Each night I go to bed and put it on charger with at least 40-50% left. Nuts really
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iPhone 11 Pro How is the 11 Pro Max battery life?
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I'm the same. I always set up from new. Apart from downloaded apps the only actual data that lives on my phone is my entire music collection but that's just a matter of plugging the phone into iTunes on my PC, hitting sync and going to get a cup of coffee while it finishes. I have about 3,000 tracks and it takes about 10 minutes I suppose. All the other data is simply a matter of logging onto the appropriate online accounts for the various other apps to get access to their data.
For downloading third-party apps and setting up the home screen as I like it I really don't mind that it takes me a few hours of me being glued to the phone to do that. By definition I'm glued to a phone that I've just bought and is new and exciting to me so it gives me a good excuse to see how it feels in my hand, see how many percent of the battery I shed over the hours that I'm setting it up to get an idea of battery life, get a feel of how responsive it is, and just generally bond with the phone. I also use it as an opportunity to take a cold hard look at what apps I had installed on the old phone and decide if I really need all of them on the new one. Sometimes I also have a scout around the app store to see if some better apps have been released that might replace what I was using before e.g. a better solitaire app or currency converter or whatever.
There may be a better way but note your last charge time and you can touch each vertical bar of usage to see on-screen time for that hour. Add them up.
Yes, but in the battery section the usage with screen on and off metrics seem a bit confusing for some. Thats why I suggested using screen time which simply means active screen on time by user. I mostly get through a day on single charge or try to. So the usage times from screen time are easier personally to get a measure of battery life.
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31% remainingI want to see that as well!
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How is that even possible? That's ridiculous battery life! Did you leave it on low brightness all night?
22% now and time to charge. Screen been on 25 hours. Low but usable.Wait, hold up. WHAT? What the heck is that!How is that even possible? That's ridiculous battery life! Did you leave it on low brightness all night?
Yeah you’ve obviously had it on really low brightness and left it on home screen for hours on end. Not really representative of real use
More like 15-17 hours max for most people which is still amazing
More like 15-17 hours max for most people which is still amazing
The battery life on this Pro Max is insane.
This is the first time I’ve felt comfortable playing Podcasts from phone to my Bose wireless headphones on a flight. I normally will do it from my iPad to make sure the iPhone still has good battery life when I land. (No I don’t plug into the seat charger). I had really wanted to listen to a couple of episodes that downloaded to my Pro Max, but I forgot to add to the iPP. The drain was minimal. I’ll have to get stats next time around.
I’m also not so concerned with running navigation (Google Maps) without having the USB charging cable connected.
This is the first time I’ve felt comfortable playing Podcasts from phone to my Bose wireless headphones on a flight. I normally will do it from my iPad to make sure the iPhone still has good battery life when I land. (No I don’t plug into the seat charger). I had really wanted to listen to a couple of episodes that downloaded to my Pro Max, but I forgot to add to the iPP. The drain was minimal. I’ll have to get stats next time around.
I’m also not so concerned with running navigation (Google Maps) without having the USB charging cable connected.
I wanted to see what the max conditions would allow. Did same with other iPhones before as well. Set so screen does not go off automatically. Reduce to minimum usable level. Use phone as a phone/ message/ email/ and internet browser not gaming machine.
To get 24 hours of on screen use, and still have 21% battery life remaining is fantastic. Many things like analytics, motion, transparency, most app notifications are turned off. I try to minimize use of apps that spy on my every move and broadcast constantly to their masters where I am and what I do. Pro screen using dark mode and all black background is vast energy saver over LCD screens. Reading white print on black background looks to be using 1/10 the pixels drawing current.
if I do play a processor intensive game at maximum luminosity I realize I need to be plugged in or have a huge charging brick with me.
I would say that testing battery life under these conditions goes a long way towards duplicating conditions from previous phone tests I have attempted. The XS Max would do about 14-16 hours running down to 3%. So definitely a large improvement.
One other thing to note, I have not set up from new since my 4S. iCloud backup going to 5S, 6S, 7, 7S, 8, X Max, XS Max and now 11 Pro Max. Same over air upgrade on all IOS versions. I do close out everything, reboot, save to cloud before doing all installs and phone updates. Always bought AppleCare+ and never used it. By now could have funded self insurance. But who knew.
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So basically you didn’t even remotely simulate real world use, got it.
I simulated my real world use. As I typically have screen set to stay on always at lower brightness. Perhaps not your real world use. The tests I have seen comparing phone are far from real world use as well, screens are set to 100% brightness. Probably to shorten test time. One thing for sure, the impossible times some have suggested are certainly possible.
