iPhone 15 Pro Battery Drain Issue

I have the same problem with my iPhone 15 Pro. Must say I am very disappointed. I paid a lot for a new phone and the battery is seriously barely better than my iPhone 11 Pro with a battery condition of 79%. I'm going back to the store tomorrow to address this issue and find a reasonable solution. I'm not going to spend 1300 euros on a phone with a bad battery.

The previous times I bought a new iPhone I could easily use it for 1.5 to 2 days without charging. It's ridiculous that this is no longer possible while Apple promises 26 hours of battery life when watching videos.

It looks like it's not constant : the battery drops in waves, and not every time. Maybe it's a problem of battery "too new" comboned by the new phone doing some sync / update of data and/or app updates / downloads ?

I asked my wife to let it discharge until shutdown 3 or 4 times to see if it clears the issue before goint to an Apple Store for an exchange.

It looks like it can loose 15% in 10 minutes but then stay in the same % for hours. very irregular.

Putting it in battery save and cutting all features like always on, bt, wifi, gps = changes nothing to the issue.

The battery health panel says 100% peak performance but on the graph I can see the staircase like moments where it drops. Today there was two of those drops.

But it looks like it will be able to handle a full day or more. ( 15 pro max 17.0.2 )

So there is some nuance to this problem.

I don't see any staircase in the 14 pro max battery health. With light use my 14 pro max loses 25% a day. (it's an idle phone waiting for sms)

Super disappointing! My phone dies middle of the day and I don’t use it even close to the way I did with my 14 Pro.

30 mins of google maps, 2 phone calls (combined 5 minutes), 1 hour of Spotify, 30 mins of social media and by noon I’m at 25%….. not what you expect from a $1600 phone.

I don’t think the first few charge cycles of an Iphone battery see any change in capacity whatsoever. As for restoring new phone from backup and synching settings, pics etc, unless you are talking massive volunes if data a day will see that all done. Location services were my biggest drain. With Safari location setting switched off as soon as I opened any web page the location setting status icon appeared (what gives? Bugs perhaps?) Turning off Location services totally has nade a difference but using maos then requires swithing loc services back on and to precent rinsing battery, turning loc setting back off, hassle! I think exchanging phone a waste of time, clearly Apple have either some Ios bugs to zap or more ominously, the 15 pro is destined to provide pathetic battery life to all who have one. Rumour has it the 16 pro and max will be bigger. If true thatcwill be to accommodate appropriately sized battery perhaps?

In addition to battery issues, check for these as well:

1- facetime photo shots are not saved to photo app-

2- camera through Telegram app is malfunctioning and freezes the screen when you take a photo.

3- small buzzing sound at the beginning of facetime call

I am facing the same issues with my Iphone 15 Pro. I traded in an iphone 11 for the pro 15 and needless to say the battery is draining way faster than the corrupt battery in my former phone the 11 pro. When the 15 pro is on charger i cannot talk on phone or it wont charge. Additionally the apple mag charger and the usbc charger provided do not provide fast charging. I did a background app refresh and turned off all apps and it still takes over an hour an half to charge my phone even on airplane node. My former phone the 11 pro would charge while on the phone or off and be fully charged within 45 minutes.

I upgraded to the 15 Pro 256gb from an IPhone 11 and I was so looking forward to having a longer lasting battery since my 11 was 4 years old. This new battery doesn’t even last the day!!! It’s gone down 6% in the 15 minutes that I’ve been researching this. Like I’m not using it any more than usual but it just drops constantly. There must be something they can do to fix it, this was not a cheap upgrade 😔 The camera is also glitchy and definitely not living up to my expectations but that’s for another thread 😒

Same issue here. Once I went out all day from 6am to 11pm.

my phone ran out of batteries by 6pm.

i had two apple MagSafe battery pack with me. After charging the phone up to 75% with them twice. By 11pm I was at 8% battery life. I did not stream any videos on that day and I was in an area with bad internet connection. Also the stay on screen is turned off on my phone. Worse iPhone pro for battery life I ever had

Ditto. 15 Pro and the battery is not good at all. I have to shut everything off (5G, location, app refresh,) and even then it still drains. I thought with a larger battery and more efficient chip we should get excellent battery life no?

Yes, especially noticed the find my app being used all night. I'm hoping this is a software bug and nothing to do with hardware, I've come from my iPhone 14 Pro which would last all day no issues, it's bizarre!

Latest I’ve read is that Apple is woring on bug fixes and will release 17.1 by month end. Having said that, sounds like focus is on overheating issues. Location services were my biggest loss of battery life. Improvement in battery life but hassle to keep switching on and off. Why should we have to? Battery in pro is clearly too small. Not a good situation. Apple seemed to have cut corners and will loose sales and revenue. How dumb???

Agreed, I have the iPhone 15 pro, surprise to me that this premium phone lasts less than the regular iPhone 15, I get that the pro has a faster chip and 120hz refresh rate, but apple should have properly compensated for that, everything else is great on this phone, I feel slightly lied to about how the pro has more playback than the regular model when that’s not true, and I don’t want the pro max for the camera and screen size, other than that I’m quite happy with the purchase!

Hey guys, I got the new iphone and the battery is not so good. it's a bit better when on low power mode but i just got it last weekend!

I think it could be a software issue with the new IOS update but i've heard that the Pro series run at the speeds of the Macbook Air M1, so due to these speeds it may use up more battery and since the regular pro has a smaller battery it dies faster because it can't handle the speeds.

I also heard it constantly uses 5G network and always uses it when necessary and since this is always on regardless of 5G Auto, it uses up more battery because it's constantly searching for that capability

I hope Apple fixes these bugs soon or later because a lot of people are getting upset with the pro performance.

PLEASE HELP Apple!

No, I hope this is a software issue, because even on battery save and switching back to 60hz does not solve the issue. It miche be a problem from "find my" or a 5G problem,

GPS off might make the problem better, but I almost always need gps, I tried to turn off gps use of most apps and even some system features using the privacy settings.

Also now I am back in an area with good cellphone coverage and the battery holds better.

When I experienced the most drain was in a very crowded area (Milano Duomo Galleria on saturday)

so it is probably an issue with aggressive search of network (mobile network)

but anyways my 14 pro max in the same place same day was NOT affected.

There are bout 1000 comments on this miserable battery drainage issue and no formal authority from Apple is responsive. It was 100% and left on my nightstand when I woke up it was 82%. I didn't even use the phone! I don't think this is a system bug rather it is hardware issue.