Significant increase in battery drain of iPhone 16 Pro

Factory reset the phone via your computer. Not via the cloud. I reset it via the cloud and it didn’t work. I hooked it up to my MacBook and factory reset it that way and voila! Amazing battery life now! Like 24 hr battery life!

Do you have 5G enabled? If so, try disabling it and use LTE. Ive been told that 5G drains the battery a lot quicker.

After speaking to support, I turned off background app refresh for several of the apps that I don’t use. This is quite helpful in keeping the battery almost normal. At the end of the day it goes to about 5% with normal use as opposed to charging two to three times a day. However the camera issue has not been resolved yet.

I to have started noticing a big difference in battery life on my new iphone 16. Im on my second full day with the phone, and i noticed as i was going to work this morning. My first day with it was great. I hope this is just some software glitch. Just like you, I have done everything to maximize my battery life.

I’ve got an iPhone 14 and have come here to say the same thing! Ever since I downloaded os18, my battery life has been awful. I use my phone a lot for playing music in the car and in the past week I’ve noticed a significant depletion in battery. Is it the OS?!

Got the same problem as you guys. My iphone 13 promax before i traded in lasts all day long with only 86% battery health. But of course I did not update latest iOS on that one. I just bought my iPhone 16 pro 3 days ago, it was already installed ios18, its battery gone so fast. I used google maps to drive to my workplace, about 45’. 20% gone. Wtf was that. In a day just checking notification sometimes, sending some messages, 40% more gone. Just in 4- 5 hours something. Tried everything to solve this problem but no helps. Very disappointed about the new iOS or iPhone whatever and no solutions to fix this 😭😭😭. Thinking about trading it in and get the older model iPhone...

Same here. Upgraded from 13 pro to 16 pro. Battery is terrible. Been over 2 weeks to so it’s not indexing. My 13 pro lasted most of the day. I am getting 3-4 hrs max with 16 pro. I might watch a little YouTube and a few Facebook videos but most is just texting here and there and checking the news. No way I could make it through a whole day without AT LEAST one charge. Left it unplugged last night after charging to 100 and it had dropped to 80 in 6 hrs. Apparently due to “find my”. I have turned off always on and turned off all background app refresh. Ridiculous! Sure hoping it’s a software update issue and not hardware…

I am also having battery drainage issues with 16 pro max. This is worse than 13 pro max when it was new. Ive turned every setting off I could think of. There is a million nonsense settings too. Some buried in a setting of a setting. No one needs all these useless settings that we have no idea what it does either. Anyhow, still to no avail. Even airplane mode with wifi drains. If someone can figure out what setting is causing, we thank you.

I have had battery drain and freezing issues since day one after purchasing the iPhone 16 pro. I don’t know if this is a hardware or software issue. Apple is not responding at all and it’s frustrating. I actually got support and the problem is still persisting. I was told it was due to iCloud issues when I did the back up. I don’t buy that!

My iPhone 13 Pro Max used to last an entire day without a charge and that was 87% battery capacity. When it was brand new I could go two full days without a charge. My new 16 pro max, I have to charge twice a day. It’s unreal. I’ve turned off everything. Went to apple support Genius Bar and they said “well, it says healthy battery so there’s nothing we can do” beyond frustrating.

Poor battery life with new iphone 16pro. Made the supposed “upgrade” from 11pro with only 85% of battery life left; that phone had much more battery life than this ‘newest latest greatest’ from apple. Thanks for scamming us apple !

Same. How tf do you fix this?

Agreed I have had completely unacceptable performance and there seems to be no answers out there.