Grumpy Old Geeks Topics iPhone battery drain Topic iPhone battery drain 3 mentions in 1 episode The hosts discuss battery drain and whether app settings or software updates contributed to it. Mentions 55: Premium Providers of Negative Value Apr 25, 2014 1:06 our phones were just dying immediately 2:44 turning off background refresh on just about everything 3:49 Dialing down the background app things has seemed to help a little bit.