iPhone 16 Pro Find My iPhone battery drain is a “feature”

[jairopena]

I restored through a Mac (no backup) and for the last couple of days it’s been better, however, find my in the 16 Pro is doing something in the background that still consumes more battery than other phones.

Attached is a photo of my 16 Pro with 3h+ of Find My in the background in the last 24h (activity even when I’m sleeping). Also, my wife’s 13PM with the same settings enabled and Find My not working in the background.

 

[Tsepz]

I’ve been using my new 16 Pro for a couple of days and noticed the location icon almost always on with occasionally being off. I checked within settings and it turned out to be Find My trying to get locations all the time. I wrote to apple just to letting me know it is a “feature” of iOS 18.1, so basically the battery draining is not their fault. I have an iPad Pro M4 with Find My on and it doesn’t behave the same way as the iPhone so the only way to stop this is to turn of Find My completely.

I’m not sure if this is just Find My but the battery drain is dreadful, almost 1% per minute and by this answer I think they won’t attack the issue but only concentrate on Apple Intelligence.

1% per minute is insane though, sounds like something within Find My is going rogue in the background.

 

[FlyingDutch]

I did that Dave.

The battery drain was driving me nuts to the point I regretted moving from the 14 Pro max to 16 Pro.

The problem is that I am not seeing any report on Find My in terms of battery drain at all.
I am only seeing the location icon continuously even when I disabled every app's permission to location services.

I Disabled the Find My in Privacy & Security - then immediately the Location icon disappeared.
I re-enabled locations services for all Apps - When in Use.

And now I can say that from 6 am until around 11:00 pm, I used about 26% of battery.
Previously, I had to charge the phone at least once.

However
One thing that comes to my mind as I am replying now, is that I restored from an iCloud backup of my iPhone 14 Pro Max, when I setup the phone out of the box.
Maybe I should have elected to set it up as a new phone, and reinstall everything by hand.... Which is something I am not in the mood to do
Will probably try that during this weekend and see if that fixes the problem.

I restored from a 14 PM iCloud backup, and I don’t have any battery drain issue. I think the problem is something else.

 

[Kissmo1980]

I restored from a 14 PM iCloud backup, and I don’t have any battery drain issue. I think the problem is something else.

Yeah I discovered it.
It took about 2 weeks for the update in the background process to end.
When Find my was enabled it was draining my battery.
I disabled it, when the process ended, i re-enabled it and it is not behaving normally.

 

[FlyingDutch]

Yeah I discovered it.
It took about 2 weeks for the update in the background process to end.
When Find my was enabled it was draining my battery.
I disabled it, when the process ended, i re-enabled it and it is not behaving normally.

It is NOT behaving normally or it is NOW behaving normally ? 🤔

 

[Kissmo1980]

It is NOT behaving normally or it is NOW behaving normally ? 🤔

It is now behaving normally.
Thanks for pointing out - didn't realize the typo.
I am horrible at typing on the iPhone

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

I've seen actual written responses like this and they almost always come from foreign call centers used by scammers. That response was not from Apple.. I don't care what that checkmark says.

Prove it, this would be huge front page news

 

[FlyingDutch]

It is now behaving normally.
Thanks for pointing out - didn't realize the typo.
I am horrible at typing on the iPhone

No problem i was just curious to understand if you finally fixed the issue

 

[JForestZ34]

I've seen actual written responses like this and they almost always come from foreign call centers used by scammers. That response was not from Apple.. I don't care what that checkmark says.

Just to make you aware. Apple uses 3rd party call centers to help service their customers. So this I’m sure is a genuine response from Apple. They wouldn’t put that feature in our phone to have it easily hacked.


James