**iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max Battery Life Test**

In this article, we will explore the battery life of two new iPhones released last year, the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max. We also compare their performance to a similar model from Samsung, the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Our test revealed that both phones performed impressively in terms of battery life.

For our first test, we used the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, two models from last year's lineup. We put them through a 45-minute test and observed their battery life during that time. The results showed that after 45 minutes, the iPhone 14 Pro had dropped only 6% of its battery, while the iPhone 14 Pro Max had dropped a mere 3%. This is an impressive performance, especially considering the size and power requirements of these phones.

We repeated this test with the new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models. We were pleased to see that they performed even better than their predecessors. After 45 minutes, the iPhone 15 Pro had dropped only 6% less than both the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, while the iPhone 15 Pro Max had dropped a mere 3%. This demonstrates that Apple has made significant improvements in battery life with its new models.

Our second test was even more revealing. We put the iPhone 15 Pro through a 3-hour test where we played back a video of a batter swinging a bat at 100% speed, checking to see how much the battery had dropped during that time. The results were astonishing - after 3 hours, the iPhone 15 Pro had dropped only 14%. This is an incredible performance, especially considering the intense use of this test.

We repeated this test with the iPhone 15 Pro Max and saw similar results. After 3 hours, the iPhone 15 Pro Max had dropped a staggering 13%. This shows that both phones have made significant improvements in battery life, making them suitable for heavy users who want to get through the day without needing to charge their phone.

**Comparison to Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra**

We also put the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max through a similar test with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. After 3 hours of use, we observed that the iPhone 15 Pro had dropped only 14%, while the iPhone 15 Pro Max had dropped 13%. The Galaxy S23 Ultra, on the other hand, had dropped a respectable 18%.

**Real-World Experience**

In our daily experience with these phones, we have found that they both get through a day on a single charge. However, the iPhone 15 Pro Max can usually last for two days or even longer, depending on usage patterns.

One feature that stands out in our experience is the camera. The iPhone 15 Pro has a five-time optical zoom feature, which we used extensively during a recent photo walk in New York City. We were blown away by the quality of the shots we took with this phone and the 5x telephoto lens is particularly impressive.

Another feature that we like about these phones is their design. The iPhone 15 Pro has a very comfortable feel to it, despite its slim size. Apple seems to have found a good balance between weight and size, making it easy to hold and use for extended periods.

**iOS 17 Features**

We also had the opportunity to explore some of the new features in iOS 17. One feature that stood out to us is Stickers and iMessage. We can take photos with the front camera and turn them into animated stickers that we can send to our friends. This was a lot of fun, especially for those who enjoy teasing their friends.

Another feature that impressed us is Standby Mode at Home. Apple has introduced a new way to manage notifications when you're not actively using your phone. It's a very clean and intuitive interface that shows all the widgets we want to see, including photos.

**Drawbacks and Limitations**

While both phones have impressed us with their performance, there are some drawbacks to consider. We've experienced a few software bugs, where certain apps would hang up or become unresponsive. While these issues haven't happened frequently, they can be frustrating nonetheless.

Another feature that we don't see in the iPhone 15 Pro is more functionality for the Action Button. The button can currently only go into silent mode, which is similar to how our previous phones handled this function. We wish there was a way to program the button to perform different actions with a single or double press, but it doesn't seem like that's something Apple plans to implement at this time.

