Following reports of iPhone 16 crashes and random restarts, there are now complaints about potential issues with the battery performance of the new Apple smartphones released in September. The outage often occurs in standby mode, that is, when the iPhone is not being used at all. However, it is not yet clear if this is an iOS 18 only issue, as there are reports on older models as well. The update to iOS 18.0.1, which Apple released in early October, clearly doesn’t help.
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For example, most reports come from new buyers on reddit Or in a thread that is now 22 pages long In Apple’s official support forumOne user writes that he lost 20 percent of battery power in three hours in idle mode, while others say it halved during the day. The battery degrades between 10 and 20 percent overnight. Some users report losing one percent of battery power every 5 minutes.
It was sometimes said that the public beta of iOS 18.1 could help. Otherwise you can try the usual tricks: activate battery saver mode, turn off background activities, reduce the number of widgets. It is also important to know that new devices on which a backup of an older device has just been installed always requires several days until all critical system processes (including Spotlight searches) are completed. This means that there will be heavy battery usage in the first few days after setup, but usage will return to normal later on. This should be done within a maximum of one week.
The operating system is still not perfect
iOS 18 is causing problems in other areas too. When updating apps, App Store applications routinely use the entire available bandwidth of the device and thus slow down other programs – a behavior that did not exist before. As mentioned, there were recently reports of spontaneous resets and freezes on the iPhone 16 & Co. Here too, there is apparently no difference between iOS 18 and 18.0.1.
Installing it as a new device seems to solve the problem, but this is out of the question for many users due to the high effort involved. Otherwise, this is also a tip for excessive battery load, as an (almost) empty device naturally draws less power.
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