iPhone 15 battery health decline after every 4-5 charge cycles

My iPhone 15 battery health continues dropping after every 4-5 charge cycle.


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Original Title: iPhone battery health drop

iPhone 15, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 30, 2025 11:04 AM

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Sep 30, 2025 1:12 PM in response to dibakar257

dibakar257 wrote:

At 297 cycles, it was 94%. Currently, it’s 91% with 308 charge cycles.
As per iPhone 15 battery, it should be 1000 charge cycles, so as per that, every 1% should be 50 cycle count.
So in 308 cycles, it should be around 93%.

Your assessment is pretty accurate and you are within 2% of what Apple recommends under ideal conditions. Not something that would indicate any red flags. As already stated, the drop is not going to be linear, meaning that it is only tied to charge cycles where every 50 would automatically drop the Battery Health by 1%. Previous drops do not indicate that future drops will be the same.

Sep 30, 2025 1:08 PM in response to dibakar257

Lithium batteries do not age in a linear fashion. This is just physics and chemistry in operation. You’ll find that your iPhone battery health will drop off and then hit a plateau where the health remains steady for an unusually long time.


For example I’ve an older iPhone 14 PM that gets charged daily and is stuck on 82% for last 3 months. I’m expecting a 3 or 4 point dip any day now.

Sep 30, 2025 1:01 PM in response to dibakar257

dibakar257 wrote:

At 297 cycles, it was 94%. Currently, it’s 91% with 308 charge cycles.

As per iPhone 15 battery, it should be 1000 charge cycles, so as per that, every 1% should be 50 cycle count.

So in 308 cycles, it should be around 93%.

What it should be in theory is not always what it is in reality. The specs are determined under ideal conditions. I know I don't live in an ideal world.


Also, it has been explained that the decrease in capacity is not linear.


And it's an estimate.

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iPhone 15 battery health decline after every 4-5 charge cycles

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