iOS 16 Battery Drain Thread

[FeliApple]

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It took longer than it should have, sorry. I barely used my phone yesterday and today, I was mostly on desktop due to work. I’m putting this out here if it’s worth anything.

Yeah, that doesn’t look good at all, unfortunately.

 

[FeliApple]

I’ve loaded back iso 15.6rc now. I’ve increased to 4.18h and it’s only the 2nd day of usage. Well it’s better! Of course I’m way behind on security now. Damn

Yeah, iOS 16 then. Like always, unfortunately!

 

[Kobs]

Another battery test🤞🏻

 

[Al Rukh]

Not the best but still could pull an all-day battery life.

 

[thadoggfather]

How would you all rank 16.0 vs 16.1 vs 16.2 vs 16.3 so far in battery?

Which 16.x.x version has been the best and which has been the worst?

My experience is limited to 16.0.x and 16.1 but 16.1 with a restore (and I think restore from backup) has been solid on my 14 PM. I think 14 PM had enough overhead that coming from 12 Pro on 15.1 it wasn't too bad, but 16.1 definitely helped things a lot imo.

 

[jameseld82]

I have to say since 16.3.1 I was finding better battery life on my 14 Plus and now I have a 14 Pro Max again it is even better.

I charged it to 100% yesterday at 12:23pm and currently I have 55% battery left. Screen times has been 5hr 50 minutes since then. it has been a mix of social media, watching YouTube and web browsing

 

[phrekaru]

I turned off True Tone and hard rebooted and the battery stop drain

 

[Hans300]

iOS 16.3(.1) is a train-wreck in terms of battery life

 

[Kobs]

Very light use of the 14PM today with IOS 16.3.1, as I have used another mobile phone more, but charging to 100% makes a lot of difference, I normally charge to 96 or 97%.

 

[bu3lwa]

Ios 16.4 beta on my 14PM its really good battery optimization I play game for 2 .5 hours mostly browsing nd social media no heating at-all

 

[FeliApple]

Ios 16.4 beta on my 14PM its really good battery optimization I play game for 2 .5 hours mostly browsing nd social media no heating at-all

Well, it's the device's original iOS version. If it's not good here, it'll never be.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Battery life hasn’t been that great lately. It struggles. Could be the low cellular connection. I would love to see hitting 10 hours a day but barely getting 5 hours of usage.

 

[FeliApple]

Battery life hasn’t been that great lately. It struggles. Could be the low cellular connection. I would love to see hitting 10 hours a day but barely getting 5 hours of usage.

What device is it?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

What device is it?

I’m sorry. I should have mentioned it. It’s iPhone 14 Pro Max 1TB (Unlocked)

 

[Guacamole]

thoughts?

iPhone users claim Apple is trying to TRICK them into upgrading

Users believe Apple quietly added the Clean Energy Charging feature 'to trick' them into buying new iPhone models when their device was taking ages to charge.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Kobs]

Iphone 14PM on IOS 16.3.1 9 hours and 14 minutes and the remaining 30 percent, almost 3 days if I squeezed to the max not bad

 

[Hicksmat1976]

Over the last week I’ve noticed usual drain. Like losing 25% of charge in 2 hours while idle. I did a backup and restore. Problem solved.

 

[Veerasayz]

I have a serious concern about iOS 16 battery life. I do not understand why I need to recharge my phone daily

 

[elementalwingma]

Background Mail battery drain came back after a month....I don't know why this happens.

 

[Blue Hawk]

%89 battery health on the 13 Pro Max feels like %80 on the XS Max. 😩

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Background Mail battery drain came back after a month....I don't know why this happens.

Same here, on 16.3.1.

 

[OlesyaPetrova]

How long have you been using your phone with this battery? Maybe it has run out of battery life and it's time to replace it?

Why is nobody talking about this?

Running on a 13 Pro and I'm getting noticeable battery drain compared to iOS 15.6.1. Anyone else having the same issue? Can't imagine the battery drain on older phones.

I had to recharge mid way through the day (I don't allow my phone to dip below 30% to keep battery health in tip top shape). FYI my battery health is at 99%. And yes, this is iOS 16 production (non beta)

 

[applepotato666]

How long have you been using your phone with this battery? Maybe it has run out of battery life and it's time to replace it?

With a battery health at 99%, it should be good. No one should be replacing iPhone 13 series batteries still anyway, it's been just over a year since they came out. My 13's battery health is at 89% but still, despite the degradation, it was iOS 16 for sure. It got way better with later versions (not iOS 15 level but very close) once I reinstalled all apps because I got the cache storage bug where 'Other' was taking up a lot of space and apps wouldn't purge their caches (which is still a thing) so I couldn't take photos. I think the drain could somehow be related to that. I also removed third-party lock screen widgets and no more weather stuff going on on the lock screen. Don't know which of these 2 fixed it for me but I can comfortably last 2 days with one charge now just like in iOS 15. iOS 16 early versions had me charging my phone twice a day.

 

[elementalwingma]

Same here, on 16.3.1.

It's really so irritating that i'm considering performing another clean install next week. I have like 12 hours a day background activity when it is completely turned off makes no sense.

 

[tor_2]

I have been struggling with battery life since I updated to iOS 16. I even changed the battery, and, although the situation improved, there was something which was wrong.

Last weekend I tried different things, but one of them was disabling current location for all weather widgets on both, the iPhone and the Apple Watch. Since then, battery life seems much more stable, so maybe you can give it a try in case you have an Apple Watch