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Unusual Find My background battery drain after setting up AirTag

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
 
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!
 
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fischersd said:
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 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.
 
DotCom2 said:
THANKS! Hoping this might do something about the excessive battery drain from the Find My app.
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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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I won't be suprised if the update was pulled by Apple.
Yet to see someone claim their Airtag updated
 
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fischersd said:
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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Same here. No change, still on v276.
 
I was going to get a lot of people AirTAgs for the Holiday Season but now I think I would be doing them a disservice.
 
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DotCom2 said:
I was going to get a lot of people AirTAgs for the Holiday Season but now I think I would be doing them a disservice.
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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).
 
fischersd said:
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).
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Possibly true, just not willing to subject anyone I know to potentially being a "corner-case".
 
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I’ve been seeing the same issue ever since I setup my AirTag. Even tried unpairing and resetting but to no avail. It only uses about 5% in the past 24 hrs but it keeps running in the background all night long.
 
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CoronaOnTap said:
I’ve been seeing the same issue ever since I setup my AirTag. Even tried unpairing and resetting but to no avail. It only uses about 5% in the past 24 hrs but it keeps running in the background all night long.
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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.
 
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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.
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It was using 29% in the 24 hrs prior? Or was it just the hourly usage?
 
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.
 
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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.
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Try putting just "Find my" in quotation marks, not the whole sentence. It will probably help.
 
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