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iOS 16 Battery Drain Thread
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So this is what I can gather from my experience.
This issue seems to be present on most iPhones 13 Pro
The new lock screen and the widgets are part of the problem.
If you don’t use the new lock screen your battery won’t drain overnight
Regardless of if you use the Lock Screen or not, the moment you start using your phone for any activity it will get hotter than before and this will drain your battery faster.
Only solution is to downgrade while you can.
It’s not the only solution.
I’d call Apple first before you make that judgement.
Do you have any reason why people are claiming their battery is going from like 85 percent to 15 percent overnight? I have a 12 and did not notice this problem it seems fine. I feel like these stories are not true
you don’t know for sure it’s the OS. Are you an Apple engineer?
Anyway, you seem set in your ways. Hope your downgrade works out 👍🏼
It's obviously not purely an OS issue, or everybody with a 13 Pro would be having the exact same problem.
Anecdotally, I'm using a 13 Pro, with the new lock screen, dynamic wallpaper/home screen, and three widgets. I haven't noticed any heat issues (and I use a case on my phone, which in theory should make it even worse), and am not experiencing any problems whatsoever with excessive battery drain. Battery usage is in line with what I've experienced in all past versions of iOS.
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i have a 13 Pro. Have not seen anyone with a 12 reporting this.
So you are one of the lucky ones that wasn’t affected. Obviously OS issue if it was working great before the update.
I saw a few tweets about peoples battery going from like 80 percent to 15 overnight without doing anything. thats basically bricking someones phone. Youd think apple would be under extreme fire if thats the case
I don’t know. So many different phone set ups, user behaviour, bad installs, apps that haven’t updated to align with iOS 16 yet, run away widgets on a new lockscreen… the list is endless and some phones might suffer after the update.
But there are steps to fix this, as some of my previous posts explain for the unfortunate.
As I’ve said, my iPhone 12 from ios16 beta 1 to day two on iOS 16.1 beta 1 has been awesome. The odd app needed reinstalling, I’ve reset my network settings a couple of times, and gone as far as reinstalling just the iOS to fix some glitches, but all is solid.
If a phone is dropping like that it’s a runaway iOS process or app/widget, that’s why I suggest hard restarts. Then reinstall widgets if no change. And then a restore or iOS reinstall. By that point it’s fixed. If it’s not and on an official release I’ve called Apple. Sometimes a drastic set up as new has fixed the issue as there’s been something corrupt in my back up.
Apple wouldn't release software that was so detrimental to its phones. Even if this is effecting 1000 users, that’s behaviour is going to happen, as it’s what, other billions of users are working fine. That’s why we have restores for software and then Apple diagnostics for hardware failures which devices get replaced.
If that doesn’t work.
Do a restore. Great for two reasons, you get a fresh install of the OS and all your Apps get reinstalled cleanly.
39,000 views... and your case by far is isolated and one of a kind. Thats not to take it away from yo that this sucks. But there will be a fix just go to go through some channels before you get one. Thats software for you. Or youve had some hardware fail on you. who knows.
tonight put your phone on airplane mode and see if that drain stops.
Could be your cellular activity draining your battery or your battery itself is duff.
im gonna stop repeating myself, but I think you need to call Apple to get some feed back on your hardware.
There’s a post in Reddit with a lot more people there but basically they say is the indexing and we need to wait a couple of days, obviously without any kind of evidence to back that up
The battery draining by itself stopped when I went back to the old lockscreen. The issue now is that the phone gets hot for any little thing. Just by acceding safari and replaying to this comment the phone is noticiable hot. Like I said, i couldn’t even charge it past 80% because the phone sent a notification saying it was too hot and it needed to cool down
I’m pretty sure this won’t be an issue with my new phone tomorrow but I’m gifting this thing and it sucks that the battery is draining this bad. I’m gonna have to downgrade it so that person can enjoy the phone
Do your downgrade. then when they upgrade, it might happen again.
or might still be present after the downgrade because its a hardware failure.
I wouldn't give that phone to anyone without checking with Apple its all working fine!!!
Maybe, but in my case, I have very few apps and less than a thousand pictures on my iPhone
After 2 days I still have the same issue
There’s no Apple Store here though. And I don’t think they are gonna change it at all even if it’s still under the one year warranty.
The last time I did a check up they made me the “favor” of not charging me