Leaked photo of iPhone 16 Pro battery shows Apple setting up consumers for a major disappointment – do phone

{A photograph} posted on the “X” web site of self-proclaimed Apple collector @KosutamiSan allegedly shows the battery for an “early stage” iPhone 16 Pro prototype. The battery options a “shiny” steel shell and carries a 3355mAh capability. That’s a small 2.5% enhance from the 3274mAh capability battery discovered contained in the iPhone 15 Pro. @KosutamiSan notes that the “present stage” model of the battery now has a frosty steel shell and a redesigned connector.

Whereas overheating, the too-scorching-to-contact iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max would see extraordinarily speedy declines in battery life. Tech influencer Marques Brownlee handed alongside the expertise he had in September whereas utilizing the iPhone 15 Pro to hearken to music and flick through Instagram. Brownlee mentioned, “For like 5 minutes the phone simply will get actually scorching and blasts by means of like 5% battery.”

A small 2.5% enhance in battery life for the iPhone 16 Pro would really be a bigger enhance than the two.3% hike in battery life that the iPhone 15 Pro mannequin acquired this 12 months. It will be greater than the two.3% hike within the iPhone 15 Pro Max battery capability in comparison with its predecessor. The (*16*) battery capability elevated by twice that quantity (4.6%) and the iPhone 15 Plus noticed its battery capability rise by 1.4% in comparison with the iPhone 14 Plus.

We’re at all times listening to some rumors in regards to the capability of the batteries anticipated for use by the following iteration of the iPhone. In July, one particular rumor called for an 18% hike in iPhone 15 battery life, 14% for the iPhone 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro fashions, and 12% for the iPhone 15 Pro Max. In actuality, the will increase in battery capability had been nowhere close to the rumored quantities.