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iPhone 15 Pro Battery comparison // It doesn't look good for the 15 Pro

I’m really very happy with the battery on my 13 pro after two years at 87%.. as long as the 15 pro can compete with that or be slightly better I’ll be super happy. The 13 pro never let me down.. what sucks is that in none of the tests online the 15 pro was compared to a 13pro. Is anybody here who can say if the 15p is worse than their old 13p?
I’m constantly tempted to cancel my order and go for the 15pm this time around…
 
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chfilm said:
I’m really very happy with the battery on my 13 pro after two years at 87%.. as long as the 15 pro can compete with that or be slightly better I’ll be super happy. The 13 pro never let me down.. what sucks is that in none of the tests online the 15 pro was compared to a 13pro. Is anybody here who can say if the 15p is worse than their old 13p?
I’m constantly tempted to cancel my order and go for the 15pm this time around…
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Well I had a 13P before and looking back at my old battery screens it appears that both are about the same. It also looks like the 15 Pro is better than the 14 Pro. I heard already multiple youtubers and "normal" people saying that.

The last months I had to charge the 13 P twice (90% health)
 
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I want to trade my 15 pro in for the max but the shipping date is 27th -oct 16th so the time window is large to go without a phone for me unless it got to me before the 1st (Verizon shipping dates )
 
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I want to trade my 15 pro in for the max but the shipping date is 27th -oct 16th so the time window is large to go without a phone for me unless it got to me before the 1st (Verizon shipping dates )
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Is the battery the main reason? And was size the main reason you went w the pro originally?
 
15 plus is what I’m going to get, had everything I need and the best battery
 
Doesn't look good for the 15Pro? This compares it to Pluses and Pro Maxes mostly...ok, yeah, it won't be as good - expected result. The difference between 15 Pro and 15 regular is 6% - that's not a big deal either.

Look at the 13PM/14PM vs 15PM - almost no difference. Why isn't anybody tweaked out about that?
 
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tekksan said:
Doesn't look good for the 15Pro? This compares it to Pluses and Pro Maxes mostly...ok, yeah, it won't be as good - expected result. The difference between 15 Pro and 15 regular is 6% - that's not a big deal either.

Look at the 13PM/14PM vs 15PM - almost no difference. Why isn't anybody tweaked out about that?
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Difference between 15 and 15P is 6% less for the 15P right?
Well... it's kind of a big deal cause the Pro should give you more battery, that's part of what you pay for.
I guess the disappointment also comes from the fact that the new cheap was supposed to be more efficient, but it's not the case at all.

I have my iPhone 12 mini and was looking forward to upgrading this year with a significant jump in terms of autonomy, it looks like apple is keeping this as a "new feature" and selling point for next year though...
 
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Difference between 15 and 15P is 6% less for the 15P right?
Well... it's kind of a big deal cause the Pro should give you more battery, that's part of what you pay for.
I guess the disappointment also comes from the fact that the new cheap was supposed to be more efficient, but it's not the case at all.

I have my iPhone 12 mini and was looking forward to upgrading this year with a significant jump in terms of autonomy, it looks like apple is keeping this as a "new feature" and selling point for next year though...
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15 Pro has a smaller battery though, as well as 120hz display… so 6% less is actually pretty decent.
 
From what I've seen with benchmark/power analysis of the A17 Pro chip, the TSMC 3nm process is not an improvement over the 5nm as far as power leakage is concerned (but does improve transistor density). What that means is if you were to run the A15/A16 Bionic and A17 Pro at the same frequency, they would roughly consume the same amount of power, with the A17 Pro completing slightly more work because it can do more things in a single cycle.

But Apple has also decided to increase the frequency, which hurts the power consumption more than it can improve performance. This is what led to the poorer battery life showing.

Frequency can be controlled in software, so Apple can issue an update to limit the peak frequency of the chips, and have roughly the same battery life as the last generation. But the performance gains will be ~5% rather than the 20% they've been claiming.
 
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A lot of these battery tests do not control for variables, such as the OS doing optimization after its initial setup. You would have to conduct many cycles of testing and discard any result that are outliers then take the average between a few samples.
 
It is a new device, lots of stuff going on in the background if you are in your first day or two. We also don’t really have the first patch on these phones yet which often fixes some of the premature drain issues.

This is effectively the 2023 version of an annual thread.
 
So „light“ day for me. 3h SOT = 52% battery left. +1h music/podcast via AirPods

From 6 am to 8:20 pm.

Like I said if you use the phone continuously you would get way more SOT. I think I had 1h SOT from 6 am to 4 pm, which brought phone down to 82% or so.
 
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Can’t believe that. Can you send your battery stats?
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My 'battery stats'? For my pacemaker...?

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This is what you said: "Here is a battery test by Mrwhosetheboss.

Spoiler: It (sadly) doesn't look good for the 15 Pro. I switched from the 13 Pro to the 15 Pro and hoped it would last longer."

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Oh, BTW, had a 30 min FaceTime, more other stuff, and now my battery is now 49%.

I really do not care if you believe it or not, it is true.
 
Again 2h (background) usage during sleep from Photos/iMessage. Taking really long.
 
I set the iPhone 15 pro max as new and got 12 hours battery life
After restoring to factory status and using Quick Start with my iPhone 14 I’m getting 10 hours hopefully this works itself through
And calibrating it can’t hurt
Report back in a week……fingers crossed
 
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I don’t know, but I’m getting quite good battery life. It’s currently TUESDAY at 06:00 PST, the last time I charged the phone to 100% was FRIDAY at 13:48 PST. Thats about 85 HOURS ago. Total use overall is ~ 5.5 hours, mostly screen time, safari, youtube, messages, health, activities, trading apps, finance apps, 30 minute phone call, LOTS of trading notifications, messages, alerts. One 15 minute zoom call.

At night, I put the phone in airplane mode, so no cellular when it’s next to my bed, but WIFI is on and it’s in a SLEEP focus. That’s about 8.5 hours of each night, so FOUR nights of 8.5 hours without cellular enabled.

Overall, seems to be working out quite well
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15 PRO ?
 
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15 pro max… is this the wrong thread?
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that's what i thought . oh and i didnt mean to write PRO in caps lol

but yeah wrong thread, we here are 15p owners worried about the pro whose battery is less than ideal. pro max on the other hand scored better than its last year counterparts so nothing to wrorry bout there
 
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