iPhone 15 Pro Max Heating & Battery Draining Fast

Same is happening with mine. Hardly using it and it’s dying. When I took it out of the box it was almost dead. Mine have always been charged. I plan to go to my cell phone store tomorrow to see what can be done.

Yes same issue…for me it even drained overnight charged to 100 and in the morning, when checked it was around 86!

Further casually using the phone and in 30 mins dropped to around 72! Worse than a 4 year old iPhone at this time.

Got this device yesterday and now a bit sad!

Same here. Battery drain is ridiculously fast with low to medium use. On currently latest iOS 17.0.2.

Struggles to get through a single day with just light social media, 15 min phone call and a few photos. Would not be able to use this phone while travelling or away from the house. Upgraded from the 13 Pro Max which had considerably better battery life and am now very disappointed with this purchase. If Apple fix can’t the problem, I’ll have to return it

I checked my last night’s battery stats. Last night I slept with having 92% battery on my iPhone 15 Pro Max around 12 am, when I woke up (around 5am) it was already 71%. Now that J have checked battery stat, it says chrome uses 99% battery from 12am to 1am, but I didn’t even have chrome running in the background. That’s so alarming for me. Hope they fix it soon.

SAME! I guess i’m not crazy!! Got the iphone 15 pro for 2 days now, bought it on the 24th didn’t activate it a day later the 25th, and this is crazy! this is a BIG deal for me because I upgraded from the Iphone 8 !!! And I noticed a massive battery difference!! I feel my iphone 8 battery was better than this 15! I hope this is a software issue but I’m sort of disappointed:/ (everything else is fine getting used to the new technology compared to the 8)

Got my iPhone pro max on 09/24 used my phone for 2 days and today I have realized my phone started heating up and battery draining super fast. I charged my phone last night and by noon today it is at 9% and by the time I typed this message it is down to 8.

I have the same case as you, had my iPhone 11 for 3 years and had to charge it multiple times a day.

So i thought the 15 pro would save me, but the First thing I noticed about my new phone is that the battery drained extremly fast.

hopefully this can get fixed :/

Crazy, have had the iPhone 15 PRO MAX for less than a day and the battery has drained 40 percent because of the Home Screen. I barely used the phone today, took 3 calls that were less than 15 mins, battery went from 70% to 30% in less than an hour. What’s boggling to me is that my iPad functions on USB-c and doesn’t have the same battery issues as this phone. What the heck apple!

Same here! The phone is reporting the Home & Lock Screen is causing the most battery drain. At first I thought it was the phone and had it exchanged. 2nd Pro is doing the same thing.

I spoke with Apple for quite a while today. They confirmed that engineering is aware of the issue and working on it.

Only guess here is that something within the software is causing the processor to run at full refresh rate when on a call.

fingers crossed for a fix because you can’t take a long call at all.

I have an iphone 15 pro. Not max but my battery is also draining like crazy. I dont understand i disable the 120hz screen and from many apps i turned off the background refresh thing. But its still draining. I guess this "bug" or anything affects alot of Pro users.

I have the iPhone 15 pro. I have had 8 iPhones and this is by far the worst iPhone I have ever had. I just previously had the iPhone 13 Pro. And zero complaints loved the phone. But I can tell you right now my battery on that phone lasted way longer than this brand new iPhone. That battery lasted my almost all day. All day most days. This phone doesn’t even last me til 5pm what is this phones problem? Is it a glitch. The only reason I bought the new phone was for longer battery life and for the camera. I have turned off everything extra. Like the always on feature that was so heavily promoted. Hoping that would fix the problem and nope still drains like crazy.

Experiencing huge battery drain on my 4 day old iPhone 15 Pro. Totally unexpected.

Even turned off always on display and switched to dark mode with a dark wallpaper.

Switched from iPhone X and I got better battery life on that device.

Also overheats a lot.

I hope a fix is in the works.

Just chiming it to say, "Yeah. Me too." Unplugged the phone less than an hour ago and left it sitting on my bed. Battery dropped 10% and the phone is warm to the touch. That's with ZERO use. Tempted to take the thing back.

Really wished I hadn’t of upgraded. My iPhone 13 Pro Max was doing just fine but I was intrigued by the titanium and periscope lens, so I upgraded. The battery drain is insanely quicker from the 13 pro max. And it gets pretty hot while charging or doing data/graphic intense things, which weren’t an issue for me on the 13 pro max. Also, on multiple occasions I’ve not received a text or two while have conversations with my wife or friends. It’s strange. Question is, is it iOS 17 or the iPhone 15 pro max?

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