iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

My 14 Pro battery is amazingly good. I’ve never had any iPhone with a battery life this good; I charge overnight; here at the end of the day, after spending 2 hours on cellular (not Wi-Fi) calls, my battery is still 56%. My XR would have been dead by now.

The battery on my 14 Pro Max is amazing as well. I've been up since 7:00 AM. I've surfed the net, streamed music for about an hour. Updated apps. Texted a lot. Answered some emails and here it is 8:15 PM and my battery is at 94%. Remarkable, actually.

i just got my phone 14 pro 2 days ago , and lást night I charged it full till 9.30pm , I used (checking Facebook )it till 10pm . When I woke up 7am 91%,and 8.30am already 83% (only send text message and checking Facebook ) . My previous 13 pro never drain like this fast .

I have the 14 Pro, I come from a XS Max with 90% life battery left. The battery on my 14 Pro is really bad compared to my XS. Its definitely lower at the end of the day and I am not using it that much. I understand that I have 120hz and always on display now but to me that doesn’t feel right. I didnt change the way I use the phone.I can see that I am not alone. I hope they can fix this with updates.

Right. I got my iPhone 14 pro on first day itself and the way the battery is draining is surprising. I did a trade in with my XS and trust me my XS has better battery backup. I have turned off all the features and using low power mode though out the day. When I had a call with Apple Care executive, she said there is no problem with my battery (after sharing the diagnosis report). This is really bad

also, I have already done a reset of the phone on the 3rd day but no luck.

We have iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, which seemingly are also blessed by the same wizard as Lawrence. My phone has been used a lot today since about 7:30 AM EST and at 8:30 PM EST, my battery is 84% on the 14 Pro Max and 81% on the 14 Pro. I'm finding the battery life on our 14 Pro's comparable to the 13 Pro's which preceded the 14's.

2% an hour would be 24% over a 12 hour day. That is fantastically good battery life. And there is no such thing as “standby drain”. The phone is never in standby; it is always doing things. Unless you never receive texts, emails, notifications, updates to content such as weather. And even then it is still maintaining a “handshake” with the cellular network, syncing iCloud and other apps that maintain cloud data. What is your network setting? It should be 5G Auto if you have that as an option; it is the setting that will use the least energy.

If you want to see the closest you can get to standby drain put the phone in airplane mode and make sure Wi-Fi is off, and leave it that way all day.

I recently purchased the iphone 14 pro, hoping to a good battery life, but to my disappointment it was worse than my iphone 11 pro, which i have had for 3 years now, is pretty used.

The iphone 14 pro does not even last 8h without being completely drained.

I am very disappointed with the product.

I’m starting to believe this is related to iOS 16 - I returned my iPhone 14 Pro and instead ordered a Pro Max as I was missing my 13 Pro Max screen (and battery life) - now that my 13 pro max is running the latest iOS 16 with updates, I’ve noticed the battery life is significantly worse than it was before these updates.

I agree with skiadt. My iPhone 14 Pro arrived yesterday and is still undergoing issues, one of which is battery charging and draining. My iPhone 11 Pro had significantly increased battery drain after switching from IOS 15 to 16. I am not a heavy user and on IOS 15 the battery would drain about 15% per day. With IOS 16 the drain increased to over 30% per day, despite switching all the electives off and using dark mode. My iPhone 14 Pro used about 40% in the last six hours with most everything but wifi and bluetooth off. Wireless charging with thin case makes the unit quite warm and I am going to switch back to lightning to charge it. Not set up for MageSafe charging, yet.

And I've been on my 14 Pro Max since before 8:00 this morning. I've had numerous phone calls, emails, texts and I streamed Apple Music to my Bluetooth earphones for over an hour and at 3:50 PM, my battery is at 93% remaining. Stellar performance, to say the least.

You were right lobsterghost1. My iPhone 14 Pro has settled down and and has lost only 8% in the last 12 hours, mostly on standby. "Always On" display is off, only five or six apps running in the background and screen is in the dark mode. Charged it up last night via lightning cable with none of the heating problems I had charging wirelessly.

Thanks for letting us know. It's very common when you first set up a new phone to see what you saw. Once all the indexing is complete everything settles into a nice rhythm and you should experience stellar battery life!

honandre wrote:

Indexing for 3 weeks? I’ve network reset, restored from a backup and done everything imaginable with crap battery.

No, of course not. If your battery is not holding up well, have your phone checked at the Genius Bar. The battery in my 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max are simply amazing.

randal23 wrote:

That can’t be…I’ve never had to nor should I have to turn my WiFi off when leaving home. My f that really is the cause, Apple needs to fix it.

And it isn’t. Wi-Fi uses essentially NO energy when not connected to a network transferring data. And you should not turn Wi-Fi off away from home; it is essential for Find My and any mapping program to work. It uses the location of known Wi-Fi networks to improve the accuracy of GPS and to find your location when GPS is not available, which is any time there is anything blocking a clear view of the sky, such as trees, tall buildings, and, of course, indoors.