Apple's iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional have greatly improved battery life, but for some users the opposite has been true.
According to a fairly large number of posts on the official Apple Forums and Reddit (via MacRumors), battery life has been pretty abysmal for some iPhone 16 and 16 Professional owners running iOS 18. Complaints have actually started before, while iOS 18 was still in beta, but the problem has apparently not been fixed, generating a new wave of dissatisfied. users now that iOS 18 is widely available.
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Most users who experienced the problem say that their phones simply drained very quickly while idle or while performing undemanding tasks like playing music. “I listened to music for the first 2.5 hours of my day (with less than 45 minutes of screen time) and noticed my battery was at 68 percent,” said one user on Reddit. “I am comparing my activity with that of my previous iPhone 14 that I have with my girlfriend. She is at 78 percent while I am at 45 percent. Something is not right here,” said another.
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However, it is worth noting that some users do not experience these issues and some (but not all) said that updating to iOS 18.1 beta fixed the issue.
Fortunately, this type of error is quite common in new versions of iOS; We have seen similar issues resolved after a software update. Now it's up to Apple to investigate this and fix it.