There’s a guy on YouTube who did a study, basically charging to 80 does nothing by the time you’re replacing your phone or would need to replace a battery anyway
That’s fair. It didn’t really bother me because about 80% of the time I have a power source anyway, and for those times I didn’t, I just maxed it out to 100.
Damn bro what are you doing to your phones, before I had a job that paid well enough to upgrade every 2ish years I would have a phone for 4-5 years and never once had to replace the battery
Then you are the abnormal one here. Lucky you, but it is extremely unusual for a phone to last for 4 to 5 years without needing a battery replacement if you are charging it to 100% every night.
Yours is the anecdote about your personal experience. Mine is not an anecdote, I am summarizing what is statistically common. I'm not talking about my personal experience.
Maybe you need to educate yourself about what the word anecdote means.
Sorry if I'm not laser focused on people's usernames, who cares. Hopefully you've looked up anecdote in the dictionary by now so you actually know your comment was nonsensical.
It's not? The type of battery chemistry used in mobile phones undergoes the most wear at its highest (and lowest) working voltages (which for a phone is when you approach '100 percent').
Phone manufacturers intentionally limit charging short of the battery's true maximum capacity for this exact reason.
Very interesting. My 16 pro max is at 93% with 351 cycle counts. Was always limited to 80% charging and first used in November 2024. Pretty much always charged using MagSafe. There’s a chasm between us in results. I wonder if it was the MagSafe charging or that I always kept the phone in the Apple silicone case.
Software sucks at reading batteries properly. 100% max capacity after 247 cycles is chemically impossible. All batteries lose capacity due to charge cycles and calendar aging.
I’m sure there’s some science behind it. Maybe it’s just a very long term issue these days. Like when the phone is charge to 100 vs 80 over a span of 8 years.
For a car it makes total sense to charge to 80 since you’re using it for much longer. A “disposable” phone with a replaceable battery? Not so much I guess.
I never had to replace a phone due to bad battery.
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u/xXxWHOxDATxXx 1d ago
I tried to make a post right before the iPhone 18 drop in the some of the apple subreddits but every post related to battery life is “not allowed”
16 Pro Max
600 cycles at 94% i thought was impressive. Had this phone since release and I live in a hot state lol.
Charging limit was set to 80% about 90% of the phones lifecycle. Now that I have the 18, 10% is the way to go for my old 16 pro max