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iPhone 12 battery health degrading fast

So I have an iPhone 12. Got it in July 2021, it is now march 2022 and my battery health is already at 92%. Does anyone know why it is decreasing so fast? Also I have an iPhone XR and it dropped 10% in battery health in 2 years. So it just makes me wonder if there is something wrong and if apple will cover this….

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Posted on Mar 19, 2022 12:50 PM

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Posted on Mar 19, 2022 3:01 PM

It's 9 months and it's down 8%. Doesn't really sound all that unusual.


The only way that Apple will cover a battery replacement is if it's down to less than 80% and under 500 cycles within the warranty or AppleCare period. Or if there's something like a premature battery failure, which might result in something like an unplanned shutdown.


Other than that, there are no guarantees about battery health. There's a nominal rating of 80% battery health after 500 charge-discharge cycles. But it's not a guarantee of any kind of performance in between.

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Mar 19, 2022 3:01 PM in response to Jasmunitich

It's 9 months and it's down 8%. Doesn't really sound all that unusual.


The only way that Apple will cover a battery replacement is if it's down to less than 80% and under 500 cycles within the warranty or AppleCare period. Or if there's something like a premature battery failure, which might result in something like an unplanned shutdown.


Other than that, there are no guarantees about battery health. There's a nominal rating of 80% battery health after 500 charge-discharge cycles. But it's not a guarantee of any kind of performance in between.

iPhone 12 battery health degrading fast

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