As usual another news article designed to piss off the Apple faithful who bought the iPhone 12. These tests are stupid because they can't produce real life results based on a person's usage or the types of apps they use. The app people may use the most may require very little resources so therefore there may not be any difference in battery life. And for anyone thinking I bought the iPhone 12 and I'm trying to disregard this article, NO. I have an iPhone 11 that I am perfectly satisfied with. I just know that battery tests from an older model to a newer model can't give real world results unless we are ALL using the same apps and use our iPhones the same way.
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iPhone 11 Pro Outlasts iPhone 12 and 12 Pro in Extensive Battery Life Test
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literally this, as someone with an 11 Pro. They knocked it out of the park with battery life last year and I always wondered if it would still hold up with the 12. i think you safely know when the most attractive thing to you about the 12 Pro is Pacific Blue, then you’re all good with holding off upgrading this year
There were articles on Apple going cost conscious(basically going cheap) on iPhone 12 batteries to offset 5G Modem cost.....may be 11 Pro series have better battery setup after all......
As always. Software will be optimized with apps and iOS as more people begin to use the phones and companies can find ways to improve the power. It’ll be fine 
Well, that’s good news for my 11 Pro. Should be worth more on the 2nd hand market when I come to sell it 👍
Higher resolution, OLED, cheaper & smaller battery you can imagine the result...
A bit of a red-herring, because the iphone 12 pro max is not available for testing yet. Hopefully it will be close to the 11 pro max in terms of battery life.
Why not just leave it plugged in all day?This sucks. I'm already having to extra charge the 11 pro during the day. Now it seems I'll have to do it longer/more often.
Thx fruit.
There is more difference thank you think. Now if you don’t care for them, than that’s a different thing. But there are lots differences starting from externally and internally.
So, Apple increased the display size for the 12 Pro, the pixel density for the 12, added 5G to both, and decreased the battery capacity. Brilliant. I thought they had learned their lesson after the rave reviews of the 11 series.
And no, you don't need to increase physical size or weight to increase battery capacity. Check out the Pixel 5. Nearly doubled the battery capacity of the Pixel 4 while reducing the volume of the physical device.
And no, you don't need to increase physical size or weight to increase battery capacity. Check out the Pixel 5. Nearly doubled the battery capacity of the Pixel 4 while reducing the volume of the physical device.
Sure, but the phone won't be stupid enough to enable 5G just to log into a cellular network for emergency calls.
Keep in mind that this test doesn't necessarily match everyone's use case. I've seen other tests where the 11 outperforms the 11 Pro on battery life (the OLED screen can be either more or less efficient than the LCD panel depending on what you are doing with it). Either way the battery life of my 11 has been amazing currently exceeds my needs, so if the 12 is in the same ballpark I'm sure it will be fine for my needs.It seems that 12 have better battery life than 11? I was quite happy with battery life on my 11 so I guess I'm okay with these results
Do you suggest there are components in the iPhone 12 that Apple could have easily made smaller and/or lighter (and thus create room and weight savings for a larger battery)?
Of course, Apple could stop using steel (or even aluminium) and glass (on the back). But they decided that both make the phone look and feel better/higher-end. Is that what you want? A polycarbonate iPhone?
Not really. Apple did dare to make the Pro models a little thicker last year and as a result you still have the champs in battery life because as a result they were able to put a larger battery in the phone.
Apple Didnt develop anything with the iPhone 12. A used case like iPhone 5s and a used battery from the iPhone 11.
And still no usb-c... what a crap release.
And still no usb-c... what a crap release.
Doubtful since the 11 Pro Max has 3969 mAh and the new iPhone 12 Pro Max "only" 3687 mAh.
i've had my iPhone 11 since release day and we have the exact same battery health percentage.
Still would like to see the various tests and testing scenarios.
The 12 also has ~100 more mAh over the X (and 200 over the XS, only one it has less than is the 11 pro)