iPhone 16 pro battery draining fast

Same with my 16 Pro. My iPhone 12 Pro I traded in was four years old and it was holding the battery better than this new one. I already disabled the always-on feature among other battery saving measures and still not making to the end of the day.

same thing i notice alot of random battery drain on my iPhone 16 pro max it never happened with my 13 pro max, so many times i wake up in the morning and my phone is totally dead even when i had over 20% battery left :s

I upgraded from iPhone 13 to 16 pro and the battery drain is driving me crazy. My old phone with 92% battery life lasted the same (or even longer) than my new 16 pro.

I contacted the support regarding the drain but they didn’t find anything suspicious with the battery (since I have the phone less than a week, they said to observe over the next two weeks, but each day I feel the battery is just going down even faster)

Even while talking on the phone using wired earphones, the battery is draining quickly. Background refresh is turned off, and I am using both WiFi and a 4G connection with good signal strength. No Apple Intelligence features are enabled

I also traded my (trusty, too big but beloved) 13 pro max for the new 16 pro. This is my second day using the new phone, and I am planning to return it and keep my 13. The old phone didn’t even need to be charged every day but the 16 can’t even go one day on a full charge. Deal breaker, apple.

I've been having the same problem for three months now, since I bought my iPhone 16 Pro. 
I hate it; the battery drains in minutes, even without using the phone. 
Did you get any technical support to resolve the issue? 
I already want to return the phone. 
This is the first time in 15 years of using an iPhone that something like this has happened to me. 
I feel very disappointed 

I got a new iPhone 16 Pro in December, as of yesterday, my phone now dies at 33%. I don’t have too many background apps running, only one of my apps uses a lot of power and I use it very rarely, but since it started dying at 33% I can detect a weird smell coming from my phone

Here is my update: 

Over time, (after 1 month) my battery is a little bit better, like it can survive a day of light use, but some percentages drains without any reason.

Now Im more "worried" about the out of the box scratch on the back glass, the dust particle in the one mont old phone's camera, the poor fit quality of the camera button's frame, the earpiece’s deeply placed grill, that collect a LOT of dust.  

Over all, im soooooo disappointed. Like, I spent 1350$ on that **** phone. Can’t i get quality??

Bdw, im from Hungary. This is not a country that like: “Oops, there is a random apple store.. Lucky mee!”

So I'm pretty helpless rn. 

There’s nothing to address. Millions upon millions of iPhone 16 Pros aren’t having any issues. What steps have you taken to resolve the issue? You’ve taken your iPhone to an Apple Retail Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider for diagnosis? Have you called Apple Support for remote diagnostics?

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.

Yes, I just bought mine on Wednesday… excited about photography and went for a hike to take pics… it was over half drained after a few hours… I’m not happy at all… had the 13 mini… it was about the same drainage

Just got a 16 pro this week before traveling and wish I had read the reviews. I just read 11 pages of comments about this battery issue and have tried all the suggestions and still draining so fast. I have no location services on and only my camera app open and after 4 hrs out taking some photos and videos it will be at 18% from 100%…. Just from pics. And it gets so hot that I had to turn it off twice just so it could cool down. I am only charging using Apple cords so I have no idea what’s up but it’s excruciating.

Kida12 wrote:

Just got a 16 pro this week before traveling and wish I had read the reviews. I just read 11 pages of comments about this battery issue and have tried all the suggestions and still draining so fast. I have no location services on and only my camera app open and after 4 hrs out taking some photos and videos it will be at 18% from 100%…. Just from pics. And it gets so hot that I had to turn it off twice just so it could cool down. I am only charging using Apple cords so I have no idea what’s up but it’s excruciating.

That is some fierce battery draining for a brand new device. Which apps uses the most battery power in Settings > Battery?