iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

Which app?

Their procedure makes it clear the streaming tests use the AppleTV app for all streaming and the streams were purchased from the Apple iTunes Store.

Streaming via other apps may require updates from those app authors to become more power efficient.

As far as the video test and streaming I also said “in the past”; Apple now does include a streaming spec and my post above delineates the test they use.

In response to recent posts on this thread, I have just conducted an experiment. I watched a one-hour movie on Amazon Prime Video by streaming. It used 4% of the battery's charge. I then watched one hour of video from a downloaded movie; this also used 4%. If my maths are correct, to use 100% would take 25 hours.

For the record, I am using an iPhone 14 Pro Max on iOS 16.2. My display brightness is set at about 50% with Auto Brightness off. I had no other apps open (I always close apps as soon as I have finished using them). In Mail, I have Push switched on and Fetch set to 15 minutes. I do not have any social media apps on my phone.

I notice that iOS 16.3 is now available: I look forward to seeing any effect this update has on future posts to this thread, although personally I don't think the iOS is to blame for the bad battery performance some users are suffering. I agree with the clear, logical, well-informed contributions made by Dogcow-Moof.

Further to my posting in this thread (April 4, 2023 12:28pm above): I wear hearing aids and always monitor sound from my iPhone on them via Bluetooth. This means that, when my phone is on, Bluetooth is operating. 

With regard to Shaolinpupil's post above (Always-On Display has the potential to drain your iPhone 14’s battery life): I tried activating this function and have had it in operation for two days and have experienced no discernible increase in battery draining. 

These are far from  properly-controlled experiments, but they suggest to me that neither Bluetooth nor AOD is the culprit. 

As to overnight draining, my battery has never lost even 1% overnight. M

I'm having this same issue. It was so drastic today that I did call support. All of their battery saving tips had already been tried. Diagnostics said battery OK. Meanwhile it dropped by 10% while I was talking to them. Their next advice was to hang up, erase and reinstall the phone or, while on the phone, reset all my settings. When I pointed out that I had no way to restore just the settings, she tried to make it sound like not a big deal to reset all of my hundreds and hundreds of settings. From bitter experience, I know this will take hours, be totally terrible, require me to re-input all my passwords (the only restore that ever avoids this is phone to phone), and not do anything about battery life. I made a genius bar appt, not sure they will do anything.

GrammaGlobetrotter wrote:

Last night when I went to sleep, my 14 Pro was fully charged. When I woke up it was at 32%. What the heck is going on.

Unless you turn the phone off, it's still doing things. Without knowing more about what was using the battery overnight and what your cellular signal was like, your question is impossible to answer.

Best practice is to plug your phone in at night before you go to bed.

When to charge your iPhone or iPad - Apple Community

My 14 Pro life is also absolutely horrid. Much worse than my 13 Pro

My IPhone 14 pro battery bad? I’m halfway thru the day it done. My iPhone 13 Pro Max lasted all day until night. What’s happening did I get a defect battery?

Didn't transfer any apps, did all manually.

As I wanted a clean phone

Update to iOS 16.0.01 on the day of arrival.

I have seen a few with the same issue online.

What apps are listed on the bottom of that screen.

And I’m changing reply strategy. In the future I will not answer any posts from anyone who doesn’t follow the best practice of charging overnight.

Note also that battery usage can be high if you are in a weak cellular area even if you are not placing calls as your phone does need to keep in regular communication with local cell towers.

Apple has stated losing up to 1-2% of Maximum Capacity per month is normal.

Apple will replace your battery for free if your Maximum Capacity drops below 80% within one year.

It’s normal for rechargeable battery technology.

iPhone Battery and Performance - Apple Support

Ask Spotify why their app uses so much battery; only they can fix the issue.

Yet there are tens of millions of owners not having battery life issues.

The key is finding out what is different about your use case that makes your battery use more extreme.