If you use it with fragmented small usage, that’s pretty much what I get on my 16.My 16p is just sub par. No way else to say it.
Yesterday 3h52 SOT
80% in the morning, 20% in the evening.
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iOS 18 Battery Life Thread
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Yesterday 3h52 SOT
80% in the morning, 20% in the evening.
I’ve reinstalled 18.1, set it up as a new installation, and disabled various settings, yet the issue persists. Currently, I’m in a logging processing with Apple engineering, and I’ll submit it for evaluation on Tuesday. Given that someone else reported a similar issue to them, and they acknowledged it as a normal drain, my hopes for a resolution are somewhat dim. However, I do have a slight advantage in that I have a more experienced senior advisor, and I’ve been logging data for a significantly longer period compared to their suggested timeframe. Yesterday’s data is the perfect example of how bad the battery life is on my 16p. Hopefully they can see that.
It’s terrible right? What ridiculous, my battery is worse when I use it less.
One piece of advice that has worked for me in the past is to do a Reset Network Settings. It’s helped me with battery life before.
defo worked for me... not sure why or how... but it did. Now 2 days since charged to 80% and I am 42% battery... albeit with little usage. Idle drain in particular is reduced.
Much much better than my 14 Pro with same use 👇👇👇
Sometimes I wonder if it's linked to my iCloud account but I made multiple tests…. It’s very difficult to investigate sneaky battery behaviour.
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Much much better than my 14 Pro with same use
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Sometimes I wonder if it's linked to my iCloud account but I made multiple tests…. It’s very difficult to investigate sneaky battery behaviour.
Yeah this is a real problem. I have been thinking it might be an iCloud problem as well. Have you ruled that out?
Not completely because some tests show that my iPhone consumes as much as another and others test doesn’t.
If I let my device on YouTube continuously, it consumes normally. But if I use it with fragmented usage, it seems that it consumes a little more than others.
make sure you add your WiFi networks back and change your device name (for some reason reset network settings also resets the device name to iPhone).
Hi. Yes that is set. Should I not have that option in place? I want my photos to sync with my other Apple devices
I have the same experience. It’s quite frustrating to not be able to pin down the cause. Sporadic usage of the phone seems to result in worse drain than constant or no use.
18.2 has been better than 18.1 was. Especially on WiFi. But now I get worse drain on cellular than I did on 18.1. No clue what’s going on.
If 18.2 doesn’t show more improvement I’m thinking of:
- restoring my phone back to 18.1 and not logging into my iCloud count for a few days
- logging into my iCloud account without downloading any data (not just not using a backup to restore, but disabling the download or sync of any contacts, photos, reminders, etc, and not using any 3rd party apps)
- downloading/syncing all my my iCloud data (still not using a backup)
- and finally downloading all my 3rd party apps.
At each step I plan to spend a few days to let any background activity finish up. And taking copious amounts of screenshots along the way. Hoping that data may help in my next conversation with support. I think part of the issue is engineering doesn’t know where to look and our experience isn’t bad enough to get their attention. Can’t think of an experiment better to prove there is an issue hiding in the iCloud data.
Or that’s not the cause at all. 😂 either way, it’s an answer!
Edit: adding today’s battery screenshot. (16 pro on 18.2)
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Happened to me 2 Sunday's ago. Force close the Photo App and hard-reboot fixed it for me and hasn't happened again since.
