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Having the majority of your usage / charge cycles being based on a 50 to 80% total charged will increase the total cycles (and the battery’s total life).
by Loggias 3y ago
Having the majority of your usage / charge cycles being based on a 50 to 80% total charged will increase the total cycles (and the battery’s total life).
- gnicholas 3y agoI realize this is true, and sometimes I will charge sooner or stop charging earlier to keep my phone in this range. But most of the time, I just use my phone. After all, what's the point of optimizing the total battery life if you aren't ever going to actually use the battery to its capacity?
- dc3k 3y agoArtificially limiting yourself to 40% of your battery’s capacity to extend its life seems like an enormous waste of effort My last phone spent like 8-10 hours a day on and off a wireless charger and had 88% battery health when I sold it over two years after I bought it
- rubatuga 3y agoI'm pretty sure 88% health means like 80% original capacity since iPhones actually shut off at 20% real capacity to protect the cell.
- dc3k 3y agoAssuming that’s correct, by me not janitoring my battery for over 2 years I still have double the capacity of the guy who I originally replied to I really do not understand how that’s worth “a lot of manual toil”
- Reason077 3y agoApple's "battery health" measure is not the percentage of original capacity remaining. My old iPhone X claims 81% battery health, but the actual capacity is more like 60-70% of original.
- phito 3y agoI can't imagine caring about my phone's battery health enough to pay attention to not let it charge to 100 overnight. It's something that should be automated. And even then, I'm not sure I would use it, I usually need 100% of my battery to go through the day.
- Reason077 3y agoA 10-80% load cycle will be almost as good as 50-80%, and much more practical.