iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

I HAVE a Car Charger…That doesn’t explain a thing about why Apple’s COVETED new Phone is unable to live up to it’s OWN 7 year old Tech. Never NEEDED to use a Car charger with my iPhone 6s.

Certainly not living up to the hype THEY put out. Battery life was a selling point.

I spent most of the afternoon yesterday on Chat and Phone trying to resolve. And waiting for a call back today.

I charged it last evening. Took it off the charge at 10 pm. By 7:30 it had spent 70% of the Battery. With NOTHING running. No calls, no data, nothing. Hardly what they promised. I shouldn’t NEED a car charger for a trip to town.

It has nothing to do with Apple; if Spotify was using 72% of your battery, that's because Spotify is being very inefficient in how it is using your battery.

As a third party application, they are responsible for the battery usage of their app.

Now you say battery was used even when nothing was running - and that's not true.

Any time your phone is on, it uses battery to remain in contact with your local cell tower or towers, more power when you are connected to 5G than not.

Your iPhone 6S was not 5G-compatible so it did not have 5G radios which use more power than older technologies did.

This isn't an Apple issue, it's all 5G cell phones on the market.

Virtually all phones today are designed with the assumption you will be charging when in the car; you don't have to, but battery life will fall as the radio signal strength needs to be turned up and down as you move away from and jump to a new cell tower.

It is an Apple issue. It’s clearly a software issue. You keep defending Apple on this but nothing you are saying makes sense since this wasn’t an issue with the past iPhones. You can continue to convince yourself this is every single other apps issue but it’s not.

It's not an Apple issue; if it is software, it is a third party app software issue.

First, 5G radios use more power than older chips do. Do an Internet search and you will see it's also true for phones from other vendors.

Here's the Wall Street Journal on the subject:

5G Drains Your iPhone’s Battery. Here’s What You Can Do About It.

If you prefer:

Samsung: Samsung Battery Drains Quickly on 5G Service

Second, which older iPhones? Only iPhone 12 and 13 had 5G support and battery life is actually better with the iPhone 14.

Finally, if the battery statistics show a particular app is using most of the battery, that app is at fault or you just have to realize it will use a lot of power. Map/GPS apps will always use a lot of power because they are constantly checking where you are, how much you've moved and redrawing maps and usually retrieving traffic data and other information from the Internet.

In essence, you can't say "My iPhone 6 never…" because it was a different hardware platform, a different version of iOS, used different cellular radios that didn't support power hungry 5G and used LCD vs. OLED display technologies, among other things.

If someone finds a particular app uses 75% of their battery, that app's authors need to address that.

It is an apple issue. And yes I’m referring to the 13, never had any of these issues that you claim are being caused by 5g and whatever else you’ve been throwing around in here because you can’t admit you’re wrong. In fact, during one of the first couple iPhone 13 iOS updates, the software was messed up that they released and it created this exact same issue. Fortunately apple rewrote the software and had the issue resolved in around a week. It is an apple issue whether you want to admit it or not. So I guess we will see the real truth if and when they ever release the next update. And I hope you have the gall to admit you were wrong when it fixes it.

Sure, it's an Apple thing. With 16.0.3, I had 10 hours of screen on time and two days of battery life.

From 16.1 I have only 4 hours screen on time and battery is not enough to the evening.

And my 14 Pro Max already had 5G before the update to 16.1...

and even on wifi with wificalling it loses 5% battery per hour with 0 usage.

Most power takes Home and lockscreen, but Allways on Display is off.

Greetings from Germany

I hate it when apple need to sort things post updates. did you try turning the iPhone off over night to see if it’s a defective battery. It was mentioned above to check for that?

It’s a pain in the bum to do but it will show if it’s a hardware issue at least. Hope that helps you.

hang in there x

Update: The battery is fine. It’s the particular Astronomy Lock Screen and always on display that was killing battery. I guess because the globe rendering is live 3D, the battery drain is higher when combined with always on display. A regular static image doesn’t drain the battery like this.

I got my brand new iphone 14 pro last week and I must say the battery is disgustingly bad. Apple has a very big problem with this one. It's impossible a brand new phone going from 33% to 30% in less 10 minutes with only having 5G on and screen locked. I really can't believe how is this possible. If anyone finds a fix or something soon please let me know! I really want to return this garbage right now after spending so much money and receiving this kind of battery.

I consider the 14 Pro’s battery to be wonderful.

The 13 Pro is no longer available from Apple, though many retailers and cellular company stores still have them in stock.

It’s certainly quite possible to use high amounts of battery like that, especially with 5G active, as 5G radios draw a lot of power regardless of phone manufacturer; an Internet search will reveal multiple stories on the subject covering both iPhones and other devices.

Here’s one discussing the issue on Android:

Does 5G use more battery on your smartphone?

Ultimately only you can decide which device meets your needs and choose accordingly.

The iPhone 14 pro battery life is not good. Are iPhone 13 Pro and Pro max Battery are much better than 14 pro lineup. I noticed that after iOS 16.2 update. My device’s battery is not performing very well. Even there are several bugs in iOS 16.2 like, if I full charge my device, and I reboot it, then my 100% battery is become 95%

I’m suffering the battery issues since last few weeks, when the update is out.

I have a humble request to Apple behalf off all of the iPhone 14 & 14 pro lineup users, that please fix this problem, bugs as soon as possible, and please improve battery life and battery conditions.

Thank you,

Hrushikesh Pandit

From India

Nicely put hrushikeshpandit

it would be good for Apple to sort this one quickly as it was a selling point and it is disappointing for those that experience it. And if you have superb battery life, good food you. Just say a little prayer for those of us that have followed all the advice and still feel unloved by the issue. Hope this season of love spreads goodwill to all

You are not writing anyone from Apple on this user to user only forum. Something is up with your phone if you are having battery issues. The battery in my 14 Pro Max is nothing short of amazing. I used my iPhone from 7 AM yesterday till I went to bed at 11:30 PM. I took phone calls. I texted. I streamed music for a couple hours. I looked some things up in Safari. And when I went to bed, my battery remaining charge was 84% after all of that.

You need to isolate what is using your battery and stop waiting for Apple to fix something which isn't broken and doesn't impact the majority of users out there.

There are loads of suggestions throughout this thread. Read it from start to end and try some of them.

BTW folks, my battery life since I posted this is fantastic? Took a week to normalize after setup and background downloads, as I was was that this was happening. Love the phone. Do your due diligence and change settings to maximize battery life and things should be fine.

I basically do the same things as you. Phone calls, Spotify, web browsing and a little social media. The difference is I have only the pro. Charged it last night at 11PM. Now it’s 8 PM and I’m at 36%. Pretty unusual for a brand new phone if you ask me.