iPhone 16: new battery leak is good news for “Pro Max”, but sad news for “Plus”

The iPhone 16 Plus could be the black sheep of this year’s iPhone family.

Well, that might be a bit dramatic, but a recent leak paints a somewhat worrying picture of its battery size.

iPhone 16 Reported Battery Sizes

Someone calling themselves “OvO Baby Sauce OvO” on Chinese social media platform Weibo (spotted by series-phone_id157046″ target=”_blank” title=”(opens in a new window)”>Telephone arena) leaked battery sizes for the four new iPhones expected to be released this year. Here’s what we would have worked with:

These numbers may sound like nonsense out of context, but Phone Arena has done the lord’s work and compared them to last year’s iPhone 15 models, expressed as percentage differences. Each new iPhone’s battery is slightly larger (up two to six percent) except for the 16 Plus, which presents an 8.6% reduction compared to the iPhone 15 Plus.

There are of course some caveats to this. The first is that these numbers could simply be wrong. Another reason is that, while true, they don’t tell the whole story of each phone’s practical battery life. It’s possible that the 16 Plus will get more power from a single charge than the 15 Plus due to some back-end magic that makes the battery more powerful. effective, if not actually bigger. We just don’t know yet.

But it’s something to watch out for for those who like bigger iPhones.