Each iPhone 16 model obtained a higher-capacity battery. Each one. Apple says its new fashions will go longer without having a recharge, and clearly that’s not hype.
Additionally, the conspiracy concept that Apple would cut back the dimensions of the iPhone 16 Plus battery turned out to be bunk.
iPhone 16 battery capability: Up and up
The most effective cellphone is the world turns into a paperweight as quickly because it’s battery runs out. Happily, Apple retains bettering the batteries constructed into iPhone.
For some cause, Cupertino doesn’t publish the specs of its batteries. However Anatel (Brazil’s Nationwide Telecommunications Company) printed the battery capability for all 4 new iOS 18 handsets, based on Weblog do iPhone:
- iPhone 16: 3,561 mAh
- iPhone 16 Plus: 4,674 mAh
- iPhone 16 Professional: 3,582 mAh
- iPhone 16 Professional Max: 4,685 mAh
Every of those improves on the capability of final yr’s fashions. For reference:
- iPhone 15: 3,349 mAh
- iPhone 15 Plus: 4,383 mAh
- iPhone 15 Professional: 3,274 mAh
- iPhone 15 Professional Max: 4,422 mAh
Battery life is a bit difficult
Moderately than merely telling patrons this info, Apple talks about battery life as a substitute. For instance, it guarantees the iPhone 16 Professional Max affords as much as 33 hours of video playback. That’s up from 29 hours promised by the iPhone 15 Professional Max. And Apple says the opposite three iPhone 16 fashions additionally provide improved battery lives when in comparison with their predecessors.
Apple goes this considerably oblique route as a result of extra goes into stretching time between recharges than battery capability. How environment friendly the 2024 handsets are additionally performs an element. And the brand new A18 chip supposedly helps lengthen battery lives.
“Constructed with second-generation 3-nanometer know-how and that includes a brand new structure with smaller, sooner transistors, A18 Professional delivers unprecedented effectivity,” stated Apple.
Ignore that nasty iPhone 16 Plus battery rumor
Final spring, a rumor went round that Apple would reduce the dimensions of the iPhone 16 Plus battery. The idea on the time was that Apple needed to nerf the Plus so it wouldn’t compete with the dearer — and extra worthwhile — iPhone 16 Professional Max, as the 2 have screens nearly the identical measurement. Nope.
Seems, the iPhone 16 Plus features a battery nearly as massive because the one within the Professional Max, and significantly larger than both of the opposite two within the collection. And that interprets into a really prolonged time between fees. As The Verge evaluate famous, “In the event you go for the 16 Plus, with its bigger battery, you’ll be able to stretch a single cost properly right into a second day.”
Nonetheless, Apple promised in the course of the handsets’ launch occasion final week that “iPhone 16 Professional Max has one of the best iPhone battery life ever.”