iPhone 13 Pro battery draining overnight

I got an iPhone 13 pro a few days ago.


When I leave my home for work at 8 am, the phone is at 100%. When I come back at 8 pm the phone is at 65% which is fine. I am using it mostly to listen music with spotify, listen some podcasts and some internet browsing.


When I come home, I'm charging it until midnight. At midnight, the phone is at 100% and I unplug it.

Yesterday morning at 7 am, the phone was about 45%. I heard that spotify consumes more resources with iOS15 so I have disabled background refresh for spotify .

Yesterday I redo the same thing but I have closed all applications and restart the phone.

This morning the phone was about 53%.

I need to replug my phone during one hour to get a full battery


The phone is consuming more battery during the night doing nothing.


At home, the phone is in the same room with two homepod minis, an ipad pro and with a 12 pro max. I migrate my data from the 12 pro max to the 13 pro.

At the office, there is no apple products.

I have the last version of ios installed on the phone



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Posted on Feb 11, 2022 7:58 AM

I had very similar symptoms to those described by nosleduc:


Brand new iPhone 13 mini with battery at 100% charge in the evening and a few times a week I found it in the morning with

  • battery level 55-60%.
  • Latest iOS installed - yes
  • All background processing in apps deactivated - yes
  • I even de-activated wifi, bluetooth and cell connection in the evenings - to see if this eliminates this strange behaviour - but it STILL kept repeating
  • I also took my phone to apple service - where it was tested/diagnosed - nothing suspicious found.


But still most of the days the battery history chart in iOS would show gradual decrease: from midnight to 6 AM even though there was no app activity whatsoever.


Finally I think I found some corellation / explanation, though is seems pretty weird:

I noticed that the phenomenon occurs ONLY if the phone is left on a wireless charger (plain Qi charger from Spigen) AND if it is not placed exactly in the middle of the charger,


i.e. my hypothesis is that the phone 'notices' the charger and tries to connect, but for some reason cannot really start charging (because it is not placed exactly in the right spot) and there is some process that keeps repeating 'attempt to charge the phone' - but instead of charging this loop is actually draining the battery.


I know it sounds weird and irrelevant, but once I stopped leaving the phone on Qi charger overnight, the strange phenomenon has STOPPED completely. So (at least in my case) this seems to have resolved the problem.


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Jan 13, 2022 9:30 PM in response to Mmdanut

Hey mmdanut !!

may I know if your issue was resolved? I have been complaining continuously to Apple Support for past 2 weeks as I am facing the same issue from day 1 (bought it 3 weeks back) and support keep saying that your device is perfectly fine which I know its not normal at all.

today they offered me to send a replacement but i am just concerned if that will really fix my issue or not.

Jan 21, 2022 10:56 AM in response to nosleduc


This is the strangest thing I have ever seen. My 13 Pro Max is not even two months old. Battery Health is at 100%. It was plugged into a wall outlet, as my old iPhone was before this new one, and indicated it was charging all night long. You can also see in the picture that the screen was off. No music playing or anything. Any clue why? There should be no need for optimization of a new phone while it's charging and not actively used.

Feb 13, 2022 12:26 AM in response to nosleduc

I have exactly the same problem with my iPhone 13. Last night, the battery drained 100% overnight, and when you check the battery usage there's literally nothing listed for any app or process when you tap on each section of the chart.


It was working completely fine until a few days ago. It would sit all night on battery and lose maybe 1% by the time I woke up.


The only thing I can remember doing in the last few days was a WatchOS update. Wondering if that could be the problem.

Mar 8, 2022 9:26 AM in response to barberlives123

I just bought my iPhone 13 pro max for battery life but today my second day and I used only 1 hour it was 100% and my battery gone down to 87% I believe that a lot dropped down , plus I just used for Facebook and YouTube.This seller might used then change the package made looks like new? Please I need you thought. How could I understand I haven’t been cheated?

Many thanks

regards

May 24, 2022 8:20 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

What's wrong is that the steep, linear draining of the battery over the course of 6 hours is while I'm *not* using the phone. That is completely undependable! The green bars indicate the phone being plugged in, so no, it didn't last 15 hours.


Think of any other battery-powered device you own. Literally any other device, past or present. Would you stand for it losing 100% of its charge in 6-8 hours while you weren't using it *at all*?

Jun 1, 2022 2:59 AM in response to nosleduc

I have the same issue, it's a brand new phone, iPhone 13. Purchased on 22nd May 2022. Phone works properly during day time but overnight battery drains, its highly unpredictable. Strange thing is battery drains without the use of any application or phone itself, I just keep the phone on table during I sleep.


On Battery application it shows that no application was running during night (12am-7am) time but battery is drained.

Jun 3, 2022 7:02 AM in response to nosleduc

I bought my iphone 13 pro 7 months ago.

From the date of purchase since few days back my iphone’s battery was working perfectly. But suddenly it has started draining too earlier. I have to recharge my phone’s battery twice in 24 hours. I am feeling might be after upgradation to OS 15.5, my battery is behaving like this.

Please advise in this regard.

i would be really thankful.

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