Then you must have had a defective or damaged battery or apps running that put a heavy strain on the battery because it should have had substantially more than 6 hours SOT with a 4800 mAh battery. My Note9 has only a 4000 mAh battery and I get over 6 hours SOT at max brightness streaming HD content. The S21+ probably should get at least 7 or 8 SOT, perhaps even longer.

Try charging your phone to 100% (not something you should do regularly), then use your phone as you normally do and run the battery until the phone shuts off (also something you shouldn’t normally do). This should recalibrate your battery to show a closer approximation to actual battery percentage. After you do this, check in Device Care, Battery, Since Last Full Charge to see what your actual SOT was. I can get around 6 1/2 hours on my Note9 on max brightness, so I imagine you should be getting significantly more than that unless there’s a defect causing the battery to degrade faster than normal. If not, you should probably just get a replacement phone or battery. Hope this helps.

Look at your battery usage and see how much any recently installed apps may be draining your battery. I have a Note9 and for some reason, X (Twitter) seems to make my phone run warmer than usual and uses a lot of battery. Also, some of the newer ChatGPT apps seem to drain battery even though all the AI is done in the cloud.

That extra 2GB could make the difference between an app in the background staying in memory or having to be reloaded when you need it or a little extra performance in a game you really enjoy. It’s only $50 extra that you won’t even miss down the road. I say go for it.

Yeah, that giant pill-shaped void inside your display blocking everything you’re trying to see must be lots of fun. I’ll stick with my Note9, my headphone jack, expandable storage, and a display with no stupid holes or notches.

That can cause a horrible accident. Thanks, Apple!

You actually have to sit up just to get FaceID to work? That’s pretty lame considering it was touted as being so convenient.

And in practice, FaceID is utterly unnecessary especially considering they implemented it by sticking a giant pill shaped void right inside your display. Also, fingerprint is probably even more secure. On my Note9, it’s instantaneous and I don’t have a freaking hole inside my screen, just beautiful screen real estate with no obstructions. If you think FaceID is so secure, have a look: https://youtu.be/bLY5APBo4aU?si=u03jBshibWGHg4Iz

I’m a Samsung kind of guy and I think Android is just vastly more flexible than iOS (not needing to jailbreak just to install emulators for one), BUT I do think overall security is superior on iOS. I have run across malware situations on Android that I never experienced on iPhone. If you use banking apps and such and are paranoid about that, stick with iOS. To me, that little extra reassurance isn’t worth it to give up all the things that make Android such a better experience, but to each their own.

That one has a high potential for abuse and I think Apple is aware of that. There are people who would unfortunately fake traffic issues just to mess with people.

That would actually make it a good phone. That notch and FaceID are totally unnecessary and a definite deal-breaker for me. I’ll take my Note 9 any day over an iPhone.

A display that doesn’t have a retarded notch.

If you don’t care about 5G (and you really shouldn’t at this point because 4G is PLENTY fast and isn’t going anywhere), you can get a renewed Note9 for well under $200. I have one and I LOVE it. I haven’t come across any apps in the Playstore it doesn’t run and you can pop in any SIM you want and use whatever carrier you want. Plus it doesn’t have any stupid notches or camera cutouts, has a remote-control Spen, headphone jack, SD expansion, and great camera. Samsung stopped security patches for it, but you can always use third party security apps if you need to.

That is pretty impressive. I thought 7 hours on my Galaxy Note9 at max brightness was good. Still is good IMO, but the more battery life, the better. What brightness level do you have your phone set to?