The thread title says it all. I know the battery life improved a lot w/the 13 Pro but I have a really hard time believing that after 9 months of everyday use, the battery capacity is still 100%. Any one else in a similar position?
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iPhone 13 Pro After 9 months of every day use, my iPhone 13 Pro is still at 100% battery capacity, how is this possible?
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At what battery level did you plug in to recharge? What type of charger do you use? Mine was almost a year at 100%. Its at 99% now. But Coconut says 100% (actually 99.5 so). My launch day was 103.5%. My wife is still at 104% during most of the year. She turns her phone off at night, so her phone is off 33% of the day. We are all kinda jealous...
My launch day iPhone 13 Pro Max just dropped to 99% health 2 weeks ago. However, when I got it the battery capacity was 104% (per coconut battery). So I actually lost 5% capacity over the year, but only 1% off the design capacity. It’s just a battery lottery because of lithium-ion design. I wouldn’t be surprised if your original capacity was much higher than the design capacity.
I have a launch weekend iPhone 6s+ that took over six years to reach 79%. That's with daily use and an average of 6-7 hours at night with the screen on (bedside clock) and plugged in. Also two summers traveling around in 110º Phoenix heat.
That 6s+ is still going strong (I replaced the battery in November 2021).
I'd comment on my 11 Pro Max, but it's only four months old right now (a replacement made in May 2022).
Your battery probably came with more than a 100% (103%+) and your recharging habits combined could be the contributing factors.
iOS only goes till 100% so unless the capacity drops below that it’s gonna stay the same. You follow good battery keeping habits and it might stay 100% a few more months.
My launch day 13 pro is still at 100%. I charge every night and it sits on wireless charger in my car whenever I drive.
I was up until last week or two with my launch day 13 Pro which now sits at 99%. What's displayed as battery health on iPhone at 100% is in reality a value higher than that. If you checked your phone on day one in a 3rd party battery app such as iMazing or coconutBattery it would probably read about 106%. So in reality, right now you're on 100% or higher.
I really started to care about my battery with 13 Pro, set up a notification with a spoken text each time battery dropped below 30% or was charged up to 80%, kept it charged mostly between those two values.
I'm interested to hear, did you give your battery any special treatment like I did? (question for anyone at 98% and higher).
I was at 100% right up until a week ago where it just dropped to 99%. I have my 13PM since launch day.
Yes, 9.0.1 from October 2015 to December 2020. It's on 15.7 now.
I had my 13 Pro Max for a full year and it was at 100% when I turned it in. I had optimized charging turned on the entire time I owned it and rarely charged it on anything other than the MagSafe charger.
Primarily…I was bored.
The 6s+ stopped being my primary phone in 2019 and until I got a SIM for it, I wasn't doing much with it. My primary phone was a Pixel 3a XL from 2019 until 2021 and now it's the 11 Pro Max. So, once I started actually needing the 6s+ as a secondary phone (I take it on my morning walks) it became evident that I wanted to update it. I did not need to, but I wanted to.
I kept it on iOS 9 because it was jailbroken. But so many of the JB tweaks and apps that I used were abandonware by this point and a lot of stuff was starting to break. And I was bored with the layout, functionality and wallpaper. I wanted something new, so I updated it and made new wallpaper for it.
Of course now, it's stuck on 15.7 so eventually it will end up doing third duties like my other old iPhones. But for now it's still useful.
Yeah, after so many years, I totally understand that. As the vast majority updates, even if they don’t get a new device, they still get new things and features constantly. I never update iOS (unless forced by Apple), and I don’t upgrade frequently (because they work perfectly). When I do upgrade, I have so many new features that I didn’t even know existed, it never ceases to amaze me.
Especially after it’s not your main phone anymore, apps stop working eventually like you said, support first drops, then is non-existent, and as much as it hurts me (the least inclined person to update, ever) to say it, the device, even if it maintains top-notch performance and battery life, drops in practical usefulness. Like you said, things start to break left and right at some point, and even if the basics work flawlessly, it’s not as useful.
That is a compelling argument, I’ve read many people who said “yeah, I had an iPhone 6s on iOS 10 and I updated because I couldn’t install or update anything”. It’s tolerable for a while, but eventually if you don’t upgrade the device it loses too many necessary apps for it to remain as cool as it always was as a main device.
I might have told you, I had an iPhone 6s (main phone from Sep 2016 to Aug 2019) on iOS 9.3.3, given to a family member and kept there for about one more month, when the iOS activation bug for A9 processors on iOS 9 came and forced it out of iOS 9 (that phone was needed, it couldn’t be kept in a drawer to wait for a potential solution). Same thing happened to my 9.7-inch iPad Pro (on iOS 9.3.4 for the same period, forced to iOS 12 a week before iPadOS 13 was released), which I still have but I upgraded to an iPad Air 5 because battery life was abhorrent on iOS 12.
My second phone is an iPhone 6s on the earliest iOS version it can run, iOS 10.0. I’ve lost access to a lot of apps I care about, but it runs so flawlessly! Performance-wise, I find no difference in daily light use when compared to my iPhone Xʀ (on iOS 12, of course). I tested the 6s on iOS 13 and in my opinion performance left a lot to be desired, with the dreaded keyboard lag (non-existent on iOS 9 and 10). Battery life… no comments. It’s awful. 64% health on iOS 10, 6 hours of full LTE use with half brightness. I reckon I’d get 3 with a lot of luck on iOS 13. (with 94% health).
how’s battery life on the 6s+ on iOS 15? How many hours of screen-on time are you getting? How’s performance?
after 10 months my 13PM is at 99%, I rarely am below 66% at the end of the day but I charge overnight using an Anker Qi charger. optimized charging is enabled.
the thread title made me look it up, I have AC+ and I really don't look at battery status anymore .. .
the thread title made me look it up, I have AC+ and I really don't look at battery status anymore .. .
Aside from the usual app breaking stuff you brought up, I was more meaning the jailbreak apps and tweaks. You can really not expect a whole lot of support from those developers (although some do support their tweaks) and some of that stuff is one-off or relies on servers that go down.
And jailbreaking itself has moved on from fully untethered (meaning you can reboot jailbroken) to semi-untethered (run the jailbreak after reboot).
Finally, one of my biggest reasons to jailbreak was removed when Apple finally added darkmode. So, that makes me a hypocrite by joining the people that ditched jailbreaks because Apple finally offered something they've been wanting stock.
As to battery life…I replaced the battery on my 6s+ in November 2021. So 100% battery life right now. Outside of taking my 6s+ on my walks it doesn't really see much use over the course of the day.