Here’s the secret to making your iPhone last as long as possible. The lithium-ion batteries in iPhones naturally degrade with use over time. Therefore, it’s critical to maintain your iPhone’s battery to ensure it lasts as long as possible.
Here are several ways to slow down battery degradation on your iPhone.
1 Avoid Maximizing Your Charge Cycles
According to Apple, after roughly 500 charge cycles, iPhones retain only up to 80% of their original battery capacity. You go through a charge cycle when you use up 100% of your iPhone’s battery—for example, you used up 50% yesterday and another 50% today.
So, in general, the less you use your iPhone, the fewer charge cycles you go through and the longer the battery will last. You can check how many battery cycles your iPhone has gone through without even using an app.
Moreover, keeping the device at full charge or completely drained can negatively impact your iPhone’s battery health. For this reason, you should try to keep your device between 40% and 80% battery as much as possible to preserve your iPhone’s battery health.
2 Turn Off Unnecessary Features
To use fewer charge cycles and maintain the battery health of your iPhone, you should turn off any features you don’t absolutely need. For example, we recommend turning off power-hungry features like Background App Refresh. Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh > Background App Refresh > Off to do so.
To further save battery life on your iPhone and get the most out of a full battery charge, you can turn off the always-on display (if your iPhone has it) and enable automatic brightness so that your iPhone automatically reduces the screen brightness whenever it’s environmentally suitable.
To turn on automatic brightness, head to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and toggle on Auto-Brightness.
3 Don’t Leave Your iPhone Without Charge for Too Long
Many people charge their phones overnight because it’s the most convenient option. However, charging your phone overnight can be bad because overcharging an iPhone like this can result in a damaged battery and reduce the life of your phone.
Frequent overcharging damages your battery because it forces more current into already full cells than they are designed to hold. It also means your iPhone spends most of the night at 100% charge, which is bad for its battery health.
Luckily, iOS has an Optimized Battery Charging feature to help maintain your iPhone’s battery health. You can enable it by going to Settings > Battery > Battery Health & Charging and toggling on Optimized Battery Charging.
If you take your phone off charge at roughly the same time every day, your iPhone will learn this pattern and avoid charging to 100% until right when you need it.
5 Avoid Charging and Using Your Phone Simultaneously
There’s no harm in looking at some messages and scrolling through social media for a while. However, avoid engaging in a prolonged gaming session when charging your iPhone.
Multiplayer games, in particular, tend to cause your iPhone to overheat. Charging your device at the same time will just worsen the issue and affect your iPhone’s long-term battery health.
Therefore, it’s best to plan ahead a little and charge your device sufficiently beforehand to take care of your iPhone’s battery. Plus, it’s uncomfortable to hold and use a hot iPhone properly anyway.
6 Use Only Official Apple Chargers
Keeping your iPhone safe from extreme temperatures will help its battery get through its entire lifespan without damage to core components. Therefore, being mindful of this measure can help maintain the battery health of your iPhone.
Extreme low temperatures can cause a shortened battery life, affecting the battery’s ability to hold charges or making it stop working altogether. On the other hand, extreme highs can permanently prevent you from using some of the phone’s features, such as causing cracks in the device itself, which can impact overall battery performance.
8 Invest in a Case for Your iPhone
Keeping your iPhone’s software updated can also help maintain its battery health. As time goes on, your iPhone receives software updates that improve its speed and performance. This keeps the battery in good condition over the long term.
Additionally, these updates often come with new battery-saving features you can enjoy. For instance, the introduction of Screen Time in one of the updates helps to track how much time users spend on their devices and which apps they use the most. Users can then adjust their daily habits to ensure they are not spending too much time on their phones.
Go to Settings > General > Software Update to check if an update is available for your device.
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