Finally, we don't have some features we'd like to see in the iPhone 15 Pro, such as the Journal app and Spatial Video. The Journal app is an exciting feature that allows you to jot down notes and ideas with ease, but it seems like a feature that would be better suited for a tablet or laptop rather than a phone.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our test of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max has shown that both phones offer impressive battery life and performance. While there are some limitations and drawbacks to consider, these features do not detract from the overall experience of owning one of these devices. If you're in the market for a new phone and want something with long-lasting battery life and great camera capabilities, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are definitely worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI reviewed the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max a month ago and since then I have a few thoughts I've gotten to test the battery more the performance more the action button more iOS 17 and the cameras more and I've survived some of the scandals with overheating gate and the fine woven case gate so let's talk about everything hey so first thing we're going to start off with is let's talk about some of the scandals and there's kind of three types of scandals that have been going on with the iPhone 15 series there are those that Apple has acknowledged those that apple have not acknowledged and well ones that are kind of in between and let's start with the ones that are in between some of these might include the fact that you've heard that the iPhone 15 is easier to bend than other iPhones or the fact that the redesign on the 15 Pro means that the back glass is easier to crack with your fingers or the fact that some people have experienced a Burnin on the screen I have not experienced any of this my colleagues have seen that have not either but it doesn't mean that these are not things that people have actually experienced real I just don't think they're as widespread as some of the other problems we're going to talk about then there are the scandals that Apple has not acknowledged but a lot of people have covered and that includes fine woven case gate so you may have heard that these cases aren't great in fact these cases were meant to be a premium replacement to Apple's previous leather cases which were pretty fantastic and if you marked those up or had wear and tear on them it actually gave it an attract active patina on the fine woven cases dirt shows up easily on there scratches show up easily I even had in the first week and a half my mag safe circular magnet made imprint on the case so what have I been using since then well not a fine woven case I use the just phone naked and I for a wallet I have this peak design wallet it's also a fabric but I can touch it I could even drag my nail across it there's no scratches uh I don't see any dirt or stains on it from Everyday Use and I've been using this for about 3 weeks now all that said if you are someone who's getting a fine woven case for your iPhone just know that Apple does have a support page that walks through care and maintenance of the case actually did a cleaning that they recommended on the case it got pretty much all the dirt out of it I just don't want to have to own a case that I have to clean every couple weeks or every month and now let's talk about the Scandal that Apple has actually a knowledge and that's how the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 series and well any iPhone running iOS 7 really overheats and you may have heard different headlines that oh Instagram was causing the phone to overheat or the new USB charging caused the phone to overheat or people's iPhone 15 Pro Maxes overheat but not the other ones so let's see if we can clear a few things up fortunately I was one of two or three reporters that Apple briefed about what was actually the cause of the overheating problems and let's just walk through a couple of those things so the very first thing is anytime you get a new phone and set it up it's going to be warm to the touch especially if you are restoring from a backup whether that's an iPhone 13 14 or new 15 bam next is going to be iOS 17 so there was kind of two issues going on apps like Instagram the game Asphalt 9 and Uber caused the phone to overheat and this is not just the iPhone 15 series it was any phone running this and you could see videos where people documented on their iPhone 14 people document of course of the iPhone 15 Pro and then there is the larger that was part of iOS 17 Apple didn't go into specifics about what caused the bug or if the bug was for a certain category of apps but they have since released a fix for the bug last um Apple emphasized the fact that the new design of the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max with the alloy of titanium and aluminum did not cause any of the overheating problems they also acknowledg the fact that with USBC that people were experiencing their phones getting warm and here's what they told us that if you're using a 20 W charger or less the iPhone should feel normal when you're charging it but if you're using a charger that's higher than 20 WS that the phone might actually feel warmer than normal and to test this Theory we ran a bunch of charging tests um before the update to iOS 17 that Apple did to see if they were throttling the charging speeds at all uh and after and the charging has been not only consistent before and after the bug fix but also consistent with the iPhone 14 series that use lightning cables so the first test I ran was a charging test using a 20 W power charger uh and the results were largely on par with last year's iPhone 14 Series so last year the 14 pro increased 48% in 30 minutes the 14 pro Max increased 45% and the 15 Pro increased 62% the highest of all of these and the 15 Pro Max increased 49% I used 140 W charger for my MacBook Pro and ran the same test again on the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max the 15 Pro went from 0 to 63% in 30 minutes and the 15 Pro Max went from 18% up to 67% in the same time then I ran the same test one more time after the software patch came out for iOS 17 nearly identical scores the iPhone 15 Pro went from 0 to 62% so 1% difference and the 15 Pro Max went from 17 to 67% again a 1% difference at the end of the day the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max are pretty much at the same charging speed as the 14 pro and pro Max the outlier being the 15 Pro where it did charge a little bit faster than the other three phones so then I ran the battery test the first test I ran is an endurance test it's over the course of 45 minutes and during that time I play games I watch videos I do a video call I scroll social media and here are the results for the 14 14 pro and 14 pro Max last year and for the 15 Pro it dropped only 6% less than both and for the 15 Pro Max it only dropped 3% in 45 minutes and that's pretty impressive the second test I ran is a new test for SC at this year and involves playing back a video the