Each iPhone 16 model received a higher-capacity battery. Each one. Apple says its new fashions will go longer with no need a recharge, and clearly that’s not hype.
Additionally, the conspiracy concept that Apple would cut back the scale of the iPhone 16 Plus battery turned out to be bunk.
iPhone 16 battery capability: Up and up
The most effective telephone 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 motive, Cupertino doesn’t publish the specs of its batteries. However Anatel (Brazil’s Nationwide Telecommunications Company) revealed the battery capability for all 4 new iOS 18 handsets, in keeping with 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 12 months’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
Relatively than merely telling consumers this data, Apple talks about battery life as an alternative. 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 a component. And the brand new A18 chip supposedly helps lengthen battery lives.
“Built with second-generation 3-nanometer technology and featuring a new architecture with smaller, faster transistors, A18 Pro delivers unprecedented efficiency,” mentioned Apple.
Ignore that nasty iPhone 16 Plus battery rumor
Final spring, a rumor went round that Apple would lower the scale of the iPhone 16 Plus battery. The idea on the time was that Apple wished 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 greater than both of the opposite two within the sequence. And that interprets into a really prolonged time between costs. As The Verge evaluation famous, “If you opt for the 16 Plus, with its larger battery, you can stretch a single charge well into a second day.”
Nonetheless, Apple promised through the handsets’ launch occasion final week that “iPhone 16 Pro Max has the best iPhone battery life ever.”