Some iOS 16 Users Complain About Slow Spotlight Search and Battery Drain

[macos9rules]

Everything works fine here. People tend to use their phones more after an update so that could explain the battery drain.

 

[reubs]

I haven't used my phone much today (I'm streaming Overcast to my AirPods), and it's dropped from100% at 6:30 AM to 89% at 8:45 AM. I don't know if that's normal or not, but I have to be careful not to use it too much unless I want it on the charger at night when I get home.

 

[Sammy in SoCal]

Only 12. You think that’s the problem?

if it’s 12 you might not be experiencing battery drain but instead you might be experiencing another kind of drain that has to do with your anatomy

 

[Jdalbo]

My 14 Pro Max is a stud then. Even with AOD is way better than my 13 Pro Max. And Im on it all day. Even time there is an update people use phone way more playing with new things it does then complain battery life is worse.

 

[mrj101]

The only quirk I notice is the brightness drops to 0 after I’m fully charged.

 

[coolbreeze2]

These issues do not exist for me using 16.0 and 12 Pro Max.

 

[Kid Red]

No battery issues so far on my 12 pro max.

 

[neuropsychguy]

No battery drain issues on my 13 Pro. Battery life has been the same for me. Spotlight was a little slow at first but just within 24 hours of my upgrade while updating the index. Now it’s acting normal.

 

[PsykX]

Only 12. You think that’s the problem?

Best definition of multitasking

 

[Corsig]

Best definition of multitasking

I’m very hands on with my work

 

[citysnaps]

Maybe because I have a iPhone 14PM that I don’t notice the battery drain. It seems normal to me.

It's crazy good on my 14PM. On my 12P I'd need to charge it by the end of the day. On my 14PM I get more than two full days of regular use.

I'm really enjoying the camera, too. Especially in low light.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Very glitchy and slow, and battery drain definitely seems much more than usually.

Camera app gets stuck in horizontal or landscape and won't return until I close the app.

Spotlight search was already messed up by one of the iOS 15 updates. But now it's even worse.

Without adding to the hysteria, I struggle to see exactly what has prevented Apple from fixing the biggest of these issues before iOS 16 launch?

Whatever the case, I'm definitely not jumping on iOS 17 before 17.1 or 17.2 drop. No way any improvements to iOS could be worth the.

Dynamic Island prevented it. They had to spend their whole time reinventing notifications.

I doubt 16.0.2 is going to fix any of these things, that is just to fix the major issues with the new iPhone.

I doubt we’ll see any real improvement until at least 16.1 in about a month.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Also, you can see right in battery page what is taking up all the juice. “Home and Lock Screen” now use about 10-15% of my battery in a day. There’s your difference right there.

 

[cocky jeremy]

This has been the only issue I've noticed since launch of the new iPhones. My brand new 14 Pro Max is draining as quickly as my year old 13 Pro Max that only had 94% battery capacity left. I'm sure it'll be fixed in 16.1 though.

 

[marina2042]

I’m seeing the battery drain issue on my 14 pro max. It’s especially bad if I choose to use the “always on” display feature.

 

[Apple2501]

My spotlight on a xs max got super slow too! So I did the apple thing a bought a new phone!
But seriously, it is a coding issue since the phone ran fine till like 15.6 which means they could with a bit more effort code
the problem out of the phone.

 

[michsu]

I have been turning off "Content from Apple" - Show in Look Up, and Show in Spotlight and it is much faster. I left the others under "Before Searching" and "Suggestions from Apple" turned on too. Can you guys try more tests to see what is causing it instead of saying it's slower or faster? Also, try to disable Siri too if you are not using it.

 

[JM]

This 100%. Project management types refuse to budge on anything and just rush stuff out the door to make themselves look good instead of being flexible when issues arise or problems are discovered. They know everyone will blame the dev teams so it's no sweat off their backs.

This is what happens when a manager is not flexible about a release date of something, let it be an OS, a video game, a construction, etc. Common mistake in any company.

If there was no one to force things out the door, then nothing would ever get released.

You need a balance of designers who will forever iterate to perfection, and a decision maker who says “pencils down”.

 

[Palliser]

iPhone 13 user here & yes I’ve noticed more drain compared to iOS 15, hopefully it will get better soon. I also turned off News background refresh to see if it helps.

 

[PCtoMAC1]

Horrible battery on my iPhone 14 Pro since updating. I turned the haptic keyboard off last night, and that seems to help a little. Very poor overall and needs to be addressed.

 

[michsu]

The battery indicator is also causing major battery drain since the first beta.

 

[motm95]

I have encountered extremely slow spotlight search for several weeks during public beta and now final release. I ended up going into Settings > Siri and Search and turn off both toggles in "Content from Apple" and all four toggles in "Suggestions from Apple" and now spotlight seems fast again, but crossing my fingers that this workaround sticks.

 

[michsu]

good motm95, that's exactly what I said above (well, only "Content from Apple").. I always try to turn those off after every update to the phone. I'll do what you said and turn off the other four. Thank you.

 

[ian87w]

The slow spotlight is not exclusive to the latest OS. It happens randomly on my 7+ as well on ios15. Sometimes it takes a few seconds to even show any results. It's annoying for sure as I rely a lot on spotlight to launch an app that I want (too lazy trying to find the app icon on the home screen).

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

If Steve Jobs were here today...he'd tell us that we were experiencing these issues because we were 'holding it wrong'.
(I miss that guy. 😢)