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Preserve iPhone Battery With Charging Limit Options in iOS 18
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Imagine limiting headphones LMFAO. My god you all have gone off the deep end with this
It’s because batteries wear out over tons and tons of cycles. What’s your cycle count?
iPhone 15 Pro, 12 months old, battery health is at 100%, cycle count is 101. I use a slow charger because charging slowly overnight is just fine with my needs. I just let the phone and IOS manage everything. There is entirely too much fussing over battery health when most people only keep their phones three years or less.
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99% after a year with the 80% limit set and 277 cycles with 15pro max. I only charge during the day about 5 short charges never at night. At night I set the phone to low power mode.
Because dorks don't have a life. Just like they fret and argue over 16GB vs 8GB vs ?GB. Self proclaimed experts where everyone should abide by their opinion.
Just let IOS and the phone do what they do. Most people get a new phone every three years, or less. The battery zealots probably get a phone every year thus battery life should be of no concern.
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Writing comments about other people fretting is also a very productive pastime
I’m talking about small wireless Bluetooth earbuds that continuously being used and again charged in the case - often several times per day.
Yes, indeed, guilty. Not much else to do at the high school when subbing for math class. The school firewall won't let porn through so this is as close as I can get.Writing comments about other people fretting is also a very productive pastime
Isn't the SoC in an iPhone the A18? Is there another meaning for SoC than "system on a chip", that foreigners like me might not be aware of - or are people just using it wrong (e.g. when they use "download" instead of "upload" or "transfer")?
Edit: Aaah, it can also mean "State of Charge" - totally not confusing in that context.
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I'll take the bait. Do you know it isn't because of some hardware (chip, USB controller, etc.)?
I'm not saying it is hardware. I just wonder where people saying it definitely is not a hardware limitation are getting their evidence. Is there something coming directly from Apple engineers that it's only an artificial (software) limitation? Has someone done a full tear-down and shown there is no hardware that is controlling the feature?
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There may be a breakthru that could extend usable life of LiOn batteries. Very interesting and compelling:
www6.slac.stanford.edu
Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance
Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents just before they leave the factory is 30 times faster and increases battery lifespans by 50%, according to a study at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center.
www6.slac.stanford.edu
Ouch, that's pretty fast for a 1 year old phone. My 13 Pro is at 91% health and I got it almost 3 years ago. I do a lot of random charging and Magsafe charging.
I don't put much faith in the battery health thing anymore anyway. My wife's 15 Pro Max was on 100% health with 260 charge cycles at 11 months old before it was swapped out.
I was using the 80% charge limit on my phone for the first 11 months of its life and at that same point in time, 11 months old, it was at 180 charge cycles but 98% battery health.
Both of us charge in the same way - overnight with a 5w charger because overnight the speed does not matter. Obviously mine was used less so I'd make it through sometimes 2 or 3 days before needing to charge. Very rarely ever have to plug in for a top up during the day.
So yes, I don't really put much faith in what it reports. Surely a 180 cycle battery with 80% charge cap would have better health than a 260 charge cycle battery with no cap? I no longer bother with the charge cap and just let it do whatever it wants.
I was using the 80% charge limit on my phone for the first 11 months of its life and at that same point in time, 11 months old, it was at 180 charge cycles but 98% battery health.
Both of us charge in the same way - overnight with a 5w charger because overnight the speed does not matter. Obviously mine was used less so I'd make it through sometimes 2 or 3 days before needing to charge. Very rarely ever have to plug in for a top up during the day.
So yes, I don't really put much faith in what it reports. Surely a 180 cycle battery with 80% charge cap would have better health than a 260 charge cycle battery with no cap? I no longer bother with the charge cap and just let it do whatever it wants.
I don't get why Apple can't just do the same thing a lot of Android phones do; when you plug in the charger it says "Charging rapidly" if it's a fast charger, and you can go into settings and see how many watts your phone is charging at.
This sounds like it would be trivial to do, but they always seem to dance around giving you the actual information and just do subtle stuff like telling you it was charging slowly after the fact.
This sounds like it would be trivial to do, but they always seem to dance around giving you the actual information and just do subtle stuff like telling you it was charging slowly after the fact.
Your 15 Pro is down to 91% after one year? Holy s***!!!!! My 15 Plus is still at 100%.
How exactly? I barely struggle through with 100% on my 14 promax. I've no use for a phone that charges to 80% and dies in the middle of the work day because of that. Give those things a decent battery and we can talk about charging to 80% only.
It's simple: it would hurt the sales. There's no other good reason. I'm still not going to buy the iphone 16 it offers nothing to justify the ridiculously high price.