iphone 12 pro max battery health degrading

Exactly. Just simple example: brand new iPhone 7 after 14 months 78%. After battery change and 19 months 94%. Difference is huge. Now brand new iPhone 12 pro after 6 months 93%! If someone is saying that this is normal is simply not right...

This thread has people with different issues, that are all getting jumbled together. There are a few people who actually do appear to have defective batteries. And there are a lot of people who have perfectly normal batteries that they want to be better than normal. Sort of like the Prairie Home Companions quote; “…and all the children are above average”.

The thread is really getting boring; I’m leaving it.

My leather cases for my X (I had a few) turned black but only the ones I put in my (various) pants pockets. Tho ones that didn’t-never turned black. My wife keeps hers in a leather case and then in a zipper case in her bag to keep key scratches off the screen. Hers never turned black.

I think it’s the pants.

Definitely more than that I am afraid. Usually, I can get an iPhone, and sell it in 2 to 3 years for a new model, still with a reasonable amount of battery life left for the buyer. With the current trend, that means I will have to have my iPhone service no matter what. Having a $1200 phone that guarantees a visit to the service center in approximately a year's time isn't acceptable, not to mention sometimes booking a Genius Bar appointment, having the data backup as late as possible to avoid loss of data, and may need to go without the iPhone for a few days is kind of stressful for many people.

My XS max has got battery health of 96 % as of today, after use of few years..

Definitely XS max has got more strength and health…Than the other newer models in the discussion here..

Just as a point which I am afraid of now, is any updates which may hamper the battery life of XS max..

May God help me..

Amen

It hasn’t dropped slowly over the past 7 months. It’s dropped like 4-5% in the past two or three months. THAT IS NOT NORMAL. Every 5-10 days (as mentioned in my previous comment) it drops another 1% so that’s not every month that’s every 5-10 days. Which it should not be doing! I treat this phone as I treated my other iPhones but yet this one’s battery health is literally the absolute worst I’ve ever seen. I’m tired of people invalidating what I know is wrong with my iPhone. There’s people on this thread and reddit and many other places that are experiencing these struggles with their battery’s health, so I have no idea how you could just be brushing this off as ‘normal’. But thanks for your input, have a good day.

Beyond 80% just beyond 12m…. A staff of apple store told me that he never saw one case with battery replacement <80% in 12M. Even all bad health batteries would never achieve <80 “% beyond 1Y. Apple has calculated before setting this policy .

btw, all bad health batteries all suffer from 1% health drop in 1W. Mine is exactly 1%per week or 3 charge cycles since start of degrading . Now 92% with 79 charge cycles only . Don’t tell me this is normal anymore , 3 cycles with 1% drop !!!

Hmm that seems like excessive drain to me. I don’t use maps a ton though so I’m not 100% sure.

I’ll do an experiment and get back to you. I have the 11 pro max still. Tomorrow I’ll do my best to use both phones the same amount with the same apps as best I can. I’ll do a 1 or 2 hour use screenshot.

Thank you. I traded in my old model so I couldn’t do that so it would be greatly appreciated!

in addition I came across this video on YouTube. XS vs 11 pro vs 12pro all brand new devices with 100% battery capacity. The 11 pro out performed the 12 pro by an hour and 10 minutes. If I’m understanding this all correctly, shorter battery life = more charge cycles = faster degrading of battery health?

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I know It takes longer but apple promised 50% in 30 minutes and that's not the case, also I am aware that inductive chargers can produce heat, but my point was that my phone was so hot that holding it without a case on it was unbearable. More hot than my Belkin 3 in 1 charger by far. Thanks.

Exactly, none of these are a universal issue that every device encounters. These are all still issues that should be examined & addressed though. It is a good thing that probably most people don’t experience any issues whatsoever. I think that’s what we all want at the end of the day.

I’ve bought my 12 pro Max in the month of December. It’s been six months. And the battery health was 100% till the last month. In just 2 weeks it came to 94%. I don’t understand what’s going on with these devices.

Okay, I get that. But at the same time, as apple customers it’s frustrating to have to get a new battery in our not even year old phone when we’ve paid over $1,000 for the phone. Plus what about the time it takes to drop to 80% battery health, are we just supposed to carry around a charger all day for a new iPhone that isn’t even a year old? The point of this discussion/thread isn’t to just go WOO we get new batteries when our phones drop to 80% battery health. This is about the frustration & annoyance & concern about why our not even year old iPhones are draining battery health so incredibly fast when they’ve barely been through many charging cycles, are barely being used & are being charged correctly. Previous iPhones have not done this, as other people have mentioned within the discussion/thread & yes I know they all have different batteries & it’s a different iPhone, but why is this one so different? So I get that you are like well ‘that’s good you’ll get a replacement in no time’ but the purpose of this thread isn’t to receive a replacement battery, it’s to discuss why it’s happening, what apple may do about it & see if others are struggling as well etc.

Deepsea_D_Blue wrote:

I’m using 3rd party cos fed up with Apple expensive cables keep breaking after few months

I've never seen an Apple cable fail that wasn't abused in some way (people pull on the cable rather than on the connector body) or that wasn't subject to extreme UV exposure (a cable left in a car in bright sunlight every day.)

I've got nine year-old USB to Lightning cables that work perfectly every day.

None of my new cables purchased over the past two years have failed either, nor has any cable included with a phone.

I've actually purchased some cables over the past year to replace cables that others abused and they work perfectly a full year or two later.