One of the advantages that Android phones have is that you have more models to choose from, so you can easily find phones that have much more battery and faster charging. On iPhones, although they improve year after year, the options are more limited, although it is easy to Your phone will last all day without having to charge it.
The point is that in theory iPhone batteries should be enough, although they are not compared to many Android phones that have greater autonomy, more fast charging and much faster wireless charging. However, what happens is that with the passage of time they are many people complain about problems with their batteries after many iOS updates.
For these reasons, the iPhone battery lasts less
Although the company recognizes, as also happens in Android, that After an update the battery may last a little less for a few days, the truth is that the problems in the case of iPhones remain much longer after each update. Thus, although not in all of them, we find many people complaining about problems with your mobile battery after updating. This is only fixed later with a new update that may take more or less depending on whether Apple realizes the bug and does something to fix it. On many occasions, users feel that the brand does not listen to them and ignores their battery problems.
Already we saw it in iOS 16.5, with support forums full of customers complaining about the battery draining quickly. Some also admit that they have charging errors. One of them said:
Coincidence or not, since iOS 16.5, not only is my battery life terrible, but the charging time has been drastically reduced and for some reason my battery is reaching very high temperatures, while barely processing anything.
The same thing happened after updating to iOS 17.1, the version that kills the battery of the iPhone, and with more new versions emerging every year. So much so that the Internet has also been filled with complaints:
Same problem for iPhone 13 mini, the battery consumption of the device is easily recognized after updating to 17.1. Audio calls (Facebook Messenger application) heat up the device a lot, between 53% and 5% in 30 minutes.
There is even who has complained about the short life of the batterieswhen Androids strive to increase life cycles every year, and especially since the iPhone 14, with complaints like this:
I join the battery complaints about the iPhone 14 pro, it hasn’t even been a year and it’s already at 89%, I took the same care of it as I did with my iPhone 13, which is still in use by a family member, it’s almost 3 years old and He has 89% as well as 14 who is not even a year old yet.
The problems could be due to heat, which greatly affects iPhones, or their operating system. Beyond the updates we find that many of iPhone widgets consume a lot of battery and they make it last very little, something that doesn’t happen as much with Android. Therefore, it is best to avoid widgets on the lock screen.
Unless there is a miracle, it does not seem that this is going to change and it is clear that Android phones are improving while iPhones along with iOS are falling behind in this section no matter how hard they try. Surely we will encounter more new updates that cause battery problems and all that remains is to complain and hope that Apple solves them soon. We hope we are wrong and that iPhone improves the batteries of its phones and cares about them in each update.