iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

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

Perhaps it's time to remind ourselves that this is

"A forum where Apple customers help each other"

and if you are one of the users who are experiencing catastrophic reductions in battery life, then you MUST go to Apple Support and have them investigate.

It IS possible for there to be a faulty battery out there. If so, Apple will replace it, without question, but grumbling within this forum will achieve nothing to actually help, apart from many sensible opinions about how to look for rogue applications and turn off power hungry applications.

If you have a real Problem - take it to Apple

(And please report back on the outcome if you do!)

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.

My iphone, 14 pro, discharges pretty quickly - within 2 to 3 hrs when outside and data card is on. Without the datacard on also it drains fast. I bought it in Nov 2022, and it has been draining fast since the beginning. The phone also gets hot pretty quickly when travelling. Any ideas? Most of my applications are switched off and I tend to keep in low power mode.

On my way to return this iphone 14 pro because of this horrible battery life. I was excited to use this phone. But this battery life gave me whole new disappointment. My Iphone 13 pro max battery lasted 2 days at least.

Farjjj wrote:

On my way to return this iphone 14 pro because of this horrible battery life. I was excited to use this phone. But this battery life gave me whole new disappointment. My Iphone 13 pro max battery lasted 2 days at least.

Are you fully updated to iOS 16.6?

Given the plethora of complaints regarding the 14 it’s beyond OBVIOUS that your good luck with the phone is a fluke. This is truly the WORST battery life I’ve ever experienced. I did far less than you do today and my battery drained out and I had to use a battery pack to recharge it…it’s already down to TWENTY FIVE PERCENT!!!! It was unplugged at 7am and it is now 6pm. Two charges in 11 hours!!! That’s crap. Oh…and my phone is only 3 WEEKS OLD!!!

on a 14 pro max, the battery should be enough when you go to sleep with 60% to have another day of use.

So the real question is : how is it possible that his phone go from 60 to 0 while he doesn 't use it.

Apple needs to take responsability and answer questions ASAP.

I've already decided to not buy iphone 15 pro. My iphone 11 pro has a better battery life than all yours iphone 14 pro max, what the **** is going on at Apple ? Are we really supposed to pay 1500euros for a phone that doesn't last long, even when you don't use it, plus battery is degrading ultra fast ?

Thanks, but android has already my back for that, and for 1/3 of the price.

I just had the exact same thing happening with my iPhone 14 Pro two weeks ago. I went to the Apple store and they ran a diagnostic on it. They found two things:

The always on display. So we turned that off.

They also found an issue with the camera. Even though it was working fine, taking pictures, the diagnostic scan showed a defect. My phone was still under warranty so they replaced the camera. Haven’t had any problems with the battery draining since then.

BizuKipu wrote:

on a 14 pro max, the battery should be enough when you go to sleep with 60% to have another day of use.

So the real question is : how is it possible that his phone go from 60 to 0 while he doesn 't use it.

Unless you have turned the phone off, it's never doing nothing.

Apple needs to take responsability and answer questions ASAP.

If you want an answer from Apple, you need to talk to Apple. You can start with the Support link at the bottom left of every page of these forums.

I've already decided to not buy iphone 15 pro. My iphone 11 pro has a better battery life than all yours iphone 14 pro max, what the **** is going on at Apple ? Are we really supposed to pay 1500euros for a phone that doesn't last long, even when you don't use it, plus battery is degrading ultra fast ?

Thanks, but android has already my back for that, and for 1/3 of the price.

You should always buy the tool that best meets your needs. Back when I was in the cell phone industry, Motorola phones had the best battery life hands down. But, it's been about five years so I don't know what's available now.

I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and I have experienced the same thing. I have had the phone for less than a year and my battery capacity is at 91 % and it has been declining fast. I don't have the always-on, and I have the phone configured in a way to save as much battery as possible, but this doesn't do much to the battery capacity.

The problem is a technical one. It won't matter how we charge our phones either.

Apple has to do something about it, period!

I know that my % is not as bad as some of us here in this conversation, but I have been on iPhones since the first version came out, and this batter is draining faster than all if not most, whatever happened to the possible 4-year life span?

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.