Do you have a lot of data on you phone? Sometimes indexing and spotlight as well as initial self optimization take a toll on the battery. But it could also be a rouge app. Restart the phone, look into battery usage to find out what is consuming all the battery. Some apps are still not optimized for iOS15. Battery usage should tell you.
Yes, I've tried all that. None of the apps seem to be "running away" with battery life as per the Battery screen in settings, which I've basically been staring at regularly for the last few weeks.
Anyways, the last two days, the battery life seems to have settled down somewhat. Yesterday I was averaging about 4-5% drop per hour, again without doing too much on the phone. The active use is fine and as expected, it's the stand-by battery drain that I'm unhappy with. I just checked, and turned off (two days ago) the "Send Last Location" under "Find My iPhone". I am literally afraid to turn it back on for now, because the battery life has been more or less as expected over the last two days. I also did try toggling the whole Find My iPhone feature on and off.
Anyways, came back from the Apple store a few hours ago. I knew going in that it was a complete waste of time, but whatever, it's only about 10 min from me. The Genius ran diagnostic on my phone, and shocker, there's nothing wrong with it. His suggestions were: turn off background app refresh, turn on dark mode all the time -- umm, but, but, but shouldn't the ***** phone work right without that? Also these have always been on.
He also kind of commented that iOS15.1 should be out relatively soon. And then we discussed what dumpster fire iOS15 has been.