Many iPhone 8 Plus/ iPhone X/XR/XS MAX user are facing fast battery drain after update to latet iOS 13 launched in Sep 2019. The battery drain in iPhone 8,7 Plus on iOS 13 started to happened just after the iOS 13 update and battery is drain really fast and sudden for some iPhone users.
Battery drain in iPhone 8 Plus, 6s is really fast right after iOS 13 update and it was never the case with iOS 11 or iOS 12. The battery drain really like it went from 68 % to 44 % within 10 minutes viz is like 1% drop in battery in one minutes in the iPhone 6s.
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| Fast battery drain in iOS 13 |
Even when tested with minimal usage/standalone the battery is still going down really fast like 30% in just one hour on iPhone 8 Plus. Before the update the battery easily lasted 1 - 1.5 days with usage. When checked the battery looks fine and ~90% to normal peak performance according to the battery stats function. Normal restart or low power mode is also not saving battery drain in iPhone 6s, 7 Plus with iOS 13 update.
Why battery is draining fast in iPhone 8 Plus on iOS 13 :
When observed closely it seem like this is not a battery/hardware fault that is causing server battery drain in iPhone 6s/iOS 13 but battery drain is a software glitch that is not showing the battery percentage accurately. Due to this bug the battery initially will not show any drain for long time, or may increase in percentage without charging. But after some times it will move to actual percentage randomly making it look as very fast or sudden drain of battery in iPhone.
How to fix Battery drain iPhone 8Plus, XR, XS MAX on iOS 13:
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| iOS 13: Quick battery drain |
Wordaround 1 : Reinstall the iOS 13 update
*Please make sure to take iPhone backup before doing restore
The battery software glitch could be due to improper installation/up gradation to iOS 13. And in order to fix that you should reinstall the iOS 13 as fresh.
You need to setup the iPhone as new, reinstalled everything from scratch and once you have done that everything should start to work normally.
To know how to reset/restore iPhone go to below link:
https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201252
Wordaround 2 : Disable Location and Background Location.
In setting you can check which app is using location services.
- You can optimize your battery life by turning off Location Services for the app in iphone. Turn off in Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
- In Location Services settings , you can see each app listed with its permission setting. Apps that recently used location services have an indicator next to the on/off switch.
Wordaround 3: Monitor background activity
There can be apps that are putting you iPhone busy doing work constantly and causing it to exhaust battery of iPhone. To improve battery life, you can turn off the feature that allows apps to refresh in the background. Go to Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh and select Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi & Cellular Data, or Off to turn off Background App Refresh .
Mail apps are usually the most battery consumer, If the Mail app lists Background Activity, you can choose to fetch data manually or increase the fetch interval. Go to Settings > Accounts & Passwords > Fetch New Data.
How to improve poor battery life in iOS 13:
Go to Settings -> Battery usage and check which apps are consuming tom much memory. See if you can do anything about this. In most of the cases application like Facebook, snapchat consumes too much battery and data after upgrade of iOS. You can try re-installing these apps to latest versions to fix any memory leaks. Or you may try following fix’s :
Fix 1. Turn off iCloud Drive sync: Change the iCloud setting to turn off the sync as this is major battery consuming take (like photos, video upload). Please check that any major cellular updates are also turned off.
Fix 2. Turn off Siri & Search indexing in Photos - to minimize the "risk" of lots of background activity that might drain the battery. It is quite possible that iOS 13 will be reading in the background the photos to try indexing and clustering them in order to offer better search options
Fix 3. Try setting Auto-Lock to a new value:iOS 13 system update might have set Auto-Lock to Never so the screen never turned off.
Fix 4. ResetGeneral settings: Clear the safari history. Turn the iMessage off for about 10 seconds then back on. Now Goto-> cellular settings and toggled ALL settings either off then on or on then off again depending on how they were originally set. Now hard reboot the iPhone and check the battery performance.
Fix 5. Turn Off unnecessary widgets/application: it is always recommended to disable any unnecessary widgets lying on your lock screen. You can also consider disabling Raise to wake feature and optimizing screen ON time etc.
Fix 6. Buy a Battery case or cover: You can consider buying battery cases from out recommended list as they are good power backup in case of emergencies.
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