iPhone 16 Pro Battery Draining Quickly

Hi so Apple support called me one alarming issue if you look at the attached photo is my photo usage: I was on photo screen time 3 hours but background was 11 hours. They said the “big new update” may fix the battery drain issue but I didn’t want to loose my 14- day return window. I returned my iPhone 16pro Oct 26 and upgraded to IPhone 16 pro max.

I'm not sure if this issue only occurs on a very small subset of iPhone But I've returned and bought new ones for the fifth times . All those iphone 16pro I've tried could just last about 4 hours of screen time from 100 percent battery drops to 20 percent

It is truly unacceptable for A new iphone

I had the same issue and here’s what worked for me:

First, I backed up my iPhone via iCloud. Then, I downloaded the non public version iOS. After that, I connected my phone to my Mac and selected the option to restore it, which wiped the whole phone data and reverted it to the normal, a public ios version. Finally, I restored my data using the iCloud backup.

This process resulted in a significant improvement in battery life.. almost doubling it

I am traveling in Japan and the battery of my new iPhone 16 pro is terrible! I take lots of photos and use a tracking/GPS App. My old iPhone 13 Pro was fine. Thankfully I have a battery pack with me. I see there is an update of 18.1 available. Will this make the battery drain even more quickly?

it gets a “little bit” after the phone has finished indexing but the battery is not nearly as good as the previous iPhones. My recommendation is to get an external battery because you are gonna needed it

I recently got my iPhone 16 Pro on October 27th, and I’m blown away by its battery life. I didn’t charge it for a whole day after I got it, and the battery was still at around 70%. Even the next day, after using WhatsApp, YouTube, Netflix, and other apps, it was still at 60%. Now, it’s been 9 days, and I’ve been using it like crazy. I go to bed each night and plug it in, limiting it to 90% charge. When I wake up in the morning, I can still use it until the end of the night, and I usually have between 45-65% battery left. If I don’t play any games, I’m confident that it will last the whole day with 65% battery.

It supposed to be:

I have the same problem. Bought 16 Pro 3 days ago and I can't reach more than 5-6h screen time and maybe, maybe 1h - 1.5h of idle. Can't believe in these units with 8-10 screen time... not doable in my case I think.

I’m facing this same issue of battery drainage only when I use cellular data battery drains so fast

it’s a good battery time with WiFi

but with cellular data I charged my iPhone 16pro 95per and only 4hours screen time very disappointing

please resolve this issue

It is strange. Today I unplugged my 16 Pro from charger at 8:00 AM.

Exactly 8h later i used 35% of the battery (65% is remaining) and I have 3h screen time and 45m idle. I could assume that using the phone with the same pattern I would have 6h screen time and 30% battery remaining which gives me up to 8h screen time with 80% battery usage. And 47% of time I spent on TikTok. Different apps use different amount of battery. Yesterday 35 min phone call with loud speaker, using the screen all time and sharing it with Apple advisor consumed ~8-11% of the battery. Now I know that 1h spent on TikTok consumes like 7-10% of the battery.

I am becoming to tired investigating that and I don't see a pattern yet. Regardless, apple after the call i had with them yesterday claims that it is pretty normal and 8h of screen time should be consider as excellent (maybe not in these words but I get the point).

Same issue here. Traded my 13 pro in which had 90% battery health and my 16 pro is giving me 4hr odd screen on time which isn’t terrible but just not enough to get me through a whole day. Plus the phone was marketed as having a great battery? Is it because it’s still setting up or just this bad ? Hope apple fix this in the future

This is not helpful, at least not for old time users of iPhone. I got my iPhone 16 this last week Thursday and I've tried most of these and the problem is still there. I'm going to try to reset it now using my mac, hopefully it works. Otherwise, I will return it.

I’m not a developer, but it seems that the Home Screen turns on a lot with the 16 pro when I don’t want it on…and when I look at my battery usage, that has used a lot of the battery. Can this not be fixed somehow?

canpet wrote:

I’m not a developer, but it seems that the Home Screen turns on a lot with the 16 pro when I don’t want it on…and when I look at my battery usage, that has used a lot of the battery. Can this not be fixed somehow?

Your screen should only be turning on when it receives a Notification. If you have any Social Media apps, then you know that they use the Notification process extensively and each one will run the app in the background to process the Notification. The background process from a Social Media app is much more draining on your battery then a simple notification from Messages when you receive a text. This will consume more battery power even when not using your phone.

When I bought my phone a little more than 2 weeks ago, I had the same problem. I was very dissatisfied. I decided to bring in back to Apple to exchange for another 16pro. I did not want the Max. After a long talk with the rep. I decided to go home and over the weekend perform my usage test with a fully charged battery. I had a few more days left to return it. First I have my phone set-up the way I want. Yes! I followed some suggestions since they made sense. On Saturday Nov 2nd. I woke up with a full charge. I used my phone the way I normally do this included all social media, text taken pictures. At midnight I had 17% battery left. I was very satisfied with that. I have decided to keep it and I have a MagSafe battery charger to take with me just in case. I feel with all the things added to the 16pro including AI. The battery life is what’s to be expected. Of course I would love a much longer battery life but the reality is it’s a cell phone and you can’t compare it to older phones they had far less the capacity then the 16 pro. Do what is right for you. Good luck.

Please try and lodge a complaint.Ask for email address where you can write to. If they refuse please come back to forum. This is a genuine problem and Apple got it wrong. I am hopeful- it will be fixed.