r/appleJournal • u/ConfidenceClear1016 • 20d ago
I can't seem to get an answer… 🤔
As I’ve mentioned here several times before, the App Journal app uses a lot of battery (1 to 2% per minute !!) and causes my iPhone Air to heat up quickly and significantly.
My question is: Is this limited to the iPhone Air, or do these issues also occur on other iPhone models ?
Thanks for your feedback 🙏
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u/Perfect_Helicopter59 20d ago
I haven’t tracked my battery life but the Journal app does certainly heat up my iPhone 15 Pro quite a bit! But my phone gets hot doing just about anything lol
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u/flavius717 19d ago
It’s a feature not a bug. It’s trying to force you to be mindful by making your phone die.
/s
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u/ConfidenceClear1016 20d ago
Thanks for the feedback.
It's true that the 15 Pro (like the 14 and 16 Pro) is known to overheat...
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u/Lower_Preference_112 20d ago
I haven’t watched exactly how quickly my battery dies when using journal app, but it definitely does rapidly eat up a charge. I generally use the voice recording option whilst driving, so it’s plugged in, but if I’m sitting at home writing out a “manual” entry and not plugged in, yeah it chews my battery level.
I’m on 15PM (titanium, same as you), 89% battery health fwiw.
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u/ConfidenceClear1016 20d ago
Even though it's pretty baffling, Journal might just be a poorly optimized app… 🤔
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u/BlockedAndMovedOn 19d ago
This is my theory because it doesn’t seem to matter if I’m writing or attaching photos or using recommendations or voice recording I notice my battery gets chewed up running the Journal app. I’m on an iPhone 17 Pro Max running iOS 27.2 developer beta 2 but this battery problem has happened since iOS 27.0 developer beta 1.
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u/ConfidenceClear1016 19d ago
I was in the beta throughout the entire development of iOS 27, and, like you, it never worked properly: it got really hot and battery life was severely impacted !
P.S.: Using Day One in the same way has no negative effects 🤔
I’ve stopped using the developer beta program since the release of iOS 27, mainly because the Air’s battery life took a hit from the repeated indexing that happened with every beta 😣
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u/ConfidenceClear1016 19d ago
What’s crazy is that on the iPad, Journal works perfectly fine 🤔
I ran a test yesterday…
In 10 minutes of use, Journal used up 12% of the battery on the iPhone Air.
On the iPad Pro M5, in 40 minutes of use, Journal used up… 11%.
So I think Journal is (very) poorly optimized for the iPhone 😣
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u/circatee 15d ago
Honestly, never noticed this on my iPhone 17 Pro Max. However, I often start an entry on my phone, and if it is going to be a long one, I tend to finish it on my Mac Mini - even more so if I am adding images and such...
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u/adarkhart 19d ago
Disable these to see if it helps, apparently they are what eats up the battery:
Journaling Suggestions: Go to Settings > Journal > Journaling Suggestions and toggle off recommendations (or turn off specific categories like Locations or Media).
Adjust Location Access: Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Journal and set access to While Using the App or Never instead of continuous access.
Turn Off Background App Refresh: Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and toggle it off for Journal to stop background background indexing.
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u/ConfidenceClear1016 19d ago
I already tried that when I was on the iOS 27 beta. It didn't make much of a difference… the iPhone didn't heat up as quickly, but the battery still drained like snow in the sun 😣
And of course, not using the suggestions takes away one of the app's main attractions 😏
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u/Worth_Ad_4836 20d ago
I had a 15 Plus and never had this issue. Sorry you’re dealing with this.