My iPhone XS Max's battery drain

Hello! I have purchased the iphone xs max 64gb and I used it for a day. It didn't last as long as i thought it would. Granted I did use it alot that day from 7am to about 1pm when at that point the battery was 38%. I'm not sure if this is normal or not, I did use the phone heavy but I simply expected it to last longer.

I heard this has a really good battery and that's not what I see so far. So I was wondering if anyone else's xs max battery didnt last the whole day. even after charging it mid day to 70% it still dropped to 40% at the end of the day.

Also when I use the phone during the screen is on, I always notice that the battery percentage drops pretty quickly.

I added a screenshot of my usage at about 1pm when my battery was around the 30%

iPhone Xs Max, iOS 12, null

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 10:00 PM

20 replies

Dec 8, 2018 9:17 PM in response to Ginsumac

I don’t wish to sound negative but my old iPhone will hold much better than what I have now 10max

I’m thinking about changing it to 10 regular or XR

May 20, 2019 5:28 AM in response to ipmax

The same thing happened to me. I just bought my xs max 2 months ago. I tried every solutions suggested but nothing happened and the battery keep draining and the phone keep heating up..

Jan 24, 2019 8:42 PM in response to summerdawn1996

Yeah, I started having issue with the IPhone XS Max battery to the point that I made an appointment for service. My phone is about 4-5 month old and the battery should not have issues about draining the battery fast. This phone has the largest battery ever and the one that the battery is not good at all.

Jan 29, 2019 6:20 AM in response to Gr43m3d4y

Yes, I had the same issue, I upgraded to last software upgrade 12.1.3 and that fixed it. It works fine now and I use the phone a lot and still left with 30-40% at the end of the day, but I still think apple ripped us off bc this is the largest battery on a iPhone and doesn’t work as expected.

Jan 29, 2019 8:05 AM in response to dencapiche

It has absolutely nothing to do with the battery. It has absolutely nothing to do with the version of iOS on your device. It has everything to do with what your apps were doing. Updating to 12.1.3 appeared to fix it because part of the update process kills all running apps, so whichever app was wasting battery energy was killed and behaved after it was restarted (if you relaunched it). If you had just restarted your phone on the previous version it would have fixed your battery drain also.

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My iPhone XS Max's battery drain