Apple has some big changes coming to the Battery screen inside iOS 26’s Settings app, including a feature that can help prevent excessive iPhone drains.
iOS 26 Battery settings has intelligent suggestions for excess drain
Have you ever experienced a mystery iPhone battery drain? A day when your iPhone usage is more or less normal, but for some reason your battery’s draining at an accelerated rate?
Force-quitting a bunch of apps might be your solution. Or perhaps visiting the Battery screen inside Settings to see what’s happening.
Though the Settings app has always offered a host of data about battery usage, I’ve never found it all that helpful for solving excess drain.
But in iOS 26, that’s changed. Apple has a variety of new battery-related features coming that include a revamped Settings screen.
When an iPhone battery is draining faster than usual, iOS 26’s Settings app now explicitly highlights the excess drain, and offers suggestions for what could be causing the issue.
As seen in the images above and below, there’s a graph comparing your battery drain to normal usage. Apps and system activity with especially unusual drain are highlighted.
In prior iOS releases, you would need to sort through a long list of usage data to try identifying problem apps.
But with iOS 26, apps with unusually high drain get a special orange design that alerts you to potential issues.
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