It feels like the 16 pro drains battery like crazy. Mine has gone from 95% to 81% in 38 minutes of light use and some picture taking. Phone also gets really hot when using the camera!
Anyone else experiencing this?
iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18
I got my phone on Monday 30th September (delivered at nearly 9pm) and it took me until the following day to transfer everything from my 14 Pro Max, so I didn't start using it properly until Tuesday 1st October. For 2 days, I experienced this issue (excessive battery drain) and I became particularly annoyed because my phone was seemingly permanently attached to a charger and the battery percentage wasn't going up. As of last night I was considering sending it back as other posts on here suggested that Apple support was reporting no issues with the phones even though almost everyone was experiencing the same fault.
I did notice that there is a software update available - and although it is just 18.0 by all accounts this update is just for new iPhone 16's (all variances). It says it's a security update but once installed, my battery life is significantly better - to the extent that at nearly 11.30am, it's at 91% and I've used it for work calls; listening to an audio book for 30 minutes and playing some games since 6.30am when I took it off a normal overnight charge.
Maybe it was the update or maybe something else (although I didn't do or change anything else in my normal phone usage/routine) but the battery drain issue seems to have been resolved.
I noticed this because most people set up their phones a certain way and have regular patterns of use. When you get the new phone into the mix and notice the battery life is always 20% lower than usual, it's a major problem. We all spent the big money and upgraded, traded in, and we're being lied to about the battery life. This is a class action suit at worst.
Found this thread too late. just upgraded iphone 13 to 16 Pro using AT&T promo.
I thought there was something wrong with my charger.
Iphone 13 would easily get through the day with low mode 20% hitting at dinner on the worst day.
Now this 16 pro cant make it to lunch before hitting the Red.
Cripple the phone with no AI, no background, no refresh, etc.... maybe I make it a whole day.
Might go swap this for a 16 plus.
i had a 13 and when it was new i could go all day and still have 70 percent. i've had that phone for almost 3 years and the battery degraded obviously. i just got the iphone 16 pro and the battery is literally no better than my iphone 13. makes no sense. apple please fix this. it is ridiculous.
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Passinos wrote:
Exact same problem here had a 3 year old iPhone 13 that would make it to the end of the day at 20%.
my new iPhone 16 Pro was at 20% just after lunch. Never making it to the end of the day.
Performed all 11 battery tricks and now much better. 80% at lunch and 35% end of day.
Shouldn’t have to cripple the phone just to make it work as advertise, but it’s functional
Do you mind sharing these “tricks”?
Thank you.
Same. I was hanging on to my 12 for dear life but it out last week and I had to get a new one. Upgraded to 16 pro and it’s the worst phone I’ve ever had. How does Apple charge what it does for these phones when the battery life is horrible and it overheats constantly? Not to mention it lags and I seem to have been one of the lucky ones who has Bluetooth connection issues. I don’t understand how the battery drains so quickly when I’m not even on it excessively.
Im ready to go back to flip phones lol
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dharanivelp wrote:
my iphone 16 battery draining very fast even while moderate usage (safari, youtube, instagram).
also noticed that battery draining very fast while no network coverage area
please fix this ASAP.
First, no one in this user to user forum can fix anything, but there’s nothing to fix anyway.
Second, what you are seeing is normal. If you have no network coverage your phone keeps trying to find a network, and to do so it blasts out “where are you” signals at maximum power (using a lot of battery energy) every couple of minutes. ALL cell phones do this, not just iPhones. If you know you have no coverage turn on Airplane Mode. You can still have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on in Airplane Mode.
Would you please define “draining very fast” outside of the no signal condition? If you charge your iPhone overnight, every night (a best practice) you should not need to charge during the day unless you are using hours of Facetime and other social media, streaming videos, or playing interactive games.
peofromswe wrote:
It might well be a problem with iOS 18 which has been a quite daunting iOS to be honest since it is riddled with bugs and has barely no new usable features. I even have Apple Intelligence completely turned off by now.
That is nonsense. if iOS 18 was “riddled with bugs” then the 500 million users who have it would be complaining about it. Do you see hundreds of thousands of reports?
