iPhone 13 Pro Optimized battery charging

[alyssap22]

Hi everyone,
I got my iPhone 13 pro on the 1st of oct. I have optimized battery charging on. I slow charge overnight. It still hasn’t picked up on my routine yet. Is there a way to force that? Also is it true that it doesn’t work if you have location turned off?
Thank you!

 

[now i see it]

• Keep location ON.
• It takes time to eventually learn your schedule.
• If you don’t have a regular schedule, it’ll never work properly
• The amount of degradation prevention keeping the battery off of 100% SOC for a few hours every night will be so minimal as years pass, that it won’t make a difference whether you need to replace the battery in a few years
• In my opinion it’s worthless

 

[ericwn]

The function works well on my older iPhone but if yours isn’t picking up, maybe reset the settings and see what it does with location on after a few days.

 

[BrightCanon]

Hi everyone,
I got my iPhone 13 pro on the 1st of oct. I have optimized battery charging on. I slow charge overnight. It still hasn’t picked up on my routine yet. Is there a way to force that? Also is it true that it doesn’t work if you have location turned off?
Thank you!

Got mine on release day and it just started two days ago for me. It will probably kick in soon.

 

[CMoore515]

Got mine on release day and it just started two days ago for me. It will probably kick in soon.

Same here.

 

[sjperformance]

Mine has kicked in. This week 2 nights it did not work. Not liking this feature anymore honestly. I've had my 13PM since 9/24.

 

[yukari]

Mine never kicked in even with XR and 12 mini. I have it on, but now I use Homekit and Shortcut to turn off charging at 80%.

 

[hansenc]

I almost never drain my battery. Wish Apple would just let us set a max charge to 80% with some kind of optional override for when we know we need it.

 

[ISKOTB]

Mine never kicked in even with my 12p. I have it on, butt I unplug it at 80%.

 

[Nolander07]

Mine took a couple weeks to kick in. I do not have significant locations turned on and it works just fine.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

I turned mine off because it messed with my smart plug. I have it turn on when below 40% and turn off at 85%

 

[potblack2win]

It would be better if phones had an option to limit charge to 80 percent and cut off charging.

This will ensure battery health is not in degradation by completing full cycles of charge, My iPhone 11 using the 40/80 method only dropped 1 percent in battery health in 10 months from 100%.

I use battery alarm app on IOS which automatically sends a voice alert to my Alexa enabled smart plug to cut off power at 80 percent

 

[now i see it]

It would be better if phones had an option to limit charge to 80 percent and cut off charging.

There now is a way to do that.
Buy a HomeKit compatible SmartPlug and set up a battery charging cut off in the Shortcuts app. You can set it to any value you want in increments of 5%.