No improvement: Apple iPhone 18 Pro battery life disappoints vs iPhone 17 Pro in gaming

[Redaktion]

Thanks to bigger batteries and the more power-efficient Apple A20 Pro SoC, Apple promises some excellent battery life gains for the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max. However, Dave2D shows that the battery life improvements aren't as impressive as some might've imagined.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/No-improvement-Apple-iPhone-18-Pro-battery-life-disappoints-vs-iPhone-17-Pro-in-gaming.1401730.0.html

[jojoba]

It's all relative. To me, saying 5% better (reddit test) doesn't sound that good. But it's still an hour in an absolute terms, and an hour for me is a significant amount of time, no matter if the base is 10, 20 or 50. Still an hour of content more.

For the gaming I'm not so surprised. Whenever the chip is more efficient, they keep the TDP envelope mostly the same, so that the power available to user is bigger (like in case of gaming). The efficiency will be the most visible in low-mid demanding tasks (or even standby time would be an interesting parameter to compare).

I'm not disputing whether Apple exaggerated or not, it was a marketing presentation, I'm always a bit more reserved (you know, superlatives everywhere, graph axes, blank comparisons, multigenerational comparison, selective comparisions etc...)