New annoyance for users of an iPhone. The well-known disaster warning app NINA currently ensures empty cell phone batteries. An update published days ago probably missed its target and unfortunately did not help.

On July 21, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief published the Update to version 3.3.5 for the NINA app with the aim of eliminating errors. Before that, there were massive complaints about increased battery consumption on the iPhone. As it now turns out, the update did not help.

NINA app ensures that iPhone batteries are empty

This is the conclusion of a current article with regard to current experience reports. Still has been proven to cause trouble for NINA and literally sucks the battery of the iPhone empty (Source: iphone-ticker.de).

The cause of the problems seems to be Location localization of the app to be, a bug that probably crept in at the beginning of July with version 3.3.4 should now actually be fixed. Contrary to the developers’ promise, this is probably not the case. It’s a shame, but what can users do about it?

Only One possible solution at the moment is to deactivate the location functionTo do this, simply switch the “Current location” switch in the app settings to inactive. Disadvantage: Automatic warning messages for the current location then logically no longer occur. If you want to receive warnings, you have to manually manage and add to the list of locations in the app. Not particularly comfortable, but at least the battery consumption is significantly reduced and the iPhone still has enough power for any warning messages.

What is NINA and what can the app do? The answer in the video:

Criticism of NINA and Co.

Worth mentioning: NINA and other warning apps were recently criticized by Stiftung Warentest. they all have not yet implemented Apple’s “Critical Alerts” function and accordingly do not warn if the iPhone is in “Do not disturb” mode. When asked, the developers promised a remedy and integration in a future update.