iOS 26 battery life thread.

[goldmac2006]

Nice

The Apple Genius 👨‍💻 checked out my iPhone again recently, and the battery is still holding strong 💪 !

Still a long way to go before replacement time.

 

[goldmac2006]

Y’all who are on iOS 26.6 beta, is it good or bad on battery life?

 

[Spytap]

Yesterday's 1 hour gym session, doing nothing but streaming Apple Music over bluetooth via wifi, dropped my battery from 97% to 31%. Charged back up to full, sending three emails and five texts over wifi dropped it from 100% to 81%. At this point I'm getting roughly 75 minutes of on-screen time across apple-developed apps (regardless of wifi or cell data) before my phone is asking to switch to low-power mode.

I've restarted, I've closed every app other than what I'm using at the moment, I've turned off background app refresh. This single update has utterly destroyed my ability to use this phone in any real manner.

Any advice or tips would be very, very appreciated at this point.

Had this happen again today: 75 mins at the gym doing literally nothing but streaming music over wifi to my bluetooth headphones, and my battery dropped from 100% to 21%. Battery showed 12 mins of screen-on time, and no apps using significant energy. At this point, I have to assume it's a bug, but whether or not it's a bug that will get fixed is up in the air.

 

[goldmac2006]

Had this happen again today: 75 mins at the gym doing literally nothing but streaming music over wifi to my bluetooth headphones, and my battery dropped from 100% to 21%. Battery showed 12 mins of screen-on time, and no apps using significant energy. At this point, I have to assume it's a bug, but whether or not it's a bug that will get fixed is up in the air.

I’m experiencing the same issue on iOS 26.5’s public release. I believe third-party apps are the primary culprits.

For instance, running a 6K on the Nike Run Club app on the background for an hour and 15 minutes while listening to music from a third-party app drained my iPhone battery from 75% to 55%.

After that, I did a 35-minute GoNoodle workout, cooldown, and meditation session videos, which further reduced my battery to 20%. No music app is used in the background, only workouts videos are playing as that app didn’t allow me to use my own music. My iPhone had to be thrown on the charger following my workout, vs when I did the same workout duration and same 4 mile run like yesterday.

The cellular network usage also plays a significant role. The WiFi router doesn’t reach the gym room as it does not have enough bandwidth, making it even worse when I use third-party workout apps more frequently than when I use first-party Apple fitness+.

Anyways y’all, with iOS 27 beta coming our way next week with WWDC 26 coming up, let’s see how beta 1 is. iOS 26 beta 1 hasn’t been really the best battery life of all iOS beta 1 releases ever.

Anyone still surviving on iOS 18?

 

[James6s]

FWIW just 2% idle drain on my iPhone Air overnight on iOS 26.5.1, every night on iOS 26.5 it lost at least 4% sitting idle.

 

[Morac]

This is just really bad for an iPhone 15 Pro Max even with the maximum capacity at 86%. I mean dropping 70% for 90 minutes of usage and an hour of background, most of it on WiFi?