iPhone 14 Pro Max Battery, do and don’t do

[Ilikemushrooms]

Use the genuine chargers, or chargers from a reputable company and don't use fast charging unless you really need to, as this creates heat and heat is what kills battery life.

I've used the old 5w chargers overnight for years, never had a single problem. My 13 Pro from last year is still on 100% battery health, and I continue to charge my 14 Pro this way as well. There's enough things to worry about in life than to add looking after a phone battery lol.

Just charge it when you need to, and don't let it drop low if you can help it.

I’ve had my 14pm for almost two month now and optimized charging never kicked in. Prob because I only charge it every two days.
Now I use a smart plug so that it starts charging 3 hours before I wake up to avoid staying at 100% all night.

 

[antiprotest]

Do whatever you want.

Don't inconvenience yourself.

 

[hovscorpion12]

I don't do too much as far as battery. The only thing I do is stop charge at 80%. Other than that, I charge whenever I want.

 

[kevcube]

I don't do too much as far as battery. The only thing I do is stop charge at 80%. Other than that, I charge whenever I want.

That’s doing a lot. Why even bother?

So much effort to maintain 100% battery health, yet it’s as good for you as 80% battery health lol

 

[RRC]

Battery health anxiety isn’t worth the stress… just use the device, when it does need a new battery just get it replaced.

 

[FeliApple]

I’ve never remotely cared about this, I just charge whenever I want, don’t even pay attention to charging patterns, charge to 100%, drain to whatever I want, never paid any attention. I do two things for battery longevity:

Charge with the slowest possible charger: 5W for iPhones, always, and don’t use fast chargers unless it isn’t possible (my iPad Air 5 came with the 20W USB-C charger, I can’t charge it any slower with what I have, so I use that).

And refrain from updating iOS (unless… Apple forces me, of course). By doing that, I retain perfect battery life even years after I start using them, with my 63% health iPhone 6s on iOS 10 having like-new battery life.

My 9.7-inch iPad Pro had perfect battery life after 500 cycles and 88% health but it was forced out of iOS 9 into iOS 12 three years after I started using it and plummeted, confirming my theory: the only thing that matters is the iOS version, and battery health and care is completely irrelevant if you don’t update iOS. If you do, it matters, because people report improvements after replacing the battery on, for instance, the iPhone 6s on iOS 15. Still, battery life is abhorrent, with people reporting 2.5 hours of SOT with new batteries. I get three times that on iOS 10. Degraded batteries barely report one hour, hence why I mentioned that there is an improvement. Doesn’t mean it’s good, just that it’s better.

 

[JM]

Imagine if people where this detailed about their car batteries….yikes.

Maybe they should be 🤣

 

[TallManNY]

Do: Use it and charge it whenever convenient. After two or three years of use, get it replaced by Apple for $69. Don't wait for the battery to degrade to below 80% and give you some sort of warning. Two years of use and degradation below 85% is enough of a reason to get a new battery. After three years of use, just get a new battery even if you are above 85% (but you probably won't be).

Don't Do: Any battery optimization patterns that create any inconvenience to you whatsoever. Nothing you can do will have nearly the same benefit as the $69 battery replacement in year two or three of ownership. Also, as mentioned above, iOS updates are going to have greater impact on your battery life than the physical state of your battery. There comes a time in the life of every iOS device where the next iOS update is going to be one that kills the device's battery life. There is not much you can do except eventually draw the line and not update to the next iOS version.