iOS 11.3 - Photos excessive background activity/battery drain

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. 😡

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.

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.

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.

But won't the optimized photos and videos be of lower resolution in your phone?

I also understand that optimized photos and video taken long ago in your camera roll will take some time to appear when you want to view it.

That's the idea, but I can't tell the difference. I did this because I was desperate. I can't have my phone dying all day on me at work and I can't carry spare batteries everywhere either. I have resisted this forever and even always buy the bigger memory phones to keep all my photos accessible, but it seems to be fine. It just has to finish scanning faces again now, which takes weeks, but only happens when the phone is plugged in so it doesn't suck battery.

I thought it was resolved as mentioned in my previous reply. But it came back after 2 weeks of being normal. I updated to ios 11.4, but the problem still remains. I have no idea what's updating in the background. It seems like it's never finished:( I really hope Apple fixes this.

This is a disaster. I wiped my phone and restarte it and it is still happening.

I wonder if Apple is monitoring this. Word spreads fast. Need a resolution. My 2 kids just got new phones yesterday. They weren’t iPhones like what they had last week. 😳

With the factory reset you discarded the results of the previous weeks of processing and analyzing the photos and the job has to start over from the beginning.

Exactly. This has been the case with me. Suddenly after no significant changes to the library this started happening.

Can anyone confirm if the iOS 11.4 update (released today) fixes this issue?