Good to know, will take the plunge this weekend.iOS 26 has breathed new life into my 15pm. Feels like a new phone. Super fast and light.
Originally posted. Currently at 99% health (103% coconutBattery) and 191 cycles.
Here is to my fellow iPhone 15 owners. To another year or more!
Well, your cycle count is quite high… Mine is at 348 with 94 % left. My best advice would be to try to never let the battery go below 20 % - from my experience that’s what is most damaging to battery life. From what I’ve read, these types of batteries are doing best when they are at around 50-60 %. So I try to keep my battery between 40-80 %, but some will say that’s unnecessary "babying" of the battery. And it probably is, but I plan to keep my phone for several years more.
I do agree that the battery life in the 15pro is trash. Honestly the iPhone 15pro is one of my least favorite products I’ve ever owned and I’ve been a Mac user for over 24 years and had the original phone as well along with many others. To the point it made me actually think about switching to an android.
Tomorrow I’ll be 2 weeks in with my 17PM and I couldn’t be happier. The battery life has been fantastic. Of course with it being a new device it’ll be better, but I only have to charge once a day and I’m loving the bigger screen.
I was wondering if the battery has been replaced by Apple. Asking because Apple almost always refuses to replace the battery unless <80% even if you pay full amount, and wanted to get tips on how you achieved it.
Apple Store did it. I've had them refuse to replace batteries in the past (iPhone 11 days) when it was >80% but my wife's 84% health battery - they just stated: "It would be free if you waited till it got below 80%." We acknowledged since we had AppleCare+ and said we wanted it replaced anyway and they happily did it.
