iPhone 12 vs iPhone 12 Pro Max vs 12 Pro vs 12 Mini vs SE vs 11 vs XR Battery Life DRAIN TEST By Brandon Butch

What's up guys. My name is Brandon. And just as tradition here on the channel today, we're going to be doing a massive battery life comparison between every iPhone thqtApple currently sells. So that is the iPhone 12 iPhone 12 pro iPhone 12 pro max iPhone 12, mini iPhone SE 2. I phone 11 and iPhone 10 R. And since Apple did not put a big emphasis on the battery life with the new iPhone twelves this year, I wanted to test to see just how much better or maybe even worse the battery life actually is.

And the most interesting thing to me is going to be how the iPhone 12 mini performs compared to the other iPhone twelves, and even to previous generations as well, like the 10R the SE and also the iPhone 11. So anyways, let's go ahead and lay out the battery specs to see what we're working with, and then we'll get to draining these batteries. So we're going to start from left to, right. So over here on the left, we have the iPhone 12 pro max, which has a 3687 mAh hour battery. Then we have the iPhone 12 pro with a 2815 mAh battery.

iPhone 12 with a 2815 as well. iPhone 12 mini with a 2027 mAh battery, the SE 2020 with an 1821, the iPhone 11 with a 3110 and the 10 R with a 2942 mAh battery. So as you can see, every phone has its battery at 100%. I also have the brightness set to 40% of the, a series. So I just asked Siri to set the brightness to 40% on all.

We have wifi on. We have Bluetooth off, we have no SIM card in any of these phones. We have location services also turned off and we do have, do not disturb. It turned on for all of them as well. The volume is also around the same, and you can see here, the maximum battery capacity is at 100% for all iPhones, except for the iPhone 10 R, which has a 95% maximum capacity, which I would imagine is still above average for the iPhone 10 R given that it came out in 2018.

So if you're looking to upgrade from a 10 R and you have a 95% or lower maximum battery capacity, this video should help you out to see if it's worth upgrading. So what we're going to do in this test is we're going to watch some YouTube videos. We're going to game a little bit, we're going to run some geek bench tests. We're going to web browse. We're going to go into the news application.

We're going to play some pub G we're going to do, you know, recording videos, things like that, kind of just emulating real-world usage. Of course, this is not going to be indicative of exactly what you're going to do on a daily basis. That would be impossible to test, but I'm trying to drain these batteries as quick as possible while also trying to do things that you might do on a day-to-day basis. So we're going to start off with watching a 4k YouTube video in full screen, also with the volume going on, all phones as well. So once I started that YouTube video, I will unplug the extension cord that has all of these I-phones plugged into it.

So they will all stop charging at the exact same time. All right, let's get into it.. All right. So as you can see, we're about an hour and 40 minutes into the battery. So we're going to go ahead and do our first check on the battery life of each phones over here on the iPhone 12 pro max we're at 93%.

We're at 92% on the 12 pro 91% on the 12 we're at 87% on the 12 mini we're at 82% on the iPhone se 2020 on the iPhone 11 we're at 93%. And on the iPhone 10 are we're at 90%. So now we're going to go ahead and bump up the brightness to 50% on each phone and then record a 4k 60 FPS video on the rear facing camera for 30 minutes. All right. So we've been recording for about 30 minutes on all phones, except for the iPhone 11.

It ran out of storage around 29 minutes. So we were right around the time. Anyways, we're going to go ahead and stop on all phones here and check in on the battery percentage before moving on to our next task. So over here on the left, we have the iPhone 12 pro max, which is now at 82%, the iPhone 12 pro at 81%, the iPhone 12 at 76%, the 12 mini at 68%, the se at 59%, the 11 at 78% and the 10 are at 75%. So now we're going to move on to some light gaming with subway surfers.

And then after that, we're going to run a geek bench test, and we're going to do some web browsing, and then we'll do a little bit more intensive gaming as well. So let's go ahead and get into subway surfers.. We've been playing some pub G now for about 30 minutes on all devices. Let's go ahead and check in on the battery percentage. I'm also going to do a heat check as well to feel how hot each phone is starting from right to left this time.

So on the iPhone 10 R we are at 54%. And as far as the heat goes, this thing feels very hot. It's very, very warm. Of course, this is the first time I'm picking these up. They've been nonstop.

So you would expect some warmth, but I want to see if anything is abnormally warm. So over here we have the iPhone 11 at 63%, and this one is even warmer actually than the 10 R. So the iPhone 11 has always been one of those phones. It's gotten, you know, abnormally hot for me, especially in these battery test videos under load. Uh, so yeah, that is one thing to note there as well.

The iPhone se at 29%, at three hours and 16 minutes, the se is also very, very warm. It's very close in temperature to the iPhone 11. Then of course, we have the iPhone 12 mini here, which is at 48%. And as far as the temperature goes on, that it is also pretty warm. I would compare this more to like the iPhone 10.

Art's not as warm as the iPhone 11. Then we have the iPhone 12 here, which is at 58%. And as far as the warmth goes on this, this is actually the least warm one yet. So you could feel some warmth in there, but it's not too hot. And that's kind of to be expected with the 12, 12 pro and 12 pro max we're at 63% on the 12 pro.

And this one is also slightly warm, not nearly as warm as the other phones though. Then the 12 pro max I'm expecting to be the least warm. And we're at 69% on the 12 pro max. And yeah, the 12 pro max is definitely not as warm. It's really barely even warm at all.

