Less than 7 days?! That’s so fast, way faster than my iPhone did from 100 to 95!
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iOS 26 battery life thread.
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Yeah. On device is all BS - coconut battery is more linear.
Do you also set a charge limit, and do you use MagSafe? If so , how often do you use it?
Hi, iPhone 16 pro max , with latest ios 26 beta 6 version. So i have an issue since this betas. The thing is that the phone after all night charging, it is 100% charged, I unplug it and after literally 6 min I was already 99%, but the thing is, I took and force restarted the phone and it jumped to 94%. And after a few minutes I restarted it again and it jumped to 91%. All that in less than 10 minutes.
After two or more restarts it remained at the same %
But it seems to be happen a lot.
Also my battery health went from 100% to 91% from beta 1 to beta 5, with only around 340 cicles
How can I solve it? Anyone experiencing the same?
After two or more restarts it remained at the same %
But it seems to be happen a lot.
Also my battery health went from 100% to 91% from beta 1 to beta 5, with only around 340 cicles
How can I solve it? Anyone experiencing the same?
I’ve found the first two days post-install to be bad for battery life, but things settle down after that. Certainly has been the case with beta 3 and 4 and assume/hope will be the same with beta 5. How much of that is due to background optimisation etc versus new beta excitement and increased use I can’t scientifically say! Edit: 14PM here.
Wow, look at that garbage reporting system. How much screen-on time did you get? Well, absolutely no idea. Utterly and completely useless. Change for the sake of change. The person who designed this is appalling, they should know immediately that that screen provides absolutely no information. Pointless.
Literally same thing here and I have the blue iPhone 15 Pro. Was this happening in any previous beta? I can tell you don’t have charge limits in place.
Until 19% this is how it represents:
And also y’all beta 5 iOS 26 also changed the low battery indicator in Dynamic Island. Now it has a prompt to turn on low power mode.
They’ve added a flashing effect to let you know your iPhone battery is low, which is great! I totally get what you mean about the Dynamic Island update. It would be awesome if it had a clearer button to switch on low power mode. Also, it’s supposed to replace the old low battery message that was on the models before the iPhone 14 Pro, which did have a low power mode button. When it switched to the Dynamic Island on newer iPhone models, it just says “low battery,” which is a bit confusing.
You cannot « solve » battery health degradation. It will happen eventually no matter what you do.
iOS recalibrates (or rather re-estimate) the battery health after each update, so of course you are more likely to see a fast drop during beta season rather than when you are on the stable branch with updates every months or so.
You phone is almost one year old and getting closer and closer to 500 cycles, so being at 91% isn’t abnormal.
Just use your phone and replace it or the battery when you feel like it doesn’t last long enough for your needs.
That's amazing capacity health. What is your secret? I have a 15Pro andCycle count of 430 and a Max capacity of 85% - last years 18 beta really killed off my battery.