The battery sizes in the latest iPhones are slowly increasing in capacity, with the eSIM version of the iPhone 17 Pro Max getting treated to the biggest cell at 5,088mAh. The iPhone 18 Pro Max is expected to cross this ceiling, and for the longest time, it was assumed that Apple ran into space problems, preventing it from adding bigger batteries. However, that myth has been debunked thanks to the latest video, which shows an iPhone 11 Pro, which is almost seven years old, getting treated to a massive 12,000mAh battery swap. To remind you, the dated flagship shipped with a 3,046mAh cell.
New 12,000mAh battery appears to retain the same physical size as the original cell, meaning there’s no space compatibility problems with the iPhone 11 Pro
The YouTube channel The Fix had an iPhone 11 Pro in possession, with its battery health decreased to 67 percent. Naturally, if the device needed to be used consistently, a replacement was imminent, but the content creator decided to turn things up a notch and add a mammoth 12,000mAh cell to the configuration. The entire disassembly process was simple, and what’s interesting to see is that the newer battery had no size difference between the older one, implying that the newer one is the silicon-carbon variant.
Apple doesn’t encourage the use of unofficial or third-party batteries from unauthorized manufacturers, but given that a ton of the company’s Chinese competitors have adopted this technology in their devices for a couple of years, adding a 12,000mAh cell to the iPhone 11 Pro would be relatively safe. Securing the battery back into the device looked like a breeze, with the image above showing that it is a significant upgrade. However, the rated capacity is shown as 10,000mAh instead of 12,000mAh. Still, a 330 percent increase is a worthy upgrade.
If there’s anything to gather from this practice, it’s that Apple deliberately utilizes smaller batteries in its iPhones. Then again, an argument can be made that, since the technology giant ships smartphones in the millions annually, its supply chain cannot make such compromises in which one or a couple of batches are shipped with defective units. We’re sure Apple would rather be criticized for using smaller batteries in its devices than have them catch fire.
News Source: The Fix
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