Here's how 5G affects iPhone 14 battery life

How 5G affects iPhone battery life

Including streaming YouTube videos with the quality set to "Auto." The test was conducted on iPhone SE 3, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 mini, and iPad Air, and repeated on 5G and LTE.

Test results clearly show that 5G can have a significant impact on iPhone and iPad battery life. But even more interesting is the difference in battery performance between T-Mobile and Verizon. The report explains:

So, I wanted to compare the battery performance of 5G and 4G myself. I played a long YouTube video with relaxing ocean footage on different Apple devices with the video quality set to "Auto" until they ran out of battery, first on 5G and then on LTE. It's not a perfect test, but it proved to be a consistent way to see 5G increase battery drain.

That's why the most important takeaway from this experiment is the difference in battery performance between the two networks: T-Mobile 4G and 5G for iPhone SE and 13 Pro; Verizon 4G and 5G for iPhone 13 Mini and new iPad Air 5G. Note that how long the device lasts doesn't say much on its own, as this isn't real-life behavior (unless you're in town watching 10 hours of ocean views).

As shown above, the iPhone SE 3 lasts an hour longer on 4G than when connected to 5G. The iPad Air and iPhone 13 mini each have about 1.5 hours longer battery life, while the iPhone 13 Pro has 2.5 hours longer battery life.

It’s important to note here that none of the iPhones participating in these tests were connected to the ultra-powerful mmWave 5G. Instead, they connect to sub-6GHz 5G, which offers slower speeds than mmWave but theoretically has less of an impact on battery life.

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