minutes if not hours to show up in moments. Photos app uses 50% battery in the background. Can’t share or edit photos anymore. This is BANANAS. Have called Apple support multiple times. They are trying to escalate this issue. Sounds like a very documented problem. Will try deleting a ‘junk photo’ and see what happens.

Have you received a solution for this problem? I updated my ios to 11.3.1 about 3 weeks ago, and faced all the same issues you faced within a day from the update.

Been trying all methods but none has worked.