iPhone 15 Pro Yearly upgraders do you care about battery health?

[iphonehype]

So I've decided to turn off battery management to allow quicker chartering to 100% especially because I'm out and about. Every year I trade in my iPhone and get the new one. I have Apple Care too and every year my iPhone gets dropped at least once and replaced. So caring about the battery health isn't so important to me, probs the least most important thing.

As a yearly upgrader, do you care and why?

 

[sjperformance]

I don't care about battery health. I care about battery life. Get me thru the day on 1 charge and still 50% at 5pm..that's what I want and care for. I use my phone heavily for work. 15PM gives me better battery over 14PM.

 

[VineRider]

I typically upgrade my phone every year. I turn on optimized charging, and charge my phone every night. My launch day 14 Pro was at 99% battery health when I got my 15 Pro.

I don't worry about it. If I decide to keep the phone longer than a year, and the battery degrades, I will just get the battery replaced or upgrade my phone, whichever seems best at the time.

 

[chanerz]

I don’t care about battery health. Use the phone as intended.

 

[emanbb6]

Do not care. Since it won’t really affect me

 

[andyw715]

I don't care. Even if I was an every 2 or 3 year upgrader I probably wouldn't care.

I usually give my kids my old phones. My daughter's 12PP battery is at 85% not bad for 3 years.

Still above the 80% limit that iOS 17 can provide.

So you can just charge it when you need it up to 100% with fast/slow/wireless and get 0-5% degradation or turn on the 80% and be there all the time with less charge.

I would have a question for all those who condition their batteries, either by charge limits, charging types, etc how much that really saves the battery?
If you stop at 80% will there still be a 0-5%/year battery health decline?

 

[MegaBlue]

Nope, and even if I had my phone for more than a year, I’ve never not had AppleCare+ and so getting a new legitimate battery is very easy and accessible

 

[iStorm]

I upgrade every two or three years and don't care about it. My 13 is sitting at 88% and still gets me through the day just fine with room to spare.

I'd be curious to know how accurate these numbers actually are. I'm sure things are better now, but many years ago my mom had an old iPhone where the battery was at least three years old and battery health reported 96%. Wow, awesome battery, right!? Nope...the battery was shot. It couldn't hold a charge very long and the phone would shut down at random times. Luckily, we were still able to get it replaced despite not being below 80%.

 

[FeliApple]

I keep my iPhones and don’t upgrade frequently (running an iPhone Xʀ on iOS 12), and I don’t care. If don’t see why yearly upgraders should.

 

[BuggyGT]

As you mentioned since I upgrade every year, I do not care about the battery health cause the new one will have 100% anyway!

 

[JPack]

I care. Battery health drops between that 12 month period.

 

[andyw715]

I care. Battery health drops between that 12 month period.

So what is the solution.

 

[rui no onna]

I don't care. Even if I was an every 2 or 3 year upgrader I probably wouldn't care.

I usually give my kids my old phones. My daughter's 12PP battery is at 85% not bad for 3 years.

My gripe is at 80-85%, it already starts needing to be charged 2-3x a day but you can’t get a battery replacement yet. That said, I’m on the 12 mini and SE3. I’m guessing 6.1” or bigger iPhones fare much better battery-wise.

Mind, even if I upgraded yearly, I’d still enable the 80% limit on weekdays. I keep my phone on the wireless charger for pretty much the entire workday so less heat would be good. Would go back to full charging when I need to go out or during trips.

 

[thecautioners]

Nope. I simply don’t care because I will get a new phone in a year.

 

[jz0309]

I don't care, and I do not upgrade yearly. I do have AC+

 

[JPack]

So what is the solution.

Slow charging without wireless.

 

[drew0020]

I upgrade every year, but I don’t care about battery health anyway. People worry so much about the little things. If the battery isn’t holding a charge, send it for service lol.

 

[FattiesGoneWild]

Could careless about battery health.

 

[christlinah]

Not at all, they're dirt cheap to replace anyway tbh.

 

[andyw715]

Slow charging without wireless.

What kind of battery health decline does that yield? I'm just interested to know the difference between my nonchalant charging method and one who 'conditions' their battery

 

[reppans]

My daughter's 12PP battery is at 85% not bad for 3 years.

I would have a question for all those who condition their batteries, either by charge limits, charging types, etc how much that really saves the battery?
If you stop at 80% will there still be a 0-5%/year battery health decline?

Batt hobbyist running an automated custom charge optimization (shortcut/smartplug), so no worry, hassle, tending after initial setup. After 4yrs, my BH decline rate is 2% / yr… or less than half of your daughter’s rate.

 

[Jimmie Geddes]

I upgrade every year and I just keep optimized battery charging on (15 Pro Max currently). My 14 Pro Max took the biggest hit though, with a maximum capacity of 92%. It's pretty obvious that battery health is degrading quicker than previous iPhones. I thought the rumor of a new 80% limit setting was a joke.

 

[ph001bi]

I typically upgrade my phone every year. I turn on optimized charging, and charge my phone every night. My launch day 14 Pro was at 99% battery health when I got my 15 Pro.

I don't worry about it. If I decide to keep the phone longer than a year, and the battery degrades, I will just get the battery replaced or upgrade my phone, whichever seems best at the time.

I rarely look at it. My launch day 14 Pro Max was at 98% when I got the 15 Pro Max. I suppose if battery health was getting dangerously close to 90% I'd worry but it doesn't so I don't.

 

[andyw715]

Batt hobbyist running an automated custom charge optimization (shortcut/smartplug), so no worry, hassle, tending after initial setup. After 4yrs, my BH decline rate is 2% / yr… or less than half of your daughter’s rate.

Still not worth going through all that, or ever being limited to 80% prematurely just to save 8%

 

[MarkNewton2023]

Not really care or put too much time on battery health since I upgrade my phone yearly. However, I like to maintain it well.