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Varkusha

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Oct 13, 2022
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I’ve had the phone since release day and I’m so disappointed with the battery life. I had a 2020 SE before this and I knew that 13 Pros and Pro Maxes had spectacular battery life’s and I was so certain that the 14 Pros would continue the trend.

At first I thought that the battery is so bad because it was the first few days that I got it and it was still doing indexing and other stuff in the background, but nothing changed at all. I was able to get at most 5 hours of SOT from it at first but now with iOS 16.0.3 it’s down to 3-4 hours of SOT from 100% to 10-15%. I am losing like 1% every 2-3 minutes when I use Apple Maps to navigate which is ridiculous - feels like I have the SE 2020 battery...

I wonder if this could be related to my cell service somehow because I am with Visible and they messed up my e-sim twice and I wonder if it didn’t download properly and I am losing more battery because of it. Also wondering if I have a faulty phone because most people seem to get 3-4 SOT from 100% to 50%.

I’m connected to Wi-Fi 24/7, cellular data is on maybe for like 1 hour every day, no gaming whatsoever. I take maybe 1-2 photos daily and the rest is just using Safari, Reddit app, Gmail app, Music app, YouTube (20 minutes daily at most) and Apple Maps (aka the biggest battery killer). AOD off.
 
restore as new.
Will that mess up my eSim? Visible customer support has wait times of 2-3 hours and sometimes it kicks you out and you have to wait again lol. 30$ a month for everything unlimited though so I can’t complain.
 
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Will that mess up my eSim? Visible customer support has wait times of 2-3 hours and sometimes it kicks you out and you have to wait again lol. 30$ a month for everything unlimited though so I can’t complain.
Have to make sure to tap Do not delete eSIM when you erase all content and settings
 
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I second restoring as new. It should help. 3-4 SOT on the 14 Pro is pretty low. I was getting anywhere from 5 to 7.5hrs. 14 Pro life is markedly worse than the 13 Pro overall.
 
I got another 14P from my carrier instead of direct from Apple, after restoring it through my Mac, i notice significant battery improvement
 
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