batter's at 100% And every hour for 3 hours we checking to see how much that battery has dropped here are the results and as you can see after 3 hours the 15 Pro dropped 14% % the 15 Pro Max dropped 133% now compare that to uh the Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra which in the same 3-hour test dropped 18% so iPhone looking pretty good in terms of battery and to be honest in my daily life um it gets through a day on a single charge the pro Max I can usually get through a day and a half even sometimes two days on a single charge but usually around early afternoon that second day I need to plug it in hey but let's talk about a few things that I like about this phone at the top of that list is going to be the camera especially that five times optical zoom on the prax model which is the one I've largely been using the most I was recently on a trip to New York and I went for an early morning photo walk with the camera and just got some absolutely gorgeous shots with this and same goes for the video I'm very impressed with the 5x telephoto lens especially but the main camera and that 24 megapixel resolution just means I get a little more detail out of the photos than maybe I got on the 14 pro and pro Max the other thing I really like about this phone as I advertised before I'm not using a case on it I love the way this thing feels in my hand I feel like apple found a very good balance between the weight and the size of the phone and just making it a little more friendly to hold by curving the edges it sounds like a small detail but it's something that I noticed every time I pick the phone up and then there's iOS 17 and there's so many aspects to that that really shine on this phone one of my favorite parts of it is actually stickers and iMessage and being able to take photos especially live photos and turn them into animated stickers and just annoy the hell out of my friends with them I just love it I love it so much one of my other favorite features in iOS 17 is standby mode at home I'm using a Balon dock for this and at work I have a 12 South Dock and it's just nice able to see a very contemporary interface have all these lovely widgets laid out especially with photos it's just really nice but let's talk about a couple things that are some drawbacks uh so I have experienced a couple software bugs sometimes an app will get hung up or uh a page and Safari is unresponsive these have largely only happened a couple of times at most but it doesn't seem problematic but it's kind of annoying uh another thing is I really do like the action button it largely lives as a silent mode for me just like the mute switch did I do wish I had a little more functionality to be able to program it so I could have like a double long press will activate one thing a single long press would activate another now I do know there are people out there who' have taken advantage of the shortcut aspect of the action button and done some elaborate shortcuts to enable some functionality like that but I just wish it was built in and then there are things that we don't have and the two that stick out to me is one is IOS 17 specific and that's the journal app I'm very excited about this app uh and the other is spatial video so what Apple said is it would take these two cameras on the top and be able to make basically 3D video or as Apple calls it spatial video that you could watch back on the Vision Pro headset I don't know if this is something that's going to roll out to the phone first and then later to the headset it would probably make more sense that this would come out at the same time as a headset and so that's been my experience after 1 month with the 15 Pro and 15 proax but I want to hear from you guys if you have either of these phones what has your experience been like please throw your thoughts in the comments if you want to know more about any of the iPhones the 15 series or before check out cet.com also if you like this video give it a thumbs up and until next time thank you for watchingI reviewed the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max a month ago and since then I have a few thoughts I've gotten to test the battery more the performance more the action button more iOS 17 and the cameras more and I've survived some of the scandals with overheating gate and the fine woven case gate so let's talk about everything hey so first thing we're going to start off with is let's talk about some of the scandals and there's kind of three types of scandals that have been going on with the iPhone 15 series there are those that Apple has acknowledged those that apple have not acknowledged and well ones that are kind of in between and let's start with the ones that are in between some of these might include the fact that you've heard that the iPhone 15 is easier to bend than other iPhones or the fact that the redesign on the 15 Pro means that the back glass is easier to crack with your fingers or the fact that some people have experienced a Burnin on the screen I have not experienced any of this my colleagues have seen that have not either but it doesn't mean that these are not things that people have actually experienced real I just don't think they're as widespread as some of the other problems we're going to talk about then there are the scandals that Apple has not acknowledged but a lot of people have covered and that includes fine woven case gate so you may have heard that these cases aren't great in fact these cases were meant to be a premium replacement to Apple's previous leather cases which were pretty fantastic and if you marked those up or had wear and tear on them it actually gave it an attract active patina on the fine woven cases dirt shows up easily on there scratches show up easily I even had in the first week and a half my mag safe circular magnet made imprint on the case so what have I been using since then well not a fine woven case I use the just phone naked and I for a wallet I have this peak design wallet it's also a fabric but I can touch it I could even drag my nail across it there's no scratches uh I don't see any dirt or stains on it from Everyday Use and I've been using this for about 3 weeks now all that said if you are someone who's getting a fine woven case for your iPhone just know that Apple does have a support page that walks through care and maintenance of the case actually did a cleaning that they recommended on the case it got pretty much all the dirt out of it I just don't want to have to own a case that I have to clean every couple weeks or every month and now let's talk about the Scandal that Apple has actually a knowledge and that's how the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 series and well any iPhone running iOS 7 really overheats and you may have heard different headlines that oh Instagram was causing the phone to overheat or the new USB charging caused the phone to overheat or people's iPhone 15 Pro Maxes overheat but not the other ones so let's see if we can clear a few things up fortunately I was one of two or three reporters that Apple briefed about what was actually the cause of the overheating problems and let's