iPhone 11 Pro How is the 11 Pro Max battery life?

[HEK]

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.

Smiles..... sounds like a worthwhile project. Which book you thinking of.

I strongly concur with your analysis. I would further add there a quite a few settings that result in tremendous gains in battery charge duration.

Many of these are buried deep in settings like analytics, traffic reporting, and such. These tend to keep the radio chip sending and receiving constantly. There are many articles listing what to consider turning off.

Also using an ad limiter in Safari really cuts down on downloading/uploading the phone does when browsing. Upwards of 80% data can be cut out that you don’t realize is being used.

apps like Facebook also are huge consumers of radio reporting constantly. Some apps like weather apps also report your location constantly. Have mine turned to never or only when running regarding location. Also why do games need your location data, think about it.

There is a lot you can do to extend battery charge, just do a bit of research.

 

[Jordan921]

Every new device needs clean install
change location settings and only leave find my iphone on
turn off background app refresh
turn off siri and the search
set to auto brightness
turn off vibrate in the accessibilities
turn off auto updates for apps, music, books and for system
set auto lock to 30 sec
set wallpaper to complete black
turn on dark mode
turn frequent notifications for specific apps to no lock screen on arrival
turn off significant locations
turn off maps and routing
turn off share analytics
turn off share my location
turn off backup to icloud

Have never ever had to do this. always restore from backup and good to go never had any problems.

 

[Pipper99]

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.

Yeah, there's a lot of variation between people's experience, their settings and usage. Without any alteration of my typical usage or settings, and that I restored from backup rather than set up as new, I'm impressed that the phone lasted quite a bit longer than did my XS Max. I usually burn through my battery because I keep my brightness so high, so the Pro Max was much better than I'm used to seeing. I really wasn't expecting much on my first day due to the indexing/background stuff, and the fact that I was probably using it a lot just because it's new. I'll see how it holds up through a typical work week.

 

[JulianL]

Smiles..... sounds like a worthwhile project. Which book you thinking of.
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With 40 hours of reading I think it's going to have to be Tolstoy's "War and Peace" just for sheer length

 

[PBz]

Battery life update..
Been off charger for over 8 hours. 4:45 of on-screen usage. Photos downloading from iCloud (well, it’s trying anyway) and I am at 70% remaining. I have been on this thing all morning for work, personal, email, this site.. heavy usage.. and at 70%. Pretty good IYAM.

 

[craigio85]

Mine is going great so far. It’s been off charge since 6:15 this morning. 3 hours 14 minutes screen time, a three hour drive streaming music in the car all the way, a half hour phone call to my home insurance people and a ten minute FaceTime video call and I’m still on 64%.

It’ll be interesting to see how it fares next week when I’m back at work. Recently moved to an office in a new location that has quite poor 4G coverage and my XS was really suffering from idle battery drain due to this.

 

[Smartwatchlover]

I bought my Pro Max on Sep 28th and charged only once since then.

Battery life is unbelievable and if you are not using the phone for gaming or other CPU intense activities, you can easily recharge the phone every two days.

Amazing!

 

[malikkamran1]

I bought my Pro Max on Sep 28th and charged only once since then.

Battery life is unbelievable and if you are not using the phone for gaming or other CPU intense activities, you can easily recharge the phone every two days.

Amazing!

This has been the case from first iPhone if not use intensively can last a day but have no idea when iPhone will be able to last day with heavy usage like recording 4k playing fortnight

 

[The Game 161]

I bought my Pro Max on Sep 28th and charged only once since then.

Battery life is unbelievable and if you are not using the phone for gaming or other CPU intense activities, you can easily recharge the phone every two days.

Amazing!

I charge every night no matter what it’s at but i could properly do the same...just insane the battery on this.

 

[dragon4ever]

I took the phone off the charger on Saturday at 5:30AM and I haven’t charged it since then. Currently I have 60% battery left with about 5 hours of screen on time.

 

[tonybarnaby]

Last Saturday, the first full day I had the phone, it was off charger around 17 hours. During that time it was around 12 hours of screen time, along with a few thousand photos taken, social media, phone calls, text messages, etc. I think intended the day with about 40% battery left. So yes, battery life is phenomenal.

However, this IS a brand new phone. Let’s see how long that lasts.

How is it possible to use a phone 12 hours in one day? That's literally most of your waking hours?

 

[Lee_Bo]

How is it possible to use a phone 12 hours in one day? That's literally most of your waking hours?

I’m a photographer. See my line about a few thousand photos taken? That’s not an exaggeration. When I’m at a location I have the screen set to never turn off unless I press the side button. So yes, the screen was on some 12-ish hours.

 

[Coffee_Time]

Hello!
Seeing some weird crazy astronomical numbers here. We all are lying, but the biggest lies I have seen were in this thread and on Note 10+xda forums. They also claim 15,18,19 hours of screen on time with moderate usage.
I'll never believe that! Looking closely I found some weird fluctuations in battery screenshots as if they were put to the charger. The discharge should be linear decreasing!
What would be the real SOT with an average usage like 3-4 hours YouTube, 2-3 surfing and half an hour camera + other usage?
P. S. I'm on snapdragon 855 lg v50 with 4000mah battery and I average 10+hours, maximum 11. Maximum! And moderate usage.
4-5 hours YouTube vanced and 2-3 hours opera browser, 2hoyrs Tidal over Bluetooth LDAC, 30 min camera, vids and pics, 1 hour Facebook and the rest other apps.
Idk why but YouTube app helps alot my SOT.
Brightness let's say 30-60 min full, 2 hours at 50-60%, 4-5 hours at 10-20% and the rest 0-10%. No gaming. Small 4k 60fps clips, like 10 - 15 mins total, the rest are pics.
We all lie in life, but 20+ hours SOT and still having 20% or 19 hours on note 10 + forums are the biggest lies I have seen recently.
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Here are some shots, tomorrow I'll update when I get to 15%...

