FordPass App and battery drain

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Decided to start a separate thread on this. FordPass app, 3 cars, iOS 14.0.1, iPhone 11 Pro Max. Called out Ford and Apple on Twitter. Anyone else experiencing this?
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My phone upgraded to iOs 14 from 13.7 yesterday (no clue why it took so long). No problems before, I'll post when/if it happens under 14
 
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My phone upgraded to iOs 14 from 13.7 yesterday (no clue why it took so long). No problems before, I'll post when/if it happens under 14
To be clear, I did NOT have this issue under iOS 13. I believe some combination of iOS 14 or an update to the app has caused this.
 

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I would reboot the phone. If the issue persists after reboot, I would disable background activity of the Ford app for now. (You can control that in iPhone settings, on an individual app basis.)

It's probably a bug.
 
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I would reboot the phone. If the issue persists after reboot, I would disable background activity of the Ford app for now. (You can control that in iPhone settings, on an individual app basis.)

It's probably a bug.
Already did all of that. Turned off access to motion and fitness too but would like someone to tell me why FordPass would EVER need that. Considering deleting the app.
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Decided to start a separate thread on this. FordPass app, 3 cars, iOS 14.0.1, iPhone 11 Pro Max. Called out Ford and Apple on Twitter. Anyone else experiencing this?
Now that you mentioned this, I started having battery drain problems in the last few weeks as well. Easy test: I don't use FordPass now so I'll remove it.
 
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Already did all of that. Turned off access to motion and fitness too but would like someone to tell me why FordPass would EVER need that. Considering deleting the app.
I think it's to help you find your parked car or find things like gas, charging, parking, dealers, food etc. If the phone can track your location when you are moving then it can display where you are relative to the items you are searching for.

Just a guess though.
 

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yesterday I brought up the FordPass app while in my car and it started with "please hit this button to say you're not driving the car" so yeah I think it's tied to the detection of driving.
 
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Update . . . Apple responded to my Tweet. The first two things they suggested I had already tried. The last thing was my last resort, but it worked. Had to delete the FordPass app and download it again with a clean install. Now gone from my American Top 40 list of battery hogs.
 

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Update . . . Apple responded to my Tweet. The first two things they suggested I had already tried. The last thing was my last resort, but it worked. Had to delete the FordPass app and download it again with a clean install. Now gone from my American Top 40 list of battery hogs.
Still can't do anything without the car.
 

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Still can't do anything without the car.
Sort of: You can use it to search out charging stations (in fact I found a local one on Ford Pass that wasn't showing up on my plugshare). I also can use it to remote start my wife's Escape ;)
 

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Still can't do anything without the car.
it sort of half-ass understands my Fusion's existence, so it seems to at least somewhat be tied to the same back end as MyFord Mobile. But not completely. Not quite sure exactly what's going on there.

I am very curious if the old app will work with the new car, though. Not because it has to, mind you - more just from an IT/developer morbid curiosity sort of thing.
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