iPhone 5S battery life detailed

By Joseph Keller
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Apple has announced the battery life for the iPhone 5s. The 5S will get 10 hours of 3G talk time, 4G browsing, Wi-Fi browsing, and video playback, with 8 hours of 3G browsing. The phone will also get 40 hours of music playback, and have a standby time of 250 hours.

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Source: The Verge

Joseph Keller
Joseph Keller

Joseph Keller is the former Editor in Chief of iMore. An Apple user for almost 20 years, he spends his time learning the ins and outs of iOS and macOS, always finding ways of getting the most out of his iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

15 Comments
  • If Apple was really serious about battery life, then they would make a realistic size battery for what people really use their phone for. They can blow as much smoke as they want, but it won't hide the fact that the iphone battery is and has always been inadequate.
  • So will there be a video of the whole event or not? Sent from the iMore App
  • Would somebody explain why LTE browsing eats less battery than 3G browsing?
    It doesn't make sense to me. Thanks
  • It takes less time to fetch data...hence better battery life, The early iterations of LTE were less efficient. Radio fetches data then shuts off, 3G radio takes longer to fetch the same data. If you are stuck on edge, it burn's battery very fast. Radio has too work much much longer to accomplish the same thing.
  • To be honest if you are really browsing with the screen on there is no way you will get 8 or 10 hours time.
  • iPhone 3GS (speed) iPhone4S (SIRI) iPhone5S (sensor??)
  • I don't understand people keep making names for 's'es. It is just a fucking S.
  • Your're wrong. Apple themselves have provided the meaning to the past generation "S" iPhones.
  • Security Sent from the iMore App
  • 3g browsing consumes more battery than lte?????
  • 250 hours of standby?! Is that with all LTE, 3G, and WiFi antennas turned off?
  • It has to be so that no alerts or feeds can be updated. I would dare even say that the screen should also be on the dimmest setting. Otherwise there is no possible way it could achieve 250 of standby.
  • Agreed. So that statistic is virtually worthless as one does not buy a $200 contract ($650 off-contract) phone to not use the data and voice capabilities.
  • Exactly. But it sure does make one hell of a marketing term!
  • If the phone is in standby, what are the LTE, 3G, and WiFi antennas doing? Polling for updates occasionally? With iOS 7 batching those update requests during standby, it will preserve a lot more battery. Nokia's Lumia line quotes ~600 hours on standby. I called BS on a friend when they told me that they finished charging their Lumia 928 in the evening and and only lost 1% charge when they picked up the phone in the morning. But when I extrapolated it out, it came out convincingly close to what Nokia's spec sheet said. It's not impossible. Our expectations have been set by inefficient software algorithms and power hungry hardware that are both seeing improvements in each new model. Sometimes 1+1 = 3.