iPhone 12 battery draining fast

I’ve been through that tedious effort and now have a replacement device which still has the same problem. Apple senior support wants me to run diagnostics again on this replacement device and is not willing to connect me to engineering when I tell all their iPhone 12 Pros are throwing issues. I declined saying i don’t want to be a lab rat and will find a workaround myself.

I’m on EE, no battery drain, and these are the options I see. It’s a 5G capable SIM card. But I had O2 contract with 5G sim and the same options and still experienced battery drain.

Also, there was someone on EE still experiencing battery drain, I’m curious if they have 5G or 4G sim.

Hello, your right ios 14.4 had not fixed the battery drain issue. I lose a lot of battery even with normal usage. With the kind of usage i have the phone should be able to last for about 2 days but thr fact that it at least lasts me a day is a really big thing. If apple is not interested in recognising the problem faced by its users, its time that we take some action. A company like apple is never expected to mess around with customers after charging 1000’s of dollars. Apple customer care, any moderators, if you are reading this and deleting this comment its of no use. Apple has already lost its market and theres no way its getting it back.

I only lost 3 % overnight after installing iOS 14.4 like you have lots of things turned off will see if whilst using it today things are any better Hope you get some help from your telephone call please update us

seems a lot of posts are disappearing from here ?!

When I reported my issue with battery drain in December, I asked Apple operator, if he is aware about this issue widely discussed on Apple Forum. I sent also link to this thread. He said yes, they are aware. But it was just 1 operator. Nobody knows if any escalation was done.

So if there is no reaction until today via SW update, problem can be more difficult and perhaps in hardware, as it was already mentioned.

ColinFromSussex wrote:

Does anyone from Apple look at this forum?

As has been stated multiple times before, no, at least not anyone you are trying to reach.

Apple employees do read the forum, but only to monitor thread content to make sure it does not violate the Terms of Use.

i don’t see posts after October but my 12 was fine until Nov/Dec and since then having all the issues described throughout the posts above. And I stopped trying 5G too. Don’t know if 14.4 has a fix in but we’ll see. If not I’m off to Apple store.

Just this past week my 11 pro max started acting like my 12 pro max did and drains balls now. Apple stop messing w stuff. Now I’m ****** I even sent back two 12 pro Max’s and bought another 11 max cuz it’s acting like crap now too after a good month of being a battery beast. This is getting old

Upgraded yesterday, even thought with no hopes yet as nothing in the update notes addressed anything close to this issues.

Battery before bed was 36%, woke up with 33%. Will see how this goes by end of week....

I have the same problem. Just noticed that my iphone 12 pro used 30% of battery over night. ( turned off all backround apps, also turned off 5G).

Should I send it back to store? I got new phone about 2 weeks.

Facing the exact same issue,Phone will drop by 2% in matter of 5-7 minutes and then remain stable for 10 minutes and will continue to lose battery at standby even with wifi and bluetooth turned off. Hope this is a software issue only.

I can say that using discord, spotify and calls it drains battery very quickly.. I played spotify for an hour and I lost around 40% battery (in save battery mode). This is ridiculous. Anyone experiencing huge draining when using these apps?

iPhone 12 mini

Not as bad this morning it used 12% battery through the night I went to bed with 50% battery woke up with 38% I haven’t a clue why it did what it did the 2 nights before. This is a screenshot from when it went from 80% to 20% the night before last night

Do your phones heat when you charge them with the 20W charger? Is it just me or it always heats? Is there anyone that do not face that issue with the heating during charge with the 20w?

I don`t like that, it will degrade the battery for sure..

I use a 5W Apple charger still too. It is plenty fast imh. Doesn't heat up the device at all, or at least I have not noticed. Also I barely use it while it is charging. I stay away from wireless charging because of the heat created by it and I don't see the point of it. → Creates noticeably more heat and takes way longer??!? So I do not entirely get the point of it. I will however get (or build it myself) some sort of Magsafe mount that charges simultaneously for my car as this is really a convenient thing to have. I have one of those magnetic swivel mounts that has previously worked with a thin metal plate that is either put onto the back of the phone or between the case and the phone and I absolutely wouldn't want to miss having that. Built-in charging capability would make it perfect, and having it right next to an air vent it can cool the entire thing also. But as of yet, there is only the Belkin which is a total hit and miss because it lacks charging and anything else offered at this moment in time is kind of cheap and doesn't satisfy my need.

Fun Fact: The iPhone 12 Pro charging with a 5W brick takes exactly as long as charging an 2018 12,9inch iPad Pro with the included 18W adapter.