Smartphones with the Longest Battery Life
published 3/31/2022
Best phone battery life in 2022: The longest lasting smartphones
By
Philip Michaels published 10 days ago
These are the smartphones with the best phone battery life based on our tests
Grab one of the devices that appears on our best phone battery life list, and you never have to worry about a charger. A phone needs to last 11.5 hours on our demanding battery test to land a place on this list, and that translates to all-day battery life — and beyond — for everyday phone use.
As you can see from the best phone battery life list below, you don't have to spend big bucks to benefit from a long-lasting phone. The longest-lasting device we've tested in the last 18 months can be yours for around $200, and there are other midrange models that put a premium on battery life, not price, for you to choose from.
Galaxy S22 lineup — even with a 5,000 mAh battery of its own, the
Galaxy S22 Ultra didn't come anywhere close to landing on this list.)
Every phone we review goes through our custom battery test in which we make phones surf the web continuously over LTE or
5G until they run out of juice. We set the phone's screen at 150 nits of brightness to ensure comparable results.
The average phone lasts around 10 hours, but the phones we’ve highlighted here held out for more than 11 hours. That's the kind of endurance where you're less reliant on one of our
best portable charger picks.
Our current battery champ is the Moto G Power (2021), which relies on a 5,000 mAH battery to last at least 14 hours; its successor — the Moto G Power (2022) — lands just two spaces behind it. In fact, Motorola phones tend to do very well on our test, as they make up five of the top 15 devices; the
Moto G Stylus 5G falls just shy of making the cut.
Here are all the top performers we've tested in the last year-and-a-half.
Best phone battery life at a glance (hours:minutes)
- Moto G Power (2021): 14:04
- Nubia RedMagic 6: 13:20
- Moto G Power (2022): 13: 15
- Nubia RedMagic 6S Pro: 13:13
- Moto G Stylus (2022): 12:30
- Kyocera DuraForce Ultra 5G UW: 12:29
- Asus ROG Phone 5: 12:23
- Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: 12:19
- iPhone 13 Pro Max: 12:16 (tie)
- Cat S62 Pro: 12:16 (tie)
- Motorola One 5G Ace: 12:03
- OnePlus 10 Pro: 11:52 (tie)
- Moto G Pure: 11:52 (tie)
- OnePlus Nord N10 5G: 11:48
- iPhone 13 Pro: 11:42
Phones with the best battery life in 2022