According to a new report from reliable leaker L0vetodream, Apple’s iPhone 13 series is expected to feature noticeably larger battery capacities this year, as power-hungry features such as ProMotion displays finally make their way from iPad to iPhone.
According to Lovetodream, here are the battery statistics for the iPhone 13 series, compared to the current iPhone 12 capacities:
• iPhone 12 mini – 2,227mAh
• iPhone 13 mini – 2,406mAh (8% increase)• iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro – 2,815mAh
• iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro – 3,095mAh (9.9% increase)• iPhone 12 Pro Max – 3,687mAh
• iPhone 13 Pro Max – 4,352mAh (18% increase)This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that the iPhone 13 series could feature larger batteries. Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported in March that the iPhone 13 series will include larger batteries, thus making each model heavier than its predecessor.
MacDailyNews Take: So far, we’re loving the post-Jony Apple! Bring on the bigger battery capacities in the iPhone 13 series – better late than never!
The law of diminishing returns can also be applied to industrial design. Apple’s eternal quest for thinness eventually runs into issues such as bulging camera assemblies, battery capacity, strength (breakability), etc. – is Apple’s quest for thinness now bordering on the quixotic?
So, is it “you can never be too thin” or is it “thin enough is thin enough?” — MacDailyNews, December 21, 2015
What’d be wrong with slightly thicker iPhone with more battery life and a flush camera assembly? — MacDailyNews, December 21, 2015
Hey, Jony: Enough with the thin.
Everything is thin enough. Sometimes too thin. Thinner isn’t the answer to everything, nor is thinness intrinsic to good design. We’d gladly take a bit more robustness and battery life over more unnecessary thinness, thanks. – MacDailyNews, June 25, 2018
If Apple made an iPhone model that was the smartphone equivalent of the Panasonic Toughbook — thick, heavy, full of battery, and virtually indestructible — they’d never be able to make enough of them. — MacDailyNews, November 2, 2018
Yes this whole period has been about fixing the excesses of Jony Ive. I’m loving it too.
Wow! I can’t believe this is happening. Apple may actually have an iPhone much closer to the capacity of every Android flagship smartphone in existence. Usually the iPhone has about a 1200mAh smaller battery than the competition. That’s a crazy amount of battery capacity to give up. iPhones still have good battery run-time even with their smaller capacity so I’m not complaining, I’m just saying… I had always wondered if Apple was simply trying to save money on batteries or there wasn’t enough room in an iPhone because maybe the Taptic Engine takes up quite a bit of space. Whatever, kudos to Apple for increasing battery capacity.
Apple optimizes for all-day battery. A larger battery in iPhone 13 could mean the SOC uses more power rather than a pure increase for total run time.
Also MDN’s insistence that Jony was making iPhones thinner every year no matter the detriment to the iPhone doesn’t hold up to reality. Since 2015 until 2020 they have been getting thicker each year. The iPhone 12 are the only major outliers – primarily due to its flat side redesign.
Also battery capacity is not tied with the phone thickness as you can see below. It’s more to do with Apple balancing the capacity with what they consider to be all-day usage
Standard Home Button iPhones:
2015 iPhone 6s (7.1mm / 1715mAh) -> 7 (7.1mm / 1960mAh) -> 8 (7.3mm / 1821mAh)
Plus Home Button iPhones:
2015 iPhone 6s Plus (7.3mm / 2750mAh) -> 7 Plus (7.3mm / 2900mAh) -> 8 Plus (7.5mm / 2691mAh)
Full-screen iPhones:
2017 iPhone X (7.7mm / 2716mAh) -> XS (7.7mm / 2658mAh) -> 11 (8.3mm / 3110mAh) -> 12 (7.4mm / 2815mAh)
Phablet full-screen iPhones:
2018 iPhone XSMax (7.7mm / 3174mAh) -> 11Pro Max (8.1mm / 3969mAh) -> 12 Pro Max (7.4mm / 3687mAh)
I’m AppleCynic and I approve that I h888888te this message and thai development. How DARE Apple improve themselves and fix things? It’s preposterous. It’s delusional. Steve Jobs would be spinning in his grave. If Ives was dead, he’d be doing cartwheels in his grave (because, well, he couldn’t just be normal like everyone and else and spin now, could be).
Apple! Stop this madness at once. Go back to being the horrible scum bags that I know you are deep down inside.