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iOS 14 battery life
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I’m so disappointed. I’ve always avoided the major updates because of issues like this. But I took the leap of faith and look where it leads to. Poor battery performance. Charging with original lightning cable yet takes 3-4 mins to go up 1% at a time. I’ve tried everything from reboot to resetting. I’ve even deleted some apps that I liked using but wasn’t necessary. I deleted unnecessary photos and videos. Heck I even deleted all the music on my phone. No luck. I’ve seen some posts on this thread to say one should wait some time and battery degradation over time is normal; are you telling me that over the course of one hour (that’s how long it took to download and install iOS 14 due to choppy WiFi) that my phone went from good battery performance and great charging times to bad battery performance and slow charging? All of a sudden my battery needs a service?! Come on people. This is a trillion dollar company. I work in manufacturing and I understand that things will never be 100 % perfect when rolling out new products, but this is unacceptable. Apple iPhone is a great product but hearing stories of how they gave developers short notice about ios14 beta, is disconcerting. In my industry, you give your suppliers a proper heads up if you’re going to do something new so they can prepare themselves accordingly. Highly disappointed. Does anyone have experience that phone goes back to normal through a subsequent update?
Over a week later and my battery is still rubbish on my SE 2020 and that’s with no widgets. Think I’m gonna downgrade at weekend if I can
I remember the original SE, small battery but lasted forever, they the released a new iOS, that was it game over, it never recovered again.
Terrible battery life. My iPhone X went form having typically 20-25% battery left af the end of the day to about 5%.
Hope there will soon be an update.
Hope there will soon be an update.
I had best battery life on 13.4.1 or 13.1 on iphone 11 pro max. I don't remember quite well. 13.7 was also very good for me, i usually finished a day with 50% battery (9-10 pm), with 5-6 SOT. 4g from 7am to 16 pm, rest WIFI. BT on (watch paired), icloud sync all on, yt, games, social networking.
On iOS 14, first 4-5 days I noticed battery on 4G was worse, now it is OK, not like on 13.7 but still good. I think battery is now worse because of widgets, and it is still new ios.
My results are below. SOT is almost identical, 5-6 hours with 40-50 battery left. My usage is almost the same every day. Maybe one day 30min games, 1h youtube, other day 1h games, 30 min youtube. I think it is good.
On iOS 14, first 4-5 days I noticed battery on 4G was worse, now it is OK, not like on 13.7 but still good. I think battery is now worse because of widgets, and it is still new ios.
My results are below. SOT is almost identical, 5-6 hours with 40-50 battery left. My usage is almost the same every day. Maybe one day 30min games, 1h youtube, other day 1h games, 30 min youtube. I think it is good.
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My SE definitely has worse battery life. I now need to charge it twice a day. The battery itself has degraded to less than 80% capacity. But I could get by on a single charge before upgrading.
My iPad Pro definitely has issues as well. It seems to be using more battery. But what is worse is the iPad shuts down when the battery meter shows 10%. When I charge the iPad it immediately will show more than 10% capacity. I don’t know what is going on with that. Is it shutting down with truly 10% battery remaining or is the gauge very off now? Either way it is a battery problem resulting from iOS 14.
My iPad Pro definitely has issues as well. It seems to be using more battery. But what is worse is the iPad shuts down when the battery meter shows 10%. When I charge the iPad it immediately will show more than 10% capacity. I don’t know what is going on with that. Is it shutting down with truly 10% battery remaining or is the gauge very off now? Either way it is a battery problem resulting from iOS 14.
My 11 took a hit definitely. I had constantly 4-5+ hours on screen and around 1-2 off screen. Now it's around max 3.5-4 hours on screen. Today was the worst with 2 hours on screen - 1.5 hours off screen and I had 40% left... insane.
I don't know what to do other than wait a little bit and restore everything from backup :/
I don't know what to do other than wait a little bit and restore everything from backup :/
I have an 11 Pro that I upgraded to iOS 14 last week (once it was available). The battery health is 96%.
Realised this week that it was getting incredibly hot during use and the battery was draining very quickly. Neither of which used to happen before. I even had to bring out a battery pack with me for the first time in a long while yesterday, because the battery was draining so quickly (went from 100% to <20% in about 3-4 hours). Almost got uncomfortable to hold my iPhone in my hand today because it was getting so hot.
