i have a IPhone 8+ and I just checked my battery health and it’s down to 88% after 8 months is this considered normal?
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iPhone 8/Plus Battery health 88% and the phone is 8 months old?
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It is not uncommon for batteries to loose quite a bit of capacity very shortly, and then stabilize. My Macbook battery went to 85% after 3 months, and has then stayed there the following 18 months.
A better standard is 500 cycles regardless of time...Fun fact: These batteries are rated to have 80 % after 2 years of use.
It's a bit last minute, but if you're concerned, Apple is still doing cheap battery replacements until the end of the year. I learned just yesterday that if you have Apple Care it's free, regardless of the health of your battery.
Go into Apple Early tomorrow so they can replace your battery before the price goes up to £45
I had my battery replaced on my iPhone 7 yesterday that’s 11 months old when I got it a month ago it was 94% battery health but Wed this week it had gone down to 84% Apple ran diagnostics on it twice couldn’t tell me anything my guess bad battery or iOS 12
I had my battery replaced on my iPhone 7 yesterday that’s 11 months old when I got it a month ago it was 94% battery health but Wed this week it had gone down to 84% Apple ran diagnostics on it twice couldn’t tell me anything my guess bad battery or iOS 12
It's possible if you use your phone a lot.
The 7+ I got as a replacement to my old broken one from Apple in February was down to 89% after less than 10 months - but I'm on my phone all day long, and probably put 400+ cycles on it in that time. So that's fair wear.
I was shocked, my launch day (15 months old) iPhone 8 plus shows 97% battery health. I'm not a heavy user, so I usually charge it every 2-3 days when it gets to 50%. I also have never let the battery drop below 30% as I know Li-Ion batteries doesn't like to be run down low.
I bought my 8+ in April and it's capacity is shown as 96% in the battery app and the charge cycles in coconut battery show as 98. Coconut battery shows my capacity as being 97.6% .
I chaerg my battery when it gets down to 5% and charge it all the way up to 100.
I chaerg my battery when it gets down to 5% and charge it all the way up to 100.
Weird. Did they give an option or force you to update to latest iOS? I am trying to avoid an iOS Update for this Battery Replacement as the Partner Store insists they have to do it.
I am currently on 92% / 204 cycles so I am wondering if the 29$ Battery Offer is worthy? Especially since I wish to avoid the Compulsive iOS update from 11 to 12.
Blows my mind why anyone would wanna be on iOS 11 when iOS 12 is out.
Got my iPhone 8 on December 1st battery dropped to 99% already abit surprised by that not sure if its something to worry about but it hasn't dropped since
Battery wear isn’t linear like a glass of water. I’ve had phones come from factory 108% to 96%. The 96% one kept its life best after 230 cycles. I wouldn’t worry about it. Use coconutBattery to find true capacity and monitor weekly over months.
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Interesting. This 96 was on i8? I am currently at 204 cycles on an i7?