iPhone 16 Pro Battery Draining Quickly

Instagram and Snapchat are using 37% of your battery. Makes your both are updated to latest version. Many users of both apps are reporting issues. Instagram updated their app twice last week. Snapchat updated twice as well. Lock screen is probably background activity related to recent iOS update. Between those 3 apps nearly 50% of your battery capacity is consumed.

Jeff Donald is spot on. Those apps have been pointed out as consuming too much battery in this post as well as many others and users that have removed them found their battery returning to all day use. It will take an update from those developers to resolve that problem, but until that is done you can expect the same outcome. Apple gives you the option to view the apps that are using up your battery so you can make that decision on whether you want those apps using up your battery or not. Developers have the incentive to use the limited battery resources responsibly as they don't want users to remove them.

Sir , my brother also have 16 pro max and as u said 16 pro max bateery backup is really nice but the problem is with my 16 pro as I uses safari and simple online shopping my iPhone battery decreasing 1% in every 3-4 minutes while using now tell solution for this please as I am very tired from this phone this is first iPhone and have very bad experience till now

Sir . The thing that you are telling to everyone that background app we’re using battery is not true . And if Instagram and Snapchat is using all the battery in ver less time then this problem is facing in all iPhone 16 pro and other iPhone but this baterry drainage problem is related to iPhone not with Instagram so don’t blame Instagram and other apps if they were reason then all iPhone have this problem but only few iPhone have battery draining problem . Soo if u are not having reason kindly get me apple customer care number

kumar59 wrote:

I faced the same problem and apple told me that I can’t return the phone for refund in India.

That is correct. There is no return or exchange policy in India. That is true for all products purchased in India.

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Lucky you! With my 16 Pro what I did was to:

1. I went through the initial setup on the day I purchased the phone
2. Then I connected it to my Mac and performed factory reset (DFU > Restore iPhone)
3. Used iCloud to login but did not restore the phone from the backup (only iCloud contacts, photos) - I installed apps manually.

Unfortunately, in my case the battery life remains pretty the same. I did the same with 16 Pro Max (returned to the seller), 16 Pro 128 (1st unit - returned to the seller) and with 16 Pro 256 (2nd unit which I don't plan to return). All units were not so effective when it comes to the battery. My average SoT in 16 Pro after 6 days since the first setup is 4-6h + some time when the screen is not active but the phone is working.

I can't believe that this is a unit fault (16 Pro Max and 16 Pro 128 were from September, both unit and battery. My current unit 16 Pro 256 was manufactured in October, both unit and battery). So it ether iOS fault or these phones simply can offer only this battery life in case of my usage pattern.

Telegram is a notorious app for lack of developer support and ineffective updates. Basically, they don’t care. Delete the app and watch your battery improve in 24 to 48 hours.

Lock Screen indicates a lot of background indexing and syncing taking place. Currently, because of Apple Intelligence activity it may take up to 5 days or so for all activities to return to normal.

A forced restart might help with Telegram but I doubt you’ll delete the app.

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eknoor68 wrote:

Seee this is this the battery backup of apples latest mobile phone . I feel bad that why I have buy this phone spending 1200 $ on this silly phone whoes battery backup is not up to the mark

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/678db6e1-15d5-4b36-8346-0dd6e0fa2aa5

Apple makes it very clear where the problem is in that graph. With less the 4 hours of Screen Time using the apps, you can see exactly what has consumed your battery not only while using the app, but in the background when it is closed. I don't know how that can be more clear.

You spent $1200 on a phone to install apps that collect your personal information to sell to advertisers and are making far more than that by using you as their product. That is the choice you made. If you don't like it, contact the developer of those apps and see if they care.

V1jay wrote:

The battery on my two week old Iphone 16 pro is really disappointing. It hardly carries me through the day. And I am not a big user mobile phone. I really want to return it. It is worst than my five year old iPhone XS. Has anyone returned the phone back?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/eab38f9f-22b6-4bb3-900e-70d84e00fb25

Your post shows 18 hours before needing a charge and that is even with Facebook installed where Meta has not yet provided an update to prevent the background processes from consuming the users battery. The background processes are not reflected in Screen Time.

Charge your phone every night using the Optimized Charge setting to learn the charging habits and you are good to go. As for returning your phone, you will want to make that decision soon. Apple did offer extended return times for online purchases over the holidays, but normally you have 14 days. If purchased from another retailer they may have a different return policy.

eknoor68 wrote:

Sir . The thing that you are telling to everyone that background app we’re using battery is not true . And if Instagram and Snapchat is using all the battery in ver less time then this problem is facing in all iPhone 16 pro and other iPhone but this baterry drainage problem is related to iPhone not with Instagram so don’t blame Instagram and other apps if they were reason then all iPhone have this problem but only few iPhone have battery draining problem . Soo if u are not having reason kindly get me apple customer care number

See for yourself. It is not that difficult to remove those apps and compare your battery usage. Those that have done that have seen a dramatic improvement in their battery performance. Each persons Social Graph is different and will have data points consuming the battery where others will not and also the apps have been updated 11 times in the last month so there is no comparison with the version numbers. The same has been reported on devices other than the iPhone 16 with the latest updates and it is even in the Google support forum showing Instagram as the problem on Android phones.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/296672863/instagram-battery-draining?hl=en

That is your basic troubleshooting step that has not been done and simply arguing over if they are responsible is not the way you are going to find a solution. If you are simply looking for a contact number for Apple, that is easy and they will have you perform those same steps or more likely a Factory Reset without loading any of those apps.Here you go:

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Hello,

I'm writing here with the hope to finally find answers and solutions to my problem...

