- Are you experiencing unexpected iPhone battery drain
after updating to iOS 15.4?
So many people are complaining about this, in fact,
that Apple released a statement, which they rarely do,
that says,
- "Thanks for reaching out. We'll be happy to help.
It's normal for your apps and features
to need to adjust up to 48 hours after an update.
Let's have you reach out to us in a DM
if this is still an issue after that time,
so we can help you look into this further."
"DM us so this conversation is no longer public.
We're not too happy about all these negative articles
being written right now."
There is some truth to this.
After installing an iOS update,
your iPhone does need to run some background tasks
to refresh its caches, indexes, and databases.
- But for 24 to 48 hours?
What?
What are they doing here?
What's going on in the background of your phone
that's taking 24 to 48 hours to work out?
Nothing.
- Apple says up to 48 hours.
That sounds to me like that's the extreme use case.
So, for the average user,
this really shouldn't take that long at all.
Let alone several days of noticeable battery drain.
- This always happens after an iOS update, is the point,
but this time it's happening but worse,
and Apple's coming out with this feeble response.
- What is the real reason?
We have a couple of theories,
one much more plausible than the other.
And we actually pointed this out
in our "iOS 15.4 Settings to Change" video.
ProMotion display now supported in third-party apps.
- So, this is an interesting one for me,
because since it's so new,
I think that there could be bugs with it still.
I mean, there were bugs,
that's why it's taken them this long to release it
in the first place.
And I wanna talk about a battery life issue
that may occur in certain people's phones.
- We noticed that a lot of people complaining
about this excessive battery drain had a 13 Pro,
or a 13 Pro Max.
What is the one new 15.4 feature
that only applies to 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max?
- ProMotion. (dramatic music)
120Hz refresh rate for the screen,
is only available on the 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max,
and Apple, with the release of iOS 15.4 opened it up
to every single third-party app to be able to use.
Before, it was only the Apple apps that could use it.
And it was supposed to come out right away,
but it was buggy.
So, that's why Apple waited this long
to actually build in this integration.
And I thought to myself,
this is gonna cause battery problems.
- Did it?
It may have.
Now let's talk about- - Maybe.
- How to turn that off on your iPhone.
So, open the Settings app,
scroll down,
and tap on Accessibility,
then tap on Motion,
and then turn on the switch next to Limit Frame Rate,
tap that, turn it on.
- All the way back to 60Hz.
We're not saying to do this forever,
but we are saying to do it for now
to save your battery life.
- Yeah.
Especially if you're experiencing this issue,
go in here, turn it off, use it for a day or two,
see what the battery does,
and- - And let us know.
- Please leave a comment,
and let us know if we're right about this,
because that would be some really great prediction
on your part.
- I personally don't like the precedent
that this is setting,
because Apple is saying that every time
they release a new software update,
you need to be within range of a charger for 24 to 48 hours,
because, oh, by the way, your phone battery might die.
It's normal.
Like, no, it's not normal.
Apple is now firing the person
that wrote that support message.
- I don't know if they'd go that far, but...
- I'm telling you David, they are not happy.
- They're admitting that there's a normal issue.
- There's always an issue- - There's an issue,
but it's totally normal-
- It's normal. Don't worry about it.
Unless it's in Apple's actual documentation.
- It's not.
- Yeah. So it's not,
Apple support goes sort of outside the lines here.
I think somebody made a judgment call.
- Maybe.
- One other potential cause of this problem,
I think it's very, very unlikely,
but Apple also just rolled out the digital ID for iOS 15.4.
It must have been in the code when 15.4 was released,
'cause they just kind of threw it out there to the world.
Seems very unlikely that would be the problem, though.
- Especially since the first tweets about this,
the one that we read, came out about four days ago.
- Yeah.
And if that was the issue, well, tough luck,
because you can't just turn off that feature, unfortunately.
- I'd love to see a progress bar,
or a little message that says "indexing,"
somewhere in the Settings app,
or in the Battery section of the Settings app.
I'm not asking for activity monitor,
or task manager Windows 95 here,
I just wanna see "indexing,"
kind of like Spotlight on your Mac,
whatever it starts to re-index,
there's a little thing that's just going across the screen.
- Some other fixes for you,
look out for another iOS update,
even though this one kind of broke your phone.
15.4.1.
If there is a bug, Apple tends to squash it pretty quickly,
but for long-term great battery life,
check out our iOS 15 battery tips card above,
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we'll have a link there to it.
- Because this issue may not be the only battery problem
on your phone. - Yeah. It probably isn't.
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I'm actually really curious about this.
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