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iPhone 11 Pro What’s your launch day iPhone 11’s battery health?
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98%. It went there within a month and hasn't moved since. Mostly used the included fast charger and I keep it between 20 and 80%.
Launch day XR (it’s roughly 2 years old): battery health at 89%.
I charge with a regular (“slow”) charger because I’m in no rush to charge it while I’m sleeping. It reduces heat.
I charge with a regular (“slow”) charger because I’m in no rush to charge it while I’m sleeping. It reduces heat.
97% - 11 Pro Max received 4 days after launch.
My charging varies from wireless (when traveling) to car charging to lightning cable on a multi-port brick at home. I traveled for a total of 4 months, car charging is random but at least once a week, home would be the rest of the time not traveling.
I don't charge every night. At least once a week, it isn't plugged in overnight. If under 75%, I always charge to 100%.
I have rarely let my battery drain low - almost always when it happened it was beyond my control. When traveling, that isn't something that you want, so I have always been in the habit of keeping my battery near full charge.
My charging varies from wireless (when traveling) to car charging to lightning cable on a multi-port brick at home. I traveled for a total of 4 months, car charging is random but at least once a week, home would be the rest of the time not traveling.
I don't charge every night. At least once a week, it isn't plugged in overnight. If under 75%, I always charge to 100%.
I have rarely let my battery drain low - almost always when it happened it was beyond my control. When traveling, that isn't something that you want, so I have always been in the habit of keeping my battery near full charge.
Mine also 100%. Charge with a cable every day for about 3 or 4 hours. Don’t ever let it go much below 50%.
My 11 is almost one year old and the battery is at 97%. It was at 100% until a month ago when it dropped to 99%. Two weeks ago it dropped to 98% and then just today to 97%. I’m rather surprised at the quick 3% drop in a month after being at 100% for 11 months. I charge it every night with a cable.
My launch day 11 Pro is down to 93%.
It was falling consistently for a while and I was always recharging it when it would hit around 35% and then I’d only go to 80%. I used the Apple OEM USB C fast charger that came with it.
But I also have an old AW3 that I’d only use 50% of the battery life on and then would put on a charger all night.
And it still shows 100% battery health.
Eventually I found this article which is one of the best I’ve ever read on battery health.
www.nytimes.com
After reading it, I started to not let my iPhone battery level drop below 50% and would recharge up to under 100% on the fast charger. Sure enough my battery health stopped dropping and it’s been at 93% for a while.
The problem though is that if you use your phone a lot you’ll need to recharge it all the time.
One solution I’ve come up with is to recharge above 50% as much as possible but if I’m out and need to use more and drop below that then I don’t stress about it. It will wear the battery health down over time but do it much a a much slower rate.
It was falling consistently for a while and I was always recharging it when it would hit around 35% and then I’d only go to 80%. I used the Apple OEM USB C fast charger that came with it.
But I also have an old AW3 that I’d only use 50% of the battery life on and then would put on a charger all night.
And it still shows 100% battery health.
Eventually I found this article which is one of the best I’ve ever read on battery health.
Is Charging Your Phone All Day Really That Bad? (Published 2020)
Worrying about your battery’s health might not be worth the hassle.
After reading it, I started to not let my iPhone battery level drop below 50% and would recharge up to under 100% on the fast charger. Sure enough my battery health stopped dropping and it’s been at 93% for a while.
The problem though is that if you use your phone a lot you’ll need to recharge it all the time.
One solution I’ve come up with is to recharge above 50% as much as possible but if I’m out and need to use more and drop below that then I don’t stress about it. It will wear the battery health down over time but do it much a a much slower rate.
My iPhone 11 Pro Max currently sits at 97%. I’ve always used a wired connection. Sometimes using my iMac to charge or the 5W power adapter.