IOS 13 introduces a few new features, but remains very similar to iOS 12 and 11 before that. Apple is also clearly slowing charging down to a trickle above 95% regardless of charger, meaning that it’s probably not worth trying to charge it much beyond 90% if you don’t need to. It’s also worth noting that iOS 13 includes a battery optimising feature, which is designed to learn your habits and only charge the battery past 80% when it thinks you need it to extend its longevity. Any USB-C power delivery chargers of 18W or higher will achieve the same results and can be had for one-third less. With the £29 18W USB-C charger and £19 USB-C to Lightning cable that ships in the box with the iPhone 11 Pro, the iPhone 11 fully charged in just over 100 minutes, reaching 80% in well under and hour, which is more like it. Why Apple still ships a £729 phone with such a pathetic charger, I don’t know. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĬharging the iPhone 11 with the included 5W charger is glacially slow, taking well over four hours to hit 100% from zero. The latest iOS 13 update will attempt to improve your battery’s longevity by reducing its time fully charged. That was after the iOS 13.1.1 update, while using it as my primary device without a smartwatch attached, sending and receiving 150 emails and messages, 80 push notifications, listening to five hours of music on Bluetooth headphones, watching an hour of Netflix, and shooting about 10 photos a day. The iPhone 11 lasts closer to 35 hours between charges, which makes it the longest-lasting iPhone to have crossed my test bench, getting me from 7am though until 6pm the following day. I’m happy to report that’s a bit of an underestimate. So really the only thing you need to know is that the iPhone 11 will handle everything you are likely to do, and then some.Īpple also says that it’s managed to make the iPhone 11 last an hour longer than the iPhone XR, which lasted 32 hours between charges in my testing. That means the iPhone 11 should still be a top-performer in two, three, maybe four years from now. That’s not surprising as Apple focuses its chips on doing the things you’d normally do more efficiently, with power to do something unusual if you need it. The iPhone 11 doesn’t feel any faster than last year’s iPhone XR/XS, or in fact the iPhone X in day-to-day usage. It’s the fastest and most efficient of Apple’s chips yet, but the reality is that it’s very difficult to tell. The iPhone 11 shares the same core as the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max: Apple’s latest A13 Bionic chip, 4GB of RAM and at least 64GB of storage. The Lightning port in the bottom still handles charging, rather than USB-C, but it does support the USB power delivery specification with the right cable. Screen: 6.1in liquid retina HD (LCD) (326ppi)Ĭamera: dual 12MP rear cameras with OIS, 12MP front-facing cameraĬonnectivity: LTE, wifi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5, lightning, ultra wideband and GPS Compared to Samsung’s Galaxy S10, which has the same size 6.1in screen, the iPhone 11 is 5.3mm wider and 37g heavier and significantly harder to use one-handed. The iPhone 11 also suffers from the same disadvantages as the iPhone XR before it, namely it’s fairly heavy and wide with rounded edges that provide little in the way of grip. The phone is well built, feeling extremely solid and it has the best LCD screen you’re likely to see on a phone although it isn’t as good-looking, colour rich, bright or high contrast as the OLED screens fitted to the iPhone 11 Pro or Apple’s many rivals costing £500 and up. The iPhone 11 flanked by the iPhone 11 Pro on the left and the iPhone 11 Pro Max on the right.
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