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14 Pro Max at 88%. I’ve never had battery health degrade this quickly on previous iPhones, and I’ve had every iPhone since the 6. I don’t recall percentages on my XS and earlier, but I know that my 11 Pro Max was at 99% when I got my 12 Pro Max, and it was at 98% when I got my 13 Pro Max. My 13 Pro Max was at 93%, when I got my 14 Pro Max, and the only thing that’s been different in terms of my charging behaviors is that I’ve used MagSafe charging much more. Maybe the heat wireless charging creates is worse on batteries, but I’ve read others using MagSafe not have this problem, so I really don’t know unless Apple has tweaked the way they report battery health.

EDIT: Now I’m at 86%. It’s dropped 2% in a little over 2 weeks.

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It’s not just wireless charging causing excessive heat on this gen.

I had to stop using wireless charging in my car (and subsequently everywhere) because the phone overheated. Then it started throwing overheating errors while charging plugged in.

Maybe these batteries are taking a thermal beating.

Checking in with an iPhone 14 Pro at 96% since release, which doesn’t sound bad but is markedly worse than the last several iPhones I’ve had.

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I get overheating warnings even when charging via Lightning on the 14 Pro…

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Exactly like mine. 96% since release. I’m using AOD and 99% wireless charging.

It’s ok, never had any issues with my battery life that I ran out of energy.

We probably have to accept, that these battery’s are performing at their very limit and have no thermal system to keep them in a specific temperature range.

My iPhone X was about the same. In installed a new battery when it was 2.5 years old and I used it for 5 years. I will probably do the same with my 14 Pro.

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My 13 pro max from 2021 November — 88% battery health. I’m using MagSafe for almost whole last year.

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Same for me. My 13 pro max is at 90%

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Do you use the Always On Display feature?

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I do.

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Nope

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I bought a 14 Pro in January, still 100%.

My only complaint, coming from a long time Android user (the 14 Pro is my first iOS device), is that I feel like the battery drains faster than my previous phones. Maybe it’s just me…

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I apologize if you are already aware of this, but if you go into Settings > Battery, then look at the 24hr graph, you can tap anywhere on the graph where the battery drain is strong to see which apps are eating it up the most. From there you can investigate that app’s settings to see if there are any features you don’t need and can disable. Things like always on location services and background app refresh.

(I’m on a 12mini, which might have the worst battery life of any iPhone in recent years.)

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Yes, I know about that. The problem is that, while commuting by train to go to the office, I use the phone a little bit too much (plus, there’s a part of the rail line where there isn’t any signal and apparently this too drains the battery). I just feel like my old OnePlus Nord or even my Pixel 3a had a better battery life under these conditions, but then again, it’s two different systems with different apps. For example: I used Boost for Reddit on my Android, I used Apollo on this iPhone. Probably the latter drained more battery than the other. I just don’t remember coming home from work with 25% of battery left.

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My iPhone 14 Pro is hovering around 95%, so only a five percent reduction in 10-11 months. This seems perfectly acceptable to me, but maybe I’m an outlier.

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I’m one of those monsters that upgrades every year. Have for many generations now. My 14 pro is at 95%. This is the first time I’ve had a phone go below 100% in years. I was honestly thinking of not upgrading to the 15 but the battery has been noticeably worse.

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6 months and i am still at 100%

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Hmm I have no such issues

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Do you stay on the betas or only the stable releases?

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I’m usually on mainline, but I am currently on iOS 17 Beta 5

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14 Pro Max, 93% - 8 months old

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The industry standard is 80% of the original battery capacity after 800 charges.

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At that rate it’ll be at 80% with 685 cycles assuming one charge cycle a day.

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