I sincerely don't understand why people are so anal about battery health and charging style.
Battery replacements are free under AppleCare and AppleCare+, AND AT THE MOST $69 at Apple.
You all are spending hours a week deciding how (and manipulating your habits) to charge your phone. How much time a year are you wasting on this????
If you spend more than 10 hours A YEAR on this, you are wasting your time even if you make minimum wage. Can we please put an end to all these conversations??
Haha--yeah--it is a little odd, right? If you're bothering to post on a forum like this, you're probably not the kind of person who keeps an iPhone long enough for any of this to even matter.
I think this year you can all officially add "battery degradation" to the list of things you no longer have to worry about. These phones don't drain very quickly, so if you want to leave it off the charger for the night sometimes when it hasn't been used much that day, it won't usually be too much of a problem, and an emergency fast charge here and there isn't going to make a noticeable difference on overall battery life.
I will tell you all, I quite knowingly hammered the crap out of my 12 Pro Max battery for the entire year I used it. Already at 100% but need to use it plugged in to the car all day because of CarPlay? Sure! Barely picked the thing up all day and had 80-90% battery when I went to bed? Whatever--I'll top it off for tomorrow just in case. I can probably count on one hand how many times it ever warned me of a low battery. Just to rub salt in the wound--I rarely ever did any of this with a cabled charger. It was almost always on a Mophie Qi "fast" charger so it was being juiced up AND using power at the same time all night every night.
After all the unadvisable charging habits and battery abuse, my battery health was still at 90% after a year. Yes, anecdotal. But my wife's 12 Pro Max, which has probably an even more "abused" battery than mine, is currently at 89%. I just simply don't worry about these batteries anymore. They're tanks.