Battery problems after One UI 6.1 update

[AivarsV]

Got the One UI 6.1 update few days ago. The battery life after that has been a disaster. I have to charge my phone 2-3 times a day. You can see in the screenshots April 6th where I charged my phone (not fully) 3 times. Before this update, I was even able to use the phone for almost 2 days after fully charged.

 

 The problem as you can see could be due to "One UI Home Screen" which has used 80.9% of battery in 7 minutes.

Any ideas what to do? Is there a way to revert the update?

[Padowak1]

Good for you. I just got 6.1 a couple days before I posted that, and it has absolutely killed my battery life and charging speeds. Seems you're an outlier based on what everyone else is posting. What could you be doing that much differently? I have an android and an apple phone and have always thought my apple battery life was atrocious. Now this samsung's update is making me believe that no matter which operating system is used, the battery life/function will be intentionally degraded through updates

[the_bart123]

As I said you must have something messed up in Settings and if you want to be 10000% sure it is not UI6.1 and hardware problem you must factory reset and NOT do backup restore and use S23U of one day without app installation

[all_the_lovers]

My s23 plus battery is horrendous since this update! If Samsung don't fix this I'm ditching them!

[daveooooo]

I have s23+ too. Something has definitely changed. My battery is down to matbe 20% after a day sat in the office where before the update it would be 50%. I see the battery protection has changed from 85% to 80% so definitely some changes in that area. Support refused to give a reason why...which makes me suspicious of a wider issue. (I work in IT and aware of the deflection tactics)

[all_the_lovers]

So i managed to improve the drain by firstly adjusting motion smoothness to standard i then restarted my phone a few times and on the last reboot i left phone off for about 30 minutes, after this i noticed a significant improvement.

[Whocares10]

Factory reset? Your knowledge is ZERO

[arturs_z]

Same. Yesteday got an OneUI 6.1 update for my S22+ and now I regret installing that update. Battery indeed is draining much faster compared to what it was before this update. PLUS battery protection is now 80%, not 85% as it was before.

[Td76]

Same issue

[Sams30]

That's the great idea Samsung has to implement that you are awesome Brainer.

[Sams30]

Same here ....