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iPhone battery health

Why my iPhone 12 Pro battery health is suddenly down from 100% to 96%

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 15

Posted on Jan 25, 2022 7:30 PM

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Posted on Jan 25, 2022 7:32 PM

Battery Health & Performance 

Your battery health is fine and is undergoing normal usage. iPhone batteries, like all rechargeable batteries, are consumable components that become less effective as they age. You should change out the battery once your Battery Health reaches below 80% which will take over 2 years to reach under normal usage. Until then enjoy your iPhone.

Here is some more reading on an iPhone battery and its performance ➡️ iPhone Battery and Performance - Apple Support


Axel F.  

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Jan 25, 2022 7:32 PM in response to soni2001

Battery Health & Performance 

Your battery health is fine and is undergoing normal usage. iPhone batteries, like all rechargeable batteries, are consumable components that become less effective as they age. You should change out the battery once your Battery Health reaches below 80% which will take over 2 years to reach under normal usage. Until then enjoy your iPhone.

Here is some more reading on an iPhone battery and its performance ➡️ iPhone Battery and Performance - Apple Support


Axel F.  

Jan 25, 2022 7:42 PM in response to soni2001

That can happen. For whatever reason, the battery health isn't a real time reading and doesn't seem to be reevaluated on a daily basis. For example, it could be something like 100% for the first 6 months of a battery, it drops to 99%, then it drops to 95% after another 3 months. It seems strange, but often it seems to delay updates, and then it seems like it's just losing 3-4% at one time when the battery degradation has been accumulating for some time before the update.


Save some sort of catastrophic damage, batteries don't really lose 4% battery capacity overnight.

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