r/AppleWhatShouldIBuy • u/happy_girly22 • 1d ago
iPhone iPhone VS Xiaomi
I have a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite from 2021. It's a great phone, but this year the battery has started to barely last me a full day. If I'm on it for a bit, it just goes down so fast. It can go from 25% to 0% in 3 minutes (it happened while I was on an Uber!). It's also a bit inconvenient to take a powerbank everywhere.
Anyways, I've been wondering about getting an iPhone. My budget allows me to get the iPhone 17. It'd be my first iPhone. I mainly want to get it because I have a MacBook and I've heard they integrate well. My question is: are iPhones durable? Am I going to have to find a bunch of ways to extend the battery life and eventually get a new one in two years?? I'm a jobless college student and I don't have money to buy something that isn't durable... With my Xiaomi, I never had to try to maintain it. I obviously took care of it, but I didn't feel the need to stress over it, if that makes sense.
What's the best option? I'm open to other phone brands that anyone here believes to last.