iPhone 16 pro battery draining fast

I have tried it with apple - no chance of improving even with the best settings.

If you can, best is return before it is beyond 30 days.

I will say, the phone has been much better after the first couple of days. I did take it into the Apple Store and all they do is run a battery check. To me, the heating was from an overworked processor, not battery. I wonder if restoring from my old backup the phone had to index for a couple of days which put extra work on the processor. I no longer have over heating issues and the battery seems to be normal and what I would expect.

Look I got the Pro Max and it’s been pretty good. It’s not quite what I expected. It would be as far as battery life but if I saw my phone doing what yours did I would take it back.

I mean, I think you can prove there’s obviously something wrong with your battery. It’s still under warranty. You could get a new one.

Instagram and Facebook are using nearly 50% of your battery capacity. Make sure you’re using the latest versions of your apps to optimize battery performance. Instagram released 3 updates in one week just a couple of weeks ago.

Something that is evident from your screenshots is that the 16 Pro seem to have your carrier sim card in. It can be that this is the cause of the battery draining faster. No regular radio check ins on the cell towers on your older device that does not have a sim card in. Try running the test again and put both devices on flight mode or remove the sim from you 16 Pro. That would be interesting.

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Exactly same. 100% to 17% over the course of the day. I have looked at my phone maybe a handful of times in the day for approx 1 minute each time. Been so busy at work. I think the lock screen is lighting up to full brightness in my pocket and when not in use. I can’t think of any other explanation. The battery app tells me the Lock Screen has used 59% of my battery today.

It looks like the battery drain is coming from the Camera app. I only used it for about 10 minutes, but it drained the battery significantly—around 15-20% in that short period. The battery report shows the Camera app accounting for over 50% of total usage during that time.

I’m wondering if third-party apps that access the camera might have the same issue. My camera settings were pretty standard—1080p at 60fps for video, nothing heavy. I also suspect the camera button itself might be contributing to the problem.

For reference, my OS is already updated to version 18.3.2 (latest).

Deiyu wrote:

My iPhone 16 pro overheats too and drains too fast. Got it for less than a week. It’s seriously crazy

What apps are draining the battery when you go to Settings > Battery and scroll down to reveal the graph and app usage over the last 24 hours? Post a screenshot of what you see there to indicate the percentage and background processes.

You’re going to wait a very long time for a fix to a bug that does not exist. Your choice is to troubleshoot the problem with YOUR iPhone, not over half a billion other iPhones, or get a different phone from a different supplier (that will also have battery problems).

Of all of the billions of smartphones that have been bought over the past 15 years there has not been even one user who was satisfied with their battery life. Maybe an exaggeration, but not much of one. 

If you charge the phone overnight with Optimized Battery Charging enabled the phone should last all day until it is time to charge it overnight again. But an app that is used a lot or that uses a lot of energy (Facebook, for example) can change that. And when the phone is new or has been recently updated there is a lot of “housekeeping” that is done to organize and index the data on the phone. That can take several days. So you can’t really get a good idea of your battery performance for the first week after getting the phone or updating it.

And Youtube videos showing battery life are totally worthless, unless you use exactly the same apps that the Youtuber used for the same number of minutes and at the same times of day with the same cellular network signal strength, the same phone calls, the same number of email messages and texts, etc. 

Try to Disable Find My.

Apple messed something up.

I experience no problems since I did that.

I hope iOS 18.2 or 18.1.1 hopefully will fix this.

Looks normal and your top 4 apps are consuming over 50% of your battery capacity. None of those apps, to best of my knowledge have been optimized for iOS 18, so battery life will only get better.

What are your battery usage by App for last 24 hours and 10 days.

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