iphone 12 pro max battery health degrading

I’m on 96% as of 16th July 2021... I only purchased my phone on the 4th December 2020. I’ve notice the battery life on these are shocking compared to previous years but there’s definitely some optimisation that needs to be done because it’s atrocious. In the 4 years of iPhone my iPhone 7 it has only reduced to 82%, so it’s technically degrading twice as fast as my iPhone 7 did. And I’ve use nothing but the genuine lead that comes with the phone, I use optimised charging, I have reduced battery consumption due to changing a bunch of tracking settings and applications but still. Also, with the camera open my battery reduces by 2-3% a minute, same goes for videos but sometimes more. There’s clearly something very wrong here.

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That’s because statistically, it won’t. So they offer something that’s almost impossible to do. At the very most, you could reach 83-84% within a year. Unless you attempt to damage the battery on purpose, then maybe.

91% with 176 cycles is more reasonable but mine is 92% at 67 cycles . U may be really draining a lot

my usage :

1.no wireless charger

2.no high power fast charger

3.no car charger ( unstable input to phone)

4.never drain to below 50%

=>>> still 92% at 67 cycles , that’s why they replaced for me

when my 12PM battery health drop to 99% it was consistently dropping 1% every 1-2wks

It hit 89% on 7 July & It has been 20days+ and still at 89%…. Looks like Apple did something so that they won’t be changing my Battery since battery Health suddenly became better

I wouldn’t label an observation “wrong” lol. I literally watched it happen. My wireless charger never degraded my last 2 phones this quickly. It wasn’t until I switched to my wired 20W charger where the degradation started to happen. Once I went back to my wireless charger it stopped.

Something is terribly wrong with iphone 12 pro max battery. My charging habbits have been the same for 11pro max, xs max, X & beyond. I have not seen battery health degrading 7% in 3 months usage……

Older phones don't report the state of the battery as accurately.

It's like having a fuel gauge on your car that drops from F to 1/2 instantly; it doesn't mean you drove most of the way without using any gas.

Mine 12PM same as yours… From 99% to 89% it was dropping 2% per month

But now that it hit 89% it has not dropped for over a month. So Apple found a way not to replace my battery cos it will be below 80% before 1yr is up if it had continued to drop 2% per month

Haven’t checked this post in a while but I had to come back to report this. On June 10th I had 93% battery capacity. Today August 15th, 2 months later I’m down to 89%. This battery is definitely degrading at an accelerated speed.

Apparently, the design capacity of my iPhone 12 is 2798 mAh, not 2815 as stated by Apple. Having bought it from new in November 2020, it's now displaying a battery health of 97% maximum capacity, with a charge count of 30, very low usage of around 15% battery per day and charging once every couple of days.

My wife has an iPhone 11, bought the same time, with a design capacity of 3092 mAh, charge count of 45 and yet her battery health is displaying 100% maximum capacity.

All I can say is that the battery characteristics of the iPhone 12, is very much different to any other iPhone I've owned - a part of me would prefer Apple to turn this feature off, as it's too distracting and perhaps something we don't need to be preoccupied by.

There is something strange, indeed: the battery health of my iPhone 12 (powered on for the first time on December 22) was at 96% on July 19, today it is at 93%.

On my old iPhone 8, battery health was at 90% after about 2 years of intensive using.

My battery health got down to 89% I took the game off that was making it die fast so now I only use social media and food and grocery delivery services streaming app etc and it’s not dying 1% battery health each day

It simply doesn't matter, so don't spend a lot of time concerned about it.

Check your Battery Health when your phone is 11 months old, and if it's 80% or below make an appointment to have Apple replace your battery for free under warranty.

My iPhone 12 Pro Max has been at 90% for nearly 3-4 weeks hasn’t decreased since the last iOS update despite heavy use or could it be the rate of decrease is slowing down because it’s levelling off?

Doesnt matter much considering the iPhone 13 is predicted to be just over 2 and a half weeks away from being announced

Compared to using your phone. Mine was at 88% after 10 months. Why did I look at it?!? Because my phone wasn’t lasting all day like it used to. By mid afternoon I was at 25% charge (from 6AM / overnight charge).

Losing over 10% charge capacity in less than a year of use is unacceptable for a $1000+ phone.