What’s the thing you want most in a phone? Better battery life, right? Well, now we have confirmation of how the new iPhone batteries have changed.

Regulatory documents reveal the iPhone 16 battery capacities. The batteries are bigger than the iPhone 15 models - here's how they compare.

Apple was able to introduce significant gains in battery life across the entire iPhone 16 lineup, and new regulatory information from

Apple has outfitted the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus with a new kind of adhesive that makes it faster and safer to swap out the battery.

As noted on Tuesday, Apple quietly took steps to improve the iPhone 16’s repairability. In addition to adding new items to the list of repairable components, the company introduced a clever new method for removing the phone’s battery. On Friday, Apple published step-by-step instructions for swapping out the new handset’s battery.

As you can see, most iPhone 16s have had around 6% more battery capacity compared to last year. The only exception being the iPhone 16 Pro, which has an additional 9.4% power reserves. Considering our testing found the iPhone 15 Pro had the worst battery life of the 2023 iPhones, that extra capacity is definitely welcomed.

Apple typically doesn’t reveal the battery sizes of its iPhones. However, thanks to Brazilian regulator Anatel, we now know the exact battery size of each iPhone 16 model.

Following today's launch of the new iPhone 16 models, Apple has shared repair manuals for the iPhone 16, the iPhone 16 Plus, the iPhone 16

Now a regulatory listing has appeared showing just how much more capacity those batteries have in comparison with iPhone 15 equivalents. Apple announced its iPhone 16 series durin