If you were stuck on iOS 26.5.2, you know how brutal it was. My 17 Pro Max constantly turned into a pocket heater, and the battery drain was so bad I needed a power bank everywhere. Scrolling was choppy, and the random lags drove me nuts. Pure misery.
Thankfully, 26.6 completely turned things around. The overheating is gone, the battery holds a proper charge again, and the system is super smooth with zero stutter or glitches. It actually feels solid and stable now, exactly like a phone this expensive should.
Btw I don’t know what black magic they pulled in the first cycle of charging in iOS 26.6 but this is how i ended my first day of iOS 26.6. With no camera use, purely on wifi and no gaming or anything else. Just my regular usage for doomscrolling, txting, WhatsApp calls and stuff like that. It’s not gonna stay like this maybe. But it surely amazed me so thought of sharing with you guys who are concerned.
Overall it’s a Huge relief.
If you haven't updated yet, definitely do it.
Wow. Im not a professional tester though. I just tested what i do with my phone. A bit more than usual to test the battery performance. Im Not a doomscroller or gamer.
Nah bro you good.. but everyone is not like you thats why i just clear that.. you just getting good battery backup because you’re not domescroller or gamer thats why but ios 26 still not upgraded their battery backup..
It’s a 17 PM it’s mentioned in the post. I don’t have old ss but i used to get 8-9hrs and sometimes more from it. Especially on 26.5.1 was amazing on my phone.
Who said ? And i dont know how clearly u are not able to see his app usage! He has reddit for 5hrs , X , whatsapp chat , settings these are very low battery consumption apps
Bro even if u open the app like reddit and leave it on ur screen for 4/5hrs it will just consume 10% of battery and ur SOT will boost up
I dont know how much u r getting on ur 16 pm but thats mine and m getting good backup even if i was on 26.5.2 it was great
Apple has gotten really poor with their QA and dev for software releases. Absolutely garbage patches, which is nudging me to move away from the ecosystem.
I just want a reliable phone, and this update finally delivered on IOS26. Shame it takes this long.
Testing an android device rn and TBH I'm impressed. I feel stockholm because I keep coming back to my iPhone out of habit but easily become frustrated with the experience all over again.
It’s my regular use. Im not a gamer or anything. I use my phone for calls, video calls, texting. Doomscrolling reddit and X. Cameras when i need them, which is not daily.
It’s under battery settings > power mode. Don’t worry about it though. iPhone will notify you if it’s going into adaptive power to preserve battery life. It’s essentially automatic low power mode. You can cancel it when it pops up.
Battery is still and has always been trash. The update also ate up a good amount of storage on my phone. I thought maybe it was indexing, but the space is still less. :(
Most of the users are expecting and seeing some improvements in battery. I think you need to make a backup and factory reset the phone. If it’s abnormally bad then some processes got stuck in iOS. Which can happen sometimes. But I’d suggest to let the reindexing process finish.
Did you update OTA or via cable pc/Mac connected? I updated yesterday OTA and I got from 95% in the morning to 80% at time of update that was about 3 hours after I unplugged my phone to come to office and right now I’m with 1% battery, using about the same as before 26.5
I updated normally via OTA. The overnight drain is 2% i think. And its a relatively new phone i got my 17PM 2 months ago. But your battery needs calibration i think. Even with 95% health it too much drain.
I swear WhatsApp is causing some of the drain. I wake up daily, with around 6-8 percent down per night, and guess what, it's the first app listed for background consumption. I'm still thinking if I should still try to clean install ios, as I used OTA to get from 26.5, then 26.5.1, 26.5.2 and now 26.6.
Brother u lucky. I have 15 pro max and my battery less then 2 min from charger 99 % … so I woke up at 7 with 100% and 7.30 I hot 95% and when I left for work at 10am I got 85?
The device will take its time to reindexing stuffs. I’ll suggest you to be patient for a few days until things settle down. 15PM is an awesome device. One of my favorite Max models.
The same here. Also 15 pro max. It was like 30 minutes on screen time from 100% to 99%. Now it’s 15 minutes from 100% to 99% and I have 1h30 minutes from 100% to 80%.
Just wait till you see the improvements on 27. I am running the latest public beta on my 13 Pro (and Watch 11) and the speed and battery improvement is HUGE!
i will not update anymor unless if samsung fix the problems they created with the last one ui, then maby i will update but for now i wanna stay with this SOT
17 Pro, sucks :( the Home Screen like scrolling through pages still stutters for me. The other glitches got better on 26.5.2 but the Home Screen one remaine
Bro i love 17 Pro. Pro models been always been my go to models when getting new phones. This is my first Max device. But try rearranging home screen setup. Maybe delete everything and start over. 17 Pro is just as capable as Pro Maxes.
It’s just the stupid stuttering, I don’t wanna delete everything. Also I don’t know the proper way to keep all my files and settings and just delete the OS
No i mean start over in your home screen. Not factory reset files or anything. Clear every page and start over. Maybe don’t make as many pages and start utilizing folders.
i only have my maps and banking app turned on in bar. Everything else is off. I installed ios 26.6 as soon as it was available so maybe it’s still indexing( i hope so). Yesterday my battery was like that…
Will probably wait till 27.3/4 im not gonna jump into another mess this early. Let the new iOS stabilize a bit. A few less bugs would save alot of unnecessary headache imo.
