Iphone 13 Bad Battery

SimonCMD wrote:

If you really want to maximize your batteries lifespan you should rather look towards reducing the energy your phone consumes (turn of 5G/Bluetooth/Wifi when not needed, use dark mode, remove apps which consume power while in standby) than trying to micromanage charging.

No, I don't really want to maximize my battery's lifespan enough to turn off useful features. However, turning off BT and WiFi are not ways to preserve battery life:

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Battery Drain and oth… - Apple Community

Dark mode also doesn't save very much energy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2021/07/31/phone-battery-life-dark-mode/?sh=1c8ad7b372df

Regarding apps that use battery life in the background, Apple provides a very easy way to turn that off. Settings>General>Background App Refresh. It can be turned off for all apps or just for some.

Another useful option is Low Power Mode:

Use Low Power Mode to save battery life on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

It saves you from having to chang lots of settings manually.

Hi, no this is not a scam, Batteries are chemical components, you can't predict the correct operation, maybe the percent stop falling and stay like that for months.

But you may have a software problem that drain the battery, try to do a settings reset and check if you have any app that use a lot of battery, like Facebook.

mishhhhhh1827 wrote:

My iphone 13 battery is the worst! I never used it while charging and i had it since october 2021.

Meanwhile my battery health is 93%!!!!!!! What can i do?

Also it doesnt survive more than 5hours of screen time.

apple this is a scam

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/5ec8c804-ccb7-4233-b3d7-57b602cf1bb0

And when you go to settings -battery - what app is eating up your battery life?

Hi mishhhhhh1827,

I would suggest trying the solutions listed at: Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple

Often these solutions will help your battery perform better. Let us know how it performs after giving those solutions a try!

Apple probably only warns you at 20% since there is no hard limit where you cause extreme damage to your battery.

It is a sliding scale: letting it discharge to 20% won't cause significantly more damage than discharging it to 30%, but the user gets 10% more battery.

If you really want to maximize your batteries lifespan you should rather look towards reducing the energy your phone consumes (turn of 5G/Bluetooth/Wifi when not needed, use dark mode, remove apps which consume power while in standby) than trying to micromanage charging.

Hi,

Batteries are a consumable part with a limited lifespan.

There are a few things you can do to extend/shorten your batteries lifespan.

• letting the battery get hot reduces it significantly.
• deep discharge (~<30%) or overcharging (~>90%) also reduces it.
• charging it rapidly reduces it.
• using it a lot (how much energy you pushed trough the battery) reduces it.

If you still think that your battery degraded more than normal you could use a third party app like "coconut battery" which lets you get some more info like cycle count, temperature and battery age.

SimonCMD wrote:

• deep discharge (~<30%) or overcharging (~>90%) also reduces it.

• charging it rapidly reduces it.

Can you provide some background support for these assertions?

This is a great user tip:

When to charge your iPhone or iPad - Apple Community

Well, I was actually hoping for links to actual scientific data but...

The video is a nice explanation of how lithium-ion batteries work. And, it does say that batteries can be damaged by draining to 0% (true) and therefore, that you should charge your battery at 30-40% but it never explains why that's better than say, 20% which is when Apple starts warning you. Why would Apple wait until 20% if it was better to charge the battery at 40%? Also, there is no mention in the video that I caught that said you shouldn't charge it fully and that fast charging was bad. In fact, it even says that batteries have circuitry to prevent overcharging.

Couldn't find out much about "Branch Education" and, sadly, their citations are not clickable. Of the ones I was able to access, only one had anything to say about charging under the heading of "What might make my phone last longer" (note the words "might" and "phone", not battery), "Keep your battery charged about 50%" (yet another percentage). It was a slide deck from a battery company with no citations of its own.

As was noted in the user tip I linked to, there's a lot of misconceptions about lithium-ion batteries. I think it's important we don't promulgate them.

iPhone battery capacity drops by, on average, 1% a month. So, there is nothing amiss with your battery capacity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5McJw4KkG8

This goes into great detail but it covers my claims.