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It looks like your screen is always on even during hours when you would be sleeping. Kind of bizarre to say this test simulates your real-world usage but to each their own.
I just think your initial post of saying you got an insane amount of battery life without context attached to it is strange. I mean yeah, now it makes sense, but it's also not how anyone else will even remotely use their phone.
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I ran the TEST this way because that is same conditions I ran test on my XS Max and X Max as well as previous phones.
in addition, I drive for a living and keep my screen on all the time due to app my company has me use. So for my use case it’s far from bizarre. Actually more real world for me than having it turn off.
In past the screen seemed to be the biggest consumer of battery power. The Pro OLED screens seem to have greatly mitigated that drain as only lit pixels use power, not the whole panel.
I will run more trials allowing the screen to sleep since this seems to be of major concern to you. More later, enjoy the improved battery and lower power consumption on your phone.
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As far as I'm aware you can't. Total screen-on time is either only for the last 24 hours or, if you select a multi-day view, it shows you the average-per-day across those days. If you don't charge your phone each day and you want to look at total screen-on time for a few days (i.e. since you last charged) you have to go into the multi-day view bar graph and tap the blue screen-time bars for each day and add them up yourself.
I really miss the days when the battery section had a couple of simple totals - screen-on time since last charge and total-time since last charge where it didn't matter whether the last charge was 5 hours or 5 days ago. I'm mostly a fairly light user so I don't always charge my phone every day.
I am of same mind. The old style total screen time since last charge made for easier comparisons.
To my way of thinking screen brightness is still the biggest power consumer. When doing 4K videos, gaming high end games at full brightness. The common denominator seems to be screen at 100% brightness.
I saw report of possible micro LED use in future iPhone. From what I have read this type of screen uses even less power. Good news is use time seems to be trending to longer.
I took my Pro Max off of the charger yesterday morning at 9:30. The battery got down to 20% at 8:25 this morning, 23 hours later. I had restored from my XS Max iCloud backup. I did not change the way that I use my iPhone. I don't use Dark Mode, and I keep my screen brightness between 75-100%, usually closer to 100%. My XS Max would have hit 20% by 5 pm. I thought that the battery life would have been less than stellar due to background indexing the first day.
I streamed music, radio, and podcasts, read various articles, streamed some YouTube videos. For my typical usage, I would expect to have to put my XS Max on the charger by mid to late afternoon to get me into the evening. I don't push or fetch email, but I do like my screen bright. I was on cellular for the bulk of my usage.
I don't expect this kind of longevity every day, but I'm impressed.
I streamed music, radio, and podcasts, read various articles, streamed some YouTube videos. For my typical usage, I would expect to have to put my XS Max on the charger by mid to late afternoon to get me into the evening. I don't push or fetch email, but I do like my screen bright. I was on cellular for the bulk of my usage.
I don't expect this kind of longevity every day, but I'm impressed.
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We've already had to be careful comparing different people's experiences - sometimes people didn't even bother to specify whether it was the smaller or the Plus/Max model they had when quoting numbers! Now it's got even more complicated so kudos to you for remembering to mention screen settings. With dark mode now that probably makes a huge difference depending on usage patterns and whether the apps someone uses most often also support dark mode. For instance I do use dark mode all the time, screen at about 50% (with auto-brightness enabled) and when reading a Kindle eBook with white text on black background I drop about 1% battery per half hour of reading in my 11 Pro Max and that's with screen constantly on (obviously!).
Usage patterns and settings make such a huge difference. I suspect that if I was willing to abandon most of a working week to reading I might even be able to post numbers showing my 11 Pro Max coming off the charger at 8:00am on a Monday morning (for instance), clocking up 40 hours of screen-on-time, and still having 5% charge left at the end of Thursday evening (that's based on 10 hours per day of eBook reading on Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu giving 20% drain per day plus my 11 Pro Max seems to lose 4 - 5% overnight so adding another 15% drain for not seeing the charger on Mon, Tue or Wed nights for a total 4-day drain of 95%). Sitting on a sofa at home reading would also keep all background network activity on more power-efficient WiFi rather than mobile data and not having the phone moving between cellphone masts also reduces battery consumption quite dramatically I find. A day of not really using my phone with it sitting on my desk next to me drains way less battery than it being in my pocket as I travel around London all day for instance.
I'm almost tempted to write off 4 days to see if I could get to those numbers in real life.