battery drainage with iOS 18.1

By Alicia Krage, 1 November, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

I updated to iOS 18.1 on Tuesday, and since then, I noticed my phone gets hot very fast and the battery life is terrible. I don't go into battery settings too often -- I never really need to -- but when I checked to see what was causing this, under the insights and suggestions heading I did see that it says "update finishing in background." I saw this yesterday. It's still there.

I'm not sure how new the insights and suggestions feature is, but I have a friend who just did a software update and his isn't showing that. I'm not sure if it's a bug that's a case by case basis or what's going on.

I know that there are things that happen in the background after an update, but this just seems kind of excessive. I called Appple and they said there's no set amount of time and not to be concerned about it, but my battery only lasts like 5 hours before I have to charge it.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Sorry for the long post I just wanted to give some context.

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By Kushal Solanki on Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 03:54

Hi.
I'm experienceing the same issue as well in IOS 18.1.

By Tiffani Milburn on Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 03:54

I’ve been having the same problem with my iPhone 12 mini.

By TamagotchiTune on Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 03:54

Its been happening since 18.0 for me.

By Alicia Krage on Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 03:54

Last night when I charged my phone, I decided to take a look again and I no longer see the message, so hopefully it's fixed and done doing whatever it was doing. Also, for context, I forgot to mention this previously but I have the iPhone 15.

By Brooke on Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 03:54

I've been noticing the same on my 16 Pro Max.