No matter how much battery an iPhone has, the key is to conserve it. By taking care of her. And much has been written about battery health. Because it is not easy to conduct blind tests and obtain accurate data. Two identical iPhones can have small changes in their manufacturing process that create a considerable percentage difference. Like our body, it is always reactive to mutagenic agents such as dust, The battery in every iPhone is only the same in appearance.
Perhaps that’s why we obsess over minor details like the number of charge cycles, which will determine the useful life of the iPhone. But after many years of testing with different models and cables, I can only tell you my experience and how I managed to keep the battery of my iPhone 15 Pro at 100%: charge it only with Magsafe.
Why charging with Magsafe is better
According to several experts and tomographic reviews, the iPhone 15 USB-C cable is “a masterpiece.” Apple did its homework and did not take on the imposition of the European Union to adapt USB-C like any other order. However, If I’ve noticed anything, it’s that charging via Magsafe seems to be less invasive
We know that magnetic charging is not the most efficient. A study has opened the debate on sustainability and civil responsibility by verifying that nearly 50% of the energy transmitted is wasted energy. In other words, it takes twice as many watts as if we charged our iPhone via cable.
On the other hand, wired charging proved to be much more aggressive. I was able to check it at home: two iPhone 15s, with a series of even charge and discharge time cycles, having already passed the first 100 cycles, they produced two different results. The first, almost always charged by Magsafe because it stays on a desk all day without a cable, offers 100% charging capacity. The second, still charged by cable, is already at 98%. Slow charging versus fast charging: that simple.
How to know the health status of iPhone battery
Checking the health and charge cycles of your iPhone’s battery is as simple as following this route that we show you:
- First enter the ‘Settings‘ from you iPhone
- Now go down to the section ‘Battery‘, in the second block of iPhone utilities
- Now once inside, press the ‘Battery Status
- There you can check the health status and maximum charging capacity of the iPhone, measured as a percentage.
Keep in mind that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max updated with iOS 17.5 have an added benefit of checking the total number of charging cycles.
Concerning this percentage, let’s remember the good news. A few months ago, Apple confirmed that the iPhone 15 battery was even more durable than it had estimated. A priori, the batteries of the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are designed to retain at least 80% of its original capacity after the first 1,000 charge cycles
Practical ways to keep the iPhone battery like the first day
The reality is that the battery of any iPhone ultimately depends on the use we give it. Beyond the many myths, If we give it a lot of effort we will speed up the loading and unloading cycle, there is none left. And beyond simple use, certain trends should be avoided.
For example, if we leave the forgotten iPhone connected to the charger overnight, it will stop receiving energy once it finishes its usual cycle, but will continue to suffer from stress due to electrical voltage. And that’s not to mention all that wasted electricity being converted into thermal energy, which will also force the iPhone to actively cool and speed up the battery drain process.
This is one of the key tips, something as simple as not leaving your iPhone plugged into power all day. And it is one of the most fundamental practices added to that of prevent your iPhone from discharging to 0% and charging it to 100%since an effective charge of 85% is always recommended and not lower than the 25% threshold.
The reason is similar: to prevent the walls of each tiny cell, among the hundreds that make up the iPhone battery, from being subjected to too much stress, melt some of the coating material in the degradation process and losing energy storage capacity along the way. That is to say, load.
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