iPhone 16e has a surprisingly big battery
The new iPhone 16e might not be the cheap iPhone SE successor that many hoped for, but it comes with one big and very pleasant surprise.
Apple officially crowned it as having the longest battery life of any iPhone its size with an estimated 26 hours of offline video playback. This number is so good that it beats the much more expensive iPhone 16 by four hours.
But since Apple never reveals the actual size of iPhone batteries, we did not really know if that improvement is thanks to a bigger battery or other factors.
Well, now we have the answer: it's the battery, and it's indeed massive for an iPhone this size.
Update: A previous version of this story claimed a different battery size, but it turns out that the actual iPhone 16e battery size is 4,005 mAh as confirmed by multiple teardowns.
That is nearly twice the size of the battery used in the last iPhone SE!
| iPhone model | Battery size |
|---|---|
| iPhone 16e | 4,005 mAh |
| iPhone SE 3 (2022) | 2,018 mAh |
| iPhone 16 | 3,561 mAh |
| iPhone 16 Pro | 3,582 mAh |
| iPhone 16 Pro Max | 4,685 mAh |
And it's not that far off from the battery size in the iPhone 16 Pro Max. The Pro Max model has a 17% bigger battery, so that gap is not that huge.
We will soon be publishing our in-depth battery testing of the iPhone 16e and we are just as curious as you are to find out what real-world battery life looks like. Stay tuned for our full review coming this weekend.
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