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iPhone 11 How long before your battery health dropped below 100%?
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No thanks. Every user-replaceable battery (removable battery) dies about one year or so. Apple I've never had battery issues. Got one 20 year old PowerBook and a 10 year old iPhone 4 that still work.
An 8+ or older iPhone costs $49 to replace in store. What more could you ask for?
Yep. The last Android flagship with removable battery was the LG V20. Finding a decent battery for that phone now days is a science. So many cheap and downright faulty batteries have flooded the market.
FOUR times I've taken an iPhone to the Apple Store to have battery replaced. Three of those times with an appointment. In no case did they manage to replace the battery. Idiots.
I always have to send my phone off to California to get the battery replaced, and they always wipe my phone. And I'm without it for a week.
Then spend the next entire day restoring everything.
Astonishing waste of days off my life I'll never get back.
Sounds like an individual problem with you local store unfortunately.
This is another iPhone complaint for me. I thought the battery health option was really great at first. Now I’m convinced it’s just something to obsess over. Is there a way to lock it out so it cannot be checked?? Lol
Go to the tesla forums. There’s three post per day about battery range concerns. It’s rediculous.Absolutely. People really need to stop fannying around with batteries and just enjoy their phones. We will all be dead soon enough...stop fretting about the trivial!
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Not even a fair comparison. If I had a Tesla with a battery that cost thousands to replace I’d be a little obsessive as well. Why electric vehicle bandwagon shouldn’t be joined just yet.
The only good thing about Battery Health is the option to disable the throttle once it assumes your battery needs replacing. I think it was the result of the whole BatteryGate fiasco.
Personally, I'd rather it throttle and extend the life of the phone a few more years over going back to the BSoD the 5S was bad about having.
Personally, I'd rather it throttle and extend the life of the phone a few more years over going back to the BSoD the 5S was bad about having.
Battery health is an estimate at best. The battery in my 8 plus is a year old (got a replacement last year) and it still reports 100% health. That’s probably not accurate.
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My PowerBook G4 and iPhone 4 are ancient and yet they both have batteries that still hold a charge. I really wish Apple never made the Battery 'health' a feature. It's just making folks panic if it dare drop 1%.
Granted, My G4 barely gives me 1 hour of screen-on time and half an hour if connected to the internet but that's a 20 year old laptop as of 2020. That's impressive. My iPhone 4 still got a day of use and it's 9-10 years old.
Granted, My G4 barely gives me 1 hour of screen-on time and half an hour if connected to the internet but that's a 20 year old laptop as of 2020. That's impressive. My iPhone 4 still got a day of use and it's 9-10 years old.
Mine dropped to 99% within a month, although coconutBattery still reports more than design capacity.
More info is never a bad thing in the right hands. If someone is going to obsess over their health and think they need a new phone when it drops to 99%, that’s bad. I’ll tell you one thing, the battery health is VERY important to people who buy used iPhones. Just look at swappa, and the question comes up in damn near every single listing (assuming the seller doesn’t take a pic of the health and post it)
I'm just not used to Apple products having bad battery lifespans. Coming from the beginning with my 3GS and first 4, now my 6S and the fact my mom has a 6S that shows 65% battery health yet still makes it through a day plus on charge. It's just not worth the hassle IMO. The only reason her phone is at that low a level is because she leaves it connected to a third party charger for days and forgets it. Still manages decent run time regardless.
Then my PowerBook G4 Titanium still having a usable battery but compare that to some 2001 era Compaq laptop which needs the battery removed to even power on with the AC adapter connected.
Then my PowerBook G4 Titanium still having a usable battery but compare that to some 2001 era Compaq laptop which needs the battery removed to even power on with the AC adapter connected.
Apple used tiny batteries up until the last few years. Small battery = bad battery life = multiple cycles per day. Battery life has always been the Achilles heel of the iPhone. That all changed with the XR and the 11 pros this year.
Lithium ion batteries are end of life at 80%, so your mom should replace hers asap before it swells up!
