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LEOMODE

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Jun 14, 2009
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Latest iOS 15.0.2. iPhone 13 Pro. Have 4 AirTags. For the past 4-5 days Overnight I left my phone without charge and in 6hrs there was about 20% battery drawn each day. This also happens on two of my iPads too (Pro 10.5 & Pro M1)

I looked at what caused the issues and it was mainly Find My iPhone app >>>> myQ >> Tesla >> Bose Music >>>> Siri (turned off Siri Standby mode, when it was on the drain was worse).
For 3rd party apps I even turned off the Background App Refresh option, and I do think while it said they had background activities I don't think their drain was as hard as Find My iPhone.

There is no way for me to turn this off temporarily say if I were in sleep mode or something, and the only way is by completely turning off Find My iPhone which I do not want to do.

Have you guys noticed something similar? I think a battery drain of 3-4%/hr is a bit too much. in 8hrs it means I will be losing 30% or more.

I contacted Apple support, got transferred over 3 times, eventually wanted me to go to Apple Store as the only thing they told me to do was to completely shut off Find My iPhone or put the phone on Low Power Mode.

Where can I raise this issue to have Apple fix/enhance this issue? Looks like people who completely removed AirTags off of their account no longer see the battery drain.
 
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For a test - turn off Location Services entirely and see what happens
Just did it today. Same thing. Find my iPhone 100%. All other apps were 0%. Some apps ran in 8minutes and etc. but 0% contribution to the battery vs Find My iPhone contributing 100% and Siri 62% once. What’s interesting is both Find My iPhone and Siri do not have any minutes showing.

Looks like I have to completely shut off airtags.
 
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