If you use your phone a lot, use it until its 100% dead, and then charge it to 100%, you are putting a TON of stress on your battery, and that will make it deteriorate very very quickly.
If you take good care of your battery, call apple or take it to an apple store. Your battery might be defective, in witch case, Apple should replace for free.
diodes123 wrote:
If you use your phone a lot, use it until its 100% dead, and then charge it to 100%, you are putting a TON of stress on your battery, and that will make it deteriorate very very quickly.
If you take good care of your battery, call apple or take it to an apple store. Your battery might be defective, in witch case, Apple should replace for free.
Apple isn't going to consider an iPhone battery "defective" until it reaches 80% battery health (unless it's above 500 cycles) or completely fails during the warranty or AppleCare+ period. The battery is considered "normal" as long as it's above 80% battery health, even if it seems like there's a rapid decline.
As far as using the entire range of charge, there are various opinions on that. However, Apple neither recommends for nor cautions against using an iPhone battery down to 0%. 0% is considered normal operating conditions as long as it's charged again before it self-discharges to a deep discharge state.
I was having the exactly same issue, just bought my Iphone a month ago and it was showing 97% of health. I found it very weird, since some people who bought it 6 months ago and the battery is still at 100%, so I took mine to an applestore and there they´ve ran those tests to see if the Iphone was OK. This test said that there was some kind of audio failure, maybe this failure is causing this battery degradation, since Apple employee said that he had this same problem on other Iphone 8 plus. I´ll let you guys up to date, on whether or not did apple replace my Iphone.
Hello Faruk117, yes the reseller requested a replace Iphone. Since I´m from Brazil, here we have to wait about a week for the Iphone to arrive at my local reseller. I´d recommend you to send it to an Apple Store and try to get it replaced.
Batteries degrade over time no matter how hard you try. The only way for it to degrade less is for you to stop using your phone.
I’m having the exact same percentage shown on my IPhone 8 Plus and ive only had it for about 5 months. I try to take care of my phone and battery as much as possible preventing any degrading at all.
Same, I don’t know what happened to mine either. Literally had it for 1 month too and it’s alr 97%, good thing I know that’s its not only me, I was so worried that my phone was a production battery fault. I take care of my phone battery well too, idk whether it’s me or Apple.
I have an iphone 8 and I have used for a month as well. Mine is also at 97%. I take care of my phone and the battery. I usually begin charging it when its around 20-30%. Mind you, I m not a hardcore user. So it is disappointing to see a 3% drop in a month.
Mines already at 90%..... this is the second one I’ve had (the first came head to head with a taxi and lost) I’ve had this 8Plus since about January and after 8 months I’m on 90% capacity 😳😳. Kinda wish I was blindly ignorant.
The same here, bought my iPhone 8 plus at the end of June. I do take care of the battery, use it up to the mobile turn itself off.
Then charge to a 100%. But the battery is already with 97%. I had an iPhone 7 plus and the battery simply died within 18months and I also always took a lot care with it.
I have 97% showing on my iPhone 8 plus. I have a 6Plus that I used just as much if not more and it only shows 95%
I can understand that but. what I can't understand is, why my iPhone 6s + which has been used more has less of a decrease
Hello slokyo, I am having the same problem. Any updates on the issue? Did Apple replace your phone?
I think Apple does this intentionally and they can control it. All they want is to make money by replacing batteries too
It's the same battery health that would show up with an official hardware/software diagnostic.
That being said, it's only an estimate. Some have reported it's gone up a percent before. Determining degradation of a battery isn't like measuring the volume of liquid in a fuel tank. It's estimated based on mathematical models. All they can do is sample the conditions in real time and take a good guess as to how much capacity is left. Especially with older batteries that have been through a lot of use, that estimate can be way off. A lot of people report that older batteries often drop quickly from maybe 60% to 20% remaining charge, and that's probably because the battery health estimate is off and the battery management comes to the sudden realization that there's less charge than anticipated.
And there's probably way too much obsessing over this number. Loss of original battery capacity is inevitable from simply using the battery. Apple says for newer iPhones it's 500 charge-discharge cycles until it's expected to be at 80% battery health. If there's 300 cycles a year for someone who uses the phone a lot, assuming a linear degradation it's expected to be a loss of 1% a month.
There might be some ways to exponentially increase the longevity of the battery, but that seems really obsessive when it comes to a battery that Apple is currently charging $29 to replace.
Iphone 8 plus Battery already at 97% health after 1 month
