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iPhone XS Max Charging overnight safe for battery?
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I went into the Apple store today to replace my X battery (87%, but it says "service"). It failed diagnostics. Then it turned out they didn't have the battery in stock.
The claim is that I'm damaging the battery by my usage. Don't exclusively use apple chargers and apple approved wireless chargers. Not something like my Samsung charger, which I like since it doesn't lay flat. The ones on Apple's site are $50 and up. I myself blame excessive usage of the phone, short periods during the day.
The claim is that I'm damaging the battery by my usage. Don't exclusively use apple chargers and apple approved wireless chargers. Not something like my Samsung charger, which I like since it doesn't lay flat. The ones on Apple's site are $50 and up. I myself blame excessive usage of the phone, short periods during the day.
How do you mean?
I’m also confused. I’m not sure if the post is saying using non Apple charger has contributed to premature battery degradation.
there is an option in the battery settings that can help you on that.
It is not very healthy to keep the battery at 100% for many hours, but it is the way most people usually recharge their phone.
With iOS 13 the iPhone will charge until 80% and then, a couple hours before your "typical" walk up, it will charge at 100%. Problem solved.
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nope.
You are right and wrong in the same time.
Yes, the battery will stay at 100%, but that IS NOT very healthy for the battery itself.
Batteries should avoid deep discharging (below 10%) and should avoid stay at high level of charge for prolonged time (especially 100%).
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85% is still much better than 100%
Is it the worst? No.
The recommendation is to keep the battery somewhere between 45-75%. Second ideal is 30-80%.
Seems like OP's question about charging overnight being safe has been answered in that that's is perfectly safe.
The rest is mostly a tangential discussion about technicalities and edge cases most of which won't really make much of a noticeable difference one way or another for majority of typical users.
Why should 80% be the end of life? A battery that can hold 80% of the original total charge seems quite useable to me. My Xs gives me more than three days of use out of a full charge (and that's just down to 20% or so, not to depletion). If instead of three days I got only two, that would still be pretty good, wouldn't it?
I never understand this either. I assume it means batteries only have around 20% of usefulness at optimum efficiency. To maintain that level of performance it is recommended to replace the battery when the initial 20% has been used up..I still don’t understand the remaining 80 percent’s purpose if manufacturers and general advice is to consider the battery depleted, degraded (used up) with a whopping 80% remaining?
Technically i understand but logically I'm questioning why 50/50 is no longer the accepted threshold. In normal circumstances, throwing away a battery at 80% capacity would be considered wasteful. Why can’t they just show 100 to 80 represented as 100 to zero if that 80% remaining is to be considered useless or inefficient?
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OK, the article explains why batteries age, and says that we should replace them when their total capacity drops to 80% of the original one.
But I still don't get why 80% is considered end of life.
If you have a battery whose total capacity is 80% of that of a healthy one, and you charge it to 100%, isn't that the same as if you had a healthy battery charged to 80%?
I can live perfectly well with an 80% charge (actually, I rarely charge mine past that point).
But I still don't get why 80% is considered end of life.
If you have a battery whose total capacity is 80% of that of a healthy one, and you charge it to 100%, isn't that the same as if you had a healthy battery charged to 80%?
I can live perfectly well with an 80% charge (actually, I rarely charge mine past that point).
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It seems that at that capacity there's enough chemical aging of the battery that has happened overall that at least in more general industry terms it's not a battery that is considered to be reliable enough to be seen as even just OK. It might still work for some or even many, but will likely perform fairly poorly and/or unreliably in enough cases that that is the overall threshold that is used.
You mean it's not just a reduction in capacity, but also a deterioration of the overall functionality? In other words, a 1000 mAh battery that's at 80% capacity due to age is not the same as a healthy 800 mAh battery?
Correct. As the earlier linked information mentions, there are other factors in play with the capacity simply being one of the better (although not fully complete or necessarily fully accurate) overall indicators related to overall health/aging.
Charging overnight is fine, but you shouldn't charge your phone if you're going to bed and still have 70% left!
During normal workdays my 11 Pro Max lasts two full days (I end the day around 65-70% on the first night and around 30-40% on the second) so I end up charging overnight, but every OTHER night.
The "optimized battery charging" feature has never worked for me; it always charges directly to 100% and sits there until morning. I started using a Qi pad which charges more slowly, so it's not as extreme, but I wonder if my every other day charging schedule is throwing it off.
During normal workdays my 11 Pro Max lasts two full days (I end the day around 65-70% on the first night and around 30-40% on the second) so I end up charging overnight, but every OTHER night.
The "optimized battery charging" feature has never worked for me; it always charges directly to 100% and sits there until morning. I started using a Qi pad which charges more slowly, so it's not as extreme, but I wonder if my every other day charging schedule is throwing it off.
If you are using iPhone 11 I need to know about battery life? Is it ok to charge the device overnight?
