Catch up on what we published this week, including a look at Apple's new Journal app, some great links on Apple's Vision Pro system, and more. The Smart Battery Case developed by Apple for the iPhone 11 Pro provides longer battery life while protecting your iPhone 11 Pro. There’s a considerable increase in weight when a Battery Case is attached to the iPhone and you’d be hard-pressed to lose it in your pocket. It’s the best battery case for the iPhone 11 family, offering several benefits not found in its rivals, but it is darned expensive.

Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When the juice runs out, you can plug the iPhone 11 Pro and battery case into the same universal charging cord to recharge simultaneously. If you're anything like me, you probably feel like your phone's battery life can never last long enough.

The other point of a battery case is to protect your precious iPhone, so look for a decent bumper around the case to save it from drops and a front bevelled edge that will protect the screen from scratches.

This is where you need a handy power bank to wire-up to your fading phone, but that usually means another hunk of metal in your bag and a cable that has a mind of its own. It’s much, much easier to keep your thumb rested on the screen to shoot an impromptu video than it is to hold down the hardware camera button. The Battery Case is not The Photography Case — a case that provides direct hardware control of the camera and just happens to have an additional days-plus of battery life inside.The case is compatible with wireless charging — this much is obvious and great — but I wasn’t able to get it to work with all the wireless Qi chargers in my life. This case’s 4,800mAh battery pack extends its battery life by 100 percent while also guaranteeing that your iPhone 11 Pro will absorb any charge first before refueling the charging case.

For those with moderate or heavy usage, I expect the Battery Case to provide at least enough to get you through each 24-hour day. It’s slender and lightweight enough to not make too much of a difference in your pocket as a normal phone. There are plenty out there covering the absolute latest and fastest models as well as older models that will still keep many people happy. We then check how the device looks, before giving it a grade so you know exactly what you’re getting. The Newdery Battery Case features an upgraded port connection, gentle TPU substance, and a thicker bezel to help absorb shock around the edges of your phone.And for last year’s iPhone XR, the Battery Case unlocked an additional 39 hours of talk time and 22 hours of Internet usage.

It’s jam-packed with training, ideas, and lessons that can literally transform your photography overnight. The Battery Case hardware camera button requires a slightly longer press to fire up the Camera app than I originally expected. When it’s finally used up all its charge, the case lets go, and you then have as long as the phone gives you from fully loaded. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. features wireless charging although it’s tricky to check it’s working as the battery indicators are on the back.While the Apple case gave us about 70% extra, the Casely managed 109% – we charged up an iPhone 11 Pro from 15% back to 100% full power, and then again from 20% to 44%.