Someone tore down the iPhone 11 Pro Max and found a huge battery inside

Apple's new iPhone 11 Pro and the 11 Pro Max are both advertised for their significantly improved battery life, but Apple doesn't officially list the devices' battery capacity anywhere.


Now, thanks to an early teardown of the iPhone 11 Pro Max posted on China's Weibo social network (via Hridoy), we know the capacity of that phone's battery, and it is massive — at least for Apple's standards.

The battery has 15.04What 3.79V, which calculates to roughly 3,968mAh. That's a huge increase over last year's iPhone XS Max, which has a 3,174mAh battery. It's also on par with what most Android flagships have these days, which is a pretty big deal as Apple's iPhones typically trailed behind Androids by a hefty margin.

For comparison, last year's Samsung Galaxy S9+ has a 3,500mAh battery, approximately 10 percent more than the iPhone XS Max, while this year's Galaxy S10+ has a 4,100mAh battery, which is about 3 percent more than the iPhone 11 Pro Max.


The iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max are a little thicker and heavier than last year's similar models, likely because of the increased battery capacity. Based on reviews (counting ours), the exchange off satisfied, as the size differences are scarcely observable, while battery life is significantly better.

Shockingly, the teardown does not uncover the amount RAM the iPhone 11 Pro Max has. Early reports demonstrated that it comes with 6GB of RAM, yet affirmation documents that showed up later showed that it has an undeniably increasingly modest 4GB. Remarkably, the same affirmation documents had the accurate battery capacity for the iPhone 11 Pro Max, so it's likely that the 4GB figure is accurate as well.

We'll likely discover more iPhone 11 secrets tomorrow when the devices get into the hands of fix specialists of iFixit who regularly do a careful teardown.