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Regarding battery damage

Hello,

I just want to ask why my phone battery is draining so much as it’s been only two years for taking this phone .. please help me out of this

Posted on May 7, 2022 1:19 PM

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Rechargeable batteries are consumable items.

They naturally lose their ability to hold a charge with time and use. That goes for everything from the batteries in phones to the battery in your car.


You can check the battery health in Settings>Battery. If it drops below 80%, the battery should be replaced.

Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of your local Apple Store.

Posted on May 7, 2022 1:22 PM

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May 7, 2022 1:22 PM in response to Akki123akki

Rechargeable batteries are consumable items.

They naturally lose their ability to hold a charge with time and use. That goes for everything from the batteries in phones to the battery in your car.


You can check the battery health in Settings>Battery. If it drops below 80%, the battery should be replaced.

Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of your local Apple Store.

May 7, 2022 1:22 PM in response to Akki123akki

Two years is a reasonable life expectancy for any smartphone battery. Go to Settings/Battery/Battery Health and report what it says.


Batteries are consumables; they lose a little capacity every time they are discharged, then recharged. On average this works out to about a 1% loss for every 25 “full charge cycles”. As one example, if you charge the phone overnight, every night (and that is what you should do; it is a best practice), it starts the day at 100%. If it drops to 20% by the end of the day before you charge it again overnight that counts as 0.8 full charge cycles (20% to 100%), or about 24 full charge cycles per month of use. For this example your battery capacity will lose about 1% per month. Of course, if the end-of-day level is higher than 20% the capacity loss will be a little less, and if it is lower than 20%, or you charge it during the day, the capacity loss will be higher.


The absolute best way to get maximum use on a charge, as well as 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.

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