A brand new report suggests there might be one other huge change coming to this 12 months’s iPhone 15 lineup — actually, on this case, as Apple is reportedly getting ready to extend the battery sizes throughout the board.
This newest rumor comes through a posting on Chinese language social media website Weibo revealed by ITHome. The originator claims to be an insider at Foxconn who’s not less than not directly concerned within the manufacturing of the brand new iPhone 15 fashions. Whereas the supply stopped wanting being sure, they are saying that they’re about 80 % satisfied of the accuracy of their info.
If the numbers supplied are correct, it might signify the most important year-over-year enhance in battery life in current historical past for each mannequin besides the iPhone Professional Max.
In response to the report, each mannequin within the iPhone 15 lineup will get a lift of between in battery capability starting from 12.24% on the iPhone 15 Professional Max to 18.24% on the bottom iPhone 15.
Extra particularly, the iPhone 15 is rumoured to get a 3,877mAh cell, which works out to an 18.24% enhance over the three,279mAh battery used within the iPhone 14, whereas the iPhone 15 Professional will transfer to a 3,650mAh cell that will probably be 13.57% bigger than the iPhone 14 Professional’s 3,200mAh battery.
The report additionally alleges that the iPhone 15 Plus will enhance by 13.57% to 4,912mAh, barely exceeding the 4,852mAh cell within the iPhone 15 Professional Max, which can acquire solely 12.24% over its predecessor.
Whereas that final one may sound a bit odd, it’s not the primary time that Apple has put a smaller battery in an iPhone Professional. This has really been the norm for the 6.1-inch iPhones — the iPhone 11 Professional, iPhone 13 Professional, and iPhone 14 Professional all had smaller batteries than their non-Professional counterparts. Whereas the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Professional had the identical 2,815mAh cells.
| iPhone 13 | iPhone 14 | iPhone 15 | |
| iPhone | 3,227 mAh | 3,279 mAh | 3,877 mAh |
| iPhone Plus | 4,325 mAh | 4,912 mAh | |
| iPhone Professional | 3,095 mAh | 3,200 mAh | 3,650 mAh |
| iPhone Professional Max | 4,352 mAh | 4,323 mAh | 4,852 mAh |
Whereas final 12 months’s iPhone 13 to iPhone 14 will increase had been comparatively modest — the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional solely elevated by 1.61% and three.39%, respectively, whereas the iPhone 14 Professional Max shrunk very barely — the iPhone 13 lineup noticed battery capacities rising by practically as a lot as this rumor purports, with the iPhone 13 Professional rising by 14.64% and the iPhone 13 Professional Max rising to 18.04% and breaking the 4,000mAh-barrier for the primary time.
Nevertheless, it must be famous that this will have additionally been a course correction from the iPhone 11 to iPhone 12 period, when Apple really shrunk battery capacities, with the iPhone 12 dropping by 9.49% over the iPhone 11, and the iPhone 12 Professional shedding 7.58% in comparison with the iPhone 11 Professional.
| iPhone 11 | iPhone 12 | iPhone 13 | |
| iPhone | 3,110 mAh | 2,815 mAh | 3,227 mAh |
| iPhone Professional | 3,046 mAh | 2,815 mAh | 3,095 mAh |
| iPhone Professional Max | 3,969 mAh | 3,687 mAh | 4,352 mAh |
Whereas this sound like nice information on the floor, it’s essential to understand that higher-capacity batteries are only one a part of longevity. There’s additionally the ability effectivity of the iPhone to bear in mind.
This is the reason Apple was capable of get away with decreasing the battery capacities within the iPhone 12 lineup with out affecting run occasions. Regardless of the decrease milliampere-hour (mAh) scores, the ability effectivity of the A14 Bionic chip and Qualcomm’s X60 modem clearly made up the distinction, permitting the telephones to ship the identical battery life, even with the introduction of 5G help.
Whereas we are able to hope this holds true for the iPhone 15 lineup and the A17 Bionic that’s seemingly coming to not less than the iPhone 15 Professional fashions, Apple might plan to make use of this additional capability to energy new options on the iPhone lineup or enhance the efficiency of its A-series chips even additional.
[The information provided in this article has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation. Provided details may not be factual. Take all rumors, tech or otherwise, with a grain of salt.]