11.4 update battery drain

That might be fine if you don’t need your WiFi , but on my iPad I need the WiFi to do all my personal business and recreational social media entertainment.

Im curious as to why Apple hasn’t put a fix out yet. Battery drain is huge here. None of us are talking about a 2% or 5% drop more than normal in a day. I’ve installed an update one day and three days later their was an immediate ‘fix’ update.

I agree totally Generdude , I’ve got a new iPhone 7+ and ever since the update to 11.4 it’s dropping constantly 5-10% every few mins. I’ve heard all the usual Apple solutions, turn thus off and on etc, restart this and that. It’s solely 11.4, nothing has changed in my settings at all since the update and now I can’t get 2 hrs without going from 100% to 0.

Quit the excuses Apple and just figure your crap out.

You could have two signals that are retrievable from your wifi router. If you discover wifi on your device, it will (or may) show the ID for both. One will be the 5 and one the 2.4. At least if your router transmits both. Normally they have the same ID, just one of the two will show 5G or a version of that. The other is the 2.4.

Doing the clean install seemed to work for one night then after that the battery completely drained down to 1% overnight. There is another problem that a clean install doesn't fix.
What say you, Apple?

This appears to be EXACTLY the case. Apple is such a hideously run company. They operate like a bunch of anal-retentive Jr. Highers that demand everything be their way only and all the time. Customer concern seems back, back burner.

I’m having the same problem too. I updated to 11.4 last night at 70% battery, then woke up with dead battery and 3 hours late to work. It wasn’t charging either. It was charging for 2 hours and only came back with 30% then drain 20% in a blink. Apple please hurry wih a bug update!

I have iPhone 6S and iPhone SE along with one iWatch (series 3) three iPads plus one MBP (Late 2012 model). Recently all are showing battery drain problem. The battery does not last even for 5 hours on, for example iPhone SE (night to day). I have switched off Bluetooth and many apps from Notification in all devices Yet the problem persists. Since I work in Kathmandu where there is no accredited and dependable Apple Repair shop, the problem becomes frustrating. Guess I will be forced to switch over to Samsung and Microsoft Surface Pro. Too bad!

In a desperate move I did shut down (switch off) many apps in Notification (under Settings). I also put battery in Lower Power mode (Settings>Battery). I have switched off Bluetooth in all my portable devices inlacing the Watch, hoping that this make the battery to last longer (not very sure though). If you google the topic you will find many useful advices. But the sad part is that I spend quite a bit of my time on charging 6 Apple devices I have. I love Apple but feel I have been ignored.

Its not the battery issue. Its the iOS 11.4 which is causing the battery to drain too fast something like 10% in a minute. It needs to be fixed with the an update likely in iOS 11.4.1

A temporary fix for this is to turn off the WiFi and need to use cellular data along with low power mode.
Hope Apple fix this bug with an update in iOS 11.4.1 ASAP.

Well, it seems it was not a permanent fix. Today my battery is draining quickly (now at 30%) after 1 hr, 32 min usage, of which none was heavy. It is telling me that my Home and Lock screen is taking 20% of my usage since last full charge 8 hr, 51 min.

I have a 7 that the Apple Store replace the battery 3 months ago and a 7plus that I use for work that is less than a year old. Both phone batteries drain much faster lasting less than a day. They both were fine before the update 11.4 was installed.

I have iphone 7 with battery health 96%. After update to ios 11.4 my battery drain quickly without any use and also no information on battery which app eat my battery I think some bug in IOS 11.4. Earlier over night my battery drain 2-3% only but now in a hour its drain 2-3%. I am not installing any new application after update to 11.4 that eat my battery also I did reset but same issue now.

I’m having the same issue, with my iPhone 7. iPhone at says 70% when I go to bed. I plug in, leave to charge and instead of waking to a fully charged phone, I’m waking to a dead phone. I then have to remove the charger, reinsert and hey presto, it starts to charge again. This has only been happening since 11.4 was released, it’s definitely a software issue!

Same problem here with my IPad Mini 4. After update to 11.4 my battery drain over night. My IPad is mostly in Stand by, I use it to read when traveling to the office and battery use to last days (more than a week), suddenly it dies in few hours. This is related to the update, nothing changed from my side, only the update. I when through Support test procedure, I don't understand why the first thing is to check battery service or settings. As I said, nothing changed but the iOS upgrade. Something new/wrong going on with the Standby mode? I hope they fix it soon.

Turn off the WiFi and the problem is resolved for most people. It’s the crapple software ever since the update.

Charge before you go to bed at night, turn off the WiFi in settings and see. Mine was fine, but with WiFi on, it’s almost completely run down.

No cheers to apple, just a load of baloney.