Apple makes reliable, beautiful, and well-built devices. But even better, she knows how to show them to advertise.

“The brightest screen, the largest processor, the best camera, the flawless design, the longest battery life!” We hear this every year. And so, we expect to buy a fresh iPhone or MacBook, but we soon notice that at one moment we may have been lied to.

Every day, 5 applications of the company are usually applied, which bring tremendous resilience. However, up to 12 months each gadget causes initial puzzlement, then disappointment, and now just resignation. And all for one reason.

Below I will go through the battery life after years of use and tell you why I never again buy a laptop, smartphone or headphones, simply because I have to work there for a long time.

MacBook Pro 16 (M1 Pro) a year later

Coconut battery 3 is used to check the status

Battery resources: 90%
Enough: for the day moderate work instead of one and a half

On a laptop, I had my highest hopes.

Before that, I used a 2018 MacBook Pro 15 ″ and in two years launched more than 100 tabs daily, video editing and a lot of work in Photoshop, “dropped” 800-odd recharge cycles. Held as much as possible until the defense of the day. Let me remind you that with 1000 observations you definitely need to change.

Therefore, on a new laptop with the first month, I decided to comply with the total energy hygiene.

Of course, it could not bear to slam the lid and pray on the laptop. No, it’s just that in two years I’ve picked bad battery usage scenarios and avoided them as much as possible.

For this, resource-intensive tasks began to be performed by connecting power. This includes video editing, heavy processing of 5 GB illustrations, games. If all this is done without an outlet, the battery will quickly discharge. This is fraught with cycles of growth and wear due to heating.


Didn’t ruin the battery, because I often worked from the mains

My experience shows that when the power is connected, energy bypasses the accumulation, which means that intensive loads do not harm.

Perhaps this approach saved vision from “burnout” a year later. The fact is that all 400-odd days are usually MacBook daily up to 12 hours, and this is a lot. Much more than the iPhone, and with more difficult tasks.

A couple of months ago I started noticing anyway that the MBP 16 was no longer holding up as well as it used to. If at the start I could calmly work for a day and a half, now in the same conditions it only lasts until night.

I have no complaints about Apple at all. The largest MacBook Pro already has a large, large battery that is legally allowed to hit airplanes. And if not for the energy-efficient M1 Pro, the numbers would be much sadder.

To the point: I checked whether it is dangerous to constantly work on a MacBook with the charger connected. Will the battery go bad?

MagSafe battery after a year too

Battery resources: near 90%
Enough: by 57% charging the new iPhone 13 Pro instead of 66%.

The battery was presented to me for the New Year in 2022. I was absolutely delighted then, but since then there have been concerns that the iPhone’s relief might have ruined it.

Every night I connected charging through my smartphone. After three months, such procedures begin to “get worse”.

The iPhone got very hot if it was charged with such a battery. This led to a quality assessment or even a power outage.

I still don’t worry much about the battery life of my iPhone. It’s still as comfortable as the first day and successfully replaces the MagSafe bedside pancake.

Its capacity drops at about the same rate as the battery in an iPhone. That resource has 84%, an external battery from Apple loads it up to 68%. When the battery in the iPhone was new, charged up to 66%. It turns out that the battery resource is now at the level of 87%, which means that it would charge the new iPhone up to 57%.

Hopefully, in the next generation, MagSafe batteries will not be found, will not be found on the connectors by analogy with the Smart Connector in the iPad. We all know that there have already been prototypes with this technology, and there are patents.

To the point: Tested MagSafe battery with new firmware. Charges faster, but the problem persists

iPhone 13 Pro after a year and a half

Battery resources: 84%
Enough: for 4.5 hours screen instead of 7 hours.

Because of him, I got the idea to write this post.

The battery life of the smartphone was the biggest disappointment.

Everything was perfect for the first couple of months. He lived until midnight with active collection, but after six months he began to die mercilessly.

No matter how Apple swore in chic autonomy, what graphics and table I didn’t draw in my hands, for 15 months I had a wonderful bar of glass and metal, which was discharged until the middle of the day.



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I often don’t get on with what’s going on. Telegram, social networks, some cameras, games and reading.

The exceptional time when a smartphone manager reaches 1% battery by seven o’clock in the evening is if I do not leave the house and touch the phone only for the sake of texting.

There is no talk of any 20 hours of video, and 15 minutes of operation of the measurement camera “gobble up” 20% of the battery at once.

And so I look at the iPhone 14 Pro with contempt. I don’t like max giants, and 6.1‑inch models become helpless after six months. But there is some liberation in this. Simply because it takes so long.

To the point: I have been using iPhone 13 Pro for a whole year. Why don’t I change to 14 Pro, although I can easily

Apple Watch Series 6 two years later

Battery resources: 82%
Enough: for an hour and a half instead of two.

I have a 44 mm model, I bought it in 2021 for my birthday.

A unique device that at least somehow contains its word from the moment of purchase. As it worked plus or minus two days, it works.

Chief Marketing Officer at Apple Bob Borchers recently gave an interview where he spent time as a priority field for development. And it seems to me that every year the new watchOS squeezes more and more hours out of a tiny battery for this reason.

Now the system shows the presence of capacity in 82%. would be discovered time to dump with this proof. And in fact, there has not yet been a single day that they have not lived up to such a loss, even with intensive training.

Moreover, watchOS 9 generally works some kind of miracles. arrival include new power saving mode and a minimum of 72 hours of operation.

To the point: My Apple Watch Series 6 is two years old and has been running for THREE days. The recipe is simple, you just need to install …

AirPods Pro after three years

Battery resources: 100%…?
Enough: For a three days instead of a week.

I bought the headphones almost at the start of sales in November 2019. About six months later they began to make a strange crack, Apple replaced both. So I’m counting just somewhere from the spring of 2020.

The fact that even after such a period they held at least some kind of charge pleases me. But the drop in “endurance” is noticeable. It’s more about the case, because earlier he was met during the week, and now in the afternoon three times with an active gathering.

To more or less accurately understand the battery status in the headphones, I ran ” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer nofollow”> our test.

During the inactivity of noise reduction and ambient mode, they were discharged up to 83%. The new AirPods of the first generation held 5 hours, and here it turns out all 7. I guess closer, towards the end, the percentages melt faster, because they certainly don’t fall out for seven hours.

To the point: I’ve been using AirPods Pro for 2 years now. Here are their problems that have accumulated during this time

All reliability rests on the lens, and so far nothing can be done

I do not believe that in the next ten years something will change dramatically.

The Apple Watch, for example, enjoys a lot of features, and while running for 3 days without power savings, there won’t be a new level of usage. the clock worked for a week or even a month, need a new type of battery.

The same applies to the company’s experimental devices.

Apple invests billions of dollars each year in technology development, so it obviously understands the problem. But at present, no matter how reliable gadgets are, you still had to change the appearance in two years so that the MacBook or iPhone simply works adequately, and does not substitute it at the most inconvenient moment.

It’s not all that sad. For example, the iPhone 5S and 7 at the start held a charge as badly as the iPhone 13 Pro after a year and a half with a resource of 84%. Still there is progress. But in fact, nothing could be and not be done: as you mature to the purchase of a new device, the age of the battery will become much worse. Wow effect is guaranteed in any case.

And it’s very difficult for me to blame Apple for not being able to get around the laws of physics. But what can be done is to add a couple of millimeters of iPhone 15 Pro in thickness to insert a larger battery.

Judging by the emissions, it will be so. And that means don’t lose hope.

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Source: Iphones RU

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