I had an iPhone 13 with great battery life and after changing my carrier and switching to a 5G contract, battery life was getting worse. I thought maybe it couldn't handle the new 5G technology and then switched to an iPhone 15 Pro. I had a terrible experience, the phone was always getting so warm, the battery was absolutely draining and it didn't get through the day. I had contact to Apple Support, they did diagnosis but said everything looked fine and I should turn off all the features like background app refresh, location services and AOD. Nothing of that really helped. Then I switched to another 15 Pro thinking it maybe was a faulty battery. But bam, same symptoms and I hadn't made any progress regarding the problem. I even reset it via my MacBook and set it up without any backup, costed me much time and the problem was still there. I thought maybe there were some problem with the 15 Pro line so I sold it and went for a 14 Pro and setting up from the 15 Pro backup because I had no nerves to freshly set it up again. And again, all the same problems still existed.... I went for that for a few months and now switched to a 16 Pro and set it up freshly without a backup thinking that can't happen again. And now having this brand new device for 10 days, it's still not giving me the battery life which was advertised...

Here are a few observations:

• I now had 4 different phones in the last time and it can't be a hardware defective battery. It has to be something software related
• when charging, the phones often got really warm without it being used
• the animations, swiping on homescreen or through lockscreen, swiping out of apps or activating the dynamic island music widget when swiping out of playing music app is really laggy and stuttery and not like when I tried out a an iPhone 16 Pro on display in the store
• when looking at my battery consumption graph, "home & lockscreen" is consuming a massive amount of battery. I compared to my family's and friend's phones and its proportion is about 2% when mine is about 18%. It could have something to do with the laggy animations on home & lockscreen. Maybe something in the background is slowing everything down and consuming energy.
• on all phones, camera is eating battery really fast. Like taking 1-2 24MP pictures, it immediately dropped 1%.
• while being on cellular data outside, the drain is even more apparent. And since I'm away for working, the battery on my commute does not hold up well.
• I think for standard tasks it's taking much more energy and resources than needed, which results in a heavy battery drainage
• generally the consumption does not correspond to my usage, meaning that after ~ 4h SOT the battery is down to 20%
• And for example, if I put it in my pocket while waiting at a traffic light, and then take it out after crossing the street, I sometimes notice a 1-2% drop without any significant activity.
• the problem is chasing me over iOS 17 and 18 as well as different (some of them reset and freshly set up) Pro models flagship iPhones. I just don't have the time and money to buy new phones or setting them freshly up when the majority of users can enjoy their perfectly working phone.
• Since I did the test and set a 15 Pro as well as a 16 Pro freshly new up, it either has to do something with the software, the data like Notes, Reminders, Photos I downloaded over iCloud or the SIM which has been in all phones? I even switched to a new phone number thinking it was related to it but no really improvement. Could it be the carrier providing bad quality physical or eSim resulting in the poor battery life on cellular data?

So I really need help from an expert ASAP, I have done literally everything possible you can think of and Apple Support wasn't really helpful.

I appreciate any kind of help that contributes to solving my problem.

16 Pro:

23 min of home & lockscreen is taking more energy than 32 minutes of Instagram, this is absolutely ridiculous and normally home & lockscreen is a component which has a very low proportion of battery consumption.

14 Pro:

15 Pro:

I purchased a new iPhone 16 and had the same issue. I discovered the background app refresh defaulted back to all apps again.

Background App Refresh on an iPhone allows apps to update and check for new content in the background, even when you're not using them. To turn on (or off) Background App Refresh, you can: 

1. Open Settings 
2. Select General 
3. Tap Background App Refresh

I only have a few apps I would like to refresh in the background so I turned the other 100 or so off. Battery life increased dramatically.

Masterawais wrote:

I bought 16 pro max almost 10 days ago and it was working fine but from today mu battery facing drain issue without heavy use. I lost 35% of battery in less than 3 hours without heavy usage. Too much irritating thing. Tell me the solution

After reading this post, what steps have you tried?

• Reset using computer
• Force Restart phone
• Removed the known apps that have caused the problem and compared your results
• Taken it to Apple for diagnostics

If you have tried those steps and you still find it irritating, I would suggest that you return the phone. In most regions you have 14 days, and you should not keep a device that you are having trouble with.

zzzLexin wrote:

So did anybody find any solution for this or we just have to wait for Apple to fix it?

Because I have iPhone 16 Pro brand new two weeks old maybe 3 and my 6 years old iPhone 11 has almost like equal battery life to the 16 pro that’s crazy.

There are some in this thread that have fixed it and other similar threads as well. Here is the post provided by neutro_phill:

Update 2: My battery life has improved significantly on the 3rd day. Only charging it overnight (with nightstand on). It’s 11 am here and my battery level is 93%. Ending my participation here in the thread and all the best to you all. Keep it charging all night.

Not sure if you have tried any of the other solutions provided, but these are the most common:

• Remove Facebook and WhatsApp, then compare your results. These apps from Meta have been running background processes consuming your battery even when not using the apps.
• Reset iPhone using a computer