iOS 26.1 beta, battery life tests
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- iPhone 17 Pro Max easily beats Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in battery life test
- Apple working on MCP support on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
- Apple explains N1 chip’s unique advantages in iPhone 17
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, September 23, 2025. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.6 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:13.2 | Leading off today, the iPhone 17 Pro Max seems to have firmly cemented itself as the smartphone battery king. |
| 0:20.3 | In a simulated usage test for Mr. Who's |
| 0:23.8 | the boss on YouTube, Samsung's flagship big phone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, managed 11 hours and |
| 0:31.4 | 58 minutes before it died. In comparison, the iPhone 17 Pro Max managed an impressive 13 hours on a single charge. |
| 0:40.0 | This test consisted of scrolling social media apps like TikTok and X, |
| 0:44.5 | productivity apps like Slack, Spotify, video recording, and more. |
| 0:49.1 | It's meant to simulate a real-world usage test for an iPhone user. |
| 0:53.6 | While the Pro Max takes the crown, all of the new |
| 0:56.0 | iPhone 17 and iPhone Air models actually performed well. The air, unsurprisingly, died first |
| 1:01.9 | at 7 hours and 18 minutes. The base iPhone 17 died at 10 hours and 18 minutes, and just a little |
| 1:08.7 | bit later, the iPhone 17 Pro ran out of juice. |
| 1:12.2 | Even Apple's flagship from last year, the iPhone 16 Pro Max edged out the 2025 Samsung flagship |
| 1:18.5 | by around 20 minutes. This suggests that the year-over-year jump from the 16 Pro Max to the 17 |
| 1:25.2 | Pro Max is the equivalent of about an hour and a half to two hours |
| 1:28.9 | of extra battery life. And perhaps most notably, this test used the UK version of the iPhone |
| 1:34.9 | 17 Pro Max, which still includes a physical SIM card slot. The ESIM only version of the 17 |
| 1:41.4 | Pro Max sold in the US and select other markets has an even bigger |
| 1:46.0 | battery and would last even longer in this test. You can hit the link in the show notes to watch |
| 1:51.5 | the full video, but again, the takeaway here is that the iPhone 17 Pro Max is the smartphone |
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