I accidentally left my phone with flash light on overnight, at first I wasn't aware of that as I found my phone dead after waking up and then found the torch light was on for 5 hours and 52 minutes, I'm really sad and feeling guilty as I don't know what kind of damage did I cause to my phone...What will happen now, please walk me through this
You have not damaged the phone or battery by running the battery flat. There is always some charge left even though it says 0, but provided it is not left in that 0 state for days then no harm done, just plug in the charger and wait, it will start charging again after a few minutes.
You have not damaged the phone or battery by running the battery flat. There is always some charge left even though it says 0, but provided it is not left in that 0 state for days then no harm done, just plug in the charger and wait, it will start charging again after a few minutes.
Not unless you did it every week.
Responding to this forum on my old iPhone7 I quite often ran it til it went off and although it is not recommended it still has 85% after 18 months which is about right for a small iphone.
Apple has recently updated the battery KB article, and it’s really quite good. iPhone Battery and Performance - Apple Support
and there is this User Tip by Lawrence Finch https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-9732
Yeah happened exactly the same, did take few minutes before starting to get charged, as my battery health already went down to 91 percent in just 10 months of usage so can keeping the torch light on overnight cause damage to the battery health percentage?
It happened for the first time as I was really tired and feeling sleepy yesterday night and didn't even realise to switch off the torch light of my iPhone SE2020, I'm not gonna let this happen again. Thank you so much sir, you words gave me some strength as I was in some sort of shock today morning because I had never let my iPhone battery to go below 19% until yesterday.
You're welcome.
I saw a lady last week put her phone into her hand bag with the flashlight on but she drove off before I could get to her!
Ohh! Hope she finds out that soon or her battery gonna flat in a few hours!
Kept the torch light on overnight