just walk through a couple of those things so the very first thing is anytime you get a new phone and set it up it's going to be warm to the touch especially if you are restoring from a backup whether that's an iPhone 13 14 or new 15 bam next is going to be iOS 17 so there was kind of two issues going on apps like Instagram the game Asphalt 9 and Uber caused the phone to overheat and this is not just the iPhone 15 series it was any phone running this and you could see videos where people documented on their iPhone 14 people document of course of the iPhone 15 Pro and then there is the larger that was part of iOS 17 Apple didn't go into specifics about what caused the bug or if the bug was for a certain category of apps but they have since released a fix for the bug last um Apple emphasized the fact that the new design of the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max with the alloy of titanium and aluminum did not cause any of the overheating problems they also acknowledg the fact that with USBC that people were experiencing their phones getting warm and here's what they told us that if you're using a 20 W charger or less the iPhone should feel normal when you're charging it but if you're using a charger that's higher than 20 WS that the phone might actually feel warmer than normal and to test this Theory we ran a bunch of charging tests um before the update to iOS 17 that Apple did to see if they were throttling the charging speeds at all uh and after and the charging has been not only consistent before and after the bug fix but also consistent with the iPhone 14 series that use lightning cables so the first test I ran was a charging test using a 20 W power charger uh and the results were largely on par with last year's iPhone 14 Series so last year the 14 pro increased 48% in 30 minutes the 14 pro Max increased 45% and the 15 Pro increased 62% the highest of all of these and the 15 Pro Max increased 49% I used 140 W charger for my MacBook Pro and ran the same test again on the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max the 15 Pro went from 0 to 63% in 30 minutes and the 15 Pro Max went from 18% up to 67% in the same time then I ran the same test one more time after the software patch came out for iOS 17 nearly identical scores the iPhone 15 Pro went from 0 to 62% so 1% difference and the 15 Pro Max went from 17 to 67% again a 1% difference at the end of the day the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max are pretty much at the same charging speed as the 14 pro and pro Max the outlier being the 15 Pro where it did charge a little bit faster than the other three phones so then I ran the battery test the first test I ran is an endurance test it's over the course of 45 minutes and during that time I play games I watch videos I do a video call I scroll social media and here are the results for the 14 14 pro and 14 pro Max last year and for the 15 Pro it dropped only 6% less than both and for the 15 Pro Max it only dropped 3% in 45 minutes and that's pretty impressive the second test I ran is a new test for SC at this year and involves playing back a video the batter's at 100% And every hour for 3 hours we checking to see how much that battery has dropped here are the results and as you can see after 3 hours the 15 Pro dropped 14% % the 15 Pro Max dropped 133% now compare that to uh the Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra which in the same 3-hour test dropped 18% so iPhone looking pretty good in terms of battery and to be honest in my daily life um it gets through a day on a single charge the pro Max I can usually get through a day and a half even sometimes two days on a single charge but usually around early afternoon that second day I need to plug it in hey but let's talk about a few things that I like about this phone at the top of that list is going to be the camera especially that five times optical zoom on the prax model which is the one I've largely been using the most I was recently on a trip to New York and I went for an early morning photo walk with the camera and just got some absolutely gorgeous shots with this and same goes for the video I'm very impressed with the 5x telephoto lens especially but the main camera and that 24 megapixel resolution just means I get a little more detail out of the photos than maybe I got on the 14 pro and pro Max the other thing I really like about this phone as I advertised before I'm not using a case on it I love the way this thing feels in my hand I feel like apple found a very good balance between the weight and the size of the phone and just making it a little more friendly to hold by curving the edges it sounds like a small detail but it's something that I noticed every time I pick the phone up and then there's iOS 17 and there's so many aspects to that that really shine on this phone one of my favorite parts of it is actually stickers and iMessage and being able to take photos especially live photos and turn them into animated stickers and just annoy the hell out of my friends with them I just love it I love it so much one of my other favorite features in iOS 17 is standby mode at home I'm using a Balon dock for this and at work I have a 12 South Dock and it's just nice able to see a very contemporary interface have all these lovely widgets laid out especially with photos it's just really nice but let's talk about a couple things that are some drawbacks uh so I have experienced a couple software bugs sometimes an app will get hung up or uh a page and Safari is unresponsive these have largely only happened a couple of times at most but it doesn't seem problematic but it's kind of annoying uh another thing is I really do like the action button it largely lives as a silent mode for me just like the mute switch did I do wish I had a little more functionality to be able to program it so I could have like a double long press will activate one thing a single long press would activate another now I do know there are people out there who' have taken advantage of the shortcut aspect of the action button and done some elaborate shortcuts to enable some functionality like that but I just wish it was built in and then there are things that we don't have and the two that stick out to me is one is IOS 17 specific and that's the journal app I'm very excited about this app uh and the other is spatial video so what Apple said is it would take these two cameras on the top and be able to make basically 3D video or as Apple calls it spatial video that you could watch back on the Vision Pro headset I don't know if this is something that's going to roll out to the phone first and then later to the headset it would probably make more sense that this would come out at the same time as a headset and so that's been my experience after 1 month with the 15 Pro and 15 proax but I want to hear from you guys if you have either of these phones what has your experience been like please throw your thoughts in the comments if you want to know more about any of the iPhones the 15 series or before check out cet.com also if you like this video give it a thumbs up and until next time thank you for watching\n"