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Welcome to 2024 Apple!!! I can charge my phone from 0-100% in 40 minutes. I absolutely love super fast charging. There is no going back once you've had it, that is for sure. After six months my battery health is still at 100% as well. I highly doubt we will see these charging speeds from Apple this year though.
 
I don't fast charge anymore. Used to with my 12 but never really felt good about how hot it got. Used to have MagSafe as well but now I prefer slow charging with USB-C. I still have fast charger but only if I have to and only for about 15-20 minutes.
 
Nice. That’s better but can still improve. Once you experience that OnePlus charging speeds, everything seems slow.
 
Nice update. Wondering guys, do you use wireless charging much?
- Yes, all the time
- Yes, sometimes
- Never
All the time. I dock my phone to a MagSafe stand overnight, and a MagSafe car mount that charges at 15W speed. Between all that, it's enough to get through the day.
 
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Slow charging is better for the battery. And I charge overnight so I really don't care either way.
I haven't found this to be true, over the course of the year (at most) that I own my phones. I have seen similar battery degradation between a slow charging iPhone and a super fast charing Android within a 12 month period. I cannot speak beyond that though, as I don't own phones for longer than a year.
 
Meanwhile I am still using my old 5W charger on the iPhone 15 Plus and it is still at 100% after nearly a year.

I never use MagSafe charging because it makes my phone hot AF and that cant be "healthy" for the battery and I personally think this is the reason my previous iPhone 12 PM battery got "fried" so quickly.

To counteract your experience, I charge every night using MagSafe (I only use a wire when using CarPlay) and I still have 100% battery capacity.

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To counteract your experience, I charge every night using MagSafe (I only use a wire when using CarPlay) and I still have 100% battery capacity.

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To be fair, it is rare to see a battery drop much below 100% within the first year of use, at least in my case anyway. I think at most I have seen a battery drop down to 99% after one year, on any phone I've bought within the past five years anyway.
 
My iPhone 13 Pro already charges relatively quickly up to 80% - after 80% the charging speed drops dramatically

I almost always plug in my iPhone just before it drops below 20% because I read online that it’s bad for the battery to let the phone go below 20% (or above 80%)

My iPhone 13 Pro doesn’t have the 80% limit setting as an option so I make sure to unplug it around 77% (if I’m planning to use it more throughout the day) with the intention of plugging it in right before I go to bed and that way it only crosses the 80% threshold once instead of multiple times, to help with the battery health (considering it doesn’t have the 80% limit setting)

My second phone is the 15 Pro Max (which probably charges faster than my 13 Pro) but considering my 15 Pro Max has the 80% limit setting on, it charges so quickly that I don’t even realize how fast it charges until when I look at the screen (it tells me when it turned off low power mode - a way of viewing how long ago it finished charging) sometimes it says low power mode turned off two hours ago (because it hit 80%)
I charge every phone i have 0-100 multiple times a week and my battery health has not dropped in any significant way.
 
I never charge overnight though.
But why? Certainly it's the most convenient time for charging since you don't use it then and you never have to wait for it, no matter how slow.

Nothing against fast charging. It can and has saved my bacon in a pinch, but I truly don't get how that can be considered the most convenient option.
 
Nice update. Wondering guys, do you use wireless charging much?
- Yes, all the time
- Yes, sometimes
- Never
I use it for charging overnight (have a wireless charging stand I use). Other than that, I use wired charging if needed (or out and about.)
 
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Since cable charging is still faster, Apple should get rid of MagSafe and focus on increasing the battery capacity instead.

Nope. I have no need for speed.

I only charge at night

Yes, while it is serving as a clock.

But everyone else wants fast charging.

Not really.

The vast majority of people don't care either way.

No actual data to support either statement, but I would suspect this is the case.

this faster charging might be good for some people but for the vast majority…

as above

All the time. I dock my phone to a MagSafe stand overnight,

as above.
 
I’d like to see faster than 40w. I use a 40w charger already, I know the phone doesn’t quite reach 40w charging speeds but it’s not far below that. This really isn’t a huge increase.
I’m kinda spoiled by fast charging. I want more. Going from 20% to 100% still takes about 2 hours or so. We should be able to do so much better by this point.
 
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There are three things that have my attention in upcoming iPhones, and these are things that I think that customers should demand:

  • Increase in base RAM size (I want 16GB)
  • Increase in optical Zoom (I want 10x)
  • Increase in megapixel image sensor size (I want >50MP, preferably 200MP)
Everything else is not as important.
 
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But why? Certainly it's the most convenient time for charging since you don't use it then and you never have to wait for it, no matter how slow.

Nothing against fast charging. It can and has saved my bacon in a pinch, but I truly don't get how that can be considered the most convenient option.
It's my understanding that keeping a phone close to fully charged for long stretches of time is even more problematic than fast charging. Not charging overnight is an easy way to make sure this does not happen. If that is really necessary or useful, given Apple's clever charging algorithms, is of course debatable.

Best time for me to charge my phone is in the evening while watching TV :). Half an hour is usually enough to top it up.
 
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Further indication the the on device AI features will strain the battery life.
 
Further indication the the on device AI features will strain the battery life.
That's a strange conclusion. I think it's more an indication for more advanced battery chemistries and better battery cooling.
 
There are three things that have my attention in upcoming iPhones, and these are things that I think that customers should demand:

  • Increase in base RAM size (I want 16GB)
  • Increase in optical Zoom (I want 10x)
  • Increase in megapixel image sensor size (I want >50MP, preferably 200MP)
Everything else is not as important.

I can tell you the amount of amount of ram in every computer I've owned since 1994, but I can't tell you the ram in a single iPhone I've owned, and I've been using them since the 3G. Customers won't demand it, because they don't care.

Megapixels are overrated. My 12mp DSLR will smoke anything any cellphone currently offers.
 
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