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iPhone Air, 2 weeks, 100%, 8 Cycles.

Impressed with it to be honest. I've quickly learned that screen on time and battery stat apps don't mean squat.

I managed 5 hours of SOT, 100% to 10% between 8am and Midnight the other day but this was a busy day travelling to and around London before work between 5pm and 8pm. I was in and out of 5G areas with the phone on and off constantly messaging, checking maps, email etc as well as hot-spotting my iPad Pro and maybe 2 games of Balatro. I probably took around 100 pictures so it was uploading to iCloud over 5G as well. 5 hours doesn't sound a lot but the phone was doing a lot of background stuff. I would normally have thrown on a magsafe before the evening but I wanted a real world stress test for my blog. At no point did I turn battery saver on.

Conversely the other day I managed a cumulative 10 hours of SOT sat at home playing PSP games on a rainy Sunday via the PPSSPP emulator with the phone back-powering a Backbone controller at the same time. Again, 100%-10% before I threw it on charge.
 
iPhone Air, 2 weeks, 100%, 8 Cycles.

Impressed with it to be honest. I've quickly learned that screen on time and battery stat apps don't mean squat.

I managed 5 hours of SOT, 100% to 10% between 8am and Midnight the other day but this was a busy day travelling to and around London before work between 5pm and 8pm. I was in and out of 5G areas with the phone on and off constantly messaging, checking maps, email etc as well as hot-spotting my iPad Pro and maybe 2 games of Balatro. I probably took around 100 pictures so it was uploading to iCloud over 5G as well. 5 hours doesn't sound a lot but the phone was doing a lot of background stuff. I would normally have thrown on a magsafe before the evening but I wanted a real world stress test for my blog. At no point did I turn battery saver on.

Conversely the other day I managed a cumulative 10 hours of SOT sat at home playing PSP games on a rainy Sunday via the PPSSPP emulator with the phone back-powering a Backbone controller at the same time. Again, 100%-10% before I threw it on charge.
I agree. I’m starting to think some of the battery stats are off and don’t reflect anything. The graphs are confusing. And I don’t want the last 24 hours. I want since last taken off a charger.
 
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