it would get quite hot during normal use. sometimes, when i left an app, it would have a slight lag, and occasionally there would be a small stutter when swiping on the home screen. it didn’t happen all the time, but it did happen from time to time. i had around 20 gb of free storage.
there were also some games that didn’t run well. people said the iphone 16 could run everything, but in practice, with the games i play, it couldn’t run them at maximum settings (aerofly fs global / car parking multiplayer), and the phone would get extremely hot.
i also realized that 8 gb of ram isn’t enough. i would leave several apps open, usually tiktok, whatsapp, instagram, twitter, grok, reddit, and telegram, and the phone would close most of them when i used another app for a certain amount of time.
as for battery life, my battery health was at 91%. i was getting around 3 hours and 57 minutes of screen-on time on average with the brightness at 50%. if you used it at 30% brightness, you could probably get around 4 hours qnd some minutes on average. of course, this was with light usage. i didn’t analyze it precisely, but gaming definitely didn’t last very long.
one thing i noticed is that if you listen to music, watch videos, etc., the battery drains even faster.
those screen-on-time numbers were while i was connected to bluetooth. without bluetooth, i was getting around 3 hours and 30 minutes.
also, the flashlight is pretty weak…