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Has anyone else noticed their 12 pros battery health degrading rather quick. I lasted at 100 percent for about three Months, but that degradation seems to have sped up. I’ve lost three percent battery Health in the last two weeks and Apple tells me that there is nothing wrong with my phone or battery? I am at 90% after having the phone for 9 months.
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14
I don’t know what tips you have been following, but most of what you see on the Internet is wrong. The absolute best way to slow the decline of battery capacity long term is to enable Optimized Battery Charging (Settings/Battery/Battery Health) and charge the device overnight, every night. The battery will fast charge to 80%, then pause. During the nighttime pause the phone will use mains power instead of battery power, allowing the battery to “rest”, and thus reducing the need to charge the battery quite as often. The phone will resume charging to reach 100% when you are ready to use your phone; it will “learn” your usage pattern. If you enable iCloud Backup (Settings/[your name]/iCloud - iCloud Backup) the phone will back up overnight also, assuring that you can never lose more than the current day’s updates.
Any “tip” that says to disconnect the charger before the battery reaches full charge essentially guarantees that all energy to run the phone will come from the battery, and never from an external source. The battery charge will go up and down constantly between charging and discharging, never “resting”. So naturally, as it is predominantly charging and discharging that has a negative effect on capacity any such strategy is not optimum.
I don’t know what tips you have been following, but most of what you see on the Internet is wrong. The absolute best way to slow the decline of battery capacity long term is to enable Optimized Battery Charging (Settings/Battery/Battery Health) and charge the device overnight, every night. The battery will fast charge to 80%, then pause. During the nighttime pause the phone will use mains power instead of battery power, allowing the battery to “rest”, and thus reducing the need to charge the battery quite as often. The phone will resume charging to reach 100% when you are ready to use your phone; it will “learn” your usage pattern. If you enable iCloud Backup (Settings/[your name]/iCloud - iCloud Backup) the phone will back up overnight also, assuring that you can never lose more than the current day’s updates.
Any “tip” that says to disconnect the charger before the battery reaches full charge essentially guarantees that all energy to run the phone will come from the battery, and never from an external source. The battery charge will go up and down constantly between charging and discharging, never “resting”. So naturally, as it is predominantly charging and discharging that has a negative effect on capacity any such strategy is not optimum.
ShaileshVhasure wrote:
Apple tells me that there is nothing wrong with my phone or battery? I am at 90% after having the phone for 9 months.
Yes, that sounds normal for that model phone.
Perfectly normal.
Any idea why my battery health might’ve fallen so quick in 2 weeks I’ve been following all the tips
The decline is not necessarily linear. It will stay the same for a while, then start dropping. There are no tips that will preven battery health from declining.
iPhone 12 Pro battery health
