IOS 14.2 causes severe battery drain

Users on Apple Pull developer forums and on Reddit are widely reporting that iOS 14.2 causes serious battery drain problems.

Problem symptoms include faster battery drain and longer charge times than usual. Some users are reporting that their devices lose more than 50 percent of their charge in less than 30 minutes, and see drops as large as five percent in minutes of normal use.

This issue seems to be related to software as many users stick to a high percentage of battery life before dropping, as well as seeing a sudden gain in battery life after restarting their device.

Affected iPhones all look a little bigger like iPhone XS, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S, and first generation iPhone SE. The 2018 iPad Pro running on iPadOS 14.2 also seems to be affected.

IOS 14.2 and IP. DOS 14.2 The other major updates to the iOS and IP OS DOS 14.1 operating systems came just two weeks after iOS 14.1 and IP DOS 14.1, which were released in September. Updates include new emojis, intercoms, AirPods, optimized battery charging, people search, and new wallpapers.

There are no new reports suggesting that the battery issue has been fixed in iOS 14.2.1, which was intended to address bugs with MMS messages, built for iPhone hearing devices, and an important issue with screen responsibility on the iPhone 12 Mini.

The third developer and public beta of iOS 14.3 and iPodOS 14.3 have already been released, so it is possible that Apple could fix the problem in that update. The third major update to iOS 14 and iPad. DOS 14 brings support for Apple Pal Prora, as well as improvements to home, health and weather.

Devices Users with older devices may stop updating to iOS 14.2 unless they fix this issue by the moment they don’t already do so.