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iPhone 13 iPhone 13 - battery life thread [MEGA THREAD]
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My math skills are not great today. 😅. It looked like 80% to 55%, which would be about 25%, not 15%.
The battery life on my 13pm is utterly insane. I took it off charge at 3am this morning. I have listen to music, played pubg and more. On 5G most of the day as well as have my watch connected to it constantly. It is now 1:15pm And I still have 71% battery life left after almost 10 hours! That is nuts.
Yesterday, screen on time 7.5 hours with 70% battery left. Email. Texting. YouTube Twitter and browser. Watching DTV as well.
I have 13 pro max
iOS 15.1
22% left.
Look at my utilization, no way this can be correct?! I have turned off “find my” and most of day location services was off. How can I get this little battery time? It has been at least a week since I took 15.1.
I really hope this is 15.1 issue and that 15.2 will improve battery life. On my 12 Pro max I got way more battery life. On 14.4 it was insane with 2 days of normal use and 68 hours with low usage. 14.8 was decent while not nearly as good as 14.4.
13 is supposed to have a more efficient processor and 25% bigger battery. This can’t be right…
Any advice?
iOS 15.1
22% left.
Look at my utilization, no way this can be correct?! I have turned off “find my” and most of day location services was off. How can I get this little battery time? It has been at least a week since I took 15.1.
I really hope this is 15.1 issue and that 15.2 will improve battery life. On my 12 Pro max I got way more battery life. On 14.4 it was insane with 2 days of normal use and 68 hours with low usage. 14.8 was decent while not nearly as good as 14.4.
13 is supposed to have a more efficient processor and 25% bigger battery. This can’t be right…
Any advice?
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It goes down too fast when you use it just a little. I would back it up, reset as new then use it for one day without reimporting all your app and settings. Just the bare minimum, to see if it behaves the same way.
If this is after you did a setup as a new device, then I would get it replaced.
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I'm among the people having poor battery life on iPhone 13 Pro. I conducted an experiment and looking for any problems in my reasoning.... I have previously erased and restored from Mac backup; removed AirTag from account, reset all settings; and several days ago, unpaired Watch, reset all settings, re-paired Watch. Nothing seems to improve battery life. (I've charged mostly using different Anker cables and chargers, some Qi.)
Yesterday I was out and about, using camera and maps. Battery was down to the teens when I got home. I decided to run to 0 and charge up with a TC66c USB power meter attached. Before I went to bed I got the battery to 0 and the phone shut down. I plugged in an Anker Nano 20W charger, Ruidang TC66c meter, and Apple Lightning cable to iPhone 13 Pro. After a few min it booted up and continued charging. Before going to sleep I checked iPhone and meter: 88% charged, 1712 mAh delivered. Hmm. Went to sleep. In the morning, graph showed 100% charge reached about 0100. At about 0730 the battery was 100% but the meter showed only 2695 mAh.
How could the battery be 100% when less than rated capacity was delivered? I checked the "trickle" charge rate for this setup, and it amounts to 9 mAh every 10 min. So "trickle charge" from 0100 to 0730 should account for about 650 mAh. If that's true the iPhone only took 2000 mAh which is less than 2/3 of the rated 3100 mAh.
How could this be? Is there something I'm missing that could explain this -- other than a hardware issue.
Thanks.
Yesterday I was out and about, using camera and maps. Battery was down to the teens when I got home. I decided to run to 0 and charge up with a TC66c USB power meter attached. Before I went to bed I got the battery to 0 and the phone shut down. I plugged in an Anker Nano 20W charger, Ruidang TC66c meter, and Apple Lightning cable to iPhone 13 Pro. After a few min it booted up and continued charging. Before going to sleep I checked iPhone and meter: 88% charged, 1712 mAh delivered. Hmm. Went to sleep. In the morning, graph showed 100% charge reached about 0100. At about 0730 the battery was 100% but the meter showed only 2695 mAh.
How could the battery be 100% when less than rated capacity was delivered? I checked the "trickle" charge rate for this setup, and it amounts to 9 mAh every 10 min. So "trickle charge" from 0100 to 0730 should account for about 650 mAh. If that's true the iPhone only took 2000 mAh which is less than 2/3 of the rated 3100 mAh.
How could this be? Is there something I'm missing that could explain this -- other than a hardware issue.
Thanks.
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I agree with you something is not right in 15.1 no matter what I turn off, 5G, "find my" GPS, no background download update etc. i repaired the Apple Watch. Still dropping more than my 12 pro max. Disappointed since battery life was my main reason to update to 13. I will check with Apple Genius desk and hope they have a replacement available. Maybe a bad battery since activities takes too much energy and then no usage also takes too much energy.
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Before Apple would agree to replace your phone, they will want you to setup your phone as new and test out the battery. One thing you could try, backup your phone to a Mac computer, do a Recovery Mode restore and setup your phone as new. Do this right before you go to bed. Leave the phone stock as new, leave it over night and in the morning see what the battery life is at. If you see a bad drop in battery life then Apple will probably replace your 13 Pro.
In the event that the battery does not loose a lot of overnight, setup as new device. Restore your software in phases and test the battery life again. Maybe just login into to your iCloud Apple ID next. It might take a some time to figure out your issue.
I know how frustration this can be and triaging the issue may take some time to figure out.
considerações finais:
Equipamento sem mau funcionamento de hardware. Restaurado e atualizado o software. Após o restauro, o equipamento foi submetido a vários testes funcionais intensivos, durante os quais a anomalia reportada não se manifestou. A bateria está funcionando normalmente. O equipamento atende às especificações da Apple para desempenho, usabilidade e funcionalidade. O equipamento foi devolvido sem intervenção. Diagnóstico concluído em 02/12/2021.
Equipamento sem mau funcionamento de hardware. Restaurado e atualizado o software. Após o restauro, o equipamento foi submetido a vários testes funcionais intensivos, durante os quais a anomalia reportada não se manifestou. A bateria está funcionando normalmente. O equipamento atende às especificações da Apple para desempenho, usabilidade e funcionalidade. O equipamento foi devolvido sem intervenção. Diagnóstico concluído em 02/12/2021.