The Stocks app is not really draining, but is present in the stats. I shut down the phone and is gone now. I don't know what made it get stuck in the background. I check the widget and rarely open the app itself.
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iPhone 13 iPhone 13 - battery life thread [MEGA THREAD]
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@coso and @nickbelane if you unpair your Apple Watch from your phone do you see battery life get better on your phone?
Have you contact Apple Care about the issue? If it were me, I would not accept that issue.
Have you contact Apple Care about the issue? If it were me, I would not accept that issue.
I did not unpair mine, but left it off one day and it was similar. I also re-paired it as new, same. I could contact Apple but looks like 50% of 13 Pros have poor battery life, and I risk getting a phone with the same poor battery life but other defects. I could drive to an Apple store and hope for a battery exchange on my unit. That I can do. But it’s a 200km drive for me
@nickbelane Your drain seems crazy; worse than mine, however it's hard to know from a single example. Still disappointing.
@coso I've been living with it but will do a complete reset after holidays. Your option to "live with it" is what I've been doing but my obsessiveness makes it hard. Add to that the irritation that phone *seems* to die more quickly than an 11 Pro. I know you've posted a lot around these threads, so I'm surprised to hear it's come to that for you!
@Taz Mangus I have contacted AppleCare about this. AppleCare is YMMV for sure, but first they just gave me some support articles. Twice I asked in a store about this: once I was advised to measure overnight and if its draining a lot, try restore (not backup). the second time it was the primary reason I talked to a Genius. She told me two things (mentioned above): backups include some kind of battery state that could be a factor, and she recommended doing an install from IPSW. (I think it's a wash as to DFU-mode or just a erase with restore that you select IPSW file). Thanks for your earlier recommendations, btw.
I've been reluctant to start from zero, but after the holidays I will: unapair Watch, Erase iPhone and "start over". If things aren't noticeably better I'll checkin in with Apple and insist on a replacement (I have AppleCare). In addition to a watch, I transferred from an iPhone previously running 15 beta. (the battery on that phone swelled suddenly in Sep-Oct while on iOS 15 general release--and was replaced)
The whole thing leaves me with a bad feeling about the iPhone 13 Pro, and perhaps beta software, which is unfortunate.
Anyway, wish you all happy holidays and good luck with the iPhones...
@coso I've been living with it but will do a complete reset after holidays. Your option to "live with it" is what I've been doing but my obsessiveness makes it hard. Add to that the irritation that phone *seems* to die more quickly than an 11 Pro. I know you've posted a lot around these threads, so I'm surprised to hear it's come to that for you!
@Taz Mangus I have contacted AppleCare about this. AppleCare is YMMV for sure, but first they just gave me some support articles. Twice I asked in a store about this: once I was advised to measure overnight and if its draining a lot, try restore (not backup). the second time it was the primary reason I talked to a Genius. She told me two things (mentioned above): backups include some kind of battery state that could be a factor, and she recommended doing an install from IPSW. (I think it's a wash as to DFU-mode or just a erase with restore that you select IPSW file). Thanks for your earlier recommendations, btw.
I've been reluctant to start from zero, but after the holidays I will: unapair Watch, Erase iPhone and "start over". If things aren't noticeably better I'll checkin in with Apple and insist on a replacement (I have AppleCare). In addition to a watch, I transferred from an iPhone previously running 15 beta. (the battery on that phone swelled suddenly in Sep-Oct while on iOS 15 general release--and was replaced)
The whole thing leaves me with a bad feeling about the iPhone 13 Pro, and perhaps beta software, which is unfortunate.
Anyway, wish you all happy holidays and good luck with the iPhones...
How did you come to the conclusion that 50% of all iPhone 13 Pros have poor battery performance. That would be 10s of millions. I understand your frustration because trying to find the cause is the hardest thing to do. I know this first hand.
I recently solved an issue I had since iOS 12. I had an intermittent issue where a random song would start playing when I connected my phone to CarPlay. It was driving me nuts trying to get it to stop doing that. I was in contact with the manufacturer of my vehicle and separately Apple Support. I had done numerous Recovery Mode Restores. Nothing seemed to fix the issue, and it was like that for 3 years. I found the solution a couple weeks ago. Apple support suggested I try deleting the Music app and re-install it from the app store. That was the solution.
Something was probably corrupted in my user files for music. When I upgraded from a iPhone 6S Plus to the 13 Pro Max, I did a iPhone to iPhone transfer. I transferred the corrupted Music user files. Same issue was happening with my 13 Pro Max until I did the removal of the Music app and reinstalled a new copy from the App Store. It was the most frustrating issue that I thought would never get solved. And the solution was starring me straight in the face.
I was trying to fix the symptoms instead of the cause. I can completely understand what this is like for your.
It's not frustration, it's just that there are a lot of complaints, both here and on reddit. There are some 13P users with great autonomy but they're rare. Of course only those who have problems complain, so this "vision" is skewed. But for sure 13P users with poor battery life are not rare, I just noticed that. I sometimes have great battery, usually early in the day, so I don't think mine is really flawed, and the process of having it changed or tinkered on by Apple is bothering me, so as I mostly work from home I'll probably keep it as it is and upgrade to another iPhone as soon as possible. Probably if I used wifi, didn't use the Watch, and take the battery off from any AirTag I would get better battery life. I also tried all the tips from the various videos (dark mode, no tap to wake etc.) but they did very little difference, so no point in "disabling" everything to get more battery life.
I might try another "start from new again", but last time I did it didn't seem dramatically better. And setting all the apps again, in particular the one with added security like bank app, the government app to access all national services, national health app etc. is a LOT of work...
It appears that you had about 8 hrs on about 75% battery. That would be almost 11 hrs on 100% battery. That is pretty good battery life for your iPhone 13.
Amazing. That screen on time was on full brightness & playing a YouTube clip at 2160p stretched to full screen fyi.
iPhones consume very very little battery when playing videos, that explains the added autonomy
Is this due to the adaptive refresh rate on the Pros?
But if the video’s uploaded to YouTube at 60fps wouldn’t a Pro & non-Pro iPhone use the same battery?
Yes, those are even better, but still viewing videos is a very low intensity job for the cpu. Apple must have done something to optimize video viewing on the 13 line
Playing video games would probably use a lot of battery. But then you can just turn on Low Power Mode and use very little battery and keep the phone running cool for playing video games. In Low Power Mode you can get a perfect 60fps in game play. Pretty freaking amazing.
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Almost all of my screen of time occurs when my phone is charging (mainly Photos? Not sure why.).
It’s a bit better with 15.2, getting closer to 6 hours SOT which is fine if a little unremarkable.
This is basically like mine, always LTE. I tried taking off the battery from my AirTag today, I always see a little too much Find My activity even during the day. And I didn't turn on my Watch 5 today. Let's see
Try this for a few hours.
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Thanks. But it was already off
Not off to a good start though even with no watch and no find my
It looks like you got about 2 hours, 15% battery used. That would be about 13 hrs on 100% battery usage. That's really good battery life.Thanks. But it was already off
Not off to a good start though even with no watch and no find my
