iPhone 12 Drains 20% Faster on 5G Than 4G, Trails Android Rivals

As 5G networks begin their slow spread across the modern landscape, Apple's first 5G-capable iPhones arrive carrying a quiet but consequential burden: the faster the connection, the shorter the day. Tom's Guide's testing revealed that the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro sacrifice nearly twenty percent of their battery life when stepping up from 4G to 5G — a gap that Android rivals like OnePlus, Google, and Samsung have, for now, learned to navigate more gracefully. In the long arc of technological adoption, the first generation to carry a new standard often bears its costs most visibly, and for iPhone 12