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Hi Steve,

Any chance you can post your battery usage statistics? Sometimes they are inconsistent but sometimes it actually can help point out an issue.
I don't have an app to give a lot of battery stats, but I have an iPhone 12 Pro, battery health 93% (it has decreased by 1-2% after every update since 14.5).

I am not a heavy user, average use of around 2.0 - 2.5 hours per day. Mostly Twitter, email, Safari, little bit of light gaming...

I have also noticed that my phone gets extremely hot when charging wirelessly in my car. Doesn't happen all the time but that will definitely be damaging the battery.
 
I don't have an app to give a lot of battery stats, but I have an iPhone 12 Pro, battery health 93% (it has decreased by 1-2% after every update since 14.5).

I am not a heavy user, average use of around 2.0 - 2.5 hours per day. Mostly Twitter, email, Safari, little bit of light gaming...

I have also noticed that my phone gets extremely hot when charging wirelessly in my car. Doesn't happen all the time but that will definitely be damaging the battery.
Have you ran the beta versions of iOS? I read that during the beta period the battery would drop a percent or so. As for wireless charging, it will heat up the phone more than wired charging but that is normal and as long as your wireless charger is QI certified, I would not worry so much, been using one personally since I got my 12 Pro 4 months ago, still 100% battery health. My phone is usually quite warm when first taken off the charger. I would still try to narrow it down, how is the cell connection or wireless connection at home, especially when the phone is put down for the night? If either or both are pretty low, it will incur more battery usage in the night as it will have to work harder to keep up with the source. Usually, this is an issue with cellular, not as bad as wifi.
 
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I thought that, but even disabling Find My Network doesn't stop it...
Hi Ashin,

Have you tried looking in the location settings to see what has used it "recently?" You can pretty easily narrow it down buy doing this. More than likely, the offender will be under "system" but look for anything with a purple arrow, this means that particular option or app used the location recently. It will be a game of chance but start shutting them off one at a time until you can figure out which one is causing it. Have you tried the "Frequent Locations" option?
 
I don't have an app to give a lot of battery stats, but I have an iPhone 12 Pro, battery health 93% (it has decreased by 1-2% after every update since 14.5).

I am not a heavy user, average use of around 2.0 - 2.5 hours per day. Mostly Twitter, email, Safari, little bit of light gaming...

I have also noticed that my phone gets extremely hot when charging wirelessly in my car. Doesn't happen all the time but that will definitely be damaging the battery.
It is worth mentioning that the operating system itself controls the temperature of the device. If it heats up a lot during any charging, including via wireless, it disables charging at the same time. So rest assured about that.
 
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For me the 14.6 battery sucking culprit was "Exposure Notifications", which was quite clear from the battery health feature. As soon as I disabled it I was back to only needing to charge my phone every couple of days.
Yeah, my Exposure Notification was using about 8% of my battery usage. Had to turn it off.
 
Battery after 2 days from installation is doing very fine on my iPhone 11 Pro. Much much better than 14.6. Moreover, I also disabled Siri under iCloud settings because of high Siri drain which I noticed under Battery settings (~50%).
 
Battery after 2 days from installation is doing very fine on my iPhone 11 Pro. Much much better than 14.6. Moreover, I also disabled Siri under iCloud settings because of high Siri drain which I noticed under Battery settings (~50%).
High Siri drain on 14.6 or in 14.7?
 
Maybe better than 14.6, but not good enough improvement to sign-off on a "fixed".

Saw some big drain the other day, but today, seems to have leveled off.
 
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Maybe better than 14.6, but not good enough improvement to sign-off on a "fixed".

Saw some big drain the other day, but today, seems to have leveled off.
It is not uncommon to see a drain right after an upgrade or restore. Mainly due to indexing and other prep-work. The real statistic would be how it is over the next week or so.
 
Yeah, will be watching over next week. But post-install should not be an issue, as I did the install on Monday when it came out. If it takes 1.5 days for a post-install process to run, there are bigger issues going on with iOS.
 
According to iAppleBytes, the battery issues have been addressed.


However, with the Pegassus zero-click vulnerability in the wild, I’m not sure wether to update or stay in 14.4.2 (not sure if older versions are affected)
 
According to iAppleBytes, the battery issues have been addressed.


However, with the Pegassus zero-click vulnerability in the wild, I’m not sure wether to update or stay in 14.4.2 (not sure if older versions are affected)
Looks like older version is also affected by Pegassus. Unless you want to jailbreak, I would update.
 
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According to iAppleBytes, the battery issues have been addressed.


However, with the Pegassus zero-click vulnerability in the wild, I’m not sure wether to update or stay in 14.4.2 (not sure if older versions are affected)
Not for iPhone 11. Still worse than 14.5 and not much different than 14.6.
 

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Looks like older version is also affected by Pegassus. Unless you want to jailbreak, I would update.
If that’s the case, now I have two options: 1) wait few days to see if Apple releases iOS 14.7.1 with a fix for the Pegassus vulnerability, or 2) just update.
 
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If that’s the case, now I have two options: 1) wait few days to see if Apple releases iOS 14.7.1 with a fix for the Pegassus vulnerability, or 2) just update.
That is up to you but if the only thing holding you back is the Pegassus issue, you are still vulnerable with the version that you are currently running.
 
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Battery life on my 11PM has been decent. I skipped 14.6. Stayed with 14.5.1 until 14.7 was released. It was the right decision lol.
 
Looks like on 14.7 the battery life is back to the level of 14.5. 14.6 was a real disaster.

When i was on 14.5 i mostly could do 2 days with 1 charge and end up at about 20-30% of charge. With about the same usage on 14.6 it was a day and a half.

I updated my 12 Pro 2 days ago to 14.7 and it still shows 27% with about the same usage as normal.
 
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