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How do you charge your phone?

  • Overnight charging. Always start the day with 100%

    Votes: 72 69.2%

  • Random top ups here and there

    Votes: 27 26.0%

  • Always charging on the go (battery case, power bank, etc)

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Always running out of battery, then charge

    Votes: 3 2.9%
  • Total voters
    104
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ian87w

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When everything was slow charging, we are accustomed to charge our devices overnight. But now with even cheap Android phones support some sort of faster charging, and with Apple pushing people to buy their 20W charger (so there will be less and less people using their puny 5W charger), do we still even need to be concerned about overnight charging?

Example on my Galaxy A71. Even when i actively use it, it’s still at least a day and a half phone, meaning I end the first day with enough charge to cover half of the next day. So now I don’t even bother charging it overnight. I just charge my phone whenever I have the chance, and I hardly ever charge my phone to 100% anymore. It’s basically drifting between 30 to 80% on and off with a bit of charging here and there whenever I have the chance. And I feel that this might be even better for the longevity of the battery itself. With fast charging, I’ll just top up my battery a bit here and there whenever.

What’s your guys’ habits? Has it changed compared to the days before faster charging?
 
With my 11PM, overnight using the Mophie Qi charger when it first released (debating on MagSafe). If I was lower than usual due to video recording, etc, then plug-in manually somewhere.

With the 6s I'm using temporarily after selling my 11PM and waiting for my 12PM, it's usually plugged in all day at work and in the car :)
 
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alanderp said:
With my 11PM, overnight using the Mophie Qi charger when it first released (debating on MagSafe). If I was lower than usual due to video recording, etc, then plug-in manually somewhere.

With the 6s I'm using temporarily after selling my 11PM and waiting for my 12PM, it's usually plugged in all day at work and in the car :)
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I wonder how long your 6s can last on its own... 😆
 
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ian87w said:
I wonder how long your 6s can last on its own... 😆
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Unplugging when I wake up, it'll last about 2 hours at most with very light social media browsing, reddit, etc. If I need to use google maps for 10 minutes, it'll die in 30 minutes. The phone will sometimes shut off automatically at 25% or so every now and then...

I applaud anyone that has held on to the 6 this long.
 
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I sleep 6-7 hours a day. My phone lays next to me during that time. There’s a charger near my bed. Phone needs to do something overnight why not charge out with my 5 watt charger.
 
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I must say I’ve kept my 5w charger plugged in alongside an iPad (12w)? Charger and if overnight charging or non time critical I’ll use the 5. But the iPad charger charges 1% per minute from what I can see. Not bad at all!
 
I top of when needed. My SE 2020 always with my 5 watt brick or QI charger. My 8 plus with either 5 watt brick or my 18 watt brick. Some same the 8 plus gets on the QI charger.

but never overnight charge.
 
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Frankras said:
I top of when needed. My SE 2020 always with my 5 watt brick or QI charger. My 8 plus with either 5 watt brick or my 18 watt brick. Some same the 8 plus gets on the QI charger.

but never overnight charge.
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Yeah that's the thing.
When phones were having a hard time even lasting a day, and no faster charging available, overnight charging makes sense. However, it seems that it is now an optional thing to do in my mind considering we can just top up as needed, and most modern phones have good enough stamina to last more than a day. It's definitely a change of habit, at least for me.
 
Using an old iPhone 7 so I charge overnight, plus one partial top-up through the day.

Self-isolation during Covid has been good to my phone, since the greatest battery killer for me was mobile data. Now I'm on wi-fi all the time so its probably extended my phone's life by a few months already.
 
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I didn’t vote because I’m probably a combination of the first 3. My battery rarely dies, so #4 really doesn’t apply.

I try to charge overnight, but occasionally forget and wind up having to put it on the charger first thing in the morning. I do try to charge it fully at that point, but occasionally I don’t have time to. I also have it on the charger in my car anytime I’m in my car because of my Apple car play.
 
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I use Sleep Cycle overnight and (until iOS 14 at least) my XS could get to the end of the day without charging, so I still charge overnight with the stock brick. I do occasionally plug it into a similar (maybe 10 watt?) charger at my desk now a days.
 
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Since 2009 my phone (whatever model it may be at the time) has been used as an alarm cock and has sat in a business card holder all night. The screen is on the entire night because I also use it as a digital clock (with a black background). So, I just plug it in before going to bed because it's going to sit there all night with the screen on.

Secondly, my wife and I ditched home phone some time in 2005 I think. So, if there is an emergency in the middle of the night (either us or someone calling us) I want my phone to be 100% charged - because there is no landline.
 
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I'm a mixture of 3 of 4 options in the poll. The key thing for me is to have full battery charge when I go out.
 
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