iPhone 18 Pro Max's Larger Battery Capacity Allegedly Revealed

The upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max volition beryllium equipped with a astir 12% larger artillery compared to the iPhone 17 Pro Max, according to an evident leak.


An alleged photograph of a artillery battalion for a Chinese exemplary of the iPhone 18 Pro Max with a SIM paper tray lists a capableness of 5,391 mAh, up from 4,823 mAh for the equivalent iPhone 17 Pro Max battery. The photograph was shared connected the Korean level Naver today, but it supposedly originated from the Chinese societal media level Weibo.

The identical 5,391 mAh capableness appeared successful a regulatory database past month, truthful the capableness is looking progressively apt to beryllium accurate.


For the U.S. exemplary of the iPhone 18 Pro Max, successful which the deficiency of a SIM paper tray provides much abstraction for a somewhat larger battery, the Naver station claims it volition person a 5,567 mAh capacity. The equivalent iPhone 17 Pro Max has a 5,088 mAh battery, truthful this would enactment retired to beryllium a astir 10% summation connected a year-over-year basis.

Based connected this leak, it appears that meaningful artillery beingness gains volition not widen to the smaller iPhone 18 Pro. In the U.S., the instrumentality volition seemingly person a 4,288 mAh battery, which would beryllium little than a 1% summation implicit the iPhone 17 Pro's 4,252 mAh artillery successful that country. It was antecedently rumored that the iPhone 18 Pro Max volition beryllium thicker than the iPhone 18 Pro, truthful that mightiness assistance to explicate the difference.

All of the alleged iPhone 18 Pro artillery capacities are listed successful the array below.

iPhone 18 Pro

	China	China Difference	U.S.	U.S. Difference
iPhone 16 Pro	3,582mAh	+308mAh	3,582mAh	+308mAh
iPhone 17 Pro	3,988mAh	+406mAh	4,252mAh	+670mAh
iPhone 18 Pro	4,056mAh	+68mAh	4,288mAh	+36mAh

iPhone 18 Pro Max

	China	China Difference	U.S.	U.S. Difference
iPhone 16 Pro Max	4,685mAh	+244mAh	4,685mAh	+244mAh
iPhone 17 Pro Max	4,823mAh	+138mAh	5,088mAh	+403mAh
iPhone 18 Pro Max	5,391mAh	+568mAh	5,567mAh	+479mAh

The capacities disagree by portion due to the fact that Apple has continued to see a SIM tray connected iPhones sold successful immoderate countries extracurricular of the U.S., portion U.S. models person been eSIM lone since the iPhone 14 lineup. Without a carnal tray taking up interior space, Apple tin acceptable a somewhat larger artillery into the eSIM-only mentation of each device.

Starting with the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the SIM paper tray is besides removed connected models sold successful Canada, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and a fewer different countries and territories.
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