If your iPhone battery drains faster after updating to iOS 26, wait 24–48 hours for background tasks to settle. Then update to iOS 26.1, restart your iPhone, check and update battery-draining apps, ...

iOS 26 is here, and if you've noticed a decline in your battery life since updating, you're probably not imagining it. It's been a long-held belief among Apple users that an iPhone's battery ...

If you feel like your iPhone's battery is draining quickly after downloading the latest update, don't panic.

Apple may have created a problem with the latest version of iOS. Since iOS 26 launched in September, there have been reports around the internet of the new update significantly shortening battery life ...

Some dip in battery life is normal after installing a major iOS update, especially while your iPhone reindexes files and recalibrates background processes. But if your battery keeps draining faster ...

In addition to gripes about interface changes that don’t live up to the hype ( mainly the “liquid glass” display ), users ...

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