iPhone 15 Pro Battery Drain Issue

I have bought iPhone 15 pro recently. The expectation is battery should be efficient, but is performing poor than iPhone 11. Especially Findmy app is used all night. The battery went down from 55% to 32%. Please help me to fix this?


-SK


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iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 24, 2023 9:15 PM

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Posted on Oct 4, 2023 3:59 PM

Well, I just updated to iOS 17.0.3 and my iPhone 15 Pro 512gb natural titanium is still as warm as ever and the battery has still dropped 15% in one hour …


I talked to someone who works for Apple and they said it’s not gonna get any better that they had better venting and heat dissipation for the 14 pro with the stainless steel and that the A17Pro Chip gets too hot …and titanium doesn’t allow it to disperse. I don’t think any software update is going to make this work. and when you have a hot chip, you’ll have a battery that drains extra fast.


i’m going to further test it tomorrow on Thursday and see how it goes — and then I’m taking it back Friday (within the first 14 days) and getting all my money back. I’m glad I kept my 11 Pro. I would suggest everybody to do this as Friday is your last day to get your money back since it was the first day you could pick it up in the store


this is by all means a massive hardware design defect and there’s no remedying it. I don’t know what Apple‘s gonna do with this one. The only way they can stop it from getting hot is the throttle that A17 chip and the expert I talk to said that’s not even gonna help much. Some units are fine some aren’t. I’m not gonna gamble my $1500 on it again.

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Feb 19, 2024 6:05 AM in response to saravanan81

Got a new iphone 15 . The phone's battery drops very fast. Even three days after updating.. I have disabled backround app refresh. Uninstalled the 3 apps I had, stopped mail sync, disabled 5g ...and still as soon As I make a call, battery loses 1% every one minute.... Even web browsing drained it.. I contacted the dealer and he said they have to run diagnostics and then send it to apple if there's something wrong... if it was any other company's phone they could replace it but apple has a different policy...they said...

So I'm left without a phone. That is unacceptable for a new phone at this price. Should upload a utube video cause while many people have the same issue no one talks about it there.

Feb 20, 2024 10:16 AM in response to saravanan81

So with this battery drain issue. Has anyone tried turning off the “Always on” function? It can be found in the “Display & brightness” settings towards the bottom. Just turned it off on my 15 pro. Hope this helps. I’ll try to remember to update this post.

I have also turned off the “clean energy charging” function as it will slow down charging during peak usage hours,… whenever the heck that is. I just want it to charge like regular whenever I plug it in.🤞

Oct 22, 2023 4:41 AM in response to saravanan81

After 2 days struggling with the new IPhone 15 Pro battery drainage issue; from 100% charge to 22% in less than half a day; I returned the phone and went back to my 13 Pro.

Sorry Apple, but I hated the 15 Pro.

Technical support and engineers not able to fix the issue yet, and I can’t wait until they do…..

How do you work with a battery life soooo low that is dead in 8 hours in few use only? DONT BUY THE 15!

BTW, Apple shouldn’t even keep selling a problematic phone until they fix it. Remove it from your stores!

Feb 21, 2024 8:18 PM in response to saravanan81

*****SOLVED*****

Turn OFF the “Always On Display”.

1) go to “Settings”

2) “Display & brightness”

3) Then scroll down to “Always On Display”

4) again, “Always On Display” at bottom - turn toggle to OFF.


Since I did this my battery has been lasting all day without worry. I am now at 53% and I have used it a pretty good amount today.

Unfortunatly you don’t get the cool look of having your wallpaper and clock showing 24/7, but I thought it was too bright at night anyway.

You can also limit the frame rate but I chose not to do that after reading some of this thread. If this works for you, please pass this along.




Feb 22, 2024 4:07 AM in response to saravanan81

I also have the same issue as everyone else in here. Frustrating to say the least. At first (January '24), the battery on my 15 pro max was performing great, but now (February '24) -I lose about 10% or more per hour while not using and all apps turned off. As another user mentioned, the best performance is with airplane mode on. However, even with airplane mode on, the battery drain is comparable to my iPhone 12 pro (at 83% battery health). There is clearly an issue here. Even more infuriating is that just today I read that Apple is claiming that the iphone 15's has double the promised lifespan. I would like to live in that alternate reality.

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