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Hows the battery life?

I am an iPhone 13 Mini user and the battery sucks. I am waiting to see the next gen and i will go for a larger iphone.

How do you use it? I've not had any issues with mine, but I've not been using it super heavily due to COVID/WFH. I don't think it'll be an issue for my normal post-COVID behavior, but I can see it being a stretch when I'm off at a conference, using it a lot, and without easy access to charging. I also expect that 2 years from now it'll probably be borderline for perhaps 20% of my days.

I'd be curious to know what your situation/usage is that it's been unsatisfactory.

My daily usage is mostly whatsapp, twitter, reddit. I don't do heavy apps like TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. Figure that out how much battery but a friend of mine depletes the battery twice as fast as me during a day. The mini and SE would be good for some casual usecases, but for example, when i go offroad and use apps that uses the gps, the battery dies pretty quick. I will not go for the max models, but the middle size models are much battery performant than mine.

I guess I use it differently, but i have absolutely no problems with the battery.

I’ve changed it twice. Long overdue for a third time. It’s still completely manageable.

Here in China you can replace a new battery for about 16USD. I've done that 3 times, each of which lasts about 1 year.

1 year? Can you pay more than 16USD to get an OEM quality battery?

I'm replacing my own and my close circle old iPhone's batteries with Nohon brand batteries from China. They work as well and as long as new original ones. Advertised capacity is even higher than original, but I haven't measured it to confirm.

Depends what you use it for (with my 12 Mini). If you use your phone for lots of media consumption, like most do, you'll find it lacking I think. As for me, its a communications device, and handles an hour or so of YouTube in the morning, then gets through my workday and onto my charger in the evening with no issues.

Even if we use iPhone mostly for Whatsapp/email, for us with bigger fingers, typing on smaller screen is more typo-prone. Annoying.

iPhone 12 Mini is still acceptable. iPhone SE? Nahh... pass.

I've replaced the original but it's still not really great. I do need to recharge my phone at my office...

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