And I do want to note also that the 12 pro max for some reason gets warm near the top of the phone versus the like middle to bottom of every other phone. So pretty strange. I think it's kind of that way for the pro as well, not just the pro max, but for whatever reason, it gets more warm towards the top of the phone and set up the bottom of the phone. So now we're going to up the brightness to 80% on all devices and then continue watching that same 4k YouTube video from earlier. And just an interesting note that I noticed after bumping the brightness up to all devices, the 12 mini was not able to make it to 80% as you can see the brightness isn't changing because of how hot it is.

So that is one thing to note about the 12 mini as well, even the se did not get as hot as the 12 mini appears to be getting at least internally, because as you can see there, the brightness is not going up very much at all. That is one thing to keep in mind as well with the 12 mini that compact size does come with a few caveats. And another interesting thing to note here is that all devices, except for the 12, the 12 mini and the 11 kept YouTube running in the background, as you can see here, the 12, 12 mini and the 11 had to fully reload YouTube. So that's another pretty interesting thing that I noticed here. All right, let's watch this 4k YouTube video.. And it looks like the iPhone se just went down around five hours and six minutes.

So yes, the iPhone se did just die. So to nobody surprised the iPhone with the smallest battery did go down first, again, just over five hours of usage, let's go and check out all the other phones after the sec went down. So we had the 12 pro max at 47%, the 12 pro at 38, the 12 at 32, the mini at 19, the 11 is going to be at 34 and the 10 are at 25% remaining. So this is pretty much going exactly as expected for the time being. However, it is pretty impressive to see the iPhone 11 beating the iPhone 10 R by about 9% right now, just because if you got a saw and the battery test from last year, the 10 are actually outperformed the iPhone 11 for a good amount in that battery test video.

So that is one thing to keep in mind as well. Also, it looks like, of course the 12 pro max is actually a good bit over the 12 pro. And even though the iPhone 12 and the 12 pro have the same size battery, the iPhone 12 pro is getting better battery life. As you can see, 38 to 3,200. Sit there down.

Goes the iPhone 12 mini. So I was very close between the 12 mini and the iPhone 10 R if we go ahead and take a look at the 12 minutes, so about six hours and 46 minutes on the 12 many. But if we go ahead and check out the battery on the 10 R, you can see here, this may die actually, during this segment of the video, it's on 1%, therefore the 10 or the 11 is at 11%, the iPhone 12 at 14, the 12 pro is going to be at 21%. And the 12 pro max is at 32% and there goes the iPhone 10 R just about a minute later. So the iPhone 10 R and the iPhone 12 mini very, very similar battery test results.

Of course, you have to remember that the 10 R does have 95% battery capacity, but still those two were neck and neck. And I was actually surprised at how much better battery life the iPhone 12 mini got over the 2020 iPhone se And down goes the iPhone 11 about an hour after the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 10 R went down. And what's interesting is that the iPhone 11 actually has a bigger battery than both the 12 and 12 pro plus it's pushing less pixels because it's an LCD screen versus these old led screens. So that really goes to show how well Apple has optimized that a 14 bionic chip, which is inside of the iPhone twelves. And then there were three.

So as expected, the iPhone twelves are going to finish in the top three and taking a look at their battery percentage right now. So the iPhone twelves at 5%, the 12 pros at 11% and the iPhone 12 pro max is at 24%. So we're going to bump the brightness all the way up to 100% and finish out this battery test.. And down goes the iPhone 12. So right around eight hours and 13 minutes, the iPhone 12 goes down before the iPhone 12 pros let's check in on this percentages.

So on the 12th pro we have 6% remaining despite having the exact same battery size as the regular iPhone 12 and the same chip set. So you will get better battery life on the 12 pro over the 12, as far as the pro max we're at 20% remain.. And down goes the iPhone 12 pro at around eight hours and 37 minutes. Meanwhile, the iPhone 12 pro max is still sitting at 16% battery remaining.. And down goes the iPhone 12 pro max, finally around 10 hours and 23 minutes.

So a good amount longer than the 12 pro. So some very interesting results here in the order was kind of probably what you expected before you clicked on this video, but it's always cool to see just how much longer one phone lasts over the other. Like, obviously we knew that the 12 mini and the SD were going to be, you know, one of the last two places, but we didn't know how much of a difference would be between those two. So that's why I like to do these tests to see just how much more battery life you get going from one phone to another. So let's go ahead and recap the battery time.

So in last place was the iPhone se 2020 at five hours and six minutes. Then the iPhone 12 mini at six hours and 46 minutes. Then the 10 hour was right behind it at six hours and 47 minutes. Then the iPhone 11 at seven hours and 47 minutes. Then the iPhone 12 came in third at eight hours and 13 minutes, then the 12 pro at eight hours and 37 minutes.

And then of course the iPhone 12 pro max at a whopping 10 hours and 23 minutes. So that has some impressive, impressive battery life from the iPhone 12 pro max that outlasted the iPhone 11 pro max from last year. If you guys watched my battery test video from last year, this outlasted, the 11 pro max, which is crazy because that battery life was so good. And this battery is actually smaller than the one that was in the 11 pro max. So that's even crazier.

So that eight, 14 bionic is definitely something special. And it shows with the battery life in the 12 series this year. So yeah, guys there, you have it. That is the battery test comparison between every iPhone the Apple currently sell. So if you guys enjoyed this video and my dedication to this video with over 10 hours of recording here, I would appreciate if you give this video a thumbs up and also love to comment down below with what you thought of the battery test overall.

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Source : Brandon Butch