Real-life testing of iPhone 12 mini battery life: How bad is it?

The iPhone 12 mini is a compact iPhone with great ambitions. The iPhone 12 mini has an extremely small size, smaller than even the smallest smartphones launched in 2020. But inside, the iPhone 12 mini is fully equipped with components, features and dual camera sensors. similar to iPhone 12.

The only downside and also a huge drawback of the iPhone 12 mini is the battery capacity. Apple has done everything, such as shrinking the top sensor cluster, the Taptic Engine and the bottom speaker, but still only enough space for a 2,227 mAh battery.

So with such a modest capacity battery, does the actual usage life of the iPhone 12 mini make users disappointed? PhoneArena has conducted field tests to find answers for those who want to buy iPhone 12 mini.

Watch the video on YouTube

Watching videos on YouTube is a very popular activity among smartphone users. According to the actual test of PhoneArena, iPhone 12 mini can watch YouTube continuously for about 5 hours and 10 minutes. That’s higher than the iPhone SE 2020, and slightly lower than the iPhone 12.

Compared to a few other Android smartphones. The Pixel 5 can last for 8 hours 49 minutes, while the Galaxy S20 topped the charts with 10 hours and 20 minutes. Apparently the 2,227 mAh battery of the iPhone 12 mini cannot be compared with today’s Android smartphones.

Browsing

Pure browsing test, no processing tasks required, just go to the website and scroll up and down. With this test, the iPhone 12 mini performed quite well, with a time of 10 hours 56 minutes.

Although still inferior to the iPhone 12, the iPhone 12 mini is no longer left behind by Android rivals like in a YouTube video test.

Play 3D games

We have seen how disappointing the actual battery life test results of the iPhone 12 Pro Max are during gaming. And it looks like the same problem is happening on the iPhone 12 mini.

With the smaller battery capacity, the condition of the iPhone 12 mini is even worse. The usage time when playing 3D games of iPhone 12 mini is only 2 hours 22 minutes, even less than the time to fully charge the battery.

Meanwhile, the battery life of the iPhone 12 when gaming is only 3 hours, while that of the Galaxy S20 is up to 7 hours 43 minutes, and that of the Pixel 5 is 5 hours 6 minutes.

Overall, the iPhone 12 mini won’t be a good choice if you enjoy gaming. Especially with the small screen size and very limited battery capacity of the iPhone 12 mini. However, if you need a compact iPhone with basic tasks like browsing the web, checking mail, listening to calls and occasionally watching YouTube, the 2,227 mAh battery of the iPhone 12 mini is really not too bad.

Reference: phonearena