iPhone 14 Pro Battery Draining Fast

Right there it shows Instagram used a full 32% of your battery and Spotify 27%, including background tasks on Spotify’s behalf.

Close Instagram and Spotify and see how long your battery lasts then.

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!

I’ve unscientifically determined it is probably a problem with the network card interface and/or the graphics card when connected to an application and watching Tik-Toks or Facebook reels or You Tube shorts or anything similar. According to Apple Genius Bar, the Facebook application is poorly designed leading to the battery draining (not likely, it’s the same application) I was told to remove the Facebook application and access it through a browser where coincidentally you can’t watch reels. Also according to the Genius Bar, watching reels or similar things is not considered “normal” use despite the specs for the phone saying up to “23 hours of video playback” apparently not reels.

This problem will have to be addressed through updating the iOS and fixing the way the hardware interfaces with the applications using streaming videos.

The Facebook app has been a battery hog ever since it was introduced. It's better today, but still not great.

Other than playing a fast action game, the apps that will drain the greatest amount of power from batteries are those that display high resolution Internet videos (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc.)

If listening to an hour of music is heavy usage to you then you’re not able to tell us if the battery life is indeed wonderful. When is say draining battery and heating device it’s on real heavy usage like listening to music while registering a workout in an app and sending messages. Or having my gps along with music or podcast.

These are the kind of use where you can tell if the battery is on point or not.

And from what I’ve tested recently it seems to be but certain apps which I don’t manage to identify are draining the battery.

A solution that’s been working for me recently is closing all your apps when the battery is draining and start again using your phone like normal. You might finish to identify which app is the rogue one. For me I didn’t but since I did that once the battery is behaving extremely well.

You have really seriously bad charging habits, especially letting go to zero. It’s likely that you have killed your battery prematurely. And no matter what phone you get next, if you treat it the same way the same problems will arise. What does the battery health page say?

You should be charging overnight, every night, with Optimized Battery Charging enabled. But it’s too late for that now.

geekmac wrote:

I ain’t letting it die, sleeping at 12am with 50% and waking up at 5 to see it dead is not my fault lol

this **** is warm all the time

If you followed the best practice of charging overnight, every night, with Optimized Battery Charging enabled it wouldn’t shut down overnight. And it might even fix your problem.

I hate it when apple need to sort things post updates. did you try turning the iPhone off over night to see if it’s a defective battery. It was mentioned above to check for that?

It’s a pain in the bum to do but it will show if it’s a hardware issue at least. Hope that helps you.

hang in there x

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

Many people have commented on getting disappointing daily battery life when using iOS 16. This can often be traced to unnecessary features being activated. If you optimise your settings (turn off unnecessary options and features), daily battery life will be improved. This is especially true of iOS 16 where these settings seem to have proportionally greater effect on daily battery life than previous versions of the iOS. I have obtained 48 hours fairly heavy usage from one charge on an iPhone 14 Pro Max which just goes to show that it can be done. 

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

This is my report:

After updating both of my iPhones 14 Pro to iOS 16.3 next bugs came out:

1. IPhones started to loose 5% of battery per 20 minutes. They don't live more than 1 day without charging

2. After rebooting iPhones loose 5-7% of battery

These bugs never happened on iOS 16.0-16.2. Nothing has changed in daily usage, but battery life decreased by 60-100% on the brand new most expensive IPhones. Please accept this issue and fix this bug. I'm an IPhone user for 12 years and never had any problems. So I wouldn't have reported this problem if my user experience wouldn't has changed dramatically. IOS version 16.3.

That's absolute nonsense. iPhone admits battery drainage is from "Find My" and nothing else.

When I disabled Find My Phone, removed Find My, disabled location sharing and disabled access to my location for "Find My" my battery worked like before.

How do others compare to this? I’ve sent this message to  support.

I made a 16 minute audio call with no other apps running, this drained 5% of the battery power.

Netflix stream in HD quality (probably 720p)

48 minutes used 8% battery which equals 6 minutes per 1% of battery so overall that’s 600 minutes streaming per 100% charge or 10 hours streaming per 100% charge.

YouTube video at 1080p quality.

30 minutes used 7% battery which equals 4.2 minutes per 1% battery so overall that’s 420 minutes streaming per 100% charge or 7 hours streaming per 100% charge.

While streaming no other apps were running, no widgets and in low power mode. Screen brightness was set at just over half.

Now compared to apples figures which states up to 20 hours streaming for my model, you can see I’m not getting anything anywhere near these figures. The performance of my iPhone was considerably better on the previous iOS version.