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

I don’t know what to think really. I’m a very (very) light user, but the numbers shared here don’t amaze me at all. Many 8-10 hours of on-screen usage. I want to ask whether I’m mistaken, let me explain.

I’m a very light user, on Wi-Fi, low brightness, and web browsing, my Xʀ gets me 14 hours of on-screen. I haven’t had the chance to use it with a heavier usage (hence why I’m asking), but my 7+ on iOS 10 didn’t seem to drop significantly when turning up the brightness and using it a little more heavily. It went from 12 hours to maybe a little under 10.

I know that usage is everything, and the lightest usage you can have is reading iBooks. My 9.7 iPad Pro on iOS 9 gave me 12-13 hours on-screen but it went up to an incredible 22! hours of on-screen while using iBooks. I don’t use that on my phone, and it was a one-time test on my iPad. My phone usage isn’t that light, it was an example of how differences in usage can impact the numbers.

After Apple’s incredible stats, I guess I expected more. Is the battery life of the new devices better than the Xʀ, or is it similar? If the numbers shared here were 12 hours of heavier LTE, high-brightness use, that would be amazing, but it doesn’t seem like it. Seems more like 8-10, what I was getting with my 7+ on iOS 10. Considering my xr is better than that, I don’t know what to think.
Am I overestimating the Xʀ’s Battery life with heavier use? Or is it really not that much better?
 
FeliApple said:
I don’t know what to think really. I’m a very (very) light user, but the numbers shared here don’t amaze me at all. Many 8-10 hours of on-screen usage. I want to ask whether I’m mistaken, let me explain.

I’m a very light user, on Wi-Fi, low brightness, and web browsing, my Xʀ gets me 14 hours of on-screen. I haven’t had the chance to use it with a heavier usage (hence why I’m asking), but my 7+ on iOS 10 didn’t seem to drop significantly when turning up the brightness and using it a little more heavily. It went from 12 hours to maybe a little under 10.

I know that usage is everything, and the lightest usage you can have is reading iBooks. My 9.7 iPad Pro on iOS 9 gave me 12-13 hours on-screen but it went up to an incredible 22! hours of on-screen while using iBooks. I don’t use that on my phone, and it was a one-time test on my iPad. My phone usage isn’t that light, it was an example of how differences in usage can impact the numbers.

After Apple’s incredible stats, I guess I expected more. Is the battery life of the new devices better than the Xʀ, or is it similar? If the numbers shared here were 12 hours of heavier LTE, high-brightness use, that would be amazing, but it doesn’t seem like it. Seems more like 8-10, what I was getting with my 7+ on iOS 10. Considering my xr is better than that, I don’t know what to think.
Am I overestimating the Xʀ’s Battery life with heavier use? Or is it really not that much better?
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Guess coming from an XR you may not notice the difference but from the max I have noticed a big difference.
 
malikkamran1 said:
If iPhone 11 pro max cannot give better battery life doing intensive apps then what improvement
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But it does.

I came from a XS Max and it’s definitely better on battery with intensive apps. Here’s an example:

On Friday, I had almost 3 hours worth of conference calls for work, then played Minecraft with my kids for an hour and a half. Sprinkled in over four hours of web surfing, videos, news and normal tasks gave me over 10 hours of SOT and I barely used 80% of the battery. That was a 17 hour day BTW, as I took the phone off the charger at 7AM and went until after midnight.

My XS Max would have been drained by 8PM with that kind of usage. I killed it multiple times. The only time I could have possibly killed my Pro Max was Thursday. You can see the battery usage was right around 100% (I was having some network issues that I’ve since sorted out). On a normal, heavy-usage day, I’m usually left with about 30% left. That’s huge.

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BeeGood said:
But it does.

I came from a XS Max and it’s definitely better on battery with intensive apps. Here’s an example:

On Friday, I had almost 3 hours worth of conference calls for work, then played Minecraft with my kids for an hour and a half. Sprinkled in over four hours of web surfing, videos, news and normal tasks gave me over 10 hours of SOT and I barely used 80% of the battery. That was a 17 hour day BTW, as I took the phone off the charger at 7AM and went until after midnight.

My XS Max would have been drained by 8PM with that kind of usage. I killed it multiple times. The only time I could have possibly killed my Pro Max was Thursday. You can see the battery usage was right around 100% (I was having some network issues that I’ve since sorted out). On a normal, heavy-usage day, I’m usually left with about 30% left. That’s huge.

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Wow this is insane. 10 hours of on-screen usage with 1.5 hours of Minecraft is great! I don’t think my iPad Pro 9.7 on iOS 9 could get 10 hours with 20% remaining with 1.5 hours of Minecraft.
If I may ask, what was the brightness level whilst playing Minecraft?
 
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FeliApple said:
I don’t know what to think really. I’m a very (very) light user, but the numbers shared here don’t amaze me at all. Many 8-10 hours of on-screen usage. I want to ask whether I’m mistaken, let me explain.

I’m a very light user, on Wi-Fi, low brightness, and web browsing, my Xʀ gets me 14 hours of on-screen. I haven’t had the chance to use it with a heavier usage (hence why I’m asking), but my 7+ on iOS 10 didn’t seem to drop significantly when turning up the brightness and using it a little more heavily. It went from 12 hours to maybe a little under 10.

