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iPhone 15 Models Finally Show Battery's Cycle Count
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This is great. Still sucks that its going to be only on the 15.
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As many have mentioned, Coconut battery can be used to calculate battery cycles. For those who wish to see it on device without any custom software can now do so.
Great, now even more paranoids obsessing over their battery health. The Apple Discussion Forums are already teeming with questions about why their battery health dropped 1% in a month and demanding to know how to 'restore' it to 100%. Explaining how Li-ion batteries work doesn't help alleviate the paranoia.
So how do you who want this plan to 'manage' your charge cycles?
So how do you who want this plan to 'manage' your charge cycles?
Of course it’s limited to the 15. Cmon Apple. It’s getting boring. I find this petty.
This is the last thing the MR crowd needed, as if there isn’t enough battery obsession happening.
That sound closer to the 90% I’m seeing on my 1-yr old 14 Pro.
I believe this feature to read battery cycles for all supported will come in future iOS 17.1 or 17.2 beta. But it won’t come to iPadOS simply because iPad users don’t deserve it after overpaying for their devices.
These new battery improvements (charging up to 80% and now the cycle counter) are cool and useful and all, however Apple should also extend them to other models to avoid a justified customer backlash. They can bring it in in stages, if needed, as it was done with the battery % display over the battery icon, but IMO it should go for as many battery powered Apple devices as possible - iPhones, iPads, MacBooks and Apple Watch.
Maybe this will be a part of 17.0.1 after the release. Just like the battery percentage was added for iPhone 11 later
Batteries - Service and Recycling
Learn about battery service and recycling for Apple devices. All rechargeable batteries need to be serviced eventually.
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To all the people complaining how they can't get a new iOS feature on their older phone -- How many Android phones have backwards compatible upgrades? Barely can even get the newest OS more than a few years with them. Be grateful.
Oh stop; this is something they can backport on **already supported devices**; it's not like they have to make a whole new OS for a 4-year-old device that's unsupported, like on Android. The battery already knows this data, and it's revealed when you run basic diag on an iPhone
Source: I used to work for Apple.
Maybe they will implement it on a later version of 17 like the battery charging % number.
Because they want you to buy a new phone.
This will be a major determining factor for resells now too. It already is for MacBooks and if your battery cycle count is too high the value will definitely drop.
I've always found the battery percentage thing weird anyway. I charge my phone all the time and every year my battery is at 100%. I run the beta software every year and even this year with the 14 and all of the people who were affected by battery percentage dips mine remained at 100%.
I've always found the battery percentage thing weird anyway. I charge my phone all the time and every year my battery is at 100%. I run the beta software every year and even this year with the 14 and all of the people who were affected by battery percentage dips mine remained at 100%.