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Battery life — we can never have enough of it, and it’s arguably the single biggest metric that can make or break the best smartphones. While running for the charger by mid-afternoon is thankfully mostly a thing of the past, picking out a phone that is guaranteed to last a full day or more is still no simple task.
When it comes to the US big three — iPhone, Galaxy, and Pixel — battery life quibbles are a familiar battleground. So which is the best? To find out, we’ve grabbed Apple’s iPhone 16 and its closest direct rivals in the Android sphere; Google’s Pixel 9 series and Samsung’s Galaxy S24 range.