I got my iPhone 15 Pro (not Max) on Friday afternoon (22.9.23). I upgraded from an 4 years old iPhone 11 Pro.
I have some mixed feelings about all this. First of all, when buying a premium product for such a high price you would also expect premium quality. Having said that, itās difficult to say whether weāre talking here about some hardware or software issues. The former would be rather serious, the latter can be 'easily' fixed via software updates.
In my case, I also wasnāt quite satisfied with the battery life at the beginning. I went through various forums and found several articles with exactly the same issue with the iPhone 14 Pro, such as this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254371223
Anyway,
after 4 days, or to be more precise, since yesterday evening (CET time), it seems that the battery got a lot better. What have I done? Iām not sure if this will help youā¦
- I usually restore my backup via iTunes (not cloud)
- Background app refresh is turned off for almost all apps.
- Standby is deactivated
- Siri is deactivated
- I checked for all apps if notifications are really needed
- Use 5G Auto instead of 5G (or even 3G). 5G consumes a lot more energy than 3G or 4G
- I also tried the following, which I guess really helped:
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Maybe itās a combination of all, maybe the āindexingā is done by now, which is a normal process when installing a new iOS and restoring a lot of data from your backup (I had about 14T pictures). In any case, especially after following the last tip, my battery seemed to improve. I charged my phone yesterday or rather today at 01:50 AM to 100% (had to finish sth. for work) and now, at 10:14 PM in the evening my battery is at 62%, after texting, talking on phone about 50 min, listening to Spotify on my way to work and back, using Safari, Outlook and a bit Instagram. Iām not playing on the phone. 62% at the end of the day, with moderate use, is OK for me.
btw. see also discussion here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255150683?answerId=259595417022#259595417022 Though Iām only using Low Power Mode during night and Iām also using the calendar, weather and news widget, i.e. I didnāt turn off all widgets as suggested in this post.