16 Pro, have made all the known battery saving settings, and typical use for me is surfing and listening to a podcast for three hours and my battery is then below 50%.
I think that’s terrible, personally.
Can I assume others have similar issues?
iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 26
Not sure why the focus is on Podcasts. According the battery monitor Podcasts is only using a small amount compared to Chrome and mostly in the background. Chrome use is foreground so the screen being on will have significant impact on battery use. My suggestion would be to try using Safari for a while instead of Chrome and see if that makes a difference. If it were me I'd uninstall Chrome completely for this test since if Chrome is causing a problem it's more likely due to the telemetry and other tracking stuff that Chrome is no doubt sending back and forth during browsing and there's no gurarantee that it's not doing that all the time. You could also try dimming the screen a bit if you're not using auto-dimming.
This looks like a Chrome problem, not an Apple one. You need to be talking to Chrome support to find out why their app is using so much battery.
What apps used battery capacity during that time?
What’s the cycle count on your daughter’s iPhone battery?
Your iPhone may still be doing some background activity for a few days. This would be related to your extended Low Power Mode usage. Please give things a few days. I think it’ll be fine.
"A normal battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles when operating under normal conditions."
While this is correct, not sure why you did not include the additional information about batteries in the iPhone 15 and higher. The OP told that they have an iPhone 16 Pro.
The complete information reads as follows in the Apple Support document that you referenced:
Batteries of iPhone 14 models and earlier are designed to retain 80 percent of their original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles under ideal conditions. Batteries of iPhone 15 models are designed to retain 80 percent of their original capacity at 1000 complete charge cycles under ideal conditions.
Also note that the document now reads......."under ideal conditions"......not under "normal" conditions.
Either way....."ideal conditions" or "normal" conditions are not really defined.
You can turn access to cellular off when using a podcast apparently but I still have the same battery performance when I’m home all day using my Wi-Fi as if I’m out all day using cellular. There is no difference that I can tell.
OK now I’m confused, there’s a button in Apple podcast which is what I use to say yes to to turn on access to cellular data for podcast, when I turn that off and I turn off the Wi-Fi the podcast still plays using the cellular, so what does that permission allow when I click it on that podcast can access cellular data is what I don’t understand.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I don’t know what support it’s gonna tell me other than it goes through the checklist of battery saving settings which I have done completely. I appreciate you looking at it for me.
A quick question over it ChatGPT says that the cellular data access button and downloading automatic on Apple podcasts etc. might have something to do with it so I’m playing with that right now.
My chrome wasn’t that old and I hate the user interface of Safari. But I’ve turned on adaptive power, I’ve uninstalled TikTok and uninstalled Chrome. I guess I’m going to learn to like safari. Hasn’t even been a day and I’m already missing TT.
What's the battery health like?
Normal, 92%, 442 cycles.
I truly don’t understand what is happening. Here is the screen shot for 6:36am. I literally use the Weather app for two minutes. As of 659am I’m at 91% and I haven’t used it since 636am
Wish there was a way to get an email notification when someone responds in the thread, I see no way to do that.
The bell in my first post is blue which I assume means I am supposed to get notifications but I am not.
Went to profile and clicked on participation, is that the trick?
What is the podcast issue? It wouldn’t use cellular data for the podcast and the home Wi-Fi that I’m connected to for everything else, right? I either have it connected to Wi-Fi or I don’t, which I always do at home.
Don’t think I’m using any widgets but what would I do if I was exactly?
I just got an email from Apple saying they removed my original post because it was off-topic, but it’s still there so that’s confusing.
Also no VPN.
”allow podcasts to access cellular data“ is checked on but that only applies when I’m not on Wi-Fi right?
Is there a podcast settings where you can exclusively select use WiFi only? What app are you using for your podcasts?
“16 Pro, have made all the known battery saving settings, and typical use for me is surfing and listening to a podcast for three hours and my battery is then below 50%.
I think that’s terrible, personally.
Can I assume others have similar issues?”
I thought about screen brightness, mine’s probably a little brighter than others but not that much. Not using chrome at all would be an issue for me,. If I removed the app entirely and then added it back on I guess that might tell me something, thanks.
Bob Timmons wrote:
"A normal battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles when operating under normal conditions."
While this is correct, not sure why you did not include the additional information about batteries in the iPhone 15 and higher.
Good point. It's a new thing in that article and in order to keep things shorter I am going to omit mention of charge cycles and models altogether. If an OP wants to know that stuff they can read the article paragraph to which I referred them.
Nor do I mention a 2 year warranty for Turkish owners. Have to draw the line at some point or just copy and paste the entire support article and paste it here.
I know, I know, not another battery thread.
