No i dont see the point. I have a battery pack that weighs 3.5 ounces that plugs directly into a phone that provides one full charge effectively doubling battery life. The rational to use a gimped phone because of battery life concerns with modern software when micro-battery solutions exist is foreign to me. It feels like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Sure I carry a big battery around with me. I don’t need to plug into the wall for 5 days if I drained my battery solution.
An iPhone SE on iOS 15 would be LONG dead with this usage. Nothing else to say. Full 5G, high brightness, a little camera, maps.
LTE if you like…
The iPhone 13 is probably new enough to experience the extent of the degradation to which Apple has repeatedly subjected its devices. Give it a couple more years.
Well you upgraded from an XR, didn’t you? Your phone lasted you 6.5 years if you purchased it new. My 13 is technically 3.5 years old now and should easily last another 3 years taking it to iOS 21. I will likely upgrade prior to then anyway so the last year won’t really affect me. I don’t think it’ll be a horrible performer considering that my iPhone 8 runs iOS 16 admirably and the larger battery capacity will provide additional longevity in terms of battery life. I will let you know come the time however I reckon the 13 will be very usable as a daily driver in 2027/28.
Yeah, perhaps. I’ll have a more definitive assessment of Apple’s current iOS degradation standards if/when I can try an iPhone 11 on iOS 18.
What is light efficient use? Is it playing YouTube videos in the sun in a bad lte signal? Or browsing Macrumors on safari for 10 hours straight on WiFi in a dark room?
If the battery health is 95%+, I reckon you’ll see 6.5-7 hours SoT on LTE which is enough for most people.
Battery health is 80% and will not be replaced. My 6s on iOS 10 was at 60% so it better be good anyway…
Unlucky. I’ll hold it to the same standard I hold my 6s on iOS 10 and my Xʀ on iOS 12.
I’ll compare it to what I’d expect on my iPhone Xʀ on iOS 12, since it’s the closest equivalent. The tests I’ve ran on iOS 14 indicate that the iPhone 11 on iOS 13-14 has exactly the same battery life as my Xʀ on iOS 12. Those are my baseline expectations.
Well it might be usable as a secondary device. No one with a brain, however, would use an 11 on iOS 18 which has 80% battery life as a daily driver unless they want to carry around with them a battery bank. An iPhone 11 on iOS 18 with a fresh OEM battery would last all day with no issues for 99% of non-power users.
If I can get 70% of iOS 13/14 I’ll accept it.
It’ll never be completely solved as newer iOS versions require more processing power, as you know. A new OEM battery, however, would make either the XR or 11 usable on iOS 18. That’s insane longevity for these phones as they’re very dated devices. I am happy that Apple support their devices for as long as they do, unlike Samsung, Google or other Android manufacturers.
Yeah, I know it’ll never be completely solved. I was thinking that perhaps the original battery life could be so ridiculously good that regardless of iOS obliteration and battery health degradation, an iPhone could have a full day battery life with a moderately heavy use (which was first achieved in an original iOS version by… the 6 Plus on iOS 8!) even fully updated and with a degraded battery.
Agree. Apple does a pretty darn good job, especially lately, with battery life. Years of support so even for those who want to replace a bad battery on an older phone can do so and still have a very usable phone. Try that on Android.
