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Battery health of Iphone 14 pro max

Guys should I go repair my phone because my battery health has been acting weird lately in the past month , there were at random time where my battery health would go down a percent under 24 HOURS?! I was like what from 99 to 98 to 97 real quick , now it’s happening again from 96 to 95 . If i don’t need to repair then what should i do? Please give me an answer ( Oh and my phone keep getting heated so fast while charging lately )

Posted on Apr 28, 2023 12:29 PM

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Posted on Apr 28, 2023 12:41 PM

Your percentage is in whole numbers, and is truncated, not rounded. So if it goes from 96.0% to 95.9% that would be displayed as a drop from 96% to 95%. And as batteries are analog and chemical, the loss of capacity will not always be linear. The only meaningful measure is over longer time spans. As you can see below, on average an iPhone will lose about 1% per month. So if the final number is 95% and the phone is 5 months old that would be about right. If the phone is more than 5 months old you are ahead of the curve.


More detail: Batteries are consumables; they lose a little capacity every time they are discharged, then recharged. On average this works out to about a 1% loss for every 25 “full charge cycles”. As one example, if you charge the phone overnight, every night (and that is what you should do; it is a best practice), it starts the day at 100%. If it drops to 20% by the end of the day before you charge it again overnight that counts as 0.8 full charge cycles (20% to 100%), or about 24 full charge cycles per month of use. For this example your battery capacity will lose about 1% per month. Of course, if the end-of-day level is higher than 20% the capacity loss will be a little less, and if it is lower than 20%, or you charge it during the day, the capacity loss will be higher.


Once the capacity drops below 80%, or if there is a message in Battery Health that the battery is not meeting peak performance expectations, it’s time to change the battery→iPhone Battery Replacement - Official Apple Support


The absolute best way to get maximum use on a charge, as well as slow the decline of battery capacity long term is to enable Optimized Battery Charging (Settings/Battery/Battery Health) and charge the device overnight, every night. The battery will fast charge to 80%, then pause. During the nighttime pause the phone will use mains power instead of battery power, allowing the battery to “rest”, and thus reducing the need to charge the battery quite as often. The phone will resume charging to reach 100% when you are ready to use your phone; it will “learn” your usage pattern. If you enable iCloud Backup (Settings/[your name]/iCloud - iCloud Backup) the phone will back up overnight also, assuring that you can never lose more than the current day’s updates. Here's more information→About Optimized Battery Charging on your iPhone - Apple Support

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Apr 28, 2023 12:41 PM in response to sy248

Your percentage is in whole numbers, and is truncated, not rounded. So if it goes from 96.0% to 95.9% that would be displayed as a drop from 96% to 95%. And as batteries are analog and chemical, the loss of capacity will not always be linear. The only meaningful measure is over longer time spans. As you can see below, on average an iPhone will lose about 1% per month. So if the final number is 95% and the phone is 5 months old that would be about right. If the phone is more than 5 months old you are ahead of the curve.


More detail: Batteries are consumables; they lose a little capacity every time they are discharged, then recharged. On average this works out to about a 1% loss for every 25 “full charge cycles”. As one example, if you charge the phone overnight, every night (and that is what you should do; it is a best practice), it starts the day at 100%. If it drops to 20% by the end of the day before you charge it again overnight that counts as 0.8 full charge cycles (20% to 100%), or about 24 full charge cycles per month of use. For this example your battery capacity will lose about 1% per month. Of course, if the end-of-day level is higher than 20% the capacity loss will be a little less, and if it is lower than 20%, or you charge it during the day, the capacity loss will be higher.


Once the capacity drops below 80%, or if there is a message in Battery Health that the battery is not meeting peak performance expectations, it’s time to change the battery→iPhone Battery Replacement - Official Apple Support


The absolute best way to get maximum use on a charge, as well as slow the decline of battery capacity long term is to enable Optimized Battery Charging (Settings/Battery/Battery Health) and charge the device overnight, every night. The battery will fast charge to 80%, then pause. During the nighttime pause the phone will use mains power instead of battery power, allowing the battery to “rest”, and thus reducing the need to charge the battery quite as often. The phone will resume charging to reach 100% when you are ready to use your phone; it will “learn” your usage pattern. If you enable iCloud Backup (Settings/[your name]/iCloud - iCloud Backup) the phone will back up overnight also, assuring that you can never lose more than the current day’s updates. Here's more information→About Optimized Battery Charging on your iPhone - Apple Support

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