Installed RC 2 last night and the battery appears to be draining faster again. Not as bad as before but not as good as RC 1 was for me. So call it somewhere in between.
No it’s not related to any apps. This is very linked to iCloud. If I am logged in, my battery decrease more quicker (twice) than if am not logged in.
I’m not sure it’s always the same. Sometimes, when I’m using Discord a lot on my iPhone with adaptive power, my iPhone drains too quickly. iPhone 15 Pro with 91% battery health after over 500 cycles.
Then do you have private relay on? Sync iMessage or apps a lot with iCloud?
Thats whats funny. I'm actaully not. My 14 year old pounds on his phone and his battery is roughly the same as mine. I'm going to turn AP back on, reboot, and see if anything changes. Im on RC2 BTW...I only load the betas when it hits the RC stage.
Dang bro I forgot the RC of iOS 26.2 had a rerelease. Y’all with 15 pros tell me more about the battery life, as of now battery life has been good yesterday I ended the day around 11pm at 20%, last charge was 1pm when I got out of school.
I'm happy to know I'm not alone ! I turned off AP a few days ago and my battery life has improved also .
Private relay off, iMessage synced yes. I have also tried to disable every switch in iCloud settings but still the same. The only fix is to log out.
It’s amazing! I’d love to remove widgets, but I want to keep the original default setup of my Home Screen with widgets, which was introduced with iOS 14. So, I’m not interested in it. However, removing the Smart Stack makes it better, doesn’t it?
so y'all want to encourage me to get off adaptive power mode? Is it because its not helping enough?
In my case it makes no difference. The only difference is with iOS 26.1. I’ve always had that option on, makes zero difference. Just turning on and off my 16 Pro Max reduces the battery percentage significantly; low power mode does nothing, and I still often (not always) lose up to 10% during the night while the phone is being idle, but not used. That’s simply not normal. And yes, I’ve had iPhones long enough to know the battery saving tips, yet there’s just no doubting that iOS 26 is a battery hog. Waiting to see if 26.2 will make any difference.
Just try it for one day to see if it does something for you
I agree it’s with iOS 26.1. Never had a problem before that.
That says nothing about nothing, as any and all updates can cause all kinds of optimizations, reprocessing of things, and further updates, that can go on for days. And that in turn can cause apps to have to work harder instead of with different caches. Or the device is used differently by you just because you installed it and were checking for things, or changed some settings. Or the weather or lights around you were brighter that day so the screen was automatically a bit brighter.
That’s kind of what I usually do after the initial set up: I delete all the widgets, both from Home Screen and the left widget page, and then, I insert only the ones that I actually use (calendar, weather and reminders). Maybe that’s why I usually get better than average battery life regardless of the iOS version?
So more idle drain? On school days I don’t use my iPhone as much and more of my Mac so the idle drain was the same
I’m guessing you didn’t see my earlier comment about the much improved experience I was having with RC1.
