"Disheartening". Nice. That sums up my feelings perfectly. That, and some not insignificant level of annoyance.
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iOS 16 Battery Drain Thread
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"Disheartening". Nice. That sums up my feelings perfectly. That, and some not insignificant level of annoyance.
Yep, it seems everything is gonna be blamed on the AOD, but I have had this issues with my 13 PM on the betas and then full version before I had the 14 PM. It’s definitely something deeper with iOS 16, and Apple is either ignoring it, or can’t figure it out.
To modify the above (and soften the blow a bit) – I got a voicemail with different instructions: they recommend I bring the phone into an Apple Store for "inspection and additional troubleshooting." Not the most convenient thing to do, but I suppose better than what was at the link they sent.
I really think it’s Safari. That’s when my phone gets really hot. It’s weird. My phone never got hot prior to 16. Now, if I’m using Safari for more than maybe 10 minutes, it gets really, really hot.
5G. Since Verizon went live with it. No battery or heat problem until 16.
For those with battery problems, I’ve found in past that doing a Network Reset has helped with the battery drain.
^Just tried this, and it got rid of the constantly spinning wheel in my status bar (for the first time in ages)… so if nothing else, it’s a win for that.
Does doing a network reset still wipe out all of your saved wifi passwords like it did in the past?
Weird that still happens. You'd think it would redownload it from your cloud keychain or something.
I actually do that with every major update. Unfortunately, it hasn’t helped this time.
Yeah… my wife said her phone was asking if she wanted to share the wifi pw with me (I wish I had known, as I had to try typing it in like 6 times before it finally stuck, lol).
The two things that I'm definitely seeing as drains on my 14P are
1) the 2000nits max on the screen.
2) the camera
I can definitely identify the down slope when both of those have been well used. Which is a shame as both are features that I upgraded for.
Yes the AOD is contributing to the usage but I'd have expected that to be covered by the new display controller and modest battery increase. And on the days when I've kept the phone face down versus face up on my desk I've only noticed a few % difference in drop off
1) the 2000nits max on the screen.
2) the camera
I can definitely identify the down slope when both of those have been well used. Which is a shame as both are features that I upgraded for.
Yes the AOD is contributing to the usage but I'd have expected that to be covered by the new display controller and modest battery increase. And on the days when I've kept the phone face down versus face up on my desk I've only noticed a few % difference in drop off
I can’t identi anything specific that is causing my 14 Oro Max drain. I have AOD off, 5G off, and background refresh globally off. I’m a very light user, most of the time it’s sitting unused on my desk or in my pocket. I have automations set to turn on airplane mode & enable low power mode between the hours of 11;00pm and 8;30am and the battery drain when it’s in that state seems about the same as I saw on my 13 Pro Max on iOS15. It’s the drain during the day when I’m not using it that seems to be much higher. It used to be that if I really didn’t use my phone at all all day, which quite often I don’t apart from maybe 10 minutes total use for messages, I would lose about 15% to 20% battery for the whole day whereas now I lose more like 25% to 30%. Before I liked the fact that I could go away for a weekend, even a long weekend, without needing to bother with a charger (just a cable in case of emergency) but I wouldn’t want to risk that now with my latest & definitely-not-greatest 14 Pro Max.
Given what I’m seeing with inactive drain seemingly only when not in airplane mode a network reset is definitely the next thing I’ll try. Maybe it is doing something weird and power-hungry somewhere down in the network stack. And I had really hoped that the latest Qualcomm modem which is on a smaller geometry now would give an improvement there.
Given what I’m seeing with inactive drain seemingly only when not in airplane mode a network reset is definitely the next thing I’ll try. Maybe it is doing something weird and power-hungry somewhere down in the network stack. And I had really hoped that the latest Qualcomm modem which is on a smaller geometry now would give an improvement there.
I agree with those findings. I've been on vacation taking a lot of pictures with sunshine. The new 2000nits max are beautiful, but taking pictures all day in the sun like that drains the battery like crazy. Which is kinda to be expected.
AOD on/off, weather widgets, all that stuff, made a minimal difference to me.
I tried today with latest beta of 16.1 on iPhone XS, I did at best 4.30h on screen time. On iOS 15.7 sure it was at least 5h.
That too is copypasta. If that were true then none of the others methods could fix power guzzling / hot / both iDevices.
A reset (vol. up > vol. down > pwr button hold) has fixed the majority of iDevice power guzzling for me in the past 15 years of dealing with iDevices.
If that doesn't work and it did not start with an OS update, then I toggle on Low Power mode.
I was using 16 since the first public beta and never reported the battery issues because I assumed it would be fixed by release
So hopefully this helps someone else out as I appear to have resolved my battery drain issues. I did two things and am not sure which is responsible for my improved battery life. So I turned Siri on then off again, I'd seen it recommended in the thread so gave it a shot. Then, and this one is more speculative but I was using 'blur background wallpaper' on the homescreen so I turned it all off and replaced with a solid color. Things are looking much better now, I finished the day yesterday with 32% battery after an 18 hour day.
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