I Tested the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max’s Batteries and Was Awestruck by One Change

Battery life might be the iPhone 18 Pro’s sleeper feature. When Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max , the phones were instantly overshadowed by their new sibling, the iPhone Duo , which has a passport-size design with a tiny iPad-like folding screen. That doesn’t mean that Apple’s latest pro phones don’t have their own appeal. On paper, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max’s marquee features are the new variable aperture and the addition of manual controls in the Camera app, aimed at the niche audience of professional photographers and creative types. But my testing found that the phone’s battery upgrades should appeal to everyone. That’s in part because the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have larger batteries than their 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max counterparts, as revealed in a teardown by the tech repair site iFixIt