While that is all true, it does give more time to realize what is going on, so I can address the issue, without leaving me in a bad spot.

On days with normal battery usage, how is having more battery life ever a negative? Long travel days, which may also have heavy map usage, leave users outside of normal patterns and often with unpredictable access to charging. Having a long battery life would ease stress around those days and be preferable to carrying a battery bank.

My iPhone mini lasts about 6 hours. If I hike in the cold it lasts maybe 2.5 hours tops, and hikes are usually 4-6 hours total, so it's usually dead by the time I'm done, and so I can't tap to ride the train home unless I bring a power bank.

If I have a long train ride, like 2 hours, and I read on it, it'll usually use about 50% of the battery in that duration.

If I go somewhere new, and use google maps a lot to navigate around, it'll last about 3 hours total.

If I go somewhere with bad cellular signal, it constantly fights to connect and drains incredibly quickly, often in a matter of 2 hours.

The Air looks like it's supposed to have a battery that's about 30% larger than the mini's, and the mini is wildly insufficient for regular use.

People go on hikes in areas where there are multiple days between charging opportunities.

Hiking often also occurs in areas with bad or no coverage causing higher battery consumption with the phone trying to connect. If you don't mitigate this (with eg. turning off or enabling airplane mode) this will burn through battery much faster than the usual city dwelling.

> How many people hike longer than their battery lasts?

ROTFL. All of them. If your phone stops in a middle of a forest, what do you do ? Just sit there until (magically) starts again ?

Replied to the other comment - but I poorly read your message that I responded to. You're absolutely right that this wouldn't be a normal / routine use-case.

Yeah my bad, I poorly read the post I was replying to. I'll leave my comment, because maybe someone is hardcore enough to do that.

I do want to see how the advertised battery life stacks up against the real-world observation. It might be enough, it might not be, let's see :)

In a hike you probably want to use your phone to look up the map/gps location, take photos etc. Ime iphones are struggling with this use case a bit without a power bank. Putting them in low power and airplane mode, while using a lightweight app for navigation with downloaded maps helps a lot, though it is still not gonna take you as far as other phones with larger battery life. I would never go for a hike where I know I need my iphone without a power bank with me. But not doing these and using google maps to navigate will not take you very far into the hike at all.