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Im Rene Ritchie, welcome back to another video where Im once again busting just the weirdest myths, misconceptions, and straight up misinformation about the iPhone and how it works. This time Do you need to micro-manage your iPhone charging? Like never let it go below 40% or above 80%? And, spoiler alert, in a word, no. In two words, hell no. No you dont. Nobody does. Nobody has time for that.
Now, I know, I know some people will tell you otherwise, even insist otherwise. But that hasnt been true in ages, like since dinosaur phones roamed the earth ages, and Im going to explain to you why, and I mean exactly, precisely why. Because thats how I do.
So, first discharging first. Is
allowing the battery level to drop down to 10% or less considered a bad practice?
Nope.
Do these deep discharges exhaust a lithium battery sells faster?
Also nope. Deep discharges exhausting lithium ion batteries just isnt a thing.
But if your iPhone shows you 95% battery health, doesnt that mean 5% of the battery cells have worn out from being charged and discharged over the last year
More nope. First, because theres only one cell in most phones. Two in a very few. Sometimes because the other components make an L-shape more practical. Sometimes because its a foldable and theyre physically separated. Sometimes because the maker wants to offer faster charging speeds using two cells in parallel. But you cant, like, lose 5% of one or two cells.
Its really just chemistry. Over time, secondary chemical reactions happen that reduce capacity. Theres build up. Theres gas. You know science stuff Bill Nye stuff.
But dont deep discharges negatively affect the battery. Isnt that when low power mode comes in at 20% and automatically begin throttling performance and background tasks to prevent the battery from draining even further?
No, no, and It doesnt? At least not for that reason. It tries to prevent the battery from draining not to protect the battery but to protect your ability to keep using your for as long as possible. The idea there isnt to prevent drain below 20% but to give you the absolute most you can get from that 20% until its convenient for you to get to a charger. Be that at 19% or 2% or whatever.
So you really dont have to worry about getting your back on its charger by the time it reaches 30 or 40%?
Not because of the lithium-Ion battery, no. Even Apples battery optimization option, which Ill get to in a thermally hot minute, only talks about managing maximum charge level, not minimum.
But if you personally feel anxiety over having a low battery, or you know you need to go somewhere later and youll be using your a lot for photos, video, gaming, whatever, and youll need a decent charge to do all that, then by all means, charge away. Thats the whole entire point of this video. We humans should never not ever have to worry about when or how much we charge. Thats the iPhones job to manage.
Ok, but what about optimized battery charging for the iPhone where it will wait to charge past 80% until it knows youre ready to use it based on your charging routine?
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Yeah, so, also the whole entire point. The iPhone will manage all this for us and just way, way, way better and beyond what we could ever micro-manage on our own. I mean, back in ye olden days of yore, battery management sucked, and youd need to reset the system, and do all sorts of jiu-jitsu just to eek out every energon cube of battery life you could.
But Apples been using machine learning and artificial intelligence for years now to do everything from unloading to pre-loading apps into memory, to charging and discharging to prevent it sitting at peak capacity, to more recently offering this Optimized Battery Charging feature where itll just idle at 80% until it thinks youll want to start using it soon, and then and only then will it push to 100.
Because being at over 80% isnt bad in and of itself, its staying at over 80% for extended periods of time thats bad. That, and one other major key thing Ill get to in a literal hot minute.
Which is exactly what the Optimize Battery Charging feature does. So dont worry or stress or even think about micro-managing 40% or 80% or any of that. Just leave Optimize Battery Charging on and youre golden.
So it really, really isnt best to keep your iPhone battery level between 40 and 80%?
Ok. Seriously. Charge your iPhone when you want or need to and take it off the charger when you want or need to and let the charging take care of itself.
What about fast chargers and wireless chargers, dont they degrade batteries faster?
So kinda. What really prematurely ages out lithium ion batteries fast is heat. Lithium Ion batteries will die faster in extreme cold, basically because it slows down the chemistry and the power delivery cant keep up with demand. But when you return to normal operating temperatures, your will return to normal operations just fine.
Extreme heat will just break down the chemistry, though, and theres no returning from that.
And, traditionally, fast chargers and wireless chargers create more heat either all at once or because theyre less efficient, over time. And I say traditionally because companies claim theyre getting better and better at mitigating that heat all the time. But Apple has also prioritized battery health over raw charging speeds for a long time as part of those mitigations.
Honestly, whats probably most damaging to iPhone batteries these days all days is us. We. People. Leaving them out in the sun on hot days, putting them in front of vents or on radiators on cold days. And theyll gate by cutting brightness, flashing warnings, even shutting down if they get too hot, but theyll be prematurely aging the whole time that process happens anyway.
So, instead of wasting precious minutes of your life micro-managing your charging, stressing that you start your day with only 80% battery and panicking to plug in before you drop below 40% or, Lords of Kobol forbid, 20%, just dont leave your iPhone out in the heat or on hot things and youll do way, way less damage in the long run and have way, way less stress in the meantime.
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