It has been a yearly tradition for me. Every year ill make a full backup and upgrade to latest ios. After a week, i do a full restore to previous ios and block apple software update domain.

This year i didnt even update to 18. Straight to blocking apple domain. Its the same shit every year.

I have been noticing my battery life being lower after the 18 and 18.0.1 update on the 15PM. It feels like I'm ending my day with less than 20% battery when before I was over 30% easily.

It still gets me through the day, but not as comfortably.

18.0.1 seems to have fixed my battery issues on a 16p. My Watch Ultra was losing 75% of its charge over the course of a day until the 11.0.1 update. That seems to have returned it to normal. I don’t understand how this keeps happening with version updates, though. Having complete control of the hardware and a small number of models to test for should completely eliminate this kind of issue through basic testing.

Should've bought the iPhone 17 Pro, duh

/s

Yeah, I’ve been feeling this on my 12 Pro. Feels like a yearly tradition at this point.

Friend of mine with her 14 Pro is having major battery issues, my 15 is not too bad.

But yeah she HATES the photos app with a fiery passion.

I’m on the 18.1 Beta and battery life on my 16 Pro is better than it ever was on my 13 Pro before.

I haven't upgraded my 14p yet due to all the bugs I've heard about in iOS 18. Also that the new photos app is a dumpster fire of changes nobody asked for.

I have not noticed anything but then again I’m coming to iPhone 16 from XS that had a battery replaced once already and probably would have to replace it again before it was usable again hah.

here we go again...

A new OS release is the worst time to complain about battery life.

There are tons of background tasks, indexing and AI things happening in the background that users are unaware of.

Give it a few weeks to index and optimize and see how it runs.