Battery Drain on iOS 26 and iOS 26.0.1.

Not only battery drain issue i am facing in my iphone 14. also it has bugs in wallpaper settings.while i am trying to set up my wallpaper from lock screen screen gets laggy. Need to solve these issues asap

This is called obsoletion.

the iOS is optimize for the phone they want you to buy not the phone you have.

No matter how many things they’ll give you the option to turn off, the drainage will still be credited to all the new features causing the drain regardless if you turn off the features and never use them.

this message will self destruct in as many moments it takes someone else to censor it.

I am also having the same issue after updating to the new IOS 26.0.1 I have an iPhone 14 pro.

I use to be able to go 12 hours now I can't even get 6 hours out of my device with out charging it.

Apple needs to fix this issue ASAP

Yes I have the Same issue with my iPhone 16 Pro.

use to go all day with out needing a charge now I have to keep it on the charger most of the day. I should just go back to a land line if I need to be tied to a wall outlet all day.

They should have to replace our batteries. My gets way to hot after the apdate. Never had that before. My phone is only 6 months old. had 100% battery health now 98% 4 days later. Crazy. Its just sitting on the desk and its still hot for some reason.

I have a similar problem on my 16 pro. It is brand new and when i was on a trip with my friends who were all on ios18 I experienced approximately 15% higher battery drain compared to others that is just not acceptable

Hi Jeff i see you here defending apple and blaming other apps. Here is mine for example from today. I have this since 26.0.1. Multiple restarts, adaptive mode on-off etc. Spotify running in the background 12%? It is a joke but let’s say it is not an apple app, fine. Home screen/lockscreen 5m 5%? Really? Messages 5m 3%? How is this not a clear ios issue? How didnt we have this drain on ios18?

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iPhone 17

Anyone any thoughts around the battery life below? Just over 2hrs of screen time draining the battery to 5% does not seem right?

Also why is Facebook using background data when it’s turned off?

Thanks!

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A perfectly good iphone 13 pro is not holding a charge for longer than 20 mins after ios26 update. This is ridiculous!

working all day the phone sits idle and then i watched the battery drain for no reason.

before this i needed to charge once every 2-3 days thats how low my usage is

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Help me also understand how i just charged my phone back up to a 100%. And within 2 secs after disconnecting the charger, it switches off and restarts to the battery at 10%? And now we plugged in the charger again and sez 70%. And dies after unplugging the charger. Apple needs to figure this out!

we just went from 100% to phone turning off within seconds of disconnecting and restarting at 68%. Restarting again at 11%

watch that little bug flicker before it turns itself off. Ahh man! No way to upload a video?

Me too, with my iPhone 15 plus, which is totally brand new, i bought 3 weeks ago

after updating to ios26 and then 26.0.1, I noticed a total shift from battery life, drastic downfall !!!!

burning battery without doing anything!

I urge you to come with a rapid solution to this massive, frustrating problem!

Yea True.. Battery life was at 85% before the update. Two days after the update, it was shown as 83%.

Now that I look at it today, it's 82% and the battery health is decreasing in an increasingly short period of time.

Very Disappointed Apple!

I surely hope so! My little iPhone 13 mini is draining like there's a hole in it (85% battery health, low power mode does not seem to help, I only have 3 widgets on the lock screen - Clock/Weather/Calendar, and removing them did not seem to make a difference). I don't want a bigger phone. I like the smaller phone. It fits in my pocket. My desktop Apple mouse is also draining rapidly, and I have to change the AA batteries much more frequently. I try to remember to turn off the mouse when I am not using the desktop (mini m4), but I often forget to turn it off. It is an older Magic Mouse. There is much to like about iOS 26.01 (and Tahoe 26.01), but the battery drain is a real and ongoing problem.

I previously posted my iPhone 13 went from 47% to 10% instantly (and even 100% to 10% instantly) and kept restarting. It got to the point I had to keep my phone constantly on the charger, until I saw the screen was swelling open. I didn’t remember it doing that at all before the new iOS, but clearly it had become a hardware issue now. Fortunately I was able to get a new iPhone 17 from AT&T the next day (and I was due a free upgrade).

iOS 26 is so far working great on a NEW IPHONE 17, and it is very smooth. So far the battery is doing well on the new phone (but I don’t have anything to compare it to). With light use I charge it every other day, and moderate use every day.

So it looks like this iOS works alright for NEW phones, but was either not designed with old phones in mind, or (hopefully not) intended to tank old phones.