Like some other people I found that the Health app was taking up a lot of the battery percentage - the screen time would be 1 minute but it would be accounting for 40% of battery use (completely disproportionate).
Anyway, I went a bit nuclear - I just reset my phone and set it up as a new phone. I had also been having an annoying software issue with a couple of apps so I figured a fresh install might also help with this other issue. Lost a bit of data (messages mainly) that I had forgotten to back up but nothing too major.
So far the battery life and heat seems to be much improved following the reset. Will see how things go!
Realised this week that it was getting incredibly hot during use and the battery was draining very quickly. Neither of which used to happen before. I even had to bring out a battery pack with me for the first time in a long while yesterday, because the battery was draining so quickly (went from 100% to <20% in about 3-4 hours). Almost got uncomfortable to hold my iPhone in my hand today because it was getting so hot.
Like some other people I found that the Health app was taking up a lot of the battery percentage - the screen time would be 1 minute but it would be accounting for 40% of battery use (completely disproportionate).
Anyway, I went a bit nuclear - I just reset my phone and set it up as a new phone. I had also been having an annoying software issue with a couple of apps so I figured a fresh install might also help with this other issue. Lost a bit of data (messages mainly) that I had forgotten to back up but nothing too major.
So far the battery life and heat seems to be much improved following the reset. Will see how things go!
I have a friend who has been an Apple owner since 1997 or 98. When upgrading any Apple device, Power PC, Mac, iMac, iPhone or iPad he would wait until version X.1 before updating. If he heard of problems he might wait until X.2 or X.3
I have an XS Max I got day one it was released. I have to charge my phone by mid day or it will for sure die.
I have the XS Max, didn't upgrade to 14 because of fear of battery (I've seen more drain in these posts than positives) 14.0.1 was just released...waiting again to see MAYBE this helps the drain?? Not sure, it's not mentioned in the Software notes. Once again, I will wait.
Not sure, it's not mentioned in the Software notes. Once again, I will wait.
14.0.1 makes no mention of anything to do with the battery unfortunately....just trying to hold off one more year for the 13....
Battery drain noticeably worse on 11 Pro Max. Noticed same on Watch OS 7. This isn't the first time we've seen battery issues with a major os upgrade. So far, I haven't been able to identify anything in common from day to day usage patterns, hence the reason I showed up here. 14.2 is out. Wonder if that will help?
Less than 80%? That's really bad, I would bring it in for repair. They use 80% as a threshold themselves to determine warrant/AC+ replacement.
Last night mine lost 2% while doing nothing Omer 6 hours when I was sleeping. It never drained that much before. Usually just 1. I looked and it said the flashlight was on even though it wasn’t.
My battery got a little better when I also turned the exposure notifications off. I already had the app refresh off for my apps.
My battery got a little better when I also turned the exposure notifications off. I already had the app refresh off for my apps.
Has there been any noticeable improvement with the latest patch? 14.0.1?
I am still on 13.7 but I do not want to upgrade if battery life is still a concern and issue for everyone. I would take the leap of faith, but since 13.7 is no longer being signed. . .
I am still on 13.7 but I do not want to upgrade if battery life is still a concern and issue for everyone. I would take the leap of faith, but since 13.7 is no longer being signed. . .
1 percent is for my phone but not 2 when it was sitting there not doing anything. It didn’t drop that much last week and as soon as I picked it up it dropped another percent. It’s quicker usage than normal.
And it was saying stuff was turned on that wasn’t. It’s one of those things where it’s not just the numbers on the screen but you know it’s dropping quicker. Within half an hour of using it it dropped a larger amount of battery percentage.
It’s too early to tell from 14.0.1 but so far it doesn’t look like it’s done too much.
Anecdotally, 14.0.1 has solved the battery drain and overheating on my XS. I charged it up to 98% and sat it playing a few YouTube videos and the drain was what I’d call normal (it actually sat at 98 for a good while). May report back after I use it for a day, but things are looking up.
Anybody’s iPhone warm to touch when it is not being used and battery draining like crazy? When I started to use it gets really hot like I’m playing graphic intensive game but I’m merely using Safari. Started happening a few days ago I have iPhone X. I’ve restarted and reset all setting. I really don’t want to wipe out the phone and start fresh.