The iPhone 16 Professional Max continues to make headlines, with Apple firmly having the most effective efficiency and longest battery life smartphone this 12 months.

In PhoneBuff’s check, the 16 Professional Max went head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely in a check involving quite a lot of app capabilities, all managed by a robotic arm. The iPhone finally lasted a complete of 28 hours and 14 minutes; with greater than 12 hours of lively screen-on time and 16 hours of standby. That battery life efficiency set a brand new file, beating out every other smartphone PhoneBuff has examined.

Compared, the S24 Extremely managed a strong 27 hours and 18 minutes, albeit dying one hour sooner than the iPhone 16 Professional Max. The earlier iPhone, the iPhone 15 Professional Max, achieved 27 hours and 45 minutes, when it was examined a 12 months in the past on iOS 17.

This 12 months’s PhoneBuff check was additionally barely extra strenuous, with extra simulated scrolling by Instagram and different apps than was performed beforehand.

PhoneBuff makes use of a programmed robotic arm to exactly mirror enter interactions throughout telephones, making for one of the reasonable artificial battery life benchmarks we’ve seen.

Relatively than simply taking part in movies on repeat, or biking by web sites till the telephones die, the PhoneBuff check spans the gamut of what a telephone can do. That features sending and receiving messages, triaging e-mail, looking the online, scrolling by social media apps, watching YouTube, taking part in video games, listening to streaming music, utilizing Google Maps and extra.

You possibly can watch the total check right here: