I haven't gotten around to contacting their tech support yet. It's not ideal to do so but I can't be spending more time charging my iPad than using it, it wasn't showing up as a major battery activity item but it was. The biggest improvement to my battery life came from turning off Proton VPN. Unfortunately it seems like there are factors at play that aren't obvious at all. I might try deleting the VPN profile entirely from the device to see if that does anything. Regardless, even when Find My is turned off everywhere, it still shows up as being active in the Battery app. It's strange though because the VPN rarely showed as a significant source of battery activity if at all, it looks like there is some kind of interplay between the VPN and Find My, but I think the VPN is the real culprit for the battery drain. I'll probably have to work with Proton VPN support to see if I can narrow down the problem. Find My is still 100% of the battery usage overnight (I simply turned it back on since having it off didn't seem to make a difference) though based on the bar graph the energy use isn't significant, I only noticed 1-2% drain overnight vs.
So far I have been seeing much improved battery life by turning off Proton VPN. My iPad is set to use my iPhone as "my location", if I switch it to the iPad then that also becomes the location on my iPhone, since the latter is always with me I think keeping my location as the iPhone makes the most sense. I will try turning it off to see what happens and possibly resetting all settings on both devices. My only other thought is that Proton VPN is triggering Find My somehow. The only band-aid I've found for this problem is turning on airplane mode when the iPad is not in use, though this isn't a viable option for my iPhone. The battery needs to be replaced since it is down to 83% capacity, but just last night it dropped from a 100% charge to 81%, primarily from Find My being active at night. Waiting for 3 months until the new OS is officially released is too long to wait with an issue like this.Ĭoincidentally, Find My is also the bulk of my battery usage overnight on my iPhone X.
HOW MUCH BATTERY LIFE IS USED OVERNIGHT INSTALL
Having done a full restore I am at a loss for what else to do besides take my iPad in to the Apple Store (I am still covered by AppleCare for over a year) or install the iPad OS 15 public beta once it is available in the hope that it fixes this. It took the battery down from 100% to 95% in about 5 hours while the iPad was asleep. In the span of 2 hours last night it went from 6% to 54% to 100% of battery activity while the iPad was inactive. Unfortunately, it looks like I spoke too soon, like an ugly gremlin Find My has reappeared in my battery activity list. I’ve since switched to SoundHound, until they pull this same BS at least. They are gracious enough to stop it once your battery is down to 20%, what swell guys. You have to force-quit the app to stop it, the setting can’t be changed in iOS. I only noticed this recently when my battery was drained 50% overnight. This happens when your iPhone’s screen is off, without your knowledge. On a related note, Shazam now has a new “feature” where the app will constantly listen through your microphone for songs so that you never miss one you want to identify.
HOW MUCH BATTERY LIFE IS USED OVERNIGHT BLUETOOTH
Apple needs to fix this, its eerily similar to what Amazon is planning by taking bandwidth from people’s WiFi networks for their Sidewalk service, but instead your device’s bluetooth itself is being shared to benefit Apple’s AirTag network. It’s better than keeping Bluetooth on just to have this unwanted, unauthorized background activity going on. The annoying thing about keeping Bluetooth off is that it makes my Apple Pencil non-functional but I can quickly turn it back on when I need to. Whether it’s a legitimate bug or a “glitch”, my guess is that the iPad and AirTag were pinging eachother. After turning off Find My again, it was still showing up in battery activity, now I also turned off Bluetooth and Find My has finally disappeared from my battery activity over the past few days and standby battery life has improved. You are onto something, I’ve had an AirTag on my keychain for about three months and it’s within this timeframe that I noticed the Find My problem.
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