I know that usage is everything, and the lightest usage you can have is reading iBooks. My 9.7 iPad Pro on iOS 9 gave me 12-13 hours on-screen but it went up to an incredible 22! hours of on-screen while using iBooks. I don’t use that on my phone, and it was a one-time test on my iPad. My phone usage isn’t that light, it was an example of how differences in usage can impact the numbers.

After Apple’s incredible stats, I guess I expected more. Is the battery life of the new devices better than the Xʀ, or is it similar? If the numbers shared here were 12 hours of heavier LTE, high-brightness use, that would be amazing, but it doesn’t seem like it. Seems more like 8-10, what I was getting with my 7+ on iOS 10. Considering my xr is better than that, I don’t know what to think.
Am I overestimating the Xʀ’s Battery life with heavier use? Or is it really not that much better?
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Nobody can tell you what kind of battery life you will get with your usage. All I know is that this beats the battery life of any other phone I’ve had recently. (8 Plus and Note 9)
 
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Strelok said:
Nobody can tell you what kind of battery life you will get with your usage. All I know is that this beats the battery life of any other phone I’ve had recently. (8 Plus and Note 9)
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Yeah my Xʀ is better than my 7+ on iOS 10, not insanely better, but significantly better (25-35%? More or less? Not totally sure, around there). That was definitely an improvement.
The new models don’t seem a lot better than the Xʀ, though.
 
Amazing AF! I can go a whole day at work without charging and I’m at 50 to 60% by the time I go to bed. So a full charge is lasting me about 2 days!!!
 
FeliApple said:
Wow this is insane. 10 hours of on-screen usage with 1.5 hours of Minecraft is great! I don’t think my iPad Pro 9.7 on iOS 9 could get 10 hours with 20% remaining with 1.5 hours of Minecraft.
If I may ask, what was the brightness level whilst playing Minecraft?
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Usually somewhere between halfway up and 3/4 of the way up . That’s a little brighter than what I normally keep it (with auto brightness) on, just so I can see what I’m doing when it gets dark in the game.
 
BeeGood said:
Usually somewhere between halfway up and 3/4 of the way up . That’s a little brighter than what I normally keep it (with auto brightness) on, just so I can see what I’m doing when it gets dark in the game.
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That’s why I asked, the game requires higher brightness. 50-75% brightness using Minecraft for an hour and a half, and you still managed 10 hours of on-screen time with 20% remaining. Impressive. I said every other number didn’t seem amazing to me, this one does. Regarding whether my Xʀ is too far from that, I don’t play on my phone, so I have no idea, but that number, on its own, is amazing. As I said, my iPad Pro 9.7 on iOS 9 (Apple forced me to update it to iOS 12 and battery life was demolished) was nowhere near that.
 
I have the XR, so this is just a comparison/data point. I’m getting >16hrs with my usage (light apps, primarily text consumption/creation, primarily wifi, ~25% or less brightness, unnecessary stuff shut down), which is about as good as my iPad2 was when new - and 7.5 yrs later, I think the iPad2 will still do over 10hrs. (I’m an OCD battery geek and use best charging practices.)

These screenshots overlap of course, so just take the 12pm-8pm usage of ~3hrs from the left screenshot and add it to the 11.5hrs of the right screenshot. That’s 14.5hrs with ~80% battery usage.

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malikkamran1 said:
tell apple to remove this app as it destroy battery of its beloved iPhone
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Yeah.. No. it actually doesn’t. You can’t tell on how a phone performance better overall by a single App test but by a combination of daily App usage.
 
Significantly better than the XS max I had. I’m what you would call a power user and I am impressed with the 11 Pro Max.
 
BeeGood said:
But it does.

I came from a XS Max and it’s definitely better on battery with intensive apps. Here’s an example:

On Friday, I had almost 3 hours worth of conference calls for work, then played Minecraft with my kids for an hour and a half. Sprinkled in over four hours of web surfing, videos, news and normal tasks gave me over 10 hours of SOT and I barely used 80% of the battery. That was a 17 hour day BTW, as I took the phone off the charger at 7AM and went until after midnight.

My XS Max would have been drained by 8PM with that kind of usage. I killed it multiple times. The only time I could have possibly killed my Pro Max was Thursday. You can see the battery usage was right around 100% (I was having some network issues that I’ve since sorted out). On a normal, heavy-usage day, I’m usually left with about 30% left. That’s huge.

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Check if the usage from the previous day didn't carry over. This shows your battery usage within the day. From 12 am to 11:59 pm. If you've used it past midnight on the previous day, it gets added to this usage. And that's probably before you charged, so it's not accurate.
 
I’m happy with the battery on my Max. I normally charge it throughout the day but I forced myself to take it off the charger when I left for work and keep it off the charger until ready for bed. Finished the day at 21%.
 

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Lammy said:
I’m happy with the battery on my Max. I normally charge it throughout the day but I forced myself to take it off the charger when I left for work and keep it off the charger until ready for bed. Finished the day at 21%.
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Battery is impressive to say the least
Of course your battery time will vary by what you do
I’m getting 12-14 hours..... great
 
Nisaja said:
Check if the usage from the previous day didn't carry over. This shows your battery usage within the day. From 12 am to 11:59 pm. If you've used it past midnight on the previous day, it gets added to this usage. And that's probably before you charged, so it's not accurate.
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I’m not sure what you’re asking/saying.

The battery usage of roughly 80% and the SOT of over 10 hours are confined to that period of time between 12AM and 11:59PM. What is not accurate?
 
The battery life is incredible. Off charger for almost 17 hours, about 4.5 hours of on-screen and 66% remaining.
 
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