iPhone 16 Pro Battery Draining Quickly

My old iPhone 13 with 80% battery health last longer than this new iPhone 16 pro battery when left side by side playing a video one mute, the 16 pro was on 14% while my standard 13 was still 34… what is up with this? They are both running iOS 18.2

I have the same problem, with new 16pro battery draining faster and running hotter than my 14pro. I’ve been using it for 6 days and no improvement yet - will Apple fix this with an update or should I return my 16pro and keep my 14pro? Not enough space on my MacBook to reset per other reco in this thread.

I bought my phone 5 days ago and I have battery issues with it! I’ll try the way you said to me! It’s a good idea to do it after 5 days of using or I need to give more time to my battery!? And if it’s possible can you share how did you done that process?

I got my IPhone 16 pro almost a month ago, have turned off all the background refreshes, deleted apps and files that were suggested, I’ve done everything I was told to do. The battery is still ****… how much longer do I have to wait for it to finish “loading” or whatever?

In regard to your battery issue have you had you had your iPhone diagnosed by Apple Support either over the phone or in person at an Apple Retail Store? If the issue persists, it can be escalated to engineering if necessary.

Thank you for your feedback! I have also noticed that several people mentioned that performing a factory reset using a MacBook helped resolve the battery drain issue. Could you please provide more details on how to do this and the steps involved? Additionally, are you recommending restoring a backup afterward? It would be helpful if you could share the exact steps you followed, as it might greatly assist others as well.

Thank you!

Plug the phone into your Mac. Go through the finder and select factory reset. I would assume this would be similar on a PC. Google it possibly? The phone was restored to factory conditions as if I had just received it. Then I restored from an iCloud backup. My phone now uses roughly 10% battery per hour of screen time usage. So 60 minutes of watching YouTube, max, what have you, will drop the battery about 10%. Calls, massive amounts of texts or web surfing do cause the battery to drop considerably quicker. I think the main issue had to do with some type of software issue when ios18 was initially installed on the phones before they were shipped. That’s my uneducated guess anyway. Hope that helps. My wife also has a 16pro that she received the same day as me. Our battery lives are similar since I factory reset mine.

I don’t think for a month old phone an engineer is required. It needs replacing.

I don’t think calling Apple support will help. They are as puzzled as this forum. Genius Bar will tell you that your battery is fine. They don’t and can’t fix your problem as serious as this.Probably Apple can’t fix it either- otherwise patch or update would have been there.

I think I figured it out! (Maybe just mine)

So I did what was said to restore the iphone but it kept happening, and the issue is the braided USB-C cable !!! Get a new USB-C and use that instead of Apple's that came with the box, mines now charging normally.

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Look at your apps, Telegram, TikTok and Instagram are using over 50% of your battery capacity. All third party, non Apple apps. The telegram app forums are full of the same issue.

Please contact Telegram support team and ask when they’ll update their app to be optimized for iOS 18.x.x.

If you want to check usage, delete Telegram app for several days and check your battery usage then.

da_mir542 wrote:

man, 1% of loss every 4-5 min

Have you removed the suggested apps yet and compared your results as Jeff Donald advised. As others have noted, they were able to pinpoint the exact apps causing the problem and Telegram and Meta apps top the list. At some point those developers are likely to remove the bugs in their apps so they do not consume so much energy, but each one needs to hear the feedback from their users to force a change.

Apple provides you the information in the Battery settings so you can make the decision on how important that app is compared to how much battery it consumes. Apple has done its part, now it is up to you.

Hello, I’ve noticed this as well with the iPhone 16 pro!!!! It was great then I synced it with my Apple computer. Now the battery is ridiculously low!!! Please help can this happen and how do i fix??????

thanks

You can add Apps not updated/optimized for new iOS. Sometimes deleting the app and reinstalling fixes it. Other times the apps developers need to update the app to run more efficiently, plug memory leaks etc.

No torch has been used to 12am until 7am but on the last 24hours it represented 3% of my total activity ! You can see it on my first picture in idle screen time.

I don’t know but my phone battery last as long as my old iPhone 12 that’s not normal… I hope iOS 18.2 will fix it.

i’m gonna try to do what Chillwave said but I’ve already reset my phone with my Mac so I’ll try the others solutions.

I bought 16 pro max almost 10 days ago and it was working fine but from today mu battery facing drain issue without heavy use. I lost 35% of battery in less than 3 hours without heavy usage. Too much irritating thing. Tell me the solution