Just about every phone I’ve ever had gets warm to very hot during initial setup and for a short time thereafter while the phone does its background activities. I didn’t have anything unusual with my new 15PM. My location arrow is on constantly and has always been so as I have various apps-several weather apps, family location apps,etc.-that I have set for constant location activity. Never have had any battery impact or heating of phone because of this. Those issues are usually due to a specific app. Find that app and you can solve the issue.
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iPhone 15 Pro Found a fix for the 15 pro battery drain and heat
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I am hearing so many differing reports on this. My 14 pro max has been awesome on ios 17. Getting between 7-9 hours SOT only using about 50% of the battery
But is that because many Maxes are affected, or because the people that are more active on Twitter tend to buy a Max?
My 15PM is great with iOS17. No overheating, battery is great. Will it get warm sometimes? Of course, as my 13P. It's not iOS, it's not a widespread problem. Apple needs to do nothing about it. If there are faulty units, they will be exchanged. But one should not alarm if the phone gets a bit warm when doing intensive tasks like calls or photo shooting. Scalding hot? Yeah that's one rare defective unit
If your 15PM doesn't have this issue, how many FPS are you getting while playing Genshin Impact? Based on benchmarks that I have seen, the 15PM seems to perform nearly the same as the 14PM due to thermal throttling.
I believe I saw something like 58 FPS on the 15PM that was used in that test.
I have no idea, never planned on playing anything on my phone. But I downloaded the game and played 10 minutes through the tutorial. Can't find where to show the fps. Was very smooth, and during that time it was barely warm. It's warmer when I take pictures, and even warmer when I charge it. I don't know how long it would take to overheat but I'm under the impression that it wouldn't become warmer than that. I would continue playing but it's not my kind of game and the screen is small to enjoy the experience. I only enjoy playing on my PS5
Is there anything we need to leave on under location/system services? Experiencing battery drain issues with my iphone 15 pro as well.
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, it’s difficult to say whether we’re 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 wasn’t 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? I’m not sure if this will help you…
btw. see also discussion here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255150683?answerId=259595417022#259595417022 Though I’m only using Low Power Mode during night and I’m also using the calendar, weather and news widget, i.e. I didn’t turn off all widgets as suggested in this post.
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, it’s difficult to say whether we’re 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 wasn’t 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? I’m not sure if this will help you…
- 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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btw. see also discussion here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255150683?answerId=259595417022#259595417022 Though I’m only using Low Power Mode during night and I’m also using the calendar, weather and news widget, i.e. I didn’t turn off all widgets as suggested in this post.
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Update: Sinice yesterday 01:50 AM till now 7:35 AM my battery is at 57% (like always, I put my phone in low battery and sleep mode during night). It seems everything is fine for now.
I have all of my location services still switched on and I have no battery issues (15 pro)
I do normally switch most of them off but I've been lazy to research which I should keep on. I dont think I've even switched off frequent locations yet.
Wonder why only some people have battery drain issues.
I do normally switch most of them off but I've been lazy to research which I should keep on. I dont think I've even switched off frequent locations yet.
Wonder why only some people have battery drain issues.
I think a lot of it is just initial “burn in” 
-reindexing large restores from old phone, battery optimization learning etc.
I used my 15Pro pretty heavily yesterday (Safari, Hulu, Spotify, social media) was only down to 52% from full charge at 6am to 10pm.
I’m thinking a lot of the battery complaints with the 15 Pro calm down after a few days.
Saw this video directly comparing the 13/14/15 Pros. The 15 Pro won. It lasted 8 hours with heavy use.
-reindexing large restores from old phone, battery optimization learning etc.I used my 15Pro pretty heavily yesterday (Safari, Hulu, Spotify, social media) was only down to 52% from full charge at 6am to 10pm.
I’m thinking a lot of the battery complaints with the 15 Pro calm down after a few days.
Saw this video directly comparing the 13/14/15 Pros. The 15 Pro won. It lasted 8 hours with heavy use.
My iphone 15 pro still has trash battery life after a week. I haven’t noticed a ton of location services usage but will try disabling some of the many system service options and see if that helps but very unimpressed. Battery life is worse than my 5 year old iPhone 11 Pro with 70% battery health
I'm returning mine . 4.5H of screen on time does not suffice at all
I think it’s iOS 17 issue, rather than a phone issue. After installing iOS 17 on my iPhone 13 Pro, it started getting quite hot sometimes. I found that closing Facebook and Instagram caused it to cool down quickly.
Not having much of a heat issue on my 15 Pro except for when I was downloading/restoring my backup data whole charging (phone got so hot, it informed me it would stop charging until it cooled off).
Not having much of a heat issue on my 15 Pro except for when I was downloading/restoring my backup data whole charging (phone got so hot, it informed me it would stop charging until it cooled off).
There have been some reports a full wipe and clean iOS and app install (not a transfer or from backup) fixed both the heating and battery issues.
But it’s all anecdotal at this point. Still early days.
I would try a complete wipe and dont restore from backup.
I'm getting 4h screen on from 50% battery on normal screen brightness. I don't recall it getting hot and it has been in a case since launch day.
I do switch off things like listen for Siri, background refresh, standby and screen always on is off. I also turned off some location services but they were all on until yesterday. I also have to run 1 app to always allow access to my precise location as my phone gets me into my car and I know that drains some battery.
I'm getting 4h screen on from 50% battery on normal screen brightness. I don't recall it getting hot and it has been in a case since launch day.
I do switch off things like listen for Siri, background refresh, standby and screen always on is off. I also turned off some location services but they were all on until yesterday. I also have to run 1 app to always allow access to my precise location as my phone gets me into my car and I know that drains some battery.
Interesting. This is something I turn off during initial setup. I allow location for Find My and Maps, but that’s it.