My iphone 11 pro max battery capacity dropped 2% in just 3 months

LOveWerksOriginal wrote:

Using Android as a comparison to iOS may’ve been a bit inept on my part, and I am aware of the various controls where you can dim the data-sucking (“sharing”) from apps, 3rd-party developers, and myriad analytica.. but I am still on a quest to find a way to slow the bleeding, as it were. Privacy is one of the reasons for me leaving Android, and coming to iOS.

You cannot stop the decrease in battery capacity. You'd have to change the laws of physics to do that. Batteries are consumables. Depending on usage, they will last, on average between 18 months and 3 years. If the battery capacity drops below 80% before the end of your warranty, Apple will replace it for free. After that, it's not, compared to the price of the phone, very expensive to replace.

Trying to micromanage your battery wastes something you can never get replaced.

LOveWerksOriginal wrote:

I just got an iPhone 7 v2 and since the 13.5 update, it is also sucking the battery dry. So, I guess that I can say “This happened to me too,” and as a former Android user, I know that running background apps are the culprit; so go to Settings like I do, and read your eyes tired.

iOS and the Android OS are not the same. Most apps are not running in the background. Some app do some updating in the background if you've enabled that feature. Go to Settings>General>Background App Refresh and turn off things you don't need refreshing in the background.

By the way, force quitting apps won't save you any battery life and may, in fact, result in using more.

You cannot reverse this issue except if you replace the iphone's battery , your iphone should last 500 charge cycles which means approximately 2 years or 3 .

sincerly

Mourad Ghaly

This is absolutely, positively, completely, utterly not true. Using the 18W charger will not cause battery health to degrade in any way shape or form.

Eskild911 wrote:

But you can fast charge it (destroy the battery faster) and charge it with a wrong voltage (hopefully the phone will stop it, but I wouldn’t take the chance with a $1099 phone)

I just got an iPhone 7 v2 and since the 13.5 update, it is also sucking the battery dry. So, I guess that I can say “This happened to me too,” and as a former Android user, I know that running background apps are the culprit; so go to Settings like I do, and read your eyes tired.

You will find solutions everywhere. It just a matter of turning apps off, or to lessen their running time.

Good luck.

LW

Eskild911 wrote:

What’s not true? Apple ships all iPhone 11 Pros and 11 pro maxes with a fast charger. You probably can’t charge an iPhone with way higher voltage then intended however I wouldn’t take the chance.

I've been charging iPhones with an iPad charger since there were iPads. My iPhone 7 battery lasted over three years.

Using Android as a comparison to iOS may’ve been a bit inept on my part, and I am aware of the various controls where you can dim the data-sucking (“sharing”) from apps, 3rd-party developers, and myriad analytica.. but I am still on a quest to find a way to slow the bleeding, as it were. Privacy is one of the reasons for me leaving Android, and coming to iOS.

I am here to learn. Forgive my ignorance.

It appears that I have a reading problem, as I’m here in this thread about iPhone 11... I’ve got an iPhone 7 v2, and I just converted from Android. Anyone who feels like steering this noob to where he needs to go - steer away, folk.

LW

Yes, I know I’m late to the iPhone party... I was a dedicated Android user until I found out that in order to stop the data bleed that happens nowadays, you had to gain root/Superuser privileges by getting a new bootloader - and using third-party ROMs... and the more I tried to “cut the cord” from Google, the more the phone lost performance. I went to third party apps, different server sync... what a pain.

Hello iPhone 7 v2, running iOS 13.5. I just got this phone 3 days ago. It’s brand new, not a refurb... but upgrading to 13.5 has decreased my battery life...

I’m learning slowly here, but if everyone gives me a chance - I will give back to this community eventually. I learned quite a bit from my Android experience, and so far -

The new device behaves like an Apple product. That’s good enough for me. I’m retired and on a fixed income, and aside from the drop in battery life - it works fine.

I am, however, here to learn. Help out an old Apple guy that started life on an Apple II MANY MOONS AGO...

LW

LW

No it can't.

You can't overcharge an iOS device.

But you can fast charge it (destroy the battery faster) and charge it with a wrong voltage (hopefully the phone will stop it, but I wouldn’t take the chance with a $1099 phone)

Not true.

What’s not true? Apple ships all iPhone 11 Pros and 11 pro maxes with a fast charger. You probably can’t charge an iPhone with way higher voltage then intended however I wouldn’t take the chance.

Steering you to what exactly? Do you need to know where to check Battery Health on your iPhone?

...but since I upgraded my iPhone 7 v2 to iOS 13.5, my battery life has become shorter than before...

Two birds with one stone?

LW