The iPhone 16 Pro Max can charge faster than ever if you do it right

Date:
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:31:22 +0000

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A new report has put the iPhone 16 Pro Maxs battery charging through its paces, and the results are fascinating.

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This year, Apple has seriously ramped up the battery life of its new iPhones. The iPhone 16 Pro Max , for instance, offers some of the best battery life of any smartphone on the market and lasted an average of 16 hours at a time in our review. Now, a new report has put the battery life of Apples flagship device under the microscope in a different way, and the results are similarly impressive.

In an extensive suite of tests, ChargerLAB examined the iPhone 16 Pro Maxs battery from a variety of angles: temperature while charging, reverse
charging a set of AirPods, compatibility with third-party chargers, and more. But the tests that were perhaps the most interesting were those that rated
the phones wired charging speeds.

Here, ChargerLAB measured how much wattage the phone was able to draw upon with a wide variety of chargers made by both Apple and third-party manufacturers. When comparing the results to those that ChargerLAB recorded for the iPhone 15 Pro Max , its clear that the iPhone 16 Pro Max can draw far more power from the same charger in most cases.

For instance, this years iPhone 16 Pro Max can get 28.39 watts from an Apple 30W charger, compared to 24.55 watts for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, a boost of about 15%. When Apples 70W plug is used, the newer phone can take on 30.15 watts compared to 24.93 watts for last years device, an increase of almost 21%. That suggests that the iPhone 16 Pro Max should get a noticeable
charging boost compared to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The only exception was
using a charger with 20W of power or less, where both phones drew almost identical wattages. Boosting the first hour (Image credit: Future / Apple )

There is something of a catch here. When using that same 70W adapter, ChargeLAB found that it took the iPhone 16 Pro Maxs battery two hours and 20 minutes to go from empty to full. Interestingly, the outlet said this was actually much slower than the iPhone 15 Pro Max, although its review of last years model doesnt record how long it took that device to fully charge.

Still, the charging process is not a linear timeline. With the iPhone 16 Pro Max and that 70W plug, charging ran at 28W for the first 13 minutes, dropping to 22W after 29 minutes and 15W after 41 minutes. It fell again to roughly 9W after about 47 minutes, before slowly decreasing down to almost zero over the next 90 minutes.

What that means is that although the iPhone 16 Pro Max took a while to fully reach 100%, its in that first hour or so that youll really see the contrast compared to older iPhones. Since it can reach a higher peak charging wattage, it should get a much better initial burst of charge in the first hour than youll see in the likes of the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Its worth noting that Apple doesnt make much of a distinction between the two Pro Max phones in this way. It says that 30 minutes of charging will get the iPhone 16 Pro Max to about 50% battery capacity the same as what it claims youll get with last years phone.

Still, if ChargerLABs tests are anything to go by, you may well notice a difference, at least in the first hour of charging: ChargeLAB says this years product will get to 80% battery life after 57 minutes. If getting your iPhone juiced up as quickly as possible is important to you, the iPhone 16 Pro Max could be worth considering. You might also like The results are in: the
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