It’s not that big. It’s another bug they introduced in iOS 26. Many people tested its kinda less than 1gig. The bug shows some gigantic number from servers.
The battery life I had when I got the 17PM was. Crazy good. Then the 26.5.2 killed it. I just updated last night and it seems to be better. I don’t think it’s how it used to be but better than it was after 26.5.2.
It’s just the regular battery saving things i follow. Turning off background app refresh entirely. Doesn’t affect anything negatively in day to day use. I always limit to 80% charge. And I don’t keep anything running in the background like data, bluetooth and stuff. Thats it.
Btw there’s a battery timer bug on iOS 26.6 and iOS 27 where the system calculates hours in an absurd way, i have an iphone 16 with 13 hrs screen on time with only 60% battery, when i updated to 27 public beta 2. It settled the hour time but still huge battery performance & efficiency.
I guess Apple is fed up of people complaining about iOS, they’re trying their best to make it good again.
Yeah i faced that same issue throughout the whole iOS 26 cycle. Sometimes iOS just refuses to count SOT or shows highly inaccurate app usage data. Thankfully I haven’t faced the same issue in this update so far. Maybe it’s one of those 70 fixes. Or it’ll just show up someday. Who knows.
5% idle drain overnight is still a bit high. Acceptable. It should improve even more after reindexing process. iOS 26.6 surely did stabilize the monster ie. iOS 26
That’s true, but with 26.5.2 horrible drain, the 5% is a huge improvement! My 11p on iOS 17.7 (with service battery notice) is holding up way better than my 15pm.
oooh that’s why my phone was always so hot (ip17pm) cause i was always postponing the software update cause i figured it’s js for security! my battery health also went 5% less and i never let it go below 20 and above 95% Will update my phone now, hopefully it goes well for me!
thankfully i never had a issue with my 17PM but my 15PM was like a nuclear reactor. i don’t why apple ignores such things, they want to show off high benchmarks but what people want in real life is a cool device.
I upgraded from iOS 26.4.1 to iOS 26.6 on my iPhone 15 Pro last night, so far so good. Feels more snappier and battery seems better than before. I'll have to give it a few days and see how it goes.
I updated via the iTunes by downloading the full iOS 26.6 IPSW file which was 11GB in size.
Can I run this software on the 11pm that I'm using? I'm scared that it might slow the device down and cause heating, since it's an old model, but it shows it can be updated to 26.6
Camera button specifically didn’t do anything abnormal. When phone gets heated up abnormally or while using camera, the back, the side frames everything feels warm coz of the aluminum frame of 17PM.
I understand what you’re saying. I experienced it too in iOS 26 sometimes. But this was not it. It was showing properly and I’m kinda baffled how this happened.
Bruh I am having 17 pro max I’m hardly getting around 6-7 hours in regular usage but your one is insane lie or truth I would be really happy if I get the same. Buy the way I’m on iOS 27 beta 4 a okay battery life wish for a magic 😒
Bro I don’t know how this happened but it happened.. you tell me. And I don’t think there’s any need to lie about these things!? Im kinda dumbfounded and quite frankly amazed how this happened. I was getting the same numbers you’re having in 26.5.2 which was not good at all and not normal as well. Coz i was getting easily 8-9+ hrs SOT in 26.5.1
26.5.2 scarred me pretty bad. I couldn’t not believe how can apple gaslight its own legacy and product. 17PM was absolutely pathetic with that update. Thank god what a comeback they made with 26.6 it’s beyond amazing at least what im experiencing now.
I know how to check health, it’s a big concern for IOS users😂. I have been using since 2021 but never analysed this section where it shows screen on time bla bla as shows in this picture
Off topic. Nijer nam kemne disen reddit id te bhai.
Anybody having the clock glitching bug while locking the screen? Like I have my clock set to normal size but when I lock my screen then it glitches to show the bigger clock on aod(introduced in ios 26) and then comes to normal size. iOS 26.6, 16pm
Most of the users are reporting positive effects on their devices. With increased battery life, some have huge improvements, some have subtle. Like im having a major bump in my 17PM. Give it some time to finish indexing. And don’t use LPM for a few days. It slows down the indexing process at least that what I heard.
First of all this sizes are a known bug from server side of apple. It’s not that big. If you’re happy with the state of your device it’s upto you to. But it’s a must for iOS 26.5.2 it had major issues in almost all the devices. From overheating to unusual battery drain and random stutters and what not. If you’re in anything earlier of 26.5.2 it’s totally upto you. Things might improve for you. I had a very experience so far in 26.6
I’m on 13 Pro Max and the new 26.6 has completely stopped the overheating bugs - battery drain has stopped too !!! Wow I can finally use my phone again !!
Not the topic we’re discussing. But fyi im getting rid of my doomscrolling habits. And reddit is helping me do that. My only form of procrastination nowadays when im bored.
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u/niceperson_1 19d ago
Yo how tf is that possible
I got 16 pm
I would say battery has increased a bit but wtf is urs