iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

There are far too many variables involved for you to make that assumption.

Apple does occasionally find issues, and in those cases quickly addresses them:

iOS 15.4.1:

Battery may drain more quickly than expected after updating to iOS 15.4

About iOS 15 Updates - Apple Support

and in this case the fix was released about two weeks after iOS 15.4 was released.

However, in general what happens to improve battery life is app authors learn how to properly write for the newer version of iOS, something that will obviously happen with iOS 16 as well.

If you look at past issues, it's far more common for the app author to release a new version that solves the issue.

If you think there is something wrong with your phone itself, make an appointment to have it checked:

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

or contact Apple Support directly:

Contact - Official Apple Support

bmeg11 wrote:

I charged my phone to 95% last night. Only used it for about 1.5 hours in the morning. By noon it was at 15%!!!!! Burning hot. Only had bluetooth on. I could barely hold it. WTF is going on?

If it’s too hot to hold, you may have a hardware issue. Make arrangements with Apple to have your phone evaluated. Meanwhile, turn your phone off and do not plug it in.

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

That means you are in a low signal area (likely only one bar of cellular signal.)

When you are in a low signal area your radios need to be turned up to full power and that uses a lot of battery - regardless of manufacturer or generation of phone.

There's no real way to avoid that except to enable low power mode to make sure no more data is used than necessary in those low signal areas.

Use Low Power Mode to save battery life on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

There's a difference between having Find My active and having it be the front app; your earlier statement implied the former (Find My is active as an app and is in front.)

Use the Find My app to locate a missing device or item - Apple Support

If it was just the normal Find My background reporting, it is very cellular signal-dependent; in a low signal area (two bars or below) it and just normal cellular service will use a lot of battery very quickly.

Point taken!

It is however, curious that some seem to be blaming the software when it runs okay on so many iPhones. Surely the fault must lie with some iterations of the hardware, ie particular phones.

Perhaps if those having problems told Apple about it on

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

such a bombardment would get serious attention.

Not at all.

Instead it’s likely a combination of apps installed as well as other factors like cellular signal strength.

Feel free to leave feedback with Apple, they do investigate issues reported there.

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

If you like, you can report it here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

There are millions of people running iOS 16.3 who are not seeing this issue, so what the root cause is, no one can really say at present.

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.

This is why I always advise to open a case with Apple Support directly if you can't resolve the issue through diagnosis (e.g. checking with apps are using a lot of battery.)

Contact - Official Apple Support

The good news is when you get back to the US, it should be a quick and easy fix if you're still having the issue.

Meanwhile, if you're sick of your friend's jabs, do an Internet search to find the many, many posts from Android users complaining of similar problems with their phones.

You need to contact Apple Support at

Contact - Official Apple Support

or Apple Product Feedback at

Product Feedback - Apple

This is a user-to-user technical help forum. Posting on this site will not inform Apple of your problem. Meanwhile, follow the various advice suggested by previous posts to this thread. Good luck: I hope you find a solution.

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.

You’re welcome. Sorry to hear the rest of it didn’t help! Sounds like it may be a software issue and I would be surprised if Apple doesn’t patch things up quickly for its flagship phone. I (fortunately) don’t have these issues with my 14 Pro but did with my 13 mini, and these tips helped a lot. But then, that phone always had a much smaller battery with worse battery life.

On low power mode, iOS reduces the maximum refresh rate of the display from 120 to 60 hz to save battery, so it makes sense that it would look like an iPhone 8 (or actually any iPhone other than a 13 Pro or 14 Pro). But I agree that’s not ideal and Apple needs to get the battery fixed since so many people are reporting issues. If you haven’t already, leave Feedback to accelerate this to Apple’s engineers so they can get it fixed. The more people leave feedback the better.

Hey everyone, as I said in my previous post, I wasn’t having this issue. Unfortunately I’m starting to notice it now, it’s pretty bad. Followed all the instructions on Apple’s Support website and this Discussions site, nothing helps. I did, however, make an interesting observation: it’s not just the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max. It’s happening with my 13 mini, 12 Pro, SE 2nd gen (yes I know I have too many iPhones lol), and my family member’s 11 Pro Max and another family member’s 13. What I noticed is that it’s almost 100% certainly related to iOS 16. All the iPhones were having this issue, except my previously mentioned family member’s iPhone 13… which was running iOS 15.6 b/c she is always wary of the latest updates wreaking havoc with her devices. I finally convinced her to update to 16.3 and she’s having the same issue. Anyway, just wanted to throw that out here and ask if anyone else has noticed this battery drain only since updating. Regardless, leaving feedback for Apple will help to get this issue resolved sooner: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Old_Yorkshireman wrote:

'Find My' is trying to stay in contact with the device location, and with no/not enough cellular signal it's permanently shouting in the wilderness 'Here I am' at full signal strength.

Note it's not just "Find My."

When your phone is in a poor cellular reception area it has to periodically check in with the cellular tower so that the tower knows it's there to send on SMS messages and phone calls.

Then the power usage is even higher if you are in a poor coverage area for 5G, as 5G consumes more power to begin with.

Again, there is zero reason you shouldn't have your phone connected to a charger when you're not actively using it.

About Optimized Battery Charging on your iPhone - Apple Support