iOS 14 battery life
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All I was on was Health, Settings (to look at what’s eating my battery) and Safari. For some reason Mail is now always running in the background and I can’t figure out how to stop it.
Almost none of my apps background refresh.
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AnthroMatt
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Jun 8, 2011
That, coupled with the fact that we all mess around with our phones a lot more when something new drops, is why I always wait a week to reserve judgement on battery performance.You can never judge based on the first day - there's always a lot more going on in the background after a major software update.
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Sam in SoCal
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One way to put a halt or slow down the background activity is to employ low power mode in your control center. I would suggest trying that for a couple days and see what it does for your battery. I use it even when it’s above 80%I’ll be the first to say it it looks like iOS 14 isn’t doing too well with battery life on my SE 2020. I haven’t changed any of my settings from before the update but in the span of 30 minutes I lost 8% battery.
All I was on was Health, Settings (to look at what’s eating my battery) and Safari. For some reason Mail is now always running in the background and I can’t figure out how to stop it.
Almost none of my apps background refresh.
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ChrisN718
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Edit: Still plugged in- It's been almost 10 minutes since I posted, and my plugged in iphone is now showing 27%. It's plugged in but is acting like it's not charging at all.
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Not seeing much difference between this and iOS 13.7 in terms of Battery Life, I thought the widgets would suck battery but nope, all good.
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eicca
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The catch is I installed an iFixit battery. Two of my Apple-certified replacements crapped out, and I suspect the 6S had a subpar battery design from the factory. YMMV.
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Regbial
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oh right, it's "working on things in the background"... huh fanbois? nah I get it... that happens... but I've never seen it like this.. IN ANY release! what the hell is this?
and my apple watch? watchOS 7? ... perfectly fine battery life.
😩 BTW, before this iOS14... it would drain maybe 4% AT MOST at night, during that time. .... This is upsetting.
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They recommended turning it off and back on again. So far that hasn’t seemed to really help. They gave me a case number and said if it’s still doing this Saturday night/Sunday to get back with them.
cp1160
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I am not trying to create flame fires, but I just upgraded my iPhone 7+ to iOS 14. I love all the new features, but my battery life is horrible. I know usage is higher when just upgrading, but I have never had usage as high as this update. I took it off the charger at 7:45 am and went for a 40 minute walk. When I got back my battery was at 71%. I did not use it during the walk. I had calls coming up so I charged it to 100% when I got back and took it off the charger at 11 am at 100%. I did not use the phone for calls, and at 3:15 pm my phone was at 32%. It shows Photos as 26%, Google as 14%, Stocks as 10%, App Store at 8%. I opened Photos for 2 minutes and closed. Google I searched for 2 things and left it. Stocks I opened at 9:45 am after market open and never used again. App Store I checked for updates, had none, and left it be.I’ll be the first to say it it looks like iOS 14 isn’t doing too well with battery life on my SE 2020. I haven’t changed any of my settings from before the update but in the span of 30 minutes I lost 8% battery.
All I was on was Health, Settings (to look at what’s eating my battery) and Safari. For some reason Mail is now always running in the background and I can’t figure out how to stop it.
Almost none of my apps background refresh.
I am now charging for the second time today since I have to go out later, but this usage is insane right now. Hope this settles down. I restarted several times today so I don't think that could be it.
I did notice after the updated NONE of my Bluetooth devices worked even though the phone showed they were connected. Several restarts and I got my AirPods and Apple Watch to connect. Took a reinstall to get Blue Tooth hearing aid connectivity restored. Ugh. At least they do seem to be working now.
[UPDATE 9/20/2020]
If anything my battery life is getting worse the longer I use iOS 14 on my iPhone 7+. Its Sunday and I am charging my phone for the 3rd time today. Up at 7 am phone at 23% at 10am only answered texts and opened weather channel. Restarted phone and charged it. Around 12:30 at 100% and went outside to do some watering using Taplink automated watering. Its sets timers and and be closed. Sent 3 texts. Went out for a bit. Phone was getting hotter and hotter in pocket. got it out around 30 minutes after taking off charger. Phone at 59%. No apps running. Battery life shows Google using battery at 28% and News at 27%. Restarted phone, but I never opened either app, and they were not running. At 5 phone down to 23% and News at 39% and Google at 31%. Again not using either app.
Used TapLink several times during day. It shows at 1%.
This is a serious issue for me at least, I have never seen battery usage like this. 90% of the time I can go to bed with my phone at 40% or more every day with no recharging - before I installed iOS 14.
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