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Unusual Find My background battery drain after setting up AirTag
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Seriously tempted to remove my AirTag and leave it for when/if a fix is released. The battery drain is ridiculous.
This has happened to me last night as well after removing the AirTag post updating to iOS 14.8. This is a change in behaviour. Previously when I unpaired the AirTag it immediately improved the battery life on my phone.
Just updated to iOS15 and FindMy battery usage went down to 2%. Like one minute after the update. Don't know what to think about that.
Funny experience, my Bluetooth was on all night and as usual, find my usage showed 100% throughout the night but the drop in battery percentage was 100% - 99% overnight (between 12 to 9:30 am). After the entire day, the overall battery usage by find my was 1%. Constantly been the case for the past 4-5 days (been on iOS 15 beta). This I can do with.
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 15, Find my network turned off, networking & wireless turned off under location, system settings (I assumed it had something to do with constant U1 chip pinging, so I turned it off, the precision finding still works without any issues).
I hope this helps someone out. Cheers!
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 15, Find my network turned off, networking & wireless turned off under location, system settings (I assumed it had something to do with constant U1 chip pinging, so I turned it off, the precision finding still works without any issues).
I hope this helps someone out. Cheers!
I give up.
After iOS 15 it was fine for a day, around 2-3%. But then spiked well over 20% again and now down to regular 8-10%.
Unpaired the single AirTag. Cost/benefit just doesn't work out.
After iOS 15 it was fine for a day, around 2-3%. But then spiked well over 20% again and now down to regular 8-10%.
Unpaired the single AirTag. Cost/benefit just doesn't work out.
iOS 15 has completely fixed this issue for me. It’s gone down to 2% from 30-40%.
iOS 15 and 15.1 beta pretty much fixed issue for me on all devices.
Just got this issue on my new iPhone 13 Pro Max. 15% battery drain while I was asleep, all attributed to Find My. I'm on iOS 15 beta (15.1).
Anyone with an iPhone 13 Pro Max knows that the battery dropping 15% overnight is ridiculous.
Anyone with an iPhone 13 Pro Max knows that the battery dropping 15% overnight is ridiculous.
This has been happening for me since I got my Airtag, on an iPhone 11 without the beta.
However, by ridiculous I mean the iPhone 13 Pro Max battery life is so good that it draining 15% overnight without there being a bug present is ridiculous. ie: there's definitely something weird going on here.
New iPhone 13 mini. SIM switched off, barely using it for the moment. This is the result (sorry, Dutch language):
1 minute using and 50% battery drain (9h after charging). As you see on the other activities: mail was used for 2 minutes, background activity took 23% of battery time.
I have airtags connected, but are not close to the phone.
iOS 15.0.1.
Indeed, something is not correct...
1 minute using and 50% battery drain (9h after charging). As you see on the other activities: mail was used for 2 minutes, background activity took 23% of battery time.
I have airtags connected, but are not close to the phone.
iOS 15.0.1.
Indeed, something is not correct...
I'm also at 10% usage now, and that is AFTER UNPAIRING the Airtags.
There are two active in the house, but not connected to my account.
There are two active in the house, but not connected to my account.
Try turning off find my network. That fixed all draining issues for me.
I'm sure this will fix it, but I still want to use the network for iPhone, AirPods, Macs, etc.
It's mind boggling that an unpaired AirTag two rooms over is still draining the battery of the phone in the range of 10% per day.
Disabling it will still allow all your devices to work in find my like they have traditionally, through the internet. You’ll be losing the feature to find your devices if they’re turned off or not connected to the internet, however.
I get what you mean with regard to the battery drain. And it’s all idle drain. In my case, I noticed that having find my network turned on, my phone would keep using location every few minutes, sometimes multiple times under a minute. This was especially true if Bluetooth was turned on. It also drained the phone’s battery if my Apple Watch had find my network enabled. Hence, I decided to disable the network on all my devices and I’ve been happy with my battery life since.