I swear I only used around 20% overall when I got my new 16pm, and it has already 1 cycle.
Fully charged with MagSafe.
It would take around 60% of usage to have the first cycle.
This is from my experience of testing 6 16pmes from exchanges and return.
Avoid MagSafe
Even if cycles counting was slightly wrong (it could be rounded by its algorithm), what’s your problem with that ?
Trying so hard to destroy my battery with daily MagSafe charging in my three year old 13 mini yet battery health is still fine
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Try harder 😂
Purchased and returned 6 iphones and blame it on a 20% magsafe charge? Yeah, this is perfectly normal behavior.
Apple should have refused the last return. They should put a limit on that (3 ? if you are very unlucky…)
Yes. MagSafe causes battery cycle count to increase significantly faster.
For example: i suspect that the heat from MagSafe “tricks” the phone into thinking it’s consuming more wattage and thus the faster it reaches 1 cycle count as compared to usb charging.
technically it makes no sense. Wireless charging is not “consuming” anything, from the phone point of view. It is giving a current the phone receive and drive to the battery.
Measured on the outlet you would see an higher consumption because some of the power is lost in the process (transformed mainly in heat), but that won’t change the cycle counting.
Six frivolous exchanges and people complain that Apple is so expensive.
yep. This forum is full of examples of serial returners, and this is a logistic nightmare for companies like Apple. They should put a limit on that. Something like after the third return they fully refund you saying “we are sorry but we are not able to make a product up to your required level “.
It does mean more cheap refurbished devices will become available. Maybe he's doing us a favor!
to refurbish a product means they have to move it to a lab, service it (like replacing the battery with a new one, even if it is almost new) and then put it in the distribution circle again. It costs money Apple is going to charge on customers.
There is nothing wrong with your phone. Apple is going to ban any returns if you keep returning perfectly fine phones, because you don’t understand normal operations.
Apple should have ban him (and many others on this forum) earlier, IMHO. If you cannot find a satisfactory unit after 3 returns, you should buy something else.
