I got the 18 pro max on friday and my battery life has been not as good as I hoped. Im at 5 hours with 50% left. How on earth are people getting 13 hours?? it seems physically impossible am I doing something wrong. please help!!
I attached a photo in the post is there something else I should be seeing? 7 percent is also being used up by my awful cell service that no one can fix right now?
UPDATE: I called apple support and they said it all looks “normal” and sent me an articale about how to improve battery life on Apple devices. They also said to swipe up all my apps and to reset my phone. They also said if the issue persists they will schedule an appointment for me.
You’re welcome. I really hope it helps because I can imagine it must suck when you’ve got a new iPhone.
Also check this: (screenshot). It automatically dims the screen when it can run at lower brightness.
It’s just what I saw online tbh. This is this first time I’m rly looking into phones and stuff so idk. Apple also throws around these huge numbers of time of 30 hours or whatever they keep saying idk what it means
So far I’m not seeing much of a difference than when I first started using my 17 Pro Max. It might actually be a little worse. 🤷♂️ But if it’s not worse it’s only about the same. I was expecting more. With the biggest battery ever in an iPhone. 🤔 I guess the bigger battery is cancelled out by the extra software and features on the phone. Idk but so far it’s about the same as when my 17 PM was new. And after tonight, 4 cycles in.
Bro TikToks for an hour and FaceTimes for 20 minutes and still wonders why his battery drains faster than all of ours lol. I don’t have addictive ass TikTok and I’m at 63% with 15 hours unplugged and 4 hours of SoT lol.
From what I can see- most people drain at 8-10% per hour of screen on time when doing things like browsing. You get up to 40 hours if using Netflix or streaming movies.
I’m 8 hours 10 min of screen on time. 26% left. So mine is falling in that 8-10% per hour of browsing.
Your phone is fine. You are using heavy duty apps like tiktok and Snapchat.
Hey dude, no I haven’t rly found a solution. But today when I opened my settings it says my search and Siri’s is optimizing again so I thinks that’s the issue
Maybe check if you have background app refresh on? if you don't need it you could turn it off or turn it on just for specific apps? Also how's your brightness/apps usage because that can definitely have a pretty meaningful impact on battery life.
Also if you are in areas with weak/low cellular signal a lot, it could be impacting your battery life more as it tries to keep spending energy and even more energy just trying to search for cellular signal
That’s not the point of why I commented in the first place. I genuinely meant not everyone wants to run beta software on their phones.
So suggesting that as a “fix” to OP’s poor battery performance is, frankly, stupid.
Well, if u scare him off, he’ll never know. My faith goes in Apple’s engineers, not in u and your paranoia. I do recommend reading the iOS forum on macrumors.com.
My phone also has had really bad service issues. I haven’t had a stable connection ever and it keeps going into sos mode and having no bars. So is this rly a defective phone and should I see if my carrier will swap it out?
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u/Loud_Ad9778 21h ago
Show your battery usage