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Weasel99

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Sep 23, 2019
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Hello.

Since around 2 months ago I'm having trouble with my iphone battery. Even with little usage I can only around the day.
I had 2h 42m "screen on" and 3h 9m "screen off" today and i'm already at 25% remaining capacity.
For example "photos" took 3% off with 4 minutes of usage. safari was 14% in 15 minutes. So its not a single app that is draining the battery, it looks like every app is draining way too much. (and it definitely wasn't that bad a few months ago).
I'm currently on 15.5 but obviously that problem existed before.
I restarted the phone (force restart), turned off background app refresh for almost every app.
I first suspected reddit, even if I almost don't use it, another app it on top of the "battery" list with a high battery percent per minutes of usage value.
The battery health is at 100%. I'm usually using the magsafe magnetic thing to recharge my phone.
I don't want to reset my phone completely if there is another thing to work this out.

I'm thankful for any kind of advice.
 
Yeah I did. It’s like all the apps are using more than they should. No app is really higher than the others
 
Turn off background app refresh or for the apps that uses battery in background and see how it's behaving or try a itunes restore
 
After a few days I found the problem. It was the „home assistant“ app. When I first installed it, I have it all the access to sensors and so on (mostly to try stuff with automations).
I already restricted the access to sensor data, background refresh and so on. But it seems that the app still was able to do those things.
As soon as I deleted the app, the battery drain went down.
Today I reinstalled the app and didn’t give it any access to anything.

Funny thing is: the app never showed up in the battery overview.
 
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So how is this possible?
 
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