FordPass High Battery Usage - iOS

[Mach-Lee]

Anybody else seeing high battery usage in the latest version of FordPass? Usually it’s only single digit percent, recently it’s been near 20% of my battery usage. Not doing anything special with it, and I try to keep the app quit as much as possible. FordPass 5.28.0 iOS 18.7

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[Maquis]

Yes. FP is currently my biggest consumer at 29%.
Paging Brian…. @Ford Motor Company

 

[CarlSagan82]

5% is the highest I got two days out of the last week. I did update to ios26 the first day and noticed better battery overall.

 

[markboris]

Haven't noticed FordPass showing anything higher than single digits in the last 7 days shown on my phone. I've been using iOS 26 public beta since June but now on the latest regular iOS 26.0.1, FordPass 5.28.0 on my 17 Pro. I also have all settings in access turned on for FordPass

 

[desiguy2447]

Same here my Ford APP on IOS 26.01 was at 70% use rate yesterday. My battery drained by 11:30am to 48%. I then charged back to 68% and I had to charge the Iphone again at 4pm. From the Iphone forums I disabled backgroud App refresh on the Ford App. Checking this morning the Ford App is only at 1%. as of 7:53AM.

 

[Tampamike]

Mine was at 47%. My phone battery was low around 5 pm which never happens. I haven’t changed any settings recently and the car didn’t even leave the garage yesterday. Thought it was just sleeping soundly …

 

[RoyHobbs]

Yep, it’s definitely using ALOT more battery than before. I noticed it after an update about a month ago.

 

[ah38k]

Yeap, noticed it about the time I upgraded to iOS 26. It seems to have returned back to normal in the last few days though. I did force close the app and reopen it, this has helped in the past.

 

[RoyHobbs]

It happened on iOS 18 and iOS 26.
I’m fairly certain it started with the Ford Pass update 5.27.0 and continued in 5.28.0.

I’ve always had background app refresh turned off

 

[BatteriesIncluded]

Another data point. I’ve noticed at times with iOS18 and a 16 pro high usage. I currently have iOS26 and 17 pro and the usage is not high right now.

 

[Bad Dolphin]

Another data point. I’ve noticed at times with iOS18 and a 16 pro high usage. I currently have iOS26 and 17 pro and the usage is not high right now.

Huh. I'm on iOS 18 and just checked. FordPass background usage is on and usage was 1%.
ProMax 15.

How did you guys get ios26 offered?

 

[RoyHobbs]

Huh. I'm on iOS 18 and just checked. FordPass background usage is on and usage was 1%.
ProMax 15.

How did you guys get ios26 offered?

iOS 26 has publicly available for a few weeks.

 

[Bad Dolphin]

iOS 26 has publicly available for a few weeks.

Thank you, RoyHobbs. Just found it at the bottom of the update screen.

Checked and it seems that many had problems including blue tooth/Wifi connectivity and overheating/battery drain issues. This may be because the phones had to re index everything and for some it went away after a few days. But others had to wipe their phones and reinstall from backup...

Did you have issues?

 

[RoyHobbs]

Thank you, RoyHobbs. Just found it at the bottom of the update screen.

Checked and it seems that many had problems including blue tooth/Wifi connectivity and overheating/battery drain issues. This may be because the phones had to re index everything and for some it went away after a few days. But others had to wipe their phones and reinstall from backup...

Did you have issues?

Zero issues.

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

Mine is up there too. It's currently the top battery user. Here's for the last 24 hours.

More shockingly, here's for the last 10 days:

I'm still running iOS 18.6.2. FP is version 5.28.0.

Hey Ford, what's going on?

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