Is it a bad idea to leave the iPhone on a dock/ charger

mandymaye wrote:

Chris although you are correct that the phone will stop charging when it is full, your phone is constantly using battery and there for constatly re-charging. Each time your phone recharges, it counts as a cycle.

Please reread the article you linked to.

A charge cycle means using all of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, you could listen to your iPod for a few hours one day, using half its power, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as one charge cycle, not two, so you may take several days to complete a cycle. Each time you complete a charge cycle, it diminishes battery capacity slightly, but you can put notebook, iPod, and iPhone batteries through many charge cycles before they will only hold 80% of original battery capacity."

Using and recharging 100% of battery capacity equals one full charge cycle.

http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html yourn iPhone only has so many charge cycles. I wouldnt suggest doing this.

NP_iDad wrote:

I have the iPhone 5 and use the Belkin dock/charger. I always leave it plugged in with the charger in the outlet and leave it there for hours at a time, especially at night. When the phone is fully charged does it need to be unplugged?

No. Leaving it plugged in is fine. It will stop charging when it is full.

Chris although you are correct that the phone will stop charging when it is full, your phone is constantly using battery and there for constatly re-charging. Each time your phone recharges, it counts as a cycle. Therefore, leaving your phone constantly charging is a bad idea and will decrease the life of your battery.

Plug it in and charging it overnight is fine.

Plug it in and charge it whenever, as little or as much as you want.

Lithium ion batteries need to be used to prolong their life.

If the iPhone is plugged in all the time and never use the battery, the battery will go bad sooner than it would if you use the battery regularly.

The article explains that once a month you should fully charge then use it till the phone shuts off.

This calibrates the system so it knows how much battery is actually left.

I'm still confused. I've always wondered, if I have my iPhone or iPad connected to a speaker dock (that also charges) to listen to at work or home, is this harming the battery? For example, I go to work and my phone battery was at 70%. I pop it in to the dock to listen to all day. It hits 100% charged midday. From that point forward, is the battery discharging as it plays through the afternoon? Or is the iPhone playing and only using the power through the speaker dock? And a separate but similar question, if the speaker dock gives the message indicated that the device is not compatible for charging, yet it still plays through the speaker, is it using the battery, or power through the speaker dock? I can't imagine everyone from Sony, RCA, Bose, etc would make these docking players if they ruined the batteries.

This is an example of the type of device.

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DS3205-Charging-Speaker-Lightning/dp/B00B7D4CS0/re f=sr_1_31?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1396847951&sr=1-31&keywords=ipod+dock

mandymaye wrote:

http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html yourn iPhone only has so many charge cycles. I wouldnt suggest doing this.

Wouldn't suggest doing what?

Please disregaurd Chris CA's commet NP_iDad. The information i provided you with is correct and I also provided you with a direct link to the Apple website that will back up what I have stated.

Thank you for the education. I do appear to be wrong.

After reading my responses, I may have been a bit abrupt.😟

My apologies.🙂