I find the new features extremely usable and for the most part a very welcome change.
A “bug” is something that doesn’t work the way it was intended to. A design change is not a bug. You are confusing “bug” with “something I don’t like"
Nope I am not confusing it with "something I do not like"
iOS 18
etc etc, all these are issues that tons of users reports on.
I like Apple and their hardware but lately they have been really bad with their software.. Also I am missing all the futures that was promised with Apple Intelligence, no wonder they stopped running those ads about a more "intelligent Siri". So far we only have AI emojis, and yeah thats not really helpful.
I am excited about the new features but right now I would like Apple to quickly focus on getting our devices working like they should, then implement the new stuff.
None of those are bugs; they are problems with your iPhone.
peofromswe wrote:
• Nope I am not confusing it with "something I do not like"
iOS 18
Battery drain (or non compatibility with iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max either or)
I’ve explained about battery drain
• Medications app still missing or lagging on logging medications (widespread issue)
What medications app? Apple does not have a Medications app; is this a 3rd party app? There is a Medications section in the health app that I use and I’ve had no problems with it.
• Siri does not respond at all when talked to, only fix is to restart the phone - not an issue in iOS17
My Siri always responds if I talk in complete sentences. In the bad old days Siri was very stupid, and had to be awakened, and it responded with a beep. That changed in iOS 16, where Siri could understand a complete sentence, such as “Siri, what is tomorrow’s weather”. For iOS 16 & 17 if you didn’t read about this feature in the release notes then Siri would say “Uh Huh” or “umm” if you did not respond with complete sentences, as a reminder. With iOS 18 Apple assumed that everyone had caught on, but apparently they were overoptimistic.
• RCS messages not sending as they should
• Lagging and freezing up randomly
RCS needs 4 things to work: A device that supports RCS for sending (your iPhone), your network provider, the recipient’s network provider and the recipient’s phone. If any of the other 3 don’t support RCS it can’t work. My messaging uses RCS for all of my texts.
Lagging and freezing is a local problem also; mine doesn’t.
One possible cause for both is a misconfigured VPN, so if you use VPN delete the VPN profile and app (you need to delete both).
etc etc, all these are issues that tons of users reports on.
What is “tons”? Perhaps 1% of the 500 million iOS 18 iPhones: 5 million. Suppose 1% of those bother to complain; that’s 50,000. Have you seen 50,000 reports of these issues? I see a few hundred, which means that they are local problems on a few iPhones, and probably a symptom that has different causes on different devices.
Sounds like a made an upgrade which turned into a downgrade. I should have stayed with my iPhone 14 and iOS 17 since there are no improvements to these new phones and all advertised AI features are delayed.
peofromswe wrote:
Sounds like a made an upgrade which turned into a downgrade. I should have stayed with my iPhone 14 and iOS 17 since there are no improvements to these new phones and all advertised AI features are delayed.
"all advertised AI features are delayed", really?
The only advertised feature I am aware of that has been delayed is the contextual integration with Contacts and Reminders with Siri. Am I missing something or is this just a gross exaggeration to try and make some point? You can certainly dislike the phone for many reasons, but claims such as that just fall flat.
Everyone . What did u do??
I have the same issue and it’s terrible!!!
apple whats going on.
when i slept , 12 % draining without nothing and at low power mode too.
whatttttttt?????????? Nothing is help, not to contact, nothing just nothing.
told me to wait 2 weeks and it will solve from his self…. 2 months and it is being worst…..
This battery issue renders the phone functionally useless for me. It has to be charged midday!!
its like going back in time on battery life, and what if I want those background services? What if I use Siri and dictation as part of accessibility extensions?
I’ve never been so underwhelmed by an Apple product.
I am using the exact same apps as I was using in a 14 pro max and getting LESS battery time. It’s an abomination of a product and I shouldn’t have to stop using it the way it was designed for it to work within specs.
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Over the last few days my iPhone 16 Pro has started to heat up a lot and drain the battery, in a 15min drive I went from over 60% to less than 30%. I had to switch it off due to the heat coming of it, I have everything but my Spotify switched off so I have no idea what is going on.
iPhone 16 pro battery draining fast
