iPhone 12 mini battery health

Hello,

The battery health being down to 98% is normal and is nothing to worry about.

Having charging stopping at 80% is due to Optimized Battery Charging. See this:

About Optimized Battery Charging on your iPhone

For some general battery charging tips, see this:

When to charge your iPhone or iPad

Good luck.

Battery Health monitoring was released in March 2018? How many phones have you actually owned since March 2018?

Batteries are consumable parts. With every full cycle charge, it's Battery Health will decline a little.

A 2% drop in Battery Health in about 2 months is not only NOT excessive, it's expected and normal. Before Battery Health monitoring, none of us had a clue about the health of our batteries. Now people are constantly checking the reading and worrying needlessly. If in the first 12 months of ownership, your battery health dips to 80% or less (extremely unlikely, btw), then and only then would you have an issue. And Apple would replace the battery for free if it did dip that low in the first 12 months.

Otherwise, make sure you use Optimized Charging in Settings > Battery and plug your phone in to charge when you go to bed at night and leave it charging all night long. This is the best way to preserve battery health.

See this link --> Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple

Had 6s, 7 and xr. Prior to 2018 had the 4 and 5s. Battery capacity do decline whether you like it or not. But based on my experience that decline was quite fast. I don’t know if it’s the way i’m using my phones or maybe “luck” as i have said but they surpassed 6 mos before they drop a %. With the xr it was almost a year if not a year that i noticed it dropped to 99%. When i replaced it after around 2 years of use it had 98%. Of course mileage varies.

Hello! I actually disagree. I do believe there is an error going on with the 12 mini and 12 batteries…. My 12 pro max is still at 100% and I have used it for 6 months now! While my 12 mini is at 89% after 8 months. I’m not sure what causes this. Maybe the tiny frame and excess heat?

Bought mine in December. By August, battery dropped to 93%. Before the end of August, it has dropped to 92% ...I have no problem with mini's size of battery but the degradation is making it even smaller so fast. Apple, reconsider your battery supplier.

If you use your phone while charging it might reduce battery life. Using low power mode it will unactivate a lot of things like Background app refresh. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT205234

This is my 7 month

My Mini is 7 months old and down to 92%. Apple won’t do anything until it gets to 80% regardless of phone performance.

Been through several iphones and i should say it’s not very normal🙂 maybe i’ve been lucky with all the previous ones before

Good for you. Wait until you reach your 11th month of ownership, then check it. Until then enjoy your phone!

iphone 12 mini in 6 months battery health drop to 94 % in ios 14.7.1 2% drop in one week apple should do something its very bad ... Quick lunch of ios that solve this thing

I bought my 12 Mini at New Years 2021. My battery is down to 93% capacity as of now (August, ‘21). Fantastic phone otherwise.

And 1% per month decline is normal. So, you're down 7% in almost 8 months. So, you're fine.