 

[malikkamran1]

My note 9 easily gets 8 hours screen on time so note 10 plus must last longer

 

[Coffee_Time]

My note 9 easily gets 8 hours screen on time so note 10 plus must last longer

19 hours like they lie on other forums??? 🙄😏🥴🤓🙈

 

[malikkamran1]

19 hours like they lie on other forums??? 🙄😏🥴🤓🙈

No not 19 hours they are lying for sure

 

[Chrisblond007]

My Note 10+ battery life is like half of what I get on my 11 Pro Max.

 

[Jetcat3]

“We concluded our battery test on the iPhone 11 Pro Max and it simply aced it. The Max can do about 21 hours of 3G calls, 15 hours of web browsing on a single charge, or you can watch videos for about 19 and a half hours. Adding the frugal standby to the mix returned an outstanding battery endurance rating and the first to cross the 100h mark in our test.” -GSMArena.

All of the reviews so far with regards to battery life have been very impressive. But that’s to be expected with an almost 4,000 mAh battery in an iPhone!

 

[HEK]

Hello!
Seeing some weird crazy astronomical numbers here. We all are lying, but the biggest lies I have seen were in this thread and on Note 10+xda forums. They also claim 15,18,19 hours of screen on time with moderate usage.
I'll never believe that! Looking closely I found some weird fluctuations in battery screenshots as if they were put to the charger. The discharge should be linear decreasing!
What would be the real SOT with an average usage like 3-4 hours YouTube, 2-3 surfing and half an hour camera + other usage?
P. S. I'm on snapdragon 855 lg v50 with 4000mah battery and I average 10+hours, maximum 11. Maximum! And moderate usage.
4-5 hours YouTube vanced and 2-3 hours opera browser, 2hoyrs Tidal over Bluetooth LDAC, 30 min camera, vids and pics, 1 hour Facebook and the rest other apps.
Idk why but YouTube app helps alot my SOT.
Brightness let's say 30-60 min full, 2 hours at 50-60%, 4-5 hours at 10-20% and the rest 0-10%. No gaming. Small 4k 60fps clips, like 10 - 15 mins total, the rest are pics.
We all lie in life, but 20+ hours SOT and still having 20% or 19 hours on note 10 + forums are the biggest lies I have seen recently.
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Here are some shots, tomorrow I'll update when I get to 15%...

 

[tonybarnaby]

And to think a few years ago people thought the 7+ battery life was epic

 

[Nisaja]

Hello!
Seeing some weird crazy astronomical numbers here. We all are lying, but the biggest lies I have seen were in this thread and on Note 10+xda forums. They also claim 15,18,19 hours of screen on time with moderate usage.
I'll never believe that! Looking closely I found some weird fluctuations in battery screenshots as if they were put to the charger. The discharge should be linear decreasing!
What would be the real SOT with an average usage like 3-4 hours YouTube, 2-3 surfing and half an hour camera + other usage?
P. S. I'm on snapdragon 855 lg v50 with 4000mah battery and I average 10+hours, maximum 11. Maximum! And moderate usage.
4-5 hours YouTube vanced and 2-3 hours opera browser, 2hoyrs Tidal over Bluetooth LDAC, 30 min camera, vids and pics, 1 hour Facebook and the rest other apps.
Idk why but YouTube app helps alot my SOT.
Brightness let's say 30-60 min full, 2 hours at 50-60%, 4-5 hours at 10-20% and the rest 0-10%. No gaming. Small 4k 60fps clips, like 10 - 15 mins total, the rest are pics.
We all lie in life, but 20+ hours SOT and still having 20% or 19 hours on note 10 + forums are the biggest lies I have seen recently.

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Here are some shots, tomorrow I'll update when I get to 15%...

It's not uncommon. I had a Samsung Galaxy M20. It's a mid range phone with a 5000mah battery. 5000! I wanted to kill it, so I kept using it all day. I got 16 hours and 40 mins of screen on time. It still had like 5% remaining. Ridiculous! It was around 3 AM so I gave up and went to bed lol.

 

[m0sher]

🤯

Heh I love it, we won’t be seeing any of those annoying news articles that read “Best battery life in a phone you “can’t “ have in the US”.

I was very surprised Max dethrone a Samsung Note 10+ in battery life too.

 

[mavis]

I'm at 63% on my iPhone 11 Pro Max, with screen time reporting 3h10m and it's been off the charger for about six hours.

Maybe setting it up as new would help. I restored it from a backup that dates back to my iPhone 7 Plus, if not the 6s Plus I had before that ... of course it's much better than my X was, but nowhere near 11-12 hours ...

 

[donth8]

I'm at 63% on my iPhone 11 Pro Max, with screen time reporting 3h10m and it's been off the charger for about six hours.

Maybe setting it up as new would help. I restored it from a backup that dates back to my iPhone 7 Plus, if not the 6s Plus I had before that ... of course it's much better than my X was, but nowhere near 11-12 hours ...

I had bad battery life and figured out both the health app and the reminders apps were draining my battery. Once I launched them both for the first time they finished their setup and my battery has been exceptional! 84% left and I unplugged 14 hours ago.

 

[mavis]

I had bad battery life and figured out both the health app and the reminders apps were draining my battery. Once I launched them both for the first time they finished their setup and my battery has been exceptional! 84% left and I unplugged 14 hours ago.

I wish that worked for me. I've had both of those apps open as recently as this morning. Lol