iPhone Air iPhone Air battery life screenshots thread

[FeliApple]

Share your iPhone Air battery life screenshots!

 

[James6s]

This post did get buried lol

Here are some battery usage screen shots starting on day one of using the Air on Saturday. It’s been improving day on day since first setting it up.

I’ve said before I’m not one who charges to 100% then runs it down into the red to avoid deep discharges and burning through cycles.

I’m pleasantly surprised with how the battery is performing as things settle down.

I’ll do 100% charge this morning and see where the battery is this evening without topping up.

Sunday was a day where I took lots of photos.

Monday was a normal day, phones calls, emails, social media, watching YouTube, a few photos, safari browsing etc

 

[FeliApple]

This post did get buried lol

Here are some battery usage screen shots starting on day one of using the Air on Saturday. It’s been improving day on day since first setting it up.

I’ve said before I’m not one who charges to 100% then runs it down into the red to avoid deep discharges and burning through cycles.

I’m pleasantly surprised with how the battery is performing as things settle down.

I’ll do 100% charge this morning and see where the battery is this evening without topping up.

Sunday was a day where I took lots of photos.

Monday was a normal day, phones calls, emails, social media, watching YouTube, a few photos, safari browsing etc

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Well, I have a significantly different usage pattern, so I find it difficult to judge. So what I did is very simple:

I found how much battery life you got on iOS 18, and I found this post:
Post in thread 'Post your iPhone 16e impressions, pictures, etc!'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mpressions-pictures-etc.2450383/post-33820543

That should give us an idea. There, with the 16e’s total SOT of about 26 hours with very light, efficient use from Apple specs, you were getting about 7 hours of SOT with 55-65% battery used. Let’s take an average of 60%.


That gives you an average of 7 mins per percentage point. Extrapolating: with the 16e you were getting about 12.5 hours of SOT 100-0%.

Now I have a key question before I can compare: there is a massive difference between Monday (8.5 hours with 78% used) and Saturday (5 hours with 73% used). Since iOS 26’s new battery screen is garbage, how should I interpret that?

Did you use it while charging on Monday? Or was Saturday an unusually heavy day?

 

[James6s]

Well, I have a significantly different usage pattern, so I find it difficult to judge. So what I did is very simple:

I found how much battery life you got on iOS 18, and I found this post:
Post in thread 'Post your iPhone 16e impressions, pictures, etc!'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mpressions-pictures-etc.2450383/post-33820543

That should give us an idea. There, with the 16e’s total SOT of about 26 hours with very light, efficient use from Apple specs, you were getting about 7 hours of SOT with 55-65% battery used. Let’s take an average of 60%.


That gives you an average of 7 mins per percentage point. Extrapolating: with the 16e you were getting about 12.5 hours of SOT 100-0%.

Now I have a key question before I can compare: there is a massive difference between Monday (8.5 hours with 78% used) and Saturday (5 hours with 73% used). Since iOS 26’s new battery screen is garbage, how should I interpret that?

Did you use it while charging on Monday? Or was Saturday an unusually heavy day?

Well Saturday was the first day I activated the Air and it was restoring from an iCloud backup, hence the higher battery usage with the 5 hours of screen time which is normal when first setting up a new phone.

I’d possibly take off maybe 50 mins on Monday for some usage while charging. I try not to use it whilst charging too much.

Currently at 83% with 2 hours of screen time (not used while charging this morning) from 100% charge at 7:34am, currently 12:07pm here.