Battery Drain on iOS 26 and iOS 26.0.1.

oldmaninflorida wrote:

Why are there three different places to disable this battery eating, poorly written program?????

As it doesn't cause problems for most people, I suspect the issue is something other than "a poorly written program."

It's hard to respond to such a condescending reply in a civil manner. But I see from your bio you're it support. So I guess I'll just chalk that up to the tone.

But I'm not some tech illiterate senior novice. My career with computers started in the 1980s with punch cards. My first computer language was fortran.

I stand by my original evaluation that the software is badly written. For something to draw that much power after a major iOS update and be hard to find and turn off is bad programing.

It's not bad programming at all, as each of the settings does something different (as was clearly explained) and the associated settings are in the location that makes the most sense for them.

The fact that you would prefer a different user interface does not make the programming "bad."

In addition to that, I'm glad it's solved your problem, but it's not the root cause of your issue since there are millions of iPhone users around the world who have all these settings turned on (including myself) and are not experiencing the battery drain that you are.

There is clearly some other factor involved, and it's not condescension to take a strict engineering approach to the issue and realize if it was poorly written software, everyone would experience the issue… and they most certainly do not.

This makes me believe that the issue from all the iOS 26 issues will get better.

my one big hope is the call block options will get back to a simple hit info icon on bad call/go down to block/tap and move on. It should even be easier & faster than that but I would settle for the old steps. I’ve typically been getting 12-15 phish,spam calls a day for ins, Medicare, Life and its an effort to delete now!!!

Most of the spam calls I receive are from spoofed numbers and that same number would not be used again for another spam call whether I had blocked it or not. The call blocking feature is only effective with legitimate numbers that you do not want calling back, it is not very helpful in reducing spam. That explains why you are still getting 12-15 spam calls after blocking the numbers.

Better solutions are sometimes found from your cellular provider where many use spam blockers, so they do not even ring your phone. Check with yours to see what they offer.

I’m having the same problem with my new iPhone 15 , when I upgraded it to iOS 26.1 and anytime I restart my phone my battery which is at 95 will drop to 88% when it comes on. This is so frustrating and confusing. Please Apple do something about it . I don’t know what to do 😩😩

My phone updated itself Saturday and since then my battery is playing up. I can go all day on 100 switch off at night then back in and it’s low. I was told to force switch off which I did now battery is stuck all time even below 100

snoopyq234 wrote:

Iphone 14 pro max - 87% - no apps used during this time, just left on the table.

Can we all just agree there's a major issue with ios 26 instead of suggesting tweaks, app updates, and reboots. I've got multiple Apple devices with exactly the same battery drain issue - ipads iphones watches - only started happening since ios26.

Maybe if the battery app wasnt like my kids crayon drawings & had some decent system level cpu usage we could get to the bottom of this.

Ios 26.2 has not fixed the issue either.

Hello~ No …we can’t “just agree there's a major issue with ios 26 instead of suggesting tweaks, app updates, and reboots.”

~Katana-San~

snoopyq234 wrote:

Can we all just agree there's a major issue with ios 26 instead of suggesting tweaks, app updates, and reboots.

No, we can't all agree. I've had zero, zip, nadda, no issues caused by iOS 26. In fact, to me, it's one of the most exciting iOS versions Apple has EVER released. You can speak for yourself, of course. But you do not, nor can you speak for the other millions upon millions upon millions of other users who may be out roaming around without any issues caused by this update.

Yes, I am sorry I updated to 26.1. Before I had no battery problems but now I need to have it on a charger all day. It drains my battery faster than I can charge it. Now this issue in addition to how disappointing the iPhone 14 plus I bought. I won’t be buying another iphone in the future.

Unfortunately Apple will not allow you to install latest update 18.7.3 released Yesterday because they are enforcing 26.2 on capable phones (like iPhone 15).

Latest iOS 18 release can be only installed on very old iPhones like XR/XS.

They really want us to move to 26.2.

I said it before and I will say it again I think 26 version will become stable for battery performance in mid next year (around 26.5, 26.6 release) in similar way it was for 18 version. History will repeat itself.

One more discovery for me. I have the settings such that charging should stop at 80%, but it doesn't. It just keeps going. I tried turning off Find My (per the experience of another user) - I don't see that making any difference.

My Apple 16 Pro max didn’t come this iOS 26 .0.1.