Apple really cheaped out on the 14 Pro and 15 Pro with the batteries. Mine is already at 88% health after a year. Constantly runs hot
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iPhone 15 Pro Battery comparison // It doesn't look good for the 15 Pro
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Battery life feels better than my previous 13 Pro so nothing to complain about here. I can understand someone being disappointed if they upgraded from the 14 Pro though.
I switched too from the 13P. We will see. But my 13P battery was really bad the last couple of months with 90% health. Had to charge it during lunch to make it through the day. I also find it looses too much during standby. It's currently next to me with Wifi on but Airplane mode enabled. In 8h battery went from 100 to 90% with literally 0 min usage.
What is amazing is how many people actually watch these clickbait UTube videos. I guess it is cheaper than Netflix for entertainment, but personally the sensationalizing and the generally non-existent science offend me.
I mean, a 4% drop in 45 minutes of actual use equates to like 18+ hrs SOT. Lol.
Yeah, that's perfectly normal. The overall disappointment with the 15 Pro battery is understandable, but I also think some people just want to find problems.
I’ve been an iPhone user since the 6 and owned every model except the X
I’ve never been able to have a phone screen on for 45 minutes without the battery percentage dropping. A typical drop for me while surfing on WiFi has been around 1% every 7-10 minutes. That’s with the screen brightness around 20%
Nothing to fix when it's a TSMC N3 limitation. Apple went with a 10% clock increase and 3B more transistors. You can't have power efficiency and more performance.
Well, the thing is when I did the same activity for 45 minutes as well on my regular 15 to compare, the battery percentage stayed at 73% and did not drop. So the discrepancy threw me off. I know the regular 15 has a bigger battery but it’s crazy to me how fast the 15 Pro is draining relative to the 15.
15 Pro Max did better than 14PM and 13PM..
Shouldn't the 15 Pro also do better than 14P and 13P? Disappointing that they were not in this test
Shouldn't the 15 Pro also do better than 14P and 13P? Disappointing that they were not in this test
That's because he's testing using old 14 and 13 phones, not fresh ones off the shelf. You can only trust the 15 results.
Which means nothing. My old launch day iPhone 14 Pro Max is sitting at 100% right now.
iOS battery capacity is notoriously inaccurate. There are plenty of YouTube videos comparing phones with same % but wildly different runtimes.
I believe this. Cause iOS devices are the only devices that I‘ve experience, stick at 100% even after a good 5 minutes of usage. Which in my opinion doesn’t make any sense.
Battery on the iPhone 15 Pro is fine for me. I don’t live on my phone like most people these days.
The larger screen will also draw more power though.
That would mean that the 14 and 13 would perform even better compared to the 15 if they were new.
All I know is that after two years my 13PM battery wasn’t great. So today, my 15PM was at 100 percent at 7 am and the phone has got me through the day through several long phone calls, internet usage, my daughters birthday party with a lot of photo/videos (eg high camera usage) and a couple of hours of the kids grabbing it to watch YouTube. In other words a fairly high usage day. Battery now at 52 percent. My 13 would be on its knees by now. That seems ok to me.