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iPhone Coconut battery is not as accurate as people think.

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Whilst this isn’t aimed at battery stats in particular. It shows that the app can be wrong.

As you can see from this screenshot. According to coconut battery I have used 84% of the space on my X

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However the phone itself is reporting....

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So don’t believe everything you see with Coconut. If it can be that far out with the storage (which it can read easily) then I wouldn’t put much faith in its battery reading being accurate either.
 
0014 said:
Whilst this isn’t aimed at battery stats in particular. It shows that the app can be wrong.

As you can see from this screenshot. According to coconut battery I have used 84% of the space on my X

cec808ffe19bc4f03b0f071270a8d52d.jpg


However the phone itself is reporting....

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So don’t believe everything you see with Coconut. If it can be that far out with the storage (which it can read easily) then I wouldn’t put much faith in its battery reading being accurate either.
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Well, while I understand what you are implying as a generalization essentially, realistically speaking, one reading doesn't have much to do with the other.

However, even that aside, as I recall, when it comes to storage, there are even inconsistencies that some people have seen between what iOS shows for their device and what iTunes shows when they connect their device.
 
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Well all I can say is that whatever Apple uses to check batteries seems to have issues as well, my 6 was shutting down back in early 2016 with 30% power despite their software saying it was ok.
 
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I can give you the name of 5 different apps and each one will give you a different storage amount. For whatever reason, the way iOS reports storage is screwy. Even the phone and iTunes differ. My phone says I have 200GB available, iTunes says I have 186GB available. If you open iTunes, it will match what Coconut shows. (at least it does for my iPhone and iPad).
 
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All three are different for me - coconut, iPhone, and iTunes. None of them know what's going on!
 
decafjava said:
Isn't the important point how accurate it is for battery information?
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Topher227 said:
This post title is misleading.
I don't open Coconut Battery for information on my storage, I use it to check the battery. I imagine most others do the same.
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I think that’s the point.

If it can’t do one thing it claims to do accurately, how do you know it’s reporting accurate battery information?
 
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Böhme417 said:
I think that’s the point.

If it can’t do one thing it claims to do accurately, how do you know it’s reporting accurate battery information?
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Does it claim to do something about storage space at all? Also, if Apple's own iTunes can't do it accurately for plenty as far as being consistent with what iOS shows, then it seems like there's likely something else in play when it comes to all of that.

Even that aside, one thing doesn't necessarily say anything about the other, as has been mentioned before.
 
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0014 said:
Whilst this isn’t aimed at battery stats in particular. It shows that the app can be wrong.

As you can see from this screenshot. According to coconut battery I have used 84% of the space on my X

cec808ffe19bc4f03b0f071270a8d52d.jpg


However the phone itself is reporting....

a637b1a42a7684f6f803ff18b9875b08.jpg


So don’t believe everything you see with Coconut. If it can be that far out with the storage (which it can read easily) then I wouldn’t put much faith in its battery reading being accurate either.
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I thought you were mentioning the battery capacity for a second.
Yes, even Apple itself cannot or doesn’t bother fixing storage inconsistencies across multiple locations, let alone a battery app.
 
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The battery readings are real-time and pretty accurate. What you said doesn’t make a lot of sense. The storage reading changed in iOS 11 so what’s reported to the user by the OS is not the same as what’s actually being used.
 
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Where can I find Coconut Battery? I checked the app store but didn't see it. Thanks!
 
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