This year, the iPhone 18 Pro Max is going to feature the largest non-silicon carbon battery available in a phone in the US, which is a 5,567mAh battery, which is quite impressive, especially seeing as it is not silicon-carbon like the OnePlus 15 and its 7,300mAh battery.
If that wasn’t enough to hype you up for this battery life, Ice Universe is saying that it can “reasonably be estimated to be on the level of a 7,000mAh Android flagship” in terms of battery life. He claims that this is largely due to the expected efficiency improvement of the A20 Pro that will be powering the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max this year. Along with the new thermal design and iOS’s “excellent system scheduling and background management.”
The ‘Pro Max’ iPhone has always had pretty good battery life, but so far nothing has matched that of the iPhone 13 Pro Max. That was legitimately a two-day phone, even as a heavy user. The big question is whether Apple can get back to that this year with the iPhone 18 Pro Max.
The Android Headlines Take
If you’ve used any of these silicon-carbon Android phones like the HONOR Magic 8 Pro, or the OPPO Find X9 Pro, or even the OnePlus 15, you know that the battery life is truly incredible. These are all two-day phones, so to see an iPhone 18 Pro Max with a battery that is 25% smaller hit that level of battery life is incredible.
That is, until you remember that the iPhone 17 Pro Max was hanging in there with the silicon-carbon Android phones. Just take a look at this battery test from Lover of Tech on YouTube, who compared it with the HONOR Magic 8 Pro and the Pixel 10 Pro XL. The iPhone 17 Pro Max was only 26 minutes less than the Magic 8 Pro, which has a 7,100mAh battery. Not to mention, he was using the UK version of the iPhone, which has a smaller battery.
When you put that kind of context in, it really shows that Ice could be completely correct here.
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