Update finishing in background

[JoeShades]

I have had this message for almost 24 hours and it is draining my battery . The latest charge 20 % drop now in little over an hour. I had iOS 18 installed already. Was something else released that is taking so long?? I had great battery life for a few days now this. I have the iPhone 16

 

[Morac]

I had the message show up periodically on my 15 Pro Max for about 5 days. It also took about that long for my battery life to get better.

 

[Abthevolfan92]

I had the message for a few days but it did not effect my battery life. It is a feature of Ios 18 and will be there pretty much everytime you do an update for a few days

 

[JoeShades]

I had the message for a few days but it did not effect my battery life. It is a feature of Ios 18 and will be there pretty much everytime you do an update for a few days

Was there an update in the last day? I am turning off auto updates so I know exactly when an update is applied

 

[Abthevolfan92]

Was there an update in the last day? I am turning off auto updates so I know exactly when an update is applied

no there hasn't been but I got the message 4 days after I updated to Ios 18

 

[JoeShades]

I plugged the phone in and now message is gone

 

[JoeShades]

Now the message is back again!!

 

[Ninra]

Hello, I bought iphone 16 pro max on 09/27 (IOS 18 default), and receive an update secutiy IOS 18 , after update I saw message in battery
setting call "Update finishing in background " , it tell me software update background, it take a whilte, battery life and thermal performance may improve, but it stuck 4 day and it not disappear, my phone still warm during using basic task, does anyone see this before ? and how to avoid this ? thank you very much

 

[Ninra]

Now the message is back again!!

Do you resolve it yet ? me same to you , I unbox on 27 Sep, and now is 30 Sep it still stuck that message and not know how to resolve

 

[Domadia_Jasmine]

Let phone do his job to complete his task, maybe this message will get disappeared in next two to three days

 

[amitabhbansal]

Let phone do his job to complete his task, maybe this message will get disappeared in next two to three days

in my XS MAX it took 6 days and in 15 PM it took 4-5 days, it will go away as Jasmine said, dont worry anything about this

 

[Ninra]

Let phone do his job to complete his task, maybe this message will get disappeared in next two to three days

Thank you very much, I checked again and it seem disappear, however I will check more if it occur again

 

[JoeShades]

Do you resolve it yet ? me same to you , I unbox on 27 Sep, and now is 30 Sep it still stuck that message and not know how to resolve

Yes it finally went away

 

[papbot]

I think we all saw it with the ios 18 release. I had it on my new phone - 16PM - for about 3-4 days. It finally went away and I haven’t seen it since, even after updating my phone to the 18.1 beta. I had no battery issue because of it. It may have also been on my previous phone which had been updated to 18 prior to getting my new phone, but I never looked at the battery settings until I started seeing these posts.

 

[twdawson]

Updated to 18 when it was released and just noticed this. Why is it still doing this As I have never seen this before.

 

[yeahtyeaht]

Did your iPhone update to 18.0.1? This happening with every update and it has always been like that. The message should disappear after 2-3 days.

Apple is just more transparent with whats going on with your phone and why the battery life decreases temporarily after an update.

 

[SalisburySam]

I’ve never seen this. Lots of iPhones, lots of updates. Never. Not once. You are special indeed.

 

[DeltaMac]

That's similar to the popup in macOS after a system install, or update, telling you that the system is being optimized, and you can usually expect an increase in system response after that optimization is complete. It's just presented a bit differently now, but that's what is happening. Been there for years in macOS. I don't recall seeing it in iOS, but it serves the same function, I'm sure.

 

[Paul_W]

I was just about to post about this as I have the same message and have never seen it before. I've not noticed any performance or battery issues but the message has been there since the 18.0.1 update was installed 3 days ago

 

[tranceking26]

Never seen that before. On any device.

 

[Markgnyc2]

Updated to 18 when it was released and just noticed this. Why is it still doing this As I have never seen this before. View attachment 2434035

I am still getting that message and I upgraded to 18.0.1 last week? Doesnt make sense?

 

[Zapdoc]

I phone 16 pro on checking battery says this but it’s now over 3 days since I first set it up from backup
Surely this should have been long done by now ?
Phone running well

 

[twdawson]

The message on mine has gone.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Mine took two days to complete but seems to keep coming back

 

[Damolee]

Having the same thing here. Been there since 18.0.1 install.