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iPhone 17 Pro Max Overnight charging 5W or 20W?
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Your overall battery health and longevity (as in lifespan) would be better with 5W. Less heat, slower charge, cells will age slightly less and lifespan will be better. But it’s not going to be huge and if you are gonna do an annual upgrade or 2 year upgrade it really just doesn’t make a huge impact. 98% batter health vs 93%, it’s just not gonna be that dramatic before you get a new phone. If you plane to keep longer, the effect will be be more dramatic over time
It does still affect the battery cells themselves. Slower charging = less heat and the cells won’t age/degrade as fast. This will have an impact over a long period of time
Go with an official Apple 5w charger. There are a lot of TEMU cheapo gas-station style chargers out there that may damage your device in the long run. I always stick with Apple, Belkin or Anker.
Don't worry about it! Don't listen to the people in this thread obsessing over their batteries and spending their time babying every aspect of their phone.
These phones are designed to be used normally. Battery health is pure luck unless you seriously abuse it, like leaving it at 100% or 0% for days, or leaving it to roast in a hot car.
Live your life and enjoy your phone!
These phones are designed to be used normally. Battery health is pure luck unless you seriously abuse it, like leaving it at 100% or 0% for days, or leaving it to roast in a hot car.
Live your life and enjoy your phone!
That’s not true. Avoiding heat will increase battery life span. They are designed to be used but there are always optimal conditions vs. non-optimal. In the case of the battery, it will last longer the less it is exposed to heat, period. Charging slowly will make a difference. It’s the chemical design of the battery.
Use your phone snd charge it with a normal charger. Trying to baby an every changing chemical reaction (battery) is a waste of time. Should the battery be less than 80% in a year, Apple will replace for free. After that, spend the money if needed on a new battery. Chances are you will have a different phone before the battery ever gets to the point of needing to be replaced.
Focus on living your life with meaning instead of obsessing over something so trivial as a replaceable phone battery.
Focus on living your life with meaning instead of obsessing over something so trivial as a replaceable phone battery.
It makes so little difference it doesn't matter. Two people can have the same phone, use it exactly the same way, and have completely different battery health.
It's luck with the battery in your device, and people just attribute the result to all their compulsive battery behaviour.
I've always just used my phone normally, charged with MagSafe or max speed over wired, whenever I wanted, never fiddled with charging limits, and mostly end up with the same or better battery health after 1-2 years as the battery cult.
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I used an anker 20w and left my 16 pro max on it every night and was at 99% after a year. It will be fine!
But surely you're still doing the battery dance before bed every night and going to battery church on Sundays?
i used a 5w over night on my 15pro max and it dropped to 87% health in only 230 charges although then stayed there up until i traded it in with 400 cycles. So honeslty i do think its partly luck and partly some weird way apple measure it. Honeslty ive got a 17pm now and yes i do have some weird battery health anxiety but im trying to just ignore it and use it
For me, it's less about the price and more about the careless Geniuses that end up damaging the phone's finish during the replacement. Any way to prolong the interval helps a bit
(3 battery replacements total over the years from Apple Store; each resulted in new blemishes on the body)
I use whatever charger is available, last couple of nights I have been charging my 17 PM with my MBA’s 30W charger, did the same with my 15 Pro Max and battery health is still good, my 15 PM is now at 90% health with over 550 cycles.
I charge my phone to 100% in the evening as I watch tv, take off charge when it’s done before i go to bed, and do so every night. I use an Anker 30W charger.
Never had an issue with battery that I’m aware of. I’m not the kind to obsess over it, never check battery health either.
Never had an issue with battery that I’m aware of. I’m not the kind to obsess over it, never check battery health either.
Is it better to have lower heat over a prolonged period? or higher heat over a shorter period? have no idea just asking. maybe 5W charger with a fan is the
best?
Does charging slow make it worse tho bc you have to charge for so long? maybe best is charge with a fan or ice pointed at it?
Apple hasn't included a charger with the phone in years.... where have you been lol
Anyways I always charge with an old school 5W brick overnight. Using a USB A to USB C cable.... my phone has also never been on a wireless charger. The result so far is 99% battery health with 360 cycles on my 16PM
That’s not a fair comparison because filling up your gas tank from empty takes a couple of minutes. Charging your drained battery takes over an hour even at the fastest charging speed, but can take a couple of hours with other chargers. Also, for most people, a full tank of gas will last several times longer than a fully charged phone will. A half a tank of gas would get me through most of the week, but a 50% charged phone likely wouldn’t get me through a whole day.
But if I could fully charge my phone in the time it takes me to fill up my car, I wouldn’t charge it overnight. And if I had an electric car, I would charge the car overnight.
That was the joke. 😬
Does that mean if your phone came with no charger, you have the perpetually full battery? Asking for a friend.
I charge overnight on my Samsung 25-watt charger, or even on my 45-watt charger it depends on which cable I grab. Don’t care about battery health.
There is no reason to use the 5W brick these days....I tried one out on my 15PM for a bit and it yellowed and nearly melted from how scorching hot it got trying to charge the phone. Meanwhile the 20W does it without breaking a sweat and the phone barely gets any warmer than it would with the 5W. I carried on using the 20W for something like a year and a half on the original battery charging only via the 20W and my USB port in my truck, and the phone continued to have 100% battery capacity for something like 330 cycles. There is absolutely no evidence to support charging via 5W helps anything long term, and as such there really is no logical reason to limit yourself to 4-6 hour charge times with the tiny cube anymore, especially when doing so gets it as hot as it does.