iPhone charging pattern?

[Legion103]

Do you charge your phone only when it drains to 0? Do you charge multiple times a day?

What's best and what's your routine?

 

[yegon]

Just charge it whenever, no special routines needed. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't been paying attention for years.

The only thing I try to avoid is leaving it on charge for hours on end unnecessarily beyond 100%, purely because of heat. It's hotter when on charge and heat is the enemy of battery health. I'm not OCD about it though, if I charge it overnight and I don't wake up or go to the loo, 8 hour charge it is

 

[KentuckyHouse]

Leaving it on charge for hours on end isn't nearly as bad as letting the battery hit 0%. The old rules don't apply, folks. You don't have to "condition" Lithium Ion batteries by running them out and recharging fully.

 

[maflynn]

My pattern is to plug it in when the battery runs down and use it, when it isn't

I don't adhere to any specific methodology other then trying to avoid deep drains.

 

[yegon]

Leaving it on charge for hours on end isn't nearly as bad as letting the battery hit 0%. The old rules don't apply, folks. You don't have to "condition" Lithium Ion batteries by running them out and recharging fully.

That's true, forgot to say that, oops.

 

[Djentleman]

Just charge it whenever, no special routines needed. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't been paying attention for years.

The only thing I try to avoid is leaving it on charge for hours on end unnecessarily beyond 100%, purely because of heat. It's hotter when on charge and heat is the enemy of battery health. I'm not OCD about it though, if I charge it overnight and I don't wake up or go to the loo, 8 hour charge it is

Gone the same route for the first time and honestly....it's freeing.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Leaving it on charge for hours on end isn't nearly as bad as letting the battery hit 0%. The old rules don't apply, folks. You don't have to "condition" Lithium Ion batteries by running them out and recharging fully.

True, but there is a fairly recent (April 2013) discovery that may help you add more long-term usage to your phone batteries over at phys.org

 

[Legion103]

Thanks guys.