All the developer testing as well as public beta testing nobody saw that Battery life was draining abnormally ?
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iPhone 14 Pro 🔋🔌 iPhone 14 Pro - Battery usage thread
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Yes there's definitely something up with these. I'm sure it's not all of it, but hopefully the geniuses at Apple will figure this out soon and release the update we are all waiting for.
Why is Music using so much background time? I’ve had the phone since launch so any music queued for download should have already occurred. I installed 16.0.1 before set up on launch day. And I’m now on 16.0.2.
Also, the indexing of the People album in Photos never progresses. It has shown the same progress numbers for the last few days.
So far in my usage today, this appears to be saving me a lot of battery life as well. I’ll see how it continues. Thank you!
I had an issue with Facebook doing a lot of background activity. Reinstalling fixed it, and now my battery life is much improved.
I was in your shoes and switched back to a 14 Pro Max. Battery life is incredible again. I didn't buy a new phone with AOD to turn it off... so it just drained away on the 14 Pro. Loved the size, but the battery life wasn't cutting it for me.
Ok, I have done another round of testing, this time with these parameters:
Here is the line graph generated from the data above:
Here is the battery health graph from iOS:
Here are the overall facts from my own testing:
- AOD is on
- Weather widgets on the lockscreen are removed (to see if battery life is higher or not)
| max capacity (%) | total elapsed time (hours) |
| 100 | 0 |
| 90 | 2 |
| 86 | 3.23 |
| 84 | 3.93 |
| 66 | 8.98 |
| 40 | 12.2 |
| 30 | 14.33 |
| ~ total battery life | 21.16 hrs |
Here is the line graph generated from the data above:
Here is the battery health graph from iOS:
Here are the overall facts from my own testing:
- AOD on + weather widgets on lockscreen
- battery life: 14 - 16 hours
- AOD off
- battery life: 20-23 hours
- AOD on + no weather widgets on lockscreen
- battery life: 22 hours
- turn AOD off OR
- turn AOD on but remove weather widgets on the lockscreen
Nice testing. Thanks for reporting. I've been watching this thread closely while I consider going from the 12P to the 14P.
Interesting. I wonder if the weather widget is making calls every time the lock screen updates (once per sec). If this is indeed what it's doing, that includes some minor processing plus a radio burst.
Should be fixable in software, eventually.
Should be fixable in software, eventually.
I will do another test after some time has passed and 3rd party devs have had a chance to update their apps for the new devices: ~ 6 months.
That’s like saying there’s no point in having a bigger car engine if you have to drive slower to get good gas mileage. Of course the features that use more energy will use more energy!
It sounds like there is a legitimate bug with the lock screen and weather widgets though. After all, the Apple Watch is always on and also has weather widgets, and nobody pointed this out as an issue for the watch.
With AOD off and the screen at the same brightness level (the new one gets brighter outdoors), yeah, the 14P should get slightly better battery life than the 13P. Keep in mind, though, both might end up getting worse battery life on iOS 16 than the 13P did on iOS 15, if iOS 16 is doing more things in the background.
Did an install of the latest 16.1 Dev Beta and now my battery is better as on my 13 Pro and AOD is enabled!
So the increase in battery life compared to the 12P is pretty noticeable? What about reception? Curious how the battery life on 5G is..
It’s night and day for me. Can’t comment on 5G as I only use LTE as I live in the country. Reception has been good, I find it shows less signal bars but somehow it’s better?