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iPhone battery draining after iOS 18 Update

iOS 18 draining my battery

Last night (17/09/24) I upgraded to iOS 18 update but this morning when I started using the phone, my battery drained out very quickly - anyone had similar issues.

any solution please ?


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Posted on Sep 17, 2024 2:06 PM

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Posted on Sep 19, 2024 10:36 AM

Found this on another thread How to Stop Battery Draining on iPhone After a Recent IOS Update and it's been a game changer, battery which was reducing 20 to 30% in 1 hour of basic usage now reduces only 15%. I will update you on which adjustment helped alot as I am currently testing on it as I don't want to disable some features so will update soon here.

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Sep 22, 2024 12:08 AM in response to Mis73

I purchased my iPhone 16 pro on Friday. Battery is draining super fast, around 1% every 2 minutes of just general texting! Run diagnostics with apple support who say there is not issue. iOS 18 wanted to update again even though I am already on ios 18. Someone mentioned waiting a few days to see if it ‘learns how I use my phone’ and see if it improves. I replaced this phone due to poor battery on my 14 pro max and I’m seriously unimpressed.

Sep 22, 2024 10:16 PM in response to Mis73

I have a dramatic battery drain after updating to ios18 too, this on iPhone SE and iPad. The iPhone SE empties itself totally not being used in less than a day (!) and the iPad looses 20% just sitting here with cover closed. For some OS that brings only few new functionality this is understandable. This already happened in the past but obviously Apple did not learn from it.


Sep 23, 2024 2:25 AM in response to Mis73

I have been using iPhone 12 since the day of its release. before updating my device to iPhone 12, I had neither issue with the battery draining too quickly nor my device heated and saw heating warning on my screen. 2 days into updating my device to iOS 18, I am facing the heating warning and my iPhone is not charging more than 30%


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iPhone battery draining after iOS 18 Update

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