Should I shut down my iPhone every night? Sleep vs shut-down.

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Should I shut down my iPhone every night? Sleep vs shut-down.

Hi, If I never use my phone during the night, should I shut it right down every night? How much energy is used when the iPhone "sleeps" for 8 hours?
Thanks for your thoughts on this!

iMac G5 Flat panel, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 2, 2009 9:43 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 2, 2009 10:18 AM in response to Ohnj

It's a smart charger; shuts down if the battery is fully charged. So the power used is minuscule after the battery reaches full charge. I almost suggested using a timer to turn on the charger a couple of hours before you get up, but the timer would probably use more power than the Apple adapter.

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Answer 2

Oct 2, 2009 10:17 AM in response to Ohnj

if you leave it sleep mode you ca still get calls and use things like the alarm - if you shut it off - its off and nothing will work

of course it depends on what you want - i rely on the alarm so i leave my phone on and in the charger at night

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Oct 2, 2009 11:56 AM in response to Tamara

Thanks again Tamara, I wanted to share the solved with you and Lawrence but as a rookie did not realize that this is not possible. It seems that I can only give one solved and two helpfuls. Sorry!

John

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Answer 4

Oct 2, 2009 12:33 PM in response to Ohnj

I know that this question is Answered - but my two cents: I sometimes don't leave it for charging when I go to bed at night (reading books on iphone in bed and then too lazy to plug it back in the charger) but I have not seen the battery % drop more than 2-3 % counts.

Hope that helps.

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Answer 5

Oct 2, 2009 1:04 PM in response to Ohnj

My battery will loose about 10% (polling email every hour, and push IM left on) over 7.5 hours.

You can leave it on and I think Apple intend people do, because otherwise alarms will not go off, I use the alarms to wake me up 🙂 The best option is to leave it on and plugged in.

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Answer 6

Oct 2, 2009 1:07 PM in response to ManicMarc

Sounds like I may not be getting enough sleep then 😉

Jokes apart, I do not leave the IM Push on; just leave the email to be pulled each hour on my home wi-fi. - so that could be helping me save the power over ManicMarc.

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