So much this. ☹️😠 I could go on a multi-hour explanation but I’ll try to keep it brief and simple (with some “tough love”).I definitely don’t support Apple unconditionally. More often than not when people have a gripe it’s of their own fault but sometimes there’s a legitimate problem. They have these rules for a reason because there are many people here that would have their battery replaced at 90%.
Foremost, to all of the worry warts, conspiracists, etc, stop obsessing or even looking at the number! In 99.999...% of a device’s operation, it’s pointless to monitor. In the vast majority of instances, it just goes to cause an irrational response.
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Very probable.Why extend to monthly Apple Care? If you don't, the money that you save could pay for your battery replacement once it actually does drop below 80%, which could still be months from now.
Complaints err discussions err threads such as this motivated me to learn and observe more about battery facts, including their behaviors. I’m still accumulating more data — in fact, it will be years as I want to observe and log the lifespan of my current devices. As an aside, I tend to run most of my tools, etc into the ground (i.e., use them until they’re definitely unusable) but never had the interest of logging the data for proof. Anyway…
What’s often jumbled into a conspiracy is typical behavior:Is it possible that Apple hardcoded it to stay at 81% until the plan expires? I sure did try to wear down the battery as much as possible in the days leading up to the genius appointment.
On another thread, I posted my iPad (6th generation) battery degradation as a supporting example to the above.
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As you can see, it is incomplete -- one of the reasons I want to log another set of devices, getting start to finish. Furthermore, the most recent record is 930 cycles at an estimated 20% capacity/health, and the device still can operate for hours.
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In other words, in a little more than 2-and-a-half years and 400 cycles, 387 to 787, the estimated capacity dropped ~16%. Then, in the span of less than one year and almost 100 cycles, the ‘health’ dropped by ~33%.
Most recent records for the iPad 6:
2024-05-15 876 42.5%
2024-08-26 925 27.2%
2024-09-08 930 20.3%
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By the way, give (re)calibration a try, it might cause the result you desire 😉
An iPhone battery can last much more than 1000 cycles!!!
Hi guys, I want to show you that it is indeed possible that the battery can last much more than the 500 cycles, which are specified by Apple. I bought my iPhone Xs on September 2018 and it has the first battery up to this day. On the attached screenshot of the Mac app "coconutBattery" you can...
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