iOS 16.1 Battery Drain

The battery drain on my 13 pro max has been horrendous ever since updating to iOS16! I’m on 16.1 now and still no change in battery life ! I have haptics off and have done so much turning off that I feel that it’s not an iPhone anymore and still I have absolute horrible battery life! Apple please get this fixed!

It’s all the Home Screen, when I look at the battery setting over 50 percent of battery usage is coming from new Home Screen. Even removed widgets, static image wallpaper and it’s still draining. I just turned off live activities and it seems better but still too soon to be definitive. Basically I’m turning off everything that I updated to IOS 16 for.

Hello everyone, same problem here with my 13 Pro Max. Doing nothing and it’s just draining the battery.

try turn off Live Activities in settings! I think this helps I tried this and the battery is normal since I turned it off.

settings > Face ID > at the bottom allow Live Activities on Lockscreen

Since i updated to IOS 16 my iPhone 13 Pro’s battery has been horrible! It doesn’t last like it used to and it’s a drastic change from when i bought it in August.

Now that i updated to IOS 16.1 it’s even worse.

Dear Apple, please fix this issue.

yes same here: 13 pro 256gb, good before, with ios 15 and terrible after updating to ios 16. I have tried everything, even clear installation from dfu and even kept empty for a few days, not just a couple (no backup, not even photos transferred). Same attempt with ios 16.1! Battery health above 90%. The visit at the genius bar was just frustrating and making Apple sound very bad. After all their tests the "genius" said this: you know when you upgrade the ios (from 15 to 16) you have to consider that the new one is "designed" for new devices, not really for old models. This my experience with Apple. A friend of mine returned his 14pro max (after been years with iphones), not gonna tell you which other brand he is using now.

Bought new 14 Pro Max last week and I've never seen an iPhone batt drain so fast. Took off charger and 4 hours later at 66% and phone is hot. I'm still within my 14 days and am seriously thinking about returning this at least until I read they've sorted this out. Don't need my new battery abused like this. Pathetic.

Same strategy again with my older iPhones.Now 11promax was running perfectly with the default 13.1 battery lasts easily 2 days+. Started to update directly to iOS 15 and everything was same like before( without any lilitations) hotspot/data active for many hours bluetooth all day on, active e-sim and physical sim.The charging was every 3 noons.Now with ios16 1,5 day. I’m very suspicious that the purpose is to get a rid some older iphones.I hate my phone now. At least apple should keep signed a serious number from previous IPSWI.

It may be a little early to say, but I did turn off "live activities" and its no longer hot and has been at 66% for an hour now. Otherwise it was dropping about 8%/Hr. Give that a try. I'll see what tomorrow brings. If this fixes it, I'll keep it. Otherwise in its box it goes and back to China.

Well sorry to hear that, because for MY 14 Pro Max just flipping that one slider has made all the difference. Previously I was losing about 5-8% battery per hour just sitting inactive. And the phone actually felt warm to the touch. After disabling live activities yesterday, I came off charger at around 5am this morning and 4+hrs later now at 9:20am I am at 99%. So I'm good to go...

I have the same problem here with iPhone 14 pro max. Since update to iOS 16.1 my battery is draining fast :( I fully charge to 100% before going to sleep. When I am awake it is only 72% … after checking battery usage I see app find my consumes the most in background Shame 1609 I paid for it!

I've had the same issue of my iPhone 12 battery draining overnight by 10-20% for the past few weeks. First, I thought it was because I wasn't on 16.1, but since updating to 16.1 it has been the worst drainage, with nothing showing up in the hourly battery settings overnight.

Yesterday I had an appointment with Apple's Genius Bar and they said the only thing left to do was a factory reset, which I dreadfully proceeded with, and still last night my battery drained 15% overnight with nothing running! I'm beyond frustrated at this point because not only did I spend all that time doing the factory reset, I also have to add all my apps manually back and reconfigure all my settings because they didn't want to restore my phone from a backup.

Apple for too long has been pushing software updates out way too fast, that lead to awful bugs. This is what happens when you push for profits over everything.

YES! as soon as I updated I only get about 5 hours of life out of my iPhone 13 Pro 1TB. I went to the Carlsbad Apple store today and they told me that my battery is fine and to restart from factory settings!!!! no worries about my time I guess.

I have to charge my phone at least three times a day. Either I will have to re-install factory settings and software and then put things back on one by one.. or wait for the next update and carry around an external battery.

REDICULOUS!

Honestly I don't have any idea what's going on. I've heard "It's the photo app" (even apple admitted to heavy indexing after the update) "its the calendar!" "It's the mail app", "It's Siri" - I'm not convinced its any one thing. I believe there is a bug that doesn't release network connections - which would explain the instances of "warm phone" syndrome, as while the CPU will generate heat when under load, its usually the radios that cause heat on iPhones. I had this problem for several days after updating which could have been my photo app indexing, but who knows. I thought my fix was disabling "live activities" as mine was resolved after that was done, but it could just as easily been something else like the photo app finished. Who knows. All I know that what once was terrible, is now behaving as expected. I put it on charge last night at 81% after coming off the charger at 6am that morning. I'm sure there will be an eventual update, or at least a warning that "you're phone will experience heavy radio usage for several days after the update due to....?"

I tend to agree, I turned off photo sync, made no difference.

turned phone off, then on again.

much better, phone back to normal battery use.

Turned photo sync on again, normal battery use continues.

Go figure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Something deeper definitely going on!

The battery drain caused by Siri just happened to me again yesterday. This time, completely turning off Siri (and rebooting) did not help. How is this possible?!?! Even after turning off Siri, Siri still consumes 65% of my battery?

So here I am trying to prolong the life of my battery on my new iPhone by running it in Low Power Mode, but Apple's bug(s) will destroy my battery in a couple of months... Great!!!