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iPhone 14 Pro 🔋🔌 iPhone 14 Pro - Battery usage thread
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Try closing all apps and restarting. Some app might be acting like it more important than the rest
Oddly enough, after updating my 13 Pro to iOS 16, battery life was on par if not better then new while being down to 96% battery health. On my new 14 Pro however, it’s definitely worse than the 13 Pro. I’m gonna give it a week or so to adjust. If no improvement is seen, it’ll prolly go back. I love the Deep Purple and the Dynamic Island but the camera was definitely over-hyped.
Some data points for the Pro Max in case anyone is curious. Started a trip at ~4 AM and used it basically nonstop (navigation, plane ride, Uber + browsing) until I was able to plug in around 1 PM. Times offset by time zone change. Seems ok for now.
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I turned off AOD. But I’m not so sure AOD is the culprit here. I think it’s iOS16 in general. Hope they’re able to tweak it soon.
iOS16 is killing the battery, not the 14 Pro battery being bad.
iOS16 on my dads 12PM, my old 13 Pro, and my current 14 Pro are all killing the battery.
iOS16 on my dads 12PM, my old 13 Pro, and my current 14 Pro are all killing the battery.
Not sure how I feel about the 14 Pro battery… 100% at 8:38am, 28% at 11:18pm. Didn’t use it all that much.
See how it is after a week or two. Everybody’s phone is different depending on settings and content, but the phones have to index which can take some time. I never judge my battery until at least two weeks or more in.
Definitely will spend the full time I can with it before deciding if I keep it or go back to a Pro Max for the 14 series as well.
Upgraded from 12 PM to 14 PM. Battery life is a huge disappointment. Second night when overnight it looses 20% with background app refresh disabled. When I bought the 12PM battery was phenomenal from day one, only consumed like 3-4% overnight. iOS 16 or whatever is causing this it is unacceptable for a close to 2000 $ phone. P.S. phone configured as new, nothing restored from backup.
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20% is significant. I had this happen in the first night. But the second night it hardly consumed any battery life at all.
Second night my 14P looses 8% overnight. In the same conditions my old 12PM looses 1-2%.
Anecdotal but my 13 Pro (100% Battery Health) seems to be doing better battery wise on IOS16 than 15.
I'm getting about that after checking last night. My phone was completely idle and went from 100% to 92% with virtually no usage after 7 hours. I'm about to reinstall iOS 16 (again) for the 14 Pro...but this isn't usable.
Same. My 13 Pro Max is having its best battery life ever with iOS 16.
My wife’s 14 Pro Max is really bad. Dropping like a brick and getting super hot while charging. Will report back if it settles down. Today will be day two.
I’ve had my pro max for exactly 48 hrs now, messaging indexing is done andI assume the rest of the phone indexing is done, so today is day 1 of my first real world test without plugging in the phone even for apple car play. Took my phone off the charger @ 7:50a today… we shall see where it’s at come 11pm tonight when I go to bed, and I’ll report back. I generally do this every year @ 48 hrs, 7 days, and 14 days. By then everything is usually settled and I can get a really good baseline for how my battery performs.
I've lightly used my phone today and am down to 40% just 8 hours from being off charge. Was similar yesterday, I had to charge my phone late evening - I've never had to do that with 13 Pro even when commuting and watching hours of video. Hope Apple figure this out and fix. Will try using the phone by placing it face down tomorrow when not using for a while to see what size of difference it makes.
I decided to open it and test it out. I really like the size of the 14 Pro and so far for my usage the battery life is ok. After my first day of use it was 37% battery by the time I went to bed.
That use was mostly from downloading/installing apps, a phone call for about 1 hour, AOD on, messaging, listening to Apple Music through the phone speakers for about 2-3 hours, browsing the internet.
Will be interesting to see how it does when I’m not installing/configuring apps. Today will be a good test day since I’m not doing the new phone setup stuff anymore and can just use it.