Battery has always been an interesting topic of discussion for iPhones because of their ability to last so long with such little capacity. With the iPhone 14 series, Apple are claiming some of the best battery lives yet, but of course they conveniently leave out how big the actual cells are.
Today, several reports have emerged with what looks like the actual battery capacities for the new iPhone 14 series. What’s interesting is that the top device is actually losing some capacity compared to its predecessor.
9to5Mac has reported on a Chemtrec (a public service of the American Chemistry Council for information on hazardous materials) filing by Apple that reveals the official capacities of the battery capacities on the iPhone 14 series in watt-hours. For comparison, I’ll put the iPhone 13 ratings in parenthesis.
iPhone 14 – 12.68Wh (iPhone 13 – 12.41Wh)
iPhone 14 Plus – 16.68Wh
iPhone 14 Pro – 12.38Wh (iPhone 13 Pro – 11.97Wh)
iPhone 14 Pro Max – 16.68Wh (iPhone 13 Pro Max – 16.75Wh)
Obviously, to determine the mAh value we’ll need the voltage rating for these batteries, but this report doesn’t reveal this information. Luckily though, MacRumours has a report with these numbers based on a Chinese regulatory database.
iPhone 14 – 3,279mAh (iPhone 13 – 3,227mAh)
iPhone 14 Plus – 4,325mAh
iPhone 14 Pro – 3,200mAh (iPhone 13 Pro – 3,095mAh)
iPhone 14 Pro Max – 4,323mAh (iPhone 13 Pro Max – 4,352mAh)
With this information, it reveals a couple of interesting things. Firstly, the obvious standout here is the iPhone 14 Plus, which has the biggest rated battery capacity of the lot, edging out the iPhone 14 Pro Max by a hair. That being said, on Apple’s website, the iPhone 14 Pro Max still has the best rated battery life with up to 29 hours of video playback. The iPhone 14 Plus, however, clocks just up to 26 hours of video playback on a single charge.
This is likely due to the newer and more efficient A16 Bionic processor of the iPhone 14 Pro Max compared to the iPhone 14 Plus’ A15 Bionic chip. It’s also interesting to see this efficiency in action when you compare it to the iPhone 13 Pro Max which has 29mAh over the iPhone 14 Pro Max yet loses out in Apple’s own video playback tests by one hour.
Realistically, whether you’ll notice this difference in real-world situations remains to be seen. What I’m particularly curious on is how much Apple’s new Always-on display will factor into the actual battery life of the devices when you use it as a phone. If it’s significant, then the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which will not be getting this feature, could still be the battery life king.
It is, however, nice to see an overall bump in battery capacity across the entire range. Sure, it may not be a massive amount, but when you couple that with the more efficient processors and already good battery life of the non-Mini iPhones, they should still put up solid numbers.
As a power user, which iPhone would you be going for now that you have this information? Let me know in the comments below. If you want to learn more about the new devices, check out the Related section in this article.
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