iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

That's not necessarily an extreme battery loss.

Remember while your phone is "doing nothing" it's pinging and receiving pings from your local cell tower in case you receive text messages or a phone call, depending upon your carrier as often as once per minute or two.

3.2% per hour would come out to be around 31 hours of standby time which is rather good, and that's a straight calculation without the device dropping to Low Power Mode when charge falls below 10%.

MarcusRefusius wrote:

I went to settings>battery. Spotify used 72% running in the Background. I went for a three hour drive yesterday. ONLY used the Phone to listen to Spotify via Bluetooth to my stereo. Got home and battery was 20%. My iPhone 6s worked better. Please explain why….

Also, get a car charger.

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. 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.

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.

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.

I’m with you brother. For some reason Spotify with connected AirPods swallows the battery like crazy. I saw someone mentioning downgrading to 15.6 fixes the issue. If anyone has tried that please let us know :)

I tried to contact apple Support

They don’t have clue about it and mentioning all kind of crazy steps.. restore it, don’t use Wi-Fi when on data and vice versa, don’t use background apps..etc etc

rather then acknowledging it … it’s 16.3 issue

it consumes 50% battery over night when phone was idle

Just to close the loop on this….I updated from IOS 16.2 to 16.3 and as everyone else has noted, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s still garbage. Battery dropped like crazy this morning playing music over AirPods, not to mention the phone itself getting very hot. Hottest part of the front screen is just “up & left” of centre of screen.

come on Apple!! Clean up your mess.

It looks like a reasonable report, but you also need to keep in mind each phone is a unique combination of third party apps and the operating system.

As such, there are millions of users running iOS 16.3 who do not see the issues you do.

I don’t think I’ve ever had an iPhone last more than a day without charging, but then again I leave my phone on a charger whenever I am not out and about and expect the battery to drop, especially in areas of low signal and if you have your screen brightness turned up, the number one battery draw on any phone.

If your bugs have merit, they will be investigated, so for now your job is done unless you want to do more to diagnose your particular issue.

I want to emphasize again and again that my usage scenario hasn't changed since I've updated to 16.3. My logic drives me to a conclusion that it's not about my iPhone but the issue is iOS 16.3. I also understand that many people don't have this problem but first, they might not consider it a problem; second, they didn't even know the normal battery life duration, so they don't notice anything unusual; third, they believe that they do something wrong with their phone.

I think this problem affects majority of the phones. Miracles don't happen. If someone has a problem with iOS 16.3, it is a problem to resolve. I hope Apple will do its best.

That's just it; that's clearly not the case.

You're downplaying the experience of millions of other iOS users, many of which are just as acutely aware of the performance of their devices as you are.

You're also overlooking the fact that thousands of people beta tested this release of iOS for weeks before it was ever released to the public.

I personally see none of the issues you do; that doesn't make my experience any more important than yours, yet it is a data point as if it were an obvious issue in iOS 16.3, I'd see it too.

None of this is meant to downplay your experience; rather if it were iOS doing something obviously wrong there would be a lot more people complaining of this issue both here and around the world. There are other factors here, either a combination of apps on your device, your cellular and/or Wi-Fi network, etc.

In the end, the bottom line is unless you haven't opened a case with Apple Support directly, you've done all you can do if you don't want to investigate what on your device could be causing your issues.

How it might be a battery fault if in my case yesterday with 16.2 2 (two) similar Iphones have been working normally and the next day 16.3 was installed both phones have started to drain battery? For me there’s one explanation: bugs in 16.3.

Well, it's usually pretty obvious if it was made by Apple - they aren't shy about advertising.

Pages

Numbers

Keynote

Music

Safari - all the usual suspects - contacts, mail, camera, photos, notes.

Roughly - whatever didn't ship with the phone.

But - stanek8 seems to have located the issue. Do what (s)he says first. - any kind of 'find me' using location has to be alive all the time to do its job - obvious candidate.

Apple’s test parameters can be found here:

Video Playback Tests

Testing conducted by Apple in July and August 2022 using preproduction iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max units and software, subscribed to LTE and 5G carrier networks. Video playback consisted of a repeated 2-hour 23-minute movie purchased from the iTunes Store, tested with stereo audio output. Video playback (streamed) consisted of a repeated 3-hour 1-minute HDR movie purchased from the iTunes Store, tested with stereo audio output. All settings were default except: Bluetooth was paired with headphones; Wi-Fi was associated with a network; the Wi-Fi feature Ask to Join Networks, Auto-Brightness, and True Tone were turned off.

iPhone - Battery Test Information - Apple

Note that Apple’s iTunes Store streams are considerably more power efficient than streams from Netflix or YouTube.