Since iOS 16 was launched for iPhone eight and above, customers have continued to complain a few sooner battery drain since updating to the most recent model of iOS – together with myself on my iPhone 13 Professional.

The newest replace brings widgets to the lock display, so you may place a climate or a countdown widget there, and urgent it’s going to launch the app in query, whereas selecting completely different fonts and colours to make the lock display your individual.

Alongside this although, there’s enhancements in virtually each app and menu, comparable to Images the place you may carry an object out of a picture, and place it some place else.

Nonetheless, since utilizing the replace, I’ve observed that my iPhone has been reaching 20% by the point the afternoon arrives, as a substitute of once I’m watching a documentary on Netflix within the night.

And it appears as if I am not alone (opens in new tab). Whereas we have reached out to Apple for a remark, I have been wanting into what may very well be the explanation for the sooner drain, past it being a bug.

Batteries not included

One function I really like of iOS 16 is the haptic keyboard toggle – so with each press there is a small vibration. Nonetheless it is comprehensible to imagine that this can be a issue within the sooner battery drain, so I switched it off.

There’s numerous lock screens you may make in iOS 16, however there’s some, such because the Astrology and Climate screens, that want to trace your location or continuously refresh itself for the most recent temperature so it could hold updated in your iPhone’s lock display.

I deleted these and simply left a static image on as a substitute, with a few widgets from Obscura (opens in new tab) and Issues 3 (opens in new tab).

Nonetheless, switching these options off and having my iPhone mirror the way it was on iOS 15, the drain was nonetheless persevering with, so it does look as if it is a bug.

Apple has already launched iOS 16.02 (opens in new tab) which resolves a bunch of points, together with a relentless Paste immediate that might present up each time customers would attempt to copy textual content to a different app.

With iOS 16.1 already accessible as a public beta for testing although, we might even see a repair for this arrive on this newest replace to alleviate these battery considerations, and hopefully I will be charging my iPhone as soon as a day once more.