Viral TikTok video proves we've all been charging our iPhones wrong - Macworld

They whitethorn person antithetic nighttime routines, but there’s 1 happening iPhone users person successful common: They complaint their phones overnight. Whether it’s a Lightning cable, MagSafe stand, oregon wireless charging mat, astir radical person a charger connected their nightstand truthful they tin aftermath up to a afloat charged iPhone.

But according to TikTok idiosyncratic Shomes (Shoandtech), that’s not the champion way. The video shows Shomes with an iPhone 13 Pro that he’s had since September 2021 with a maximum artillery capableness of 100 percent. He besides has an iPhone 12 Pro that’s inactive astatine 100 percent. The secret? He seldom changes his iPhone overnight.

Even with Apple’s optimized artillery charging—which learns from your regular charging habits to amended your battery’s lifespan—an iPhone artillery is expected to suffer astir 10 percent of its maximum capableness successful a year. Apple says that an iPhone artillery “is designed to clasp up to 80 percent of its archetypal capableness astatine 500 implicit complaint cycles erstwhile operating nether mean conditions,” but regular overnight charging accelerates that degradation.

Apple describes a complete complaint cycle arsenic erstwhile you’ve utilized an magnitude that equals 100 percent of your battery’s capacity. So, you tin usage 75 percent of your battery’s capableness 1 day, past recharge it afloat overnight, past usage 25 percent the adjacent time and that adds up to 1 complaint cycle. A rhythm each different time means your artillery volition dip beneath 80 percent successful little than 3 years.

If you complaint your iPhone overnight for 8 oregon truthful hours, that stresses it more. Even with optimized charging, the artillery is inactive taxed aft it reaches 100 percent, truthful by leaving it charging overnight erstwhile it doesn’t request it, you’re putting undue strain connected the battery. Apple started showing battery health connected the iPhone aft it was forced to connection a battery replacement program implicit reports of iPhone throttling.

Shomes recommends charging your iPhone arsenic it needs it. If you spell to slumber and it has a 40 oregon 50 percent charge, permission it. Then complaint it immoderate clip during the adjacent time erstwhile it gets into the red. That way, the artillery won’t beryllium stressed, and its wellness volition past mode longer than it volition erstwhile overnight charging.

But aged habits dice hard. And we similar waking up to a afloat charged telephone connected our nightstand each morning. 

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor