iPhone battery draining after iOS 18 Update

Since I did the IOS 18 my phone, IPad and watch do not even hold a charge for a day. My watch use to get 2 days before charge, now it’s half a day if that. My IPad only gets 2 hours before it’s from 100 to 10% I use to get at least a day on it and my phone forget about it, it’s now always on the charger. Every single time there is an IOS update it always messes with my phone. I’m seriously thinking of going back to Android. I never had these issues with them. And there are way to many IOS updates in a year.

Same tbh. I got new iphone 14 pro, with battery health on 100%

updated on ios 18 in 3 days. And the battery drain is terrible.

charging a brand new phone 2x a day is absolutely ridiculous. My old iphone 13 battery with health on 90% and ios 17 drains less.

i dont knownif i should wait for few days and just straight up replace the battery or return the phone.

I now have a very expensive paperweight! Battery has drained by 30% in the last 2hrs and I’ve only used it for 15mins in that time! I’ve tried all the tips and tricks to speed it up after an update but none have worked! Thanks Apple you are the best!

Since updating to IOS 18 my iphone 14 drains so fast , I contacted Apple and they did a diagnostic and could see it was draining even when not using . They need to send out a IOS update to help everyone as this is ridiculous, my phone is dead by 9pm

Shut it 3rd world tech support. You people keep repeating this same song and dance instead of hearing other people's issues. IOS has been a DEI induced garbage fest for a year now and something in the code keeps pegging the SoC like the woke devs peg each other. This is annoying and not befitting a phone that costs over thousand dollars.

The battery is draining almost 66% faster than before the update. Advice to wait or do a clean install of the phone did nothing. It's been 12 days since the release of ios18 and still the problem is not solved.

Lots of people including myself want to switch to android iPhones are not cheap and should not have to deal with things like this one spending good money on my phone that always has problemsAnd battery dying faster than it took to charge The money we spend on these phones they should be lasting us at least A day and a half to a day

My iPhone 14 is draining its battery like **** after ios 18 update and even the performance has reduced. Before the update the battery used last for a day, now i have to charge it twice a day. Its a serious concern for all the users , apple please bring a solution with the next update asap

Did they give you any indication of when they might get around to doing this? I often wonder how well they test these upgrades before releasing them. There’s a significant amount of people that are affected by this issue. How can Apple miss something this big?

I am also having the similar issue.

i have iPhone 14, and battery health is still 96%. Yet battery is draining quickly.

This issue started just after iOS 18 update. Is there a way to switch back to iOS 17 temporarily till new update releases?

I have noticed a significant degrade in battery health of my new iphone 15 bought in april, even after using it will all precautions. My iphone health has dropped down very fast even having less count cycles than my friend’s iphone i have less maximum capacity than her.

Same here. I left it off the charger last night and it had 82% when I went to bed. I woke up with 31%. On iOS 17 and below, I would lose 5-8% during an overnight. I checked email and news and now, an hour after picking it up, I’m down to 16%. This is really unacceptable.

Same here. It’s happening on all of my devices- iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. On my Apple Watch I went from using 50% batter life a day from it dying by 9 PM after a full charge over night. Cancelled my Apple Watch data plan and not getting a new one. This was happening years ago. They had a class action lawsuit related to battery drain in the past.

Same here , after update ios18 my 14 Promax battery drainer fast just last half day,I also have problems with CarPlay it not connecting to play music hope apple do something bug fix or what ever improving

I have an iPhone 15 pro, since iOS 18 update, I wake up with 100% charge around 6AM, by 8.30AM with very light use , checking emails for example and some light social media, its down to 72%. I have to plug it back in to charge

I'm literally charging my phone every chance I get now, I'm charging it atleast 3 times a day otherwise if I'm outside I'll be stranded with dead battery (happened to me twice already) when I never had to charge more than once before. I reported this to apple support and they came back with usual BS. This makes me so furious, apple is constantly dropping the ball releasing worse iOS performance every release.