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iOS 18 Battery Life Thread
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Photos and home & lock screen are using the most battery! Nearly a week since updating my 16 Pro to 18.6 beta 3
18.6 beta 3 has been a lot better for my 15 Pro. Battery no longer drains like crazy when simply sitting idle for example.
Even so soon after the update the battery on my 16 Pro seems to be dropping slower on 18.6 RC.
2 hours since coming off the charger and just under 1 hour of screen on time. Usually lost 4-5% at least by now.
2 hours since coming off the charger and just under 1 hour of screen on time. Usually lost 4-5% at least by now.
There’s an issue with home and Lock Screen on iOS 18 that:
-Randomly adds “screen-on time” to the hourly bar as “Home and Lock Screen” usage when the phone has been on standby with NO usage whatsoever
-I haven’t seen this before
-It’s not on iPadOS 18
-It is incredibly annoying to calculate battery life because I have to keep subtracting the time it adds
It randomly comes and goes. It started a couple of months after I bought it (it did NOT happen at the beginning, I got my 16 Plus back in March), and it never really went away. And it is magical. Not only does it appear randomly, sometimes it is weird. Say, it appears overnight at the 4:00 am-5:00 am bar for 23 minutes, and then stops. Randomly and inexplicably. I’m sleeping at that time and haven’t touched the phone. I wake up at, say, 6 am and I just have those 23 mins from 4 to 5 and nothing else. I haven’t really found a solution.
I am running iOS 18.3.1, I have never updated it, but from what you’re saying, I can assume that doesn’t fix it, either…
I mean, here’s proof. Last 10 days:
Thankfully since updating to 18.6 RC my battery consumption has reduced. Only been a few days so there’ll still be indexing etc going on in the background.
Home & Lock Screen is now 3rd on the list and usage has halved.
Hopefully looking at the most stable version of iOS 18.xx yet.
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Because you are also a victim of this:
Welcome to the club!
Yes, how did you managed to install to inspect this with the profile ?
Profiles can be found and installed from this page: https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/profiles-and-logs/.
There is one specific for Battery Usage. You have to install it and sync your iPhone with your computer. Then, you will find in the CrashReporter folder a file called PowerLog*.PLSQL which is a SQLite database with tons of information.
There is one table with Apps Usage, and in that table I found that com.apple.family was, by far, the process with higher background usage.
To be honest, I don’t know if that’s normal, but I found it at least suspicious. However, I haven’t been able to identify why this process is behaving this way and that’s why I asked here.
Next week I hope to have an iPhone without family sharing active and I will try to compare if the consumption is the same.
Thanks you so much, that a great tips that I didn’t know !
Everyone who have a problem in this forum should try this and report which daemon are the most active
Ill try that tonight and see what happens!
Home and Lock Screen phantom usage you mean? I do have that (have never really been able to solve it, running iOS 18.3.1), and yes, I have family sharing enabled.
Even if that were the case, my hands are tied. I absolutely cannot disable that.
Just have the full file, do you have the full name of the concerned row in the SQLite file ?
I don’t have the exact name now, but I think it starts with P and contains “AppUsage”. There was a column related to background usage, but there were more with other types of background usage (connected to the power, location, etc).
I sorted the results by timestamp and background time, as the table contains repeated rows depending on the time the “snapshot” was taken.
I sorted the results by timestamp and background time, as the table contains repeated rows depending on the time the “snapshot” was taken.
With iOS 18.6, the battery health degraded from 84% to 79% in about a week, and the actual operating time was noticeably reduced. I had to replace the battery.
i am still using ios 18.3 on iphone 13 but i am facing very high heat only while charging with the original charger but its normal temp while using it wondering if its ios bug i am afraid to update and things getting more worse
Could be a number of things, all from an iOS bug, App bug combo with iOS bug (most app developers assume you are running the latest OS and test their software towards that version).
Faulty HW (charger, phone, battery) etc.
18.3 is old and there has been a number of updates both for severe securty issues and bugs.
Update and see if it helps, if it continues, use another charger and if its still there, visit an Apple shop for assistance.
I was getting great battery life until yesterday. I’ll lose 5% or more an hour just idling. My phone does not get warm and the main usage of battery is ,Music and Home Lock Screen. I’m not listening to music and have no idea what home lock screen is….anyone?
Could be anything.
* Check devices that are communicating with the device, BT, Airplay and that's on the same network and can "talk" to your iphone. It's not the first time some network component has gone bananas and decides to affects batterylife on devices it can talk to.
* Have you updated network components recently? Then it could be that, and if not. Check if there are updates or try and restart the devices or disconnect (as a test).
* Update your apps on the phone if you haven't done so.
* Background tasks? (photos sync, backup or other tasks that are running in the background)