New iPhone showing "Time since last charge"

Did you restore from backup? That's my thought.

 

check the battery cycles of the iphone. this can tell something

 

well if you have a mac download coconut battery and connect your iphone with mac. run coconut battery.

 

I would not expect it be zero. There is no need for any concern. At some point during manufacturing, it had a full charge, and it spent some time in standby before it was packaged.

 

Some "power on" time is required to verify that the phone actually works after being assembled. Would you prefer more or less QA time?

 

Yes, assuming that was just QA testing cycle.

 

Some will have 0 cycle charge and some will have 1 cycle charge out of the box. Mine always comes with 0 cycle charge out of the box.

 

they have charged it 1 time, presumably for QC.
Where's the problem ?

 

I always check mine upon unboxing.

My experience with 15 brand new iPhones over a 3 year period is about an equal amount of both readings. The first time I saw a one, I was not alarmed but thought I bet it's been through some kind of QC check.

Apple isn't perfect but they've always been very careful.

 

With the apple watch you can see the day they made the watch because there is activity recorded for it. Kind of cool and shows real people somewhere in the world are testing your device.