SORRY WHAT!!! it is totally a thing 😆😂
your pressing the buttons, volume up, volume down and holding the power button. thought that quite obvious.
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SORRY WHAT!!! it is totally a thing 😆😂
your pressing the buttons, volume up, volume down and holding the power button. thought that quite obvious.
Anecdotally, the Find My drain almost appears to be a periodic thing, as if Apple has an "on-call" rotation for consumers to balance out the battery burden of the Find My network.
It seems like once every couple months, I'll have a week or so where Find My is just eating a disproportionately large amount of battery, and then it'll return back to an unnoticeable level. And it never seems to correlate with anything I'm doing differently with my routine or my devices/location.
>iphone needs days to settle after an update
This is the dumbest copypasta to the battery drain problems ever yet I always see it in every thread.. no, your phone doesn't need to "settle", whatever that means, it indexes some files which takes half an hour max, then it operates as normal. The problem is in the garbage *.0 updates that are optimized only to the latest hardware, Apple then irons it out in later versions.
This is the dumbest copypasta to the battery drain problems ever yet I always see it in every thread.. no, your phone doesn't need to "settle", whatever that means, it indexes some files which takes half an hour max, then it operates as normal. The problem is in the garbage *.0 updates that are optimized only to the latest hardware, Apple then irons it out in later versions.
Funny how battery drain issues tend to go away for most people day two or three after a software upgrade. It’s happened to me multiple times and I see it happen a lot on the betas forums.
You might be right, that your phone indexes that quickly but that’s depending on the model and size, but you really can’t accurately call battery drain issues in the first 24hrs. I’m saying that with experience and having been there, seen it, got the T-shirt since iOS 11 a number of times. 👍🏼
Well. It’s been 3 days and nothing. At 8:00 I had 25%, now at 9:22 it’s on 1% iPhone 13 Pro here. What makes it clear it’s an os issue is that the phone is hot.
I also noticed that with the Wifi. We were at the airport and my hubbys Iphone 12 connected no problem but mine kept stopping during there "watch this add to connect" ad
how it started (iOS 15, 13 pro) 9+ hrs battery life
how its going (iOS 16). much worst battery life
how its going (iOS 16). much worst battery life
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Have you tried any steps to rectify?
Hard restarts or reinstalling the iOS (do an encrypted back up and then restore, if you don’t have access to IPSW files) Encrypted back up keeps all your banking apps still working after the restore is finished.
Looks like a glitchy iOS install, can happen with OTAs or I’d try offloading and reinstalling your top 3 most used apps before the restore.
Nothings perfect when you install software, some isolated cases like yours, can happen.
Sometimes your phone needs a “network reset” after installs to clear up any connectivity issues. Works a charm.
Thank you all for feedback. I try to check on others before updating my main phone. I've installed it on my older iPhone 8 and it's been a complete disaster with battery life. Total battery drain. My iPhone 13 mini will have to wait for some time. There is no rush.
I did the restore. What I did is I deleted the phone and then downloaded my backup from iCloud. Is there other way to do it? I don’t have a Pc or Mac
Do you have Weather widget with current location weather status on Lock Screen? I removed it and it was way better battery on 11Pro compared to iOS 15.6.1 also with location services and home screen widget only.
Yeah that’s correct, if you don’t have access to a computer.
That’s good to reinstall the software and all your apps to clear up any glitches. Gives your phone a good spring clean you could say.
As painful as it might be, but you have nothing to lose, systematically go through all your settings to make sure something hasnt been turned on after an update. For example, for some reason I noticed my backgrounds apps refresh got turned on with iOS 15.6 update.
Removing and reinstalling widgets can also find the culprit for bat drain
I have to downgrade. I will find a computer today to do it. Just to confirm is not something in my head, my iPhone actually just stopped charging because the phone is too hot. I got a notification saying it will resume charging after it cools down. I knew it felt hot all the time which it never did in iOS 15, like I said this is an iPhone 13 Pro, I shouldn’t be having this issues.
Time to go back, maybe in 16.1 they will address this
For me, I upgraded to 16.0 from 15.6.1, then did a full erase and then chose to go setup as new
I‘ll give it another day to see if it gets better then try removing the widgets
I have downgraded from beta to 15.X before, if you have a Mac it should work okay, just takes time
I‘ll give it another day to see if it gets better then try removing the widgets
I have downgraded from beta to 15.X before, if you have a Mac it should work okay, just takes time
Yeah you shouldn’t. That’s quite a serious issue. Might not be software related, just coincidence. Could be a hardware fault that’s popped up.
I’d get on the phone to Apple so they can run some diagnostics on it. Too much heat exposure will degrade your new battery. Which is good.
Have a read on here, you might find a few places to start fixing the issue.
Software isn’t perfect, nor is the end user.
iOS 16 and 16.1 have been amazing on my 12, even through beta testing.
Nah don't matter. Picking up my 14PM tomorrow and turning this 13PM back to apple tomorrow.