wiping out and start fresh may be your only option. I had exactly the same issue. phone was very hot even only when going to settings. tried a few clean installed with restored from backup (both icloud and PC) with no avail. Only thing that works is setup iphone as new.
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wiping out and start fresh may be your only option. I had exactly the same issue. phone was very hot even only when going to settings. tried a few clean installed with restored from backup (both icloud and PC) with no avail. Only thing that works is setup iphone as new.
Battery life dropped 20 % with iOS 14. Call Apple tech Support make them aware. That’s the only way these things get resolved When enough people call in they know it’s a problem
Use console if you have a Mac or access to one. From there look at the processes being used. Not sure if there is a windows variant of the program or app but there very well could be....
Don't keep restarting the device. Heat from the device is due to the resistance of electrical flow aka electrical energy is dissipating as heat energy due to the device doing "work".
Some processes need to complete fairly quickly for a good user experience, interrupting them can just cause them to not only restart but use other processes to remove the data that had already been downloaded/processed possibly with a verification process required first.
After an update the background processes that tend to work harmoniously are slammed. It needs to be completed for the iPhone to have its expect performance but doing everything while you are using it would provide poor performance. Therefore when the phone is locked (even not on power) certain processes run in the background like they normally would.
For example the 'installd' process is for installing, updating, removing apps and app data and everything in between. It can be a resource intensive task. This often goes hand in hand with 'deleted' which removes cache data ("Other" data) intelligently to avoid wear and write amplification on the NAND. Which also can be resource intensive. Meanwhile 'searchd' is compiling a database for all this data. Along with other stuff like 'cloudd' (CloudKit) 'homed' (HomeKit) and plenty of things I'm not familiar all have more work than normal.
That said the cause for the phone to actually get warm is generally from the combination install, delete and/or cloud daemon (and similar) while the network connection is low quality (weak signal). The network radio is using much more power meanwhile the low bandwidth causes the process to run much longer.
Even a night or two on the charger with wifi on might not be enough if something like iCloud is downloading 20gb of photos to store directly on the device if the wifi is poor.
That may have NOTHING to do with your issue but the only way to know is to look at the processes when the issue is happening. I mention this last because people kind of freak out but in Console you can see Errors and Faults, there will be A LOT however they are generally are taken care of and fixed by the OS (triggered by the error/fault) however it not a bad idea to see if there is something that is constantly an issue (shouldn't be if you are on a fresh install) it will look like pages and pages of the same thing..
It's so odd and random. I had this problem - phone running hotter than normal playing apps I always played - not that graphically intense. Also apps draining my battery in the background - which I never turned them on - when I had 13.6.x (I THINK, whatever OS was out around July 4, I recall noticing my battery dropping like a rock that day)
But 13.7 solved all of those issues for me personally and has been pretty stable.
*I've seen many posts here mentioning 13.6.X was far better for them compared to 13.7
Every phone acts different, mind boggling.
Was hoping I won’t have to do this I’ll wait one or two days to see if it gets better.
last week, same battery health on ios 13 and dont need to charge phone several times -.-
It is actually a bug primarily that make peoples iPhones and apple watches to drain. The health app is continuously trying to sync with the watch and the disk space used is crazy, mine claims 70PB yes petabyte! Ppl with no watch does not get this glitch in general. Apple is aware of it and right now no solution done. They said 7.01 for watch would fix it, but no.Still using 70PB of space on my 256gb phone and the health app is slow, settings app crashes for watch etc etc. Workouts do not sync. I right now charge my phone 2-3 times a day and it’s constantly heating in between. Apple official forum has a long thread about this.
best you can do now until full fix is ready:
1. Disable the new sleep app on the watch , many relate issue to that one
2. Disable iCloud sync for health app
3. Install 7.01 Apple Watch is.
above steps will help you regain battery capacity in both units (phone, watch) but will not solve al problems if your space is claiming petabytes being used. Some people have completely unpaired their watches with some resultin repairing , others just left the watch unpaired awaiting a fix
i worked for apple for 2 years. And this is so embarrassing . It was a known fact during beta runs in the summer but yet they let it come in the public final release. Shame Apple!
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I will try and disable sleep on both devices.
Ran on a bug while doing that.
Ran on a bug while doing that.
Ha ha ha, my iPhone 6s on iOS 12.x loses 20+% overnight, not being used. I have 89% battery health. I also use power save mode almost all the time now. Battery usage experiences have sucked ever since I had to move on from my iPhone 4.
YEah, the computer industry is a bunch of dogdamned voodoo. Tech people constantly throw special pleading arguments at it to defend it as “normal”. Frell that dren.
This happened to me last year with iOS 13. I have an XS Max. 12.4.1 ran smooth as butter. Couldn't wait to get iOS 13 for "Dark Mode" Upgraded to said iOS 13 two days after release. Ran like garbage-choppy movement between screens and poor battery life. Went back to 12.4.1 and stayed there for 6 months until Apple stopped signing tvOS12 Beta Software Profile. Fast forward to iOS 14.
Guess what I loaded on my iPhone? Yep, tvOS13 Beta Software Profile. I can wait 6 months for Apple to get iOS 14 right. I'll NEVER again load a brand new iOS from day one. Once bitten, twice shy.
Yep, it's a handy hack to prevent the iPhone from hunting for a newer version of iOS
Didn't know that.
13.7 has been running ok on my XS Max. (Back in July, 13.6.x had issues!)
For 14.0..still haven't upgraded and there is a setting on 13 that stops downloading, bugging you to update.
On my iPhone XS I’m dealing with a huge hit on battery life.
I started with beta 3.
I’d say the battery lasts around 30-40% less.
14.0.1 didn’t solve the issue.
And no, it’s not because of battery degradation: I was at 94% of maximum capacity before the upgrade and still now.
I started with beta 3.
I’d say the battery lasts around 30-40% less.
14.0.1 didn’t solve the issue.
And no, it’s not because of battery degradation: I was at 94% of maximum capacity before the upgrade and still now.
I wrote a couple pages back that I also had these issues after upgrading to iOS 14, with my iPhone 11 Pro getting uncomfortably hot, battery draining fast, and Health app taking up a disproportionate amount of battery usage. And that I decided to reset my iPhone 11 Pro and set it up as a new phone.
After over a day of using my reset iPhone the heat/battery issues are gone and my iPhone is now comfortably cool to touch again. So this solution (full reset) does work, but admittedly it is rather extreme!
After over a day of using my reset iPhone the heat/battery issues are gone and my iPhone is now comfortably cool to touch again. So this solution (full reset) does work, but admittedly it is rather extreme!
Mine went from 100% to 2% over 8 hours while I was sleeping. Both my iPhones. This sucks big time.
Yup it sure seems so, my phone still is not back to where it was if I do any streaming or anything other than phone calls or sms/WhatApp etc. Oh and like for the use of "frell".
Det tror jag inte går, ta disable i icloud sync för health, samt i hälsa slår du av att den ska hantera sömn. De två stegen i kombination med watchos 7.01 har löst dräneringen åt mig, men appen säger fortsatt att den nyttjar 70PB utrymme
