I have made an automation to disable wifi during night but it does not affect the battery drain. I continue to have 5/6% per day without use while my wife has one my 2/3% with wifi enabled.
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iCloud causing massive battery drain.
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I've just bought an iPhone 14 Pro and facing battery drain issue. In fact, it had never quit me ! After 2h of screen active, I'm at 70% and a friend of me is at 88%. So, I'm really updset. What's wrong ? I have made a fresh clean install so it's not the backup. I really think it's related to an iCloud stuff. I will try to disconnect tommorrow from iCloud.
Hi ! I have isolated the problem. If I remove Homekit (delete home configuration), battery drain stops (but I lose all my configuration ! For the moment I don't know if it's about Hue or something else.... But I have 97% battery remaining after 50min SOT. Before, after 50min, I was at 90.
Since 2019 I have made so many tests and I don't understand why Apple did not see this issue !
Since 2019 I have made so many tests and I don't understand why Apple did not see this issue !
I got same problem on my iPhone 15 pro Max (iOS 17.4.1)
If I disable iCloud battery life is much better. But what can I do? Something seems to be broken by syncing something with the cloud.
But lots of good features I am missing.
Any idea what we can do?
If I disable iCloud battery life is much better. But what can I do? Something seems to be broken by syncing something with the cloud.
But lots of good features I am missing.
Any idea what we can do?
Any updates ?
Is seems that my iPhone suffers of sneaky battery drain. Not huge but annoying.
I have made lots of tests.
My iPhone drains approximatively the same as other iPhones in these conditions:
- playing video contiously on YouTube
- displaying a webpage continuously
- screen ON and app switching every 10sec (shortcut)
But there is one situation where it seems my phone lose more thant others (but very hard to investigate correctly):
-using my phone with fragmented usage with small use multiple time by hour (safari, weather, sms....)
In this case, I can lose 3 / 4% per hour but with only 10/15min SOT.
Here my new iPhone 16.
90% 7 AM
64% 3 PM
1h58 SOT
What do you think ?
Is seems that my iPhone suffers of sneaky battery drain. Not huge but annoying.
I have made lots of tests.
My iPhone drains approximatively the same as other iPhones in these conditions:
- playing video contiously on YouTube
- displaying a webpage continuously
- screen ON and app switching every 10sec (shortcut)
But there is one situation where it seems my phone lose more thant others (but very hard to investigate correctly):
-using my phone with fragmented usage with small use multiple time by hour (safari, weather, sms....)
In this case, I can lose 3 / 4% per hour but with only 10/15min SOT.
Here my new iPhone 16.
90% 7 AM
64% 3 PM
1h58 SOT
What do you think ?
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Hello, thank you for your post! I think I have exactly this problem!
I had 3 iPhones in the last 4 years. An iPhone 12, an iPhone 13, and now I have the iPhone 16 Pro. In all of them, including the 16 Pro, I can say I have a terrible battery life. Comparing it to what's advertised and what other people's show, it just doesn't make sense, since I'm a light to moderate user. As you might imagine, in 4 years I tried everything you could think of to understand the situation, until I accepted that the problem is simply something with my configuration somehow.
To give an idea, with the iPhone 12 I always had less than 2 hours of screen on time, and got home by the end of the day always struggling not to die. The iPhone 13 might have improved that by 30 mins. And now the 16 Pro improved another 30 mins. My normal average is 3 hours before the phone eventually dies. But, what's more concerning is that, if I don't use the phone, the idle drain is surreal. Sometimes, I unplug the phone in the morning, and I don't use it at all until lunchtime, and I'm already at 80%. Overnight I have consistently battery drains of more than 10% for no reason. Nothing appears on the battery stats to justify this situation. Never did.
However, two weeks ago, I decided to do something I never did before. I picked my iPhone 13, which I still have lying around here, and I factory reset it once again. But this time, I decided to create a new Apple Account and with a brand-new iCloud email. And to my surprise, the battery life was completely different. Much more like what people post here and what's common opinion by reviewers. So I started adding stuff to the phone to set it up as my usual daily driver. I installed all the apps, configured the Lock Screen and Home Screen. Set the same widgets. Battery life remained very good. In 4 years, I've never had 6 hours of screen on time, with still 25% left by the end of the day.
So, I'm still trying to understand this whole thing, and I just found this post.
In your case, is your Apple Account an iCloud email, or another one? The issue for me happens with my apple account using gmail.
I had 3 iPhones in the last 4 years. An iPhone 12, an iPhone 13, and now I have the iPhone 16 Pro. In all of them, including the 16 Pro, I can say I have a terrible battery life. Comparing it to what's advertised and what other people's show, it just doesn't make sense, since I'm a light to moderate user. As you might imagine, in 4 years I tried everything you could think of to understand the situation, until I accepted that the problem is simply something with my configuration somehow.
To give an idea, with the iPhone 12 I always had less than 2 hours of screen on time, and got home by the end of the day always struggling not to die. The iPhone 13 might have improved that by 30 mins. And now the 16 Pro improved another 30 mins. My normal average is 3 hours before the phone eventually dies. But, what's more concerning is that, if I don't use the phone, the idle drain is surreal. Sometimes, I unplug the phone in the morning, and I don't use it at all until lunchtime, and I'm already at 80%. Overnight I have consistently battery drains of more than 10% for no reason. Nothing appears on the battery stats to justify this situation. Never did.
However, two weeks ago, I decided to do something I never did before. I picked my iPhone 13, which I still have lying around here, and I factory reset it once again. But this time, I decided to create a new Apple Account and with a brand-new iCloud email. And to my surprise, the battery life was completely different. Much more like what people post here and what's common opinion by reviewers. So I started adding stuff to the phone to set it up as my usual daily driver. I installed all the apps, configured the Lock Screen and Home Screen. Set the same widgets. Battery life remained very good. In 4 years, I've never had 6 hours of screen on time, with still 25% left by the end of the day.
So, I'm still trying to understand this whole thing, and I just found this post.
In your case, is your Apple Account an iCloud email, or another one? The issue for me happens with my apple account using gmail.
My iCloud account is a gmail account yes.
Curiously, since few weeks, my battery life is acceptable. Do you have screens to share ?