Materials for the latest iPhone are now also available as part of the self-service repair program. But is the repair ...

Specifically, it could adversely affect its battery life. The current iPhone 16 Pro did reasonably well in our battery benchmark test, posting an average time of 14 hours and 7 minutes.

In this case the lower score ... to get a noticeable boost in battery life — lasting 17 hours and 14 minutes during our testing. Meanwhile the iPhone 16 Pro Max did get a small boost in capacity ...