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It doesn’t so much as hurt the battery, but does prevent the microcontrollers responsible for monitoring from knowing the actual lows and highs thus requiring a lot of estimation. Furthermore, never doing a complete cycle in one sweep throws off the calibration. It’s also not great to leave the cells stagnant for very long periods - batteries have “shelf life” for a reason. Keeping the battery at 50% is technically the least stressing. And as far as official battery replacement… Apple is going to rely on their own algorithm/test - so, what you see in coconutBattery and the like is useless for argument’s sake.Īs for the perfect charge routine… There really isn’t one.

You should not be judging your device’s viability based on some (estimated) calculated number. Obviously, the calculation is not exact, though good enough. So the take away is - if you’re near a power outlet and are plugged in all the time, if you keep the battery SOC between 65% and 75% using a Shortcut controlling a HomeKit charger - the battery will EASILY outlive the useful life of the phone by a factor of probably 3X. I’ve seen the battery health % drop down to 92% when it’s cold outside) Seems hard to believe- but it’s true (according to coconut battery)

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Here’s the results of my 6 year test on an iPhone 6 Plus original battery: The most relaxed state a lithium ion battery can be in is at a 40% SOC.Īlso deeper discharging creates more stress on the battery than shallow (according to battery university)

The phone was used heavily at least 8 hours every day for 6 years.Įvery battery manufacturer, including for EVs say that the farther you can keep a lithium ion battery away from 100% SOC, the better. Sure there were times when I charged it higher and discharged it lower, but overall I’d say my SOC was kept within the range of 60% to 80% for six years. Over that time period (6 years) I tried my best to keep the battery SOC between 65% and 75% since I was usually near a power outlet. I’ve actually done a real world test over the span of 6 years with an iPhone battery - the original battery that came with the phone (iPhone 6 Plus). Their conclusions on that webpage are based on theoretical conjecture.

I am not sure if this is really the case though - probably need others to confirm as well.Ĭlick to expand.They’re conclusions are wrong.ĭid they do a 6 year extended duration test? No of course not. With 'When battery rises above XX%', seems like it is always likely for the automation to be triggered.

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My speculation is that sometimes when the phone is being charged and left unused for a while, the system does not always update the battery level % by 1% increment - thus perhaps there might be a time when the battery is at 79%, the next time the system checks the battery it is already at 81%, thus ignoring the 'When battery level is 80%' trigger. I changed the trigger to 'When battery level rises above 80%' and so far it always works - however interesting thing that I observe is that I expect the automation to be triggered when the battery level is at 81% (which it does most of the time), but I saw one time that the automation triggered but when the battery level was at 82%. I played with automation in Shorcuts recently to shut off my Homekit controlled plug when the battery is at 80% - from what I have observed, the automation sometimes ignores if the trigger is set as 'When battery level is 80%' thus keep on charging my phone until 100%.