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The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro went on sale on September 16, 2022<\/a><\/strong>. That means that the earliest most people could have bought one was less than 11 months ago. Yet a ton of people report that their batteries are already starting to show serious signs of degradation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of people have been taking to social media in recent weeks to note how bad their\u00a0batteries<\/strong>\u00a0have gotten. Not in terms of how long they last, necessarily, but how bad their iPhones report their battery health to be. some are finding figures below 90%.Whatever’s going on, it doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone. My\u00a0iPhone 14 Pro Max\u00a0<\/strong>reports a\u00a0battery health\u00a0<\/strong>of 95%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there have been plenty of people with much lower figures, and they’ll only get worse.Going down fastPeople complaining on Twitter about Apple is nothing new of course. But sometimes their complaints have merit. Like the one from AppleTrack’s Sam Kohl whose\u00a0iPhone 14 Pro\u00a0<\/strong>is fast on its way to needing a new battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wasn’t alone, with people in the replies noting figures that were just as bad, too. Some were worse \u2014 one commenter shared a screenshot with the 87% figure.It isn’t just on Twitter, either. I’ve seen people complain of similarly poor battery health on Mastodon as well. And again, these are iPhones that are less than 11 months old, surely they should be lasting longer than this?As for why new\u00a0iPhone battery health<\/strong>\u00a0is proving so problematic, one guess points to the extremely hot summer in some parts of the world. Another option is that the batteries themselves just aren’t up to the usual standard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the reason, there are going to be a lot of iPhones that need new batteries relatively soon.Unless their owners upgrade to a new\u00a0iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Pro,<\/strong>\u00a0that is.Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories.At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to ‘explain’ those thoughts in more detail, too.Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn’t looked back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then he’s seen the growth of the\u00a0smartphone<\/a><\/strong> world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a\u00a0battery<\/strong>\u00a0or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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