iPhone 13 battery life tested: All four models compared

iPhone xiii battery life tested: All iv models compared

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The iPhone 13 serial is clogged with improvements, from the faster new A15 Bionic processor and brighter displays to new camera features similar Cinematic mode for video. But the ane matter we were actually hoping for was longer bombardment life, and the iPhone xiii delivers.

In fact, two out of the iv new iPhones are good enough to make our best telephone battery life list. Apple doesn't listing the chapters of its iPhone batteries, simply it says that the batteries for all four new iPhones are larger this time effectually, and information technology has made other efficiency gains through its scrap, display and software.

Add it all upward, and we have very practiced news.

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We run every phone we review through the Tom'south Guide battery examination, which involves continuous spider web surfing over 5G cellular at 150 nits of screen brightness. And these are the results compared to the iPhone 12 series.

iPhone 13 bombardment life results

iModel	iBattery life (hours:mins)
iPhone 13 Pro Max	12:16
iPhone 12 Pro Max	x:53
iPhone xiii Pro	11:42
iPhone 12 Pro	9:06
iPhone xiii	10:33
iPhone 12	8:25
iPhone xiii mini	8:41
iPhone 12 mini	seven:28
Samsung Galaxy S21	9:53
Samsung Milky way S21 Plus	9:fifty
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra	eleven:25
OnePlus 9 Pro	12:48

The regular iPhone 13 saw a adequately large jump in battery life to 10 hours and 33 minutes, compared to only eight:25 for the iPhone 12. The Samsung Galaxy S21 was slightly behind at 9:53.

The iPhone xiii mini fared better simply non by as large a margin. The new mini lasted for viii hours and 41 minutes, while last yr'south iPhone 12 mini notched 7:28. Nevertheless, we'll take the increase as battery life has been one of the mini's biggest flaws.

Things look even amend for the iPhone 13 Pro, which has the same vi.1-inch display as the iPhone thirteen. The Pro endured for a very impressive 11:41, which is over a 2.v-hour increment over the iPhone 12 Pro. This is ane of the longest lasting 5G phones nosotros've tested in the final twelvemonth. The Galaxy S21 Plus endured for just ix:l.

But the new battery life champ among the new iPhones is the six.7-inch iPhone 13 Pro Max. That flagship lasted an ballsy 12 hours and xiii minutes. The iPhone 12 Pro Max last year turned in a runtime of x:53. So if you want the iPhone with the best battery life, this is information technology.

By comparison, the Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra lasted 11:25, which is swell, and the OnePlus 9 Pro took fifty-fifty longer to drain its battery at 12:48. Of course, battery chapters plays a office in all of this, and we will be updating our results one time iPhone 13 teardowns accept revealed this info.

Overall, the iPhone thirteen serial represents a big step up in bombardment life, fifty-fifty if the charging is stuck at a relatively small 20W.

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Marking Spoonauer is the global editor in principal of Tom'southward Guide and has covered applied science for near 20 years. In improver to overseeing the management of Tom'south Guide, Mark specializes in covering all things mobile, having reviewed dozens of smartphones and other gadgets. He has spoken at key industry events and appears regularly on TV to hash out the latest trends. Mark was previously editor in principal of Laptop Magazine, and his piece of work has appeared in Wired, Popular Science and Inc. Follow him on Twitter at @mspoonauer.