iPhone 16e teardown reveals surprisingly huge battery and inside tweaks

With the iPhone 16e now obtainable to buy, we had entry to the primary teardown of this machine. Posted by YouTuber REWA Expertise, the video highlights an even bigger battery inside this cellular, an easy-to-replace battery, and a harder-to-repair A18 chip.

Whereas Apple solely said that the iPhone 16e had the very best battery life on an iPhone with as much as 26 hours of video playback, we now understand it’s not solely the C1 chip that’s making this machine extra power-efficient

The video highlights that the iPhone 16e has a 4.005 mAh battery, a 12% enhance over the common 3,561 mAh battery on the iPhone 16.

The principle causes are the interior redesign (in all probability in comparison with an iPhone 14) and the dearth of MagSafe help. Apparently sufficient, the video reveals the identical glue expertise used on iPhone 16.

As proven by iFixit in final yr’s iPhone 16 teardown, all it’s good to do to take away the battery from the chassis is apply a low 9V present. The battery will come off like magic. The process additional improves the repairability of the iPhone 16, and now iPhone 16e, making battery replacements even simpler. The method solely works in a single route, permitting you to detach the battery from the body. Every new battery will function its personal glue strip, and no present shall be wanted throughout set up.

Moreover that, the video exhibits that eradicating the A18 chip is tougher—or at the very least it was tougher for them to take away. You may as well see the brand new logic board and Apple’s C1 chip within the video.

The iPhone 16e is now obtainable to buy. It has an iPhone 14-like design, a 6.1-inch OLED show, an Motion Button with Visible Intelligence, Apple Intelligence help, and the A18 chip. It’s obtainable in Black and White.

BGR will preserve reporting on this new iPhone as we be taught extra about it.