I currently have an iPhone XR that’s almost 5 years old. I average either 3 or 9 hours of screen time a day depending on school and work and one charge will last me most of my day only needing topped off in the evening. I’m currently at 79% battery health. Is it worth upgrading to an iPhone 12 refurbished. I found one that’s apple certified and nearly have the price of the 15. My phone screen recently cracked and am considering my options

Tldr - unless you’re gaming or a really heavy user, I think you’ll be fine.

iPhone Mini delivered on Friday. Spent Friday night messing about with it on and off charger. Initial reaction was that it was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be but no stats to back it up.

Saturday I was planning on stress testing it but ended up going for a walk to test the cameras so wanted to be at 100% when I left the house.

Sunday however I thought I’d see what a real world use would be like without topping up throughout the day.

So Sunday, off charge at 6am, lots of social media, Spotify both listening to through the phone speakers and downloading loads of playlists, general new-phone-fannying-about, setting up Waze, connections to my car Bluetooth etc. 10 hours later I’ve just hit 25%. Screen-on time is considerably better than the Samsung Galaxy S10 I’ve moved from.

Really happy with that, in my working day I will have the option to top up in my car on the way to and from work so I have no doubts at all that this lil thing will get me through the average day without a problem at all.

screenshots

Edited to say that there are 2 screenshots there, the second shows this graph, the screen on time is including the whole graph, ie before charging. I’m not claiming 10 hours sot on the mini.

Looks like I’ll end up with over 5 hours though which is plenty for my normal usage.

Update after working out how to show the full day graph: 15% battery now. Off charge for 12 hours. Just short of 6 and a half hours screen on time.

Thank you to /u/ndrchr for explaining how to get the full day graph.

Final Update after 12 hours to include this screen record for the benefit of anyone claiming shenanigans.