Lately, I’m noticing my iPhone battery is draining very fast. When I went to investigate in Settings → Battery I see that the wyze app is always the #1 usage app by far and it has hours of background usage in the last 24 hours ex: (1min screen 16h 27m background). No other app even comes close to background usage.
I have a quite few wyze devices added: 5 cameras 2 doorbell, but I’ve had these all for a while and it’s just started occurring since the latest iOS update. I’ve also tried force closing the wzye app and restarted my iPhone multiple times, but neither has helped.
Wyze App Version: v2.42.1 (1)
iOS Version 16.5
Is anyone else noticing how much battery the wyze app is using?
I’ve been using my Wyze app quite a bit recently ( I’m traveling) and still it’s a distant second to Safari in terms of battery use. I’ll hold off on my iOS update also.
Sorry to hear that. I am starting to wonder if maybe a self-hosted solution for cameras will be a better choice. Wyze used to provide RTSP beta firmware not not anymore super sad.
Cheers, and good luck on getting this resolved I simply kill the app every time it seams to help.
I have iphone 16, ios 18,5. I have a doorbell and cam pan that are on all the time, I have 3 v3’s that I turn on as needed. I never had a problem with phone battery usage even with all cameras on until I started using the battery cam. Where as I usually charged the phone every other day, now it won’t last 1 day. The phone also gets hot. I need to check the battery cam about 15 times a day for a couple of minutes and I always close the app when done. Detection settings and event recording are turned off. Notifications are on so I know when the battery gets low (battery only lasts a day or 2).