is anyone aware of this ? Or fooled with it? Apparently a secret menu to adjust airtag parameters including batter saving settings .. the articles ate about 3 month old now and references ios 14.6… im on 14.7.1 and tried it , but doesnt seem to work any more… very interesting though ! Read about it here Similar article here
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Unusual Find My background battery drain after setting up AirTag
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I simply removed my airtag, turned off find my feature (note in more than one place) and my battery life just doubled. I have used my phone as normal and after 40 hours I have 43% left. Next I travel I will reactivate Find My, connect and put airtag in suitcase. Until then it will remain off.
I now have the battery life I had in 14.3 with my iPhone pro max lasting more than two days!
I now have the battery life I had in 14.3 with my iPhone pro max lasting more than two days!
Heads up - try to have your AirTags within range of your iPhone for a few hours tonight to make sure the update is pulled down and pushed to your tags.
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Apple Releases New Firmware for AirTags
Apple today released a new firmware update designed for the AirTag item trackers. The refreshed firmware has a version number of 1.0.291 and a build...
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THANKS! Hoping this might do something about the excessive battery drain from the Find My app.Heads up - try to have your AirTags within range of your iPhone for a few hours tonight to make sure the update is pulled down and pushed to your tags.
Apple Releases New Firmware for AirTags
Apple today released a new firmware update designed for the AirTag item trackers. The refreshed firmware has a version number of 1.0.291 and a build...
That's all you can really do - make sure you get any firmware and iOS updates you can - hopefully they eventually find the race condition causing the battery drain.
Edit (next day) - it seems Apple is limiting distribution of the firmware update - mine are still on 1.0.276 this morning, despite being in close proximity to my phone overnight.
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Beginning to think it's like the last one, where it was announced then unavailable (as they likely found a significant problem after announcing). Likely got pulled due to a huge bug.
Well, it seems like a "corner-case" issue - if it was wide-spread we would be seeing a lot more activity in this thread. (and, no, that doesn't make things any easier for those users plagued with the battery drain issue).
Possibly true, just not willing to subject anyone I know to potentially being a "corner-case".
Same. When I had two airtags it was running 29% use in the background. I really felt the need to delete at least one and now it's running 14% in the background. I actually own 4 tags but definitely will not install them until and *if* they fix this because it's totally unacceptable. This is on a 12 Pro Max.
That’s insane! Did you try resetting the AirTags? Not just unpair but a complete reset that involves taking out the battery 5 times.
Same problem here with iPad drain due to background activity of Find My app. I do have an airtag.
By the way, Find My has got to be one of the worst names for an app. Good luck finding a thread while googling “Find My battery drain background ios.” All you get is a bunch of articles about how to find the settings for background app refresh. I’m surprised I even found this thread.
By the way, Find My has got to be one of the worst names for an app. Good luck finding a thread while googling “Find My battery drain background ios.” All you get is a bunch of articles about how to find the settings for background app refresh. I’m surprised I even found this thread.
Try putting just "Find my" in quotation marks, not the whole sentence. It will probably help.
my iPad’s battery dropped 30% during the day sitting at home doing nothing, with no AirTags nearby. All my AirTags were not at home. In battery settings, 77% of the battery drain was due to Find My app. This is freaking crazy!!!