Forget Apple Silicon, Apple could be making its own batteries for your next iPhone
Phone batteries could be in Apple’s sights for its next piece of in-house developed hardware, which could lead to iPhones with significantly longer battery life.
This is evident from a report by a Korean publication ET News (through Revegnus at X), which cites industry sources and claims that Apple aims to design its own product-ready batteries by 2025. With that in mind, don’t expect such batteries to appear in the iPhone 16, but the iPhone 17 is coming. could see Apple have its own internal batteries ready for its flagship phones.
Such batteries could also find their way into future iPads and MacBooks. But ET News notes that the main target of this move is mobile devices.
Apple is reportedly involved in the entire development process, including looking at the materials that make up the battery, such as anode and cathode material, and using carbon nanotubes as a conductive material to improve the performance of the battery material. Apparently, Apple will try to provide innovation in materials to develop a battery that has never been used commercially worldwide.
In short, Apple could take the same step as with its Apple Silicon initiative, which saw the creation of internal Mac and iPad chips with impressively high performance, and create batteries that are one step ahead of the current ones in terms of capacity, charging and efficiency.
Take the lead
One of the reasons the iPhone often makes our best phones lists is that Apple controls almost all of the development of its smartphones, from internal chips to locked-down software and a very carefully curated app store.
This usually means that while iPhones don’t have as flexible customization options as some of the best Android phones, they tend to be easier to use, often more efficient, and able to do more with less. iPhones generally have less RAM than iPhones. their Android rivals, but are rarely beaten in terms of performance.
By taking control of the development of iPhone batteries, Apple could therefore have an even more detailed input into the end-to-end development of future iPhones.
And in its previous form, this could mean iPhones not only lasting longer on a single charge, but also charging faster and more efficiently, and potentially having longer battery life if Apple can make some progress in addressing the way lithium-ion batteries deteriorate over time. time. As such, 2025 could be the year that Apple kicks off a battery evolution.