iPhone 16 Pro Max leads in battery life test
By ForGeeks It’s no surprise that the biggest smartphones from Apple and Samsung have the longest battery life, because they have bigger batteries too. However, new tests show that the iPhone 16 Pro Max beats all the competition.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max has the best battery life.
iPhone 16 Pro Max: Best of the Best
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The tech site Tom’s Guide has updated its ranking of battery life among popular smartphones to include the manufacturers’ latest models. The test showed that the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s 4685 mAh battery lasted 18 hours and 6 minutes.
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In comparison, the Chinese smartphone OnePlus 12, which has a higher-capacity 5,400 mAh battery, lasted 17 hours and 37 minutes, the closest result to the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
The OnePlus 12, which has a higher-capacity 5,400 mAh battery, lasted 17 hours and 37 minutes, the closest result to the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Compared to rivals: the Samsung Galaxy S24 and iPhone 16 Plus
The Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus and Ultra models performed significantly lower at 16 hours 46 minutes and 16 hours 45 minutes respectively. Despite this, they still beat Apple’s iPhone 16 Plus, which lasted 16 hours and 29 minutes, even though its battery has a capacity of 4674 mAh, which is less than the Galaxy S24 Plus with its 4900 mAh.
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Plus and Ultra performed significantly worse than the Galaxy S24 Plus with its 4900 mAh.
Significant jump in battery life
The regular iPhone 16 clocked in at 12 hours and 43 minutes, a significant drop from the larger models, but still over an hour longer than the previous version, the iPhone 15, which lasted 11 hours and five minutes. Similarly, the iPhone 16 Plus added more than two hours to its runtime compared to the iPhone 15 Plus, which had 14 hours and 14 minutes.
The iPhone 16 Plus added more than two hours to its runtime compared to the iPhone 15 Plus, which had 14 hours and 14 minutes.
This is a significant increase in just one year, especially for the base iPhone models. And in the case of the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, the gains are even more impressive: the iPhone 16 Pro Max beat the iPhone 15 Pro Max by more than four hours, and the smaller iPhone 16 Pro improved on the iPhone 15 Pro by three and a half hours.
And the iPhone 16 Pro Max is the best iPhone in the world.
Google Pixel stays behind
Google’s smartphones, meanwhile, had weaker results. The regular Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro each clocked in at around 13 and a half hours, while the Pixel 9 Pro XL clocked in at 14 hours and 37 minutes.
The Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro XL each clocked in at 14 hours and 37 minutes.
Real-world usage
It’s important to note that all metrics were obtained under real-world conditions, such as surfing the internet over 5G. However, in normal use, users may not notice such a significant improvement as the brightness of all smartphones was set to 150 nits for consistency in testing, whereas the iPhone 16 lineup can reach brightness of up to 2,000 nits.
The brightness of all smartphones was set to 150 nits for consistency in testing, whereas the iPhone 16 lineup can reach brightness of up to 2,000 nits.
As always, battery life depends directly on the style of use. However, the iPhone 16 Pro Max has the longest battery life of any smartphone today, and all users will feel the benefits of this improvement.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max has the longest battery life of any smartphone today.
