iOS 18 Battery Life Thread

[James6s]

I don’t think battery life on iOS 18.6 is very good running on my 16 Pro?

I haven’t experienced it on 18.5 as when I got it I had to update to 18.6 beta to be able to transfer data across.

 

[mikelets456]

lol….it comes and goes “update finishing in the background “

Update: I still have the “update finishing “ in the battery settings. This is two straight days.

 

[James6s]

Photos and home & lock screen are using the most battery! Nearly a week since updating my 16 Pro to 18.6 beta 3

 

[iEB]

18.5 is the worst battery life has been on my 15 Pro. I'd wait a bit longer.

18.6 beta 3 has been a lot better for my 15 Pro. Battery no longer drains like crazy when simply sitting idle for example.

 

[James6s]

Even so soon after the update the battery on my 16 Pro seems to be dropping slower on 18.6 RC.

2 hours since coming off the charger and just under 1 hour of screen on time. Usually lost 4-5% at least by now.

 

[FeliApple]

Photos and home & lock screen are using the most battery! Nearly a week since updating my 16 Pro to 18.6 beta 3

View attachment 2530447

There’s an issue with home and Lock Screen on iOS 18 that:

-Randomly adds “screen-on time” to the hourly bar as “Home and Lock Screen” usage when the phone has been on standby with NO usage whatsoever
-I haven’t seen this before
-It’s not on iPadOS 18
-It is incredibly annoying to calculate battery life because I have to keep subtracting the time it adds



It randomly comes and goes. It started a couple of months after I bought it (it did NOT happen at the beginning, I got my 16 Plus back in March), and it never really went away. And it is magical. Not only does it appear randomly, sometimes it is weird. Say, it appears overnight at the 4:00 am-5:00 am bar for 23 minutes, and then stops. Randomly and inexplicably. I’m sleeping at that time and haven’t touched the phone. I wake up at, say, 6 am and I just have those 23 mins from 4 to 5 and nothing else. I haven’t really found a solution.

I am running iOS 18.3.1, I have never updated it, but from what you’re saying, I can assume that doesn’t fix it, either…

I mean, here’s proof. Last 10 days:

 

[James6s]

There’s an issue with home and Lock Screen on iOS 18 that:

-Randomly adds “screen-on time” to the hourly bar as “Home and Lock Screen” usage when the phone has been on standby with NO usage whatsoever
-I haven’t seen this before
-It’s not on iPadOS 18
-It is incredibly annoying to calculate battery life because I have to keep subtracting the time it adds



It randomly comes and goes. It started a couple of months after I bought it (it did NOT happen at the beginning, I got my 16 Plus back in March), and it never really went away. And it is magical. Not only does it appear randomly, sometimes it is weird. Say, it appears overnight at the 4:00 am-5:00 am bar for 23 minutes, and then stops. Randomly and inexplicably. I’m sleeping at that time and haven’t touched the phone. I wake up at, say, 6 am and I just have those 23 mins from 4 to 5 and nothing else. I haven’t really found a solution.

I am running iOS 18.3.1, I have never updated it, but from what you’re saying, I can assume that doesn’t fix it, either…

I mean, here’s proof. Last 10 days:
View attachment 2531414

Thankfully since updating to 18.6 RC my battery consumption has reduced. Only been a few days so there’ll still be indexing etc going on in the background.

Home & Lock Screen is now 3rd on the list and usage has halved.

Hopefully looking at the most stable version of iOS 18.xx yet.