iPhone 12 battery draining fast

Which phone do you use and what is your average screen time. I have an average screen time of 3 hours and my phone requires charging everyday. With the kind of usage i have my phone can easily last 2 days and its on wifi the whole day. With mobile data i lose about 1% for every 2-3 min of use.

Thank you so much for the response! The phone losing 20-25% charge overnight sitting idle on the desk is terrible.

For my case, looks like the battery charts checks out. It had been flat throughout the night. It’s been just 3 days and using an iPhone for the first time, its a bit confusing reading those charts under battery. I’m getting used to them slowly. Thanks a lot!

I completely agree with you that 6-7 hours of SOT Is lesser than apple’s claim of 12 hours but the fact that your getting 7 hours of SOT with Mobile data is really good. 5 hours of SOT on wifi for me brings me down to 30% and on data about 3 hours the phone is down to 20% so I think your battery is pretty good considering the battery issue

This is something I started to see this morning. The messages app consuming battery in the background. I’m not sure what might be the reason behind this. Every time I use my phone, its right there sipping battery.

I’m not even using the messages app, barring a few OTPs that I get as SMS. Can someone please point out to a reason and a possible fix for this?

So we can conclude that the iphone 12 is a faulty line up of iphones with bunch of bugs. My iphone 12 pro has battery drain, overheating and phone just goes to the lock screen randomly while using the phone. The apple support team consists of a bunch of donkeys who only know how to hide inappropriate comments here and nothing else. I told them that my phone was overheating near the camera. The employee told me that its an advanced camera and that heating is normal. I didn’t know apple is hiring donkeys into the apple support team

Thanks for the advice but I’m currently located in india. I don’t really know now what to do so i have just left the issue and decided to use the phone as it is. If it is a software issue it should get fixed in the future. If not I’m going to wait model in 2022 because that would be a well optimised model just before the refresh model launch in 2023

I don’t have any hope hope left with this iphone. This iphone is the worst iphone ever built. The apple support team tells me that my notifications has caused me an overnight drain where i hardly received 5-7 messages. The apple support team is just experimenting with is making us do things to waste time but actually doesn’t care of the device and its customers. I just got off the call the with the apple support team and am extremely unsatisfied with the solutions she gave me. She asked me to turn off all notifications and see if I encountered any drain. If that fixed the drain then I would have been told that the solution is to turn off notifications. I have never see a support team like apple that has no concern about its customers and just uses a flattery tone to calm down their customers. Iphone 12 pro=💩

I too am facing overnight drain just like you and am extremely troubled by this problem. I would just like to tell you sir that switching to airplane mode or disabling a few features may kill the problem of battery drain but that isn’t a solution. If you have spoken to the apple support team, what have they said to you?

Hi colin, i just got off a call with the support team and that employee was just giving me battery saving tips like using the phone on low power mode, disabling location services and disabling wifi overnight. These are not solutions to fix a battery drain issue. They do not have a permanent fix for this issue. Mr Colin i just think you were one of the lucky people to have this issue fixed while majority of the people here are still facing this issue. The tips they gave me to fix the battery drain is just like you can live life but cannot walk or talk or see or hear.

My 12 Pro loses about 1% every 10 minutes of semi-light use. No gaming but a bit of browsing, maybe a few minutes of Instagram here and there. It’s been this way since I got it, never got any better or worse. What I’m trying to ask is, is that normal? I feel like 1% every 10 minutes is way too much, when my old 11 Pro would take like an hour to go from 100% to 99%. My 12 Pro has been off the charger for about an hour and a half/two hours now and I’m at 96%. Same exact use as I would have on my 11 Pro.

Also just want to add that I’m *not* having any overnight battery drain. My issue exclusively occurs while IN use, not overnight like most other comments in here. Maybe I’m just paranoid about my battery cause it seems whatever I Google about my issue, people are only talking about overnight drainage.

Have talked with Apple Support Denmark today.... Answer was non-exsitant. My 12 is only 8 months old, and now battery capacity is at 98%

I'm an old fart that does not use phone for videos and what have you.

Alas - Apple support thinks that 98% is A-ok... since you have to hit 80% before it's an issue..?

So - a 2% loss in battery capacity in 8 months is hunky dory... On a new - state of the art - and may I say - Frigging' expensive phone.

Where as my old iP 6S - held 100% - untill it died. After 4 years.

Hi ColinFromSussex. Can you please elaborate. If the iOS updated fixed your phone, why suggesting to people to take their phone back and/or demand a refund? I'm running the latest OS and still have the draining problem, so not sure which version fixed the issue on your phone.

Thank you!

All this without sim is still really poor screen on time for an iphone. I expect at least 8-9 hours of screen on time between charges with sim card in the phone. Even what you say pretty much shows how bad the battery is on the iphone 12’s

It is not 100% accurate sometimes it drops 1% at 7/6/5 so the average is 5..

yesterday I tested battery percentages while playing Subway Surf constantly for 20mins.. In 20 mins it dropped 3.5% with Full brightness.

It was my worst decision of buying an iPhone 12 pro especially from Pakistan, where there is no Apple Official Store, no Contact nothing.. I just lost my 220k $1423

(note the price varies cuz there's too many stupid taxes in Pakistan)