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Update finishing in background

JoeShades

JoeShades

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
Abthevolfan92 said:
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
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Was there an update in the last day? I am turning off auto updates so I know exactly when an update is applied
 
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
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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
 
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
 
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