iOS 26 battery life thread.

[goldmac2006]

Today a lot of battery usage. Only listen 🎧 to an audiobook for a couple of minutes and do some photo editing and it’s already quite a drain

 

[powerslave65]

People want more features but they are unaware of the power cost. Go through the settings and make some choices.
If you really want to any iPhone can probably make it all day and then some if you know how to tailor your settings for better battery life.

 

[goldmac2006]

People want more features but they are unaware of the power cost. Go through the settings and make some choices.
If you really want to any iPhone can probably make it all day and then some if you know how to tailor your settings for better battery life.

Hey, just wanted to share a tip! If you’re too early to get your iPhone battery replaced (but it’s still around 80% or more), and your iPhone feels a bit sluggish lately, maybe tweak some settings and habits. Remember when the Apple Genius told me about my iPhone 15 Pro back in July? He suggested cutting back on background usage by turning off background app refresh, hourly email fetch, and setting the display to automatically lock after 3 minutes or less.

And if you’re curious about HomeKit accessories, my ex Apple employee friend always said that only about 1/100 of them are really necessary for y’all to check it often. So, why bother with disabling the display auto-off if you’re just itching to see the camera feed all the time? Only do it if you need to keep an eye on your packages or something!

 

[whsbuss]

Ignoring the purportedly expensive “liquid glass” animations, I’m not sure what new features/background tasks they added — otherwise someone would have figured out how to turn them off and bring us back to sanity. There just has to be some bug(s) that affect certain scenarios to keep the thing awake all the time. Leaving the phone sitting on a desk for hours without even touching it and the %’s melt away.

What gets me is during all the beta testing, battery usage was never seen as an issue?

 

[FeliApple]

What gets me is during all the beta testing, battery usage was never seen as an issue?

It was, but everyone always assumes that “it’s a beta, it will get better, the issue is all of the background tasks of a beta”.

That may be true of the first few betas. When I saw that people overwhelmingly reported significant battery life issues throughout the GM, I knew that Liquid Glass itself was a battery drain.