The phone seems to be just as fast with iOS 16 as it was with iOS 15. But the rapid battery drain, of course, is unacceptable. I've had the phone since launch day, and its battery health is now at 86 percent.
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iOS 16 Battery Drain Thread
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Mine is settling in now. I charge to 80% and drain to 40%-35%.
iPhone 14 Pro iOS 16.1 Beta 3
iPhone 14 Pro iOS 16.1 Beta 3
For me, removing the weather widget from the lock screen did the trick. Now the 14PM is on par with the 13PM in terms of battery life. AOD on and the other settings same as before with the 13PM.
Apple really needs to look into fixing those lock screen issues :/
Apple really needs to look into fixing those lock screen issues :/
Do you have AOD turned on? If not, I don't see how a lockscreen widget – which is only displayed briefly here and there – could cause this problem?
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Upgraded my 13 non-pro to 16.0.2 this past Friday before leaving for a quick weekend trip. Sadly I had now idea about the battery issues, and whoa baby is it noticeable! I am going to go to bed with 100% and force close all apps and see what I wake up with. Very irritating. 😖
i'm convinced apple nuked the battery life to for users to upgrade to a new iphone. also, if you notice, right before new iphone drops, the battery health deteroriates quickly.
Yeah the battery deterioration is something that is quite odd. My 13 Pro was on 98% the whole time and after I installed beta ios 16 it dropped down to 93% in a matter of weeks.
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I do wonder if weather has something to do with it. I’ve been noticing much worse battery life since iOS 16 too, both with and without a weather widget on the Lock Screen.
However I have ‘always’ on weather location services as I like precipitation notifications. Back in iOS 15 I occasionally received the pop up to say ‘weather has been accessing your location’ but typically this would be accessed ~50 times over 3 days. I had this pop up for the first time on iOS 16 yesterday and it said my location had been accessed by weather 500 times over the last 3 days!
Maybe something has changed with how often location services are being accessed and that’s causing the drain issues for some?
However I have ‘always’ on weather location services as I like precipitation notifications. Back in iOS 15 I occasionally received the pop up to say ‘weather has been accessing your location’ but typically this would be accessed ~50 times over 3 days. I had this pop up for the first time on iOS 16 yesterday and it said my location had been accessed by weather 500 times over the last 3 days!
Maybe something has changed with how often location services are being accessed and that’s causing the drain issues for some?
Well, I plan to replace the battery and go for another year or two with my 12ProMax. I upgrade only when I want to, not when Apple wants me to.
Same, hence why I upgraded from an iPhone 5S to the iPhone X, and then to the iPhone 14 Pro.Well, I plan to replace the battery and go for another year or two with my 12ProMax. I upgrade only when I want to, not when Apple wants me to.
12 Pro Max. Battery life is complete 💩. I disabled the 3 Lock Screen widgets (weather/watch battery/activity), and it’s still awful. I will start using my phone around 7-7:30 AM. Some Safari. Spotify. YouTube. Mail. Nothing crazy. By the time noon comes around I’m down to like 60ish %. And it’s not constant use either. Sigh.
That could be unrelated…Battery could deteriorate by itself, or the calculation algorithm for battery health could be slightly different now. It still is just a rough indication, not something very accurate.
You are right, I’m usually an early adopter and as I said I don’t care about bugs. But huge battery drain is something I cannot really afford. That’s why I’m waiting.
Checking in. 13 mini on 16.1 beta 3; battery life still sucks, I’m easily down 25-30% compared to iOS 15.
Oh got you! Yeah I don’t think Apple has figured out the widget thing. They can’t seems to stop apps from using a lot of battery
That would normally make sense, but us on the new phone (I am using a 14 pro max) are still having battery drain issues. It’s a problem with iOS that Apple isn’t fixing. No new phone will make a difference.
20% drop in 4 hours.
iPhone 14 Pro iOS 16.1 Beta 4.
iPhone 14 Pro iOS 16.1 Beta 4.
At first I was ok with the fact that this is a new OS, it takes time and everything.
Been an apple user for more than 25 years, so this is not news to me.
But hell I absolutely hate it when you buy a brand new iPhone 14 pro, and the battery is worse than terrible!
Tried the usual things (disable AOD, weather widgets which I still is part of the problem, reset network, hard reboot, no haptic feedback) and the battery just melt like crazy.
Here's a fun photo taken now of my wife's "old" iPhone 13 pro on the left and my "brand new" iPhone 14 pro on the right.
Both are on iOS16. The graphic of my battery is epic! Downhill all the way and fast! And I barely used it today.
Hers is steady, barely eating anything.
I'm tempted to do another install, but this thing takes for ages for maybe no improvement ...
So frustrating.
Been an apple user for more than 25 years, so this is not news to me.
But hell I absolutely hate it when you buy a brand new iPhone 14 pro, and the battery is worse than terrible!
Tried the usual things (disable AOD, weather widgets which I still is part of the problem, reset network, hard reboot, no haptic feedback) and the battery just melt like crazy.
Here's a fun photo taken now of my wife's "old" iPhone 13 pro on the left and my "brand new" iPhone 14 pro on the right.
Both are on iOS16. The graphic of my battery is epic! Downhill all the way and fast! And I barely used it today.
Hers is steady, barely eating anything.
I'm tempted to do another install, but this thing takes for ages for maybe no improvement ...
So frustrating.
I'm seeing a very similar behavior on my 14PM compared to my previous 13PM. This is just crazy. I'm still on iOS 16.0.2 though, didn't try 16.1 beta yet.
I don’t know if it’s my usage habits, as I scaled back how much time I use social apps. But the biggest contributing factor to battery usage for me is now Safari. Never was before.
I happen to notice it looks to be the same situation for many of you. Is it a new thing for you folks?
I happen to notice it looks to be the same situation for many of you. Is it a new thing for you folks?