iPhone 16 Pro Battery Draining Quickly

I’ve been an iPhone user since the very first iPhone launched in 2007. I shoot video and stills. Your expectations that a battery lasts all day while shooting video and stills is unrealistic. None of my recent iPhones (iPhone 11 Pro, 12 PM, 13 PM, 14 PM, 15 PM and 16 PM) can last all day shooting stills and video. Watch any YouTube videos from serious producers and you see they all use external battery backs to shoot what you want. Time to change your expectations. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that’s the reality of the any smart phone today.

Floating_Bus wrote:

Mine is worse. I disconnect at 6 AM 90% max charge to save the battery. By Noon I’m below 60% with occasional. By the time I get home, it’s almost dead. One of the updates messed everything up. Apple, help!

As others have done, post your last 24 hours of battery usage. If you have the same apps identified consuming your battery as in the other posts here, then your problem has been found and the solution is very easy to test.

Your screenshots are useless for the discussion at hand. First, they are huge, try resizing your images so that the information doesn’t require endless scrolling. I understand it’s not your fault, it’s a website forum issue. Sorry. But depending on the device the information can readily be consumed, so to speak.

More importantly, your issue is centered around battery consumption, correct? Then why I’m I looking at activity by app and not battery consumption by app? I can easily have an app on screen that consumes very little battery. Let’s see the real culprits of the issue at hand.

I continue to see suggestions that the answer to the battery charge life problem can be found by examining the usage pattern of each app. For the most part, this doesn't make sense. The only information conveyed by these numbers is the relative use of each app as compared with total app usage. In my case, for example, the relative use of each app is virtually identical on my iPhone 14 -- for which there are no battery life problems -- and my iPhone 16 Pro, which has very short battery life. To be somewhat useful, this list of relative uses would also need to present an important piece of information that is omitted from the usage report: total iOS battery use in relation to app usage. If we had that information, we could compare iOS power consumption by model as a community. In doing so, we might identify useful solutions. Based on a comparison between my two iPhones (14 & 16), it seems likely that my iPhone 16 iOS is using a disproportionally large amount of battery power.

it might help:

1. Update iPhone to the latest iOS version.
2. Take some brake - at least week.
3. Do Force restart (Hard Reset).

Please post a screen shot of you battery usage by app. Here’s mine,

Charge it a couple of cycles to 100%. It won’t hurt it.

My brightness is lower. I also use Dark mode because I stare at screens for so long.

What apps are using your battery capacity?

Post the screenshots like I did if you really want help. Let’s look at actual numbers. Just listing apps doesn’t tell the story and there’s nothing to analyze and diagnose.

Post the screenshots like I did if you really want help. Let’s look at actual numbers. Just saying it uses your battery doesn’t tell the story and there’s nothing to analyze and diagnose.

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

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

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).

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.