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iPhone 12 Pro Severe Battery Drain

Anybody noticing severe battery drain for the iPhone 12 Pro right out of the box?


It makes sense that the battery drain is significant compared to the 11 Pro because of the smaller battery but you’d expect Apple would have worked on hardware and software optimization to improve battery life even with a smaller battery.

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14

Posted on Oct 24, 2020 9:28 PM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2020 8:32 AM

Battery drain is crazy!!!!!!, Fri night went to bed 100% and forgot to turn off the phone. I wondered if someone played with my phone during the night cause when I woke up, I only had 64% left! The phone stayed on the night stand.


So I looked at the settings, I switched the phone to LTE only, turn off background app refresh, turned off the location, put the dark mode on.


So Sunday was a great day to test the phone: 1h15 of video of WiFi, 35mns talk (LTE), 18mns of email, 45mns of browsing. As you can see you call this a slow day right? So at 4:15pm I looked at the battery I got 26% left. Remember it is a kind of a slow day.


During the work week I'm 100% sure I will have to recharge the phone at 2 or 3PM. The bloggers sponsored by your favorite fruit company will tell you that it is not an issue because you can recharge quickly the phone. YES IT IS. What's the point of having a phone if you have to recharge it half day?


The perfect benchmark is the the iPhone 11 Pro that I love so much because of its battery. I can use the phone for a day and a half without recharging it.


In all seriousness, why do you launch a phone that drains its battery so fast? A majority of people will have to recharge the phone in the afternoon?


I have a call with an Apple Tech at noon today. We will see what happen. I will continue to use the phone for few days. If the problem continue, I will return the phone to Apple and restore my dear iPhone 11 Pro.

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iPhone 12 Pro Severe Battery Drain

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