Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 15 over-delivers – with professionals & cons

The Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 15 is the most recent iteration of a product the corporate has been providing for round a decade now.

The battery case claims to increase the battery lifetime of an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Professional, or iPhone 15 Professional Max by 50% – however in my testing, did higher than that …

In case your iPhone 15 isn’t getting you thru a full day, there’s an entire bunch of options on the market – from top-up costs from a transportable battery financial institution by means of MagSafe battery packs.

The Mophie Juice Pack takes a distinct method. It’s a snap-on case which fully encloses your iPhone, with an built-in battery.

I examined it with the iPhone 15 Professional Max.

The Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 15: Look & really feel

The case is a fairly anonymous-looking matte plastic case with a rubberized really feel. There’s no seen branding.

Powered off, the one clues that there’s a battery in there may be the humped form and a barely-visible energy button and LED array.

In use

The case pulls open, you insert your cellphone into the primary part – the USB-C port routinely aligning with the plug within the inside backside of the case – after which slide the highest part again into place. Maintain down the facility button to change it on, and a set of 4 white LEDs point out the remaining cost.

The case additionally helps pass-through charging, so you possibly can merely go away the cellphone within the case when connecting to a USB-C cable. The cellphone is charged first, then the case. In use, it’s the alternative, the case battery powering the cellphone till it’s exhausted.

My most intensive use of earlier generations of this case has been on cycle-touring holidays. Since I used my iPhone for pictures and video clips, I appreciated the prolonged battery life, in addition to the impact-protection provided by the case.

This newest model affords the identical advantages. The case affords a excessive diploma of impression safety to the rear and surrounds, and the entrance lip additionally protects the display screen. Once more, in a earlier model, I inadvertently examined this by dropping my cellphone from a transferring bike, and it was completely unscathed.

The battery is a 2400mAh one, which the corporate says extends the battery by round 50%. I used to be once more fully unable to exhaust the battery.

On one lengthy day with intensive cellphone use, I nonetheless had some case energy left on the finish of the day, and the iPhone itself nonetheless had 100% battery. After I left the display screen on for a full 12 hours, the Juice Pack was nonetheless going (albeit right down to the final LED), and my cellphone was once more nonetheless totally charged.

Execs & cons

As with earlier fashions, the Mophie Juice Pack affords a mixture of professionals & cons.

Execs

The primary profit is that it dramatically extends the battery-life of your iPhone, in a single unit. There’s no MagSafe pack to fall off or stick out, and no cables as with an exterior energy pack. The case nonetheless matches right into a jacket pocket.

The opposite benefit is the impression safety. For any outside exercise the place there’s an elevated danger of dropping your cellphone, it is a actually comforting extra profit.

Cons

The primary disadvantage is the shortage of MagSafe help. So you possibly can’t cost the case or cellphone on wi-fi chargers, and you may’t use a MagSafe pockets. As somebody whose MagSafe pockets is my solely pockets, that is for certain a nuisance.

Moreover, whereas you’ll have chosen your main iPhone case since you just like the aesthetics, no one would name the Juice Pack fairly. Inoffensive, certain, however fairly, no.

Pricing & conclusions

The Mophie Juice Pack prices $100, although you might be able to discover it on sale for much less.

For me, it belongs firmly within the class of ‘when you want one, you’ll realize it.’ For my fundamental use case, of cycle touring, I contemplate it just about good – and well worth the outlay. However when you merely want a bit extra of a lift to get by means of an extended day, it’s possible you’ll be higher off with a noon top-up cost from an exterior battery pack.

Take a look at the in-depth evaluate over at 9to5Toys, full with a hyperlink to a sale value.

Photograph: Mophie.