iPhone 16 Pro Battery Draining Quickly

Thank you for your reply Mac Jim ID. Notwithstanding the fact that the aggregate OS consumption is still omitted from the suggested analysis -- a critical shortcoming -- I see merit in what you suggest. I will likely not conduct the tests but only because I am not willing to spend hours analyzing problems with what is supposed to be a time-saving device, as all of my other iOS devices have been. I have very few apps on my 16 and none that are buggy or purported to be resource hogs. For the time being, I have achieved reasonable battery life by locking down virtually everything I can, so much so that I cannot dictate messages or queries and I allow nothing to run in the background. My platform-agnostic software engineering friends both agree with me that the most likely cause is a hardware or OS defect and, given the very large and growing number of complaints one sees across the web and among friends and colleagues, it is likely a problem that Apple is working on resolving but has not acknowledged as a defect.

Hi all,

has anyone found a fix yet?

My battery is dropping really fast. While i am asleep my phone loses 10-12% battery percentage.

ive set up my device using my IPhone 12 over 2 weeks ago.

Ive even done diagnostics with the apple support. They stated that everything is fine according to my iPhone. I have 13 charge cycles

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Hi Jim,

thanks for your quick reply.

I’ve set my phone without charge at 79% at midnight. When I woke up, my phone was at 66%. This is quite bad, because my IPhone 12 with 80% battery capacity wouldn’t lose as much as this device with the same apps installed.

nazeeshkhan wrote:

When I play Stumble Guys Mod on my iPhone, the battery drains really fast. I don’t know why this happens. Is there any setting I can use to balance performance and battery usage?

Nope, but if you installed a certificate at Device Management to get the mod, you have put your device and personal information at risk. You should have seen this security warning when you added it and you have bypassed the security on the device yourself by claiming you Trust it. You have allowed Malware and even Spyware and that would certainly explain why you are seeing your battery drain faster.

No matter whether I use an Apple iOS built in app versus a 3rd party, my phone I have to charge 2-3x a day now. It also gets very hot to touch whether it is a phone call or resource intensive app. When I bought the phone last year, I was getting 12-14 hours average per day. Now I only get 3-6 hours per day.

Apple told me factory reset and remove 3rd party apps. That is simply not true because my phone gets hot even using phone, iMessage, and more. I have already done factory reset and the problem still persisted. I need Apple to inspect the phone inside. Maybe check thermal paste and battery physical condition?

Correct I used my MacBook Pro with iTunes/Apple Music. Spark I have removed completely, switched to Outlook. Snapchat and TikTok have only reduced their usage if I cleared out the GBs used of storage space they take up in their caches. I did two phone calls today and battery usage went from 95% to 70-75% in about 1.5-2 hours or so. Just holding my phone up to ear was burning sensation and phone gets really warm. Tested this on stable release and others. I am wondering if it is physical issue?

I thought it was just me I’m not happy about it at all

I am thinking about returning my iPhone 16 pro because of the poor battery life. My iPhone 13 Pro with a recently replaced battery has better battery life than my iPhone 16 pro

I tried as well but they didnt have the promax in stock and now im outside my return policy and stuck with it

Yeah still bad

i have been having my 11 Pro for about 4 weeks now. Battery drains so quick. for 2 days I only have about 4.5 hours screen on :(.

I dont know which phone to get if I am returning my 16 Pro

hi, I have a very old macbook. Can i still try to reset via my Macbook.

does factory reset work theough the phone too or does it have to be a macbook? Im gonna get insane fron the problem…