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iPhone 16 pro battery draining fast

It feels like the 16 pro drains battery like crazy. Mine has gone from 95% to 81% in 38 minutes of light use and some picture taking. Phone also gets really hot when using the camera!


Anyone else experiencing this?

iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 25, 2024 10:03 AM

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Posted on Oct 9, 2024 5:29 PM

My 16 pro battery was draining very fast but after disabling siri and search settings and removing whether app widget as suggested here 11 Proven Steps to fix iPhone 16 Pro Battery Drain Issue and following other recommendations too, there was noticeable improvement in battery draining. Note that I didn't turned off raise to wake and push notifications.

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Oct 24, 2024 8:23 AM in response to yetty112

Don’t wait - I reported to Apple at 3 weeks as - was tired of calling and getting remote help- agreed for Genius Bar appt today. They couldn’t fix it. Then they couldn’t replace it either as it was > 30 days ! Great. It needs repair but Apple can’t repair it!!! That means I am done. So, if you are <30 days - return the phone .

bw


Oct 3, 2024 3:25 AM in response to Matonsen

I got my phone on Monday 30th September (delivered at nearly 9pm) and it took me until the following day to transfer everything from my 14 Pro Max, so I didn't start using it properly until Tuesday 1st October. For 2 days, I experienced this issue (excessive battery drain) and I became particularly annoyed because my phone was seemingly permanently attached to a charger and the battery percentage wasn't going up. As of last night I was considering sending it back as other posts on here suggested that Apple support was reporting no issues with the phones even though almost everyone was experiencing the same fault.


I did notice that there is a software update available - and although it is just 18.0 by all accounts this update is just for new iPhone 16's (all variances). It says it's a security update but once installed, my battery life is significantly better - to the extent that at nearly 11.30am, it's at 91% and I've used it for work calls; listening to an audio book for 30 minutes and playing some games since 6.30am when I took it off a normal overnight charge.


Maybe it was the update or maybe something else (although I didn't do or change anything else in my normal phone usage/routine) but the battery drain issue seems to have been resolved.

Oct 6, 2024 5:41 PM in response to Matonsen

Same here, my phone is brand new just 3 days and the battery drains very fast. My 4 years old 11 Pro Max at its 77% capacity can hold the charge better than this one, it's so frustrating. I lock the phone, put it on airplane mode, disactivate location and all background updates, NO use at all and still the battery goes down!!

Hope they can fix it with a software update and it's not a faulty batch needing replacement, because honestly that would be so disappointing. I can't imagine with Apple Intelligence the battery will run out in a couple of hours. I expect from this new phone battery to last at least a day and a half with a light use :( and being a light user I've stretched it up to 24 hours on a weekend, but now that I'm at work and I need to use it it doesn't seem that it's going to last until the end of my working day.

iPhone 16 pro battery draining fast

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