Out of curiosity, why don't you charge overnight?
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iPhone Air 17 Air..end of day if 20% battery and not 70%, who cares?
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Id sacrifice battery not to carry a brick in my pocket. The screen is just as good, just as big, and it's just a sexy phone.
Refuse to charge overnight? Curious...
I slow charge with a 5w overnight because who cares how long it takes, and I'm asleep.
I charge every night too…no brick days will be here soon…all the talk about carrying around a 2 pound phone so you can have 70% battery left at the end of the day so the cycles stay up made me laugh.
I tried the iPhone mini cause it was small and light but the screen size left a lot to be desired. This is almost as big as a pro max without the eight and girth. its perfect
Your point is very well taken. IMO far too many folks here worry about battery % ad nauseam. Just use the damn thing, and adjust charging (really easy by placing MagSafe at one's regular locations) if necessary, or buy an external battery.
You don’t get it, people want to be on Tiktok as long as possible these days /s
Oh, we get it. We just don’t buy into it. Why not carry a nice phone around instead of a brick all day long and then go oh I’ve got battery left lol… in this day and age if you don’t know how to add a little extra charge in your battery if you need it during the day somewhere, then you shouldn’t be carrying a phone at all anyway. Feel.
You're absolutely right of course. But I think a decent amount of people these days belong to the IUP or just decide to trade in their iPhone every year and for those people that is not an issue. I was tempted to join the program this year myself and get the Air. That way if it proved to be too compromised for my tasteI could just upgrade to a different iPhone model next year.
I am curious as well. What is your phone doing at night other than....maybe waiting to charge overnight?
When the Air is new, the battery is a non issue for me. If I need extended heavy usage periodically (like travel), I bring a MagSafe power bank. But carrying one attached all the time, defeats the purpose of getting the Air. My only battery concern is when the iPhone Air dips below 90% battery health a year or two down the road.
As I’ve said elsewhere, the issue isn’t a user like you. You upgrade every year. Your use case is irrelevant for this.
There is one usage pattern that impacts battery life. It needs two conditions to be really bad.
-A certain number of major iOS updates will degrade battery life even with 100% health, but…
-Battery health is irrelevant if the device isn’t updated, but poor battery health affects battery life if it is updated.
So, a usage pattern of a long-term device user is the following: I buy the device. I use it. I update it. If that’s the case, battery life matters. Have 100% health on the original iOS version and finish the day with 20%, and by iOS 28-29 and lower health you’re not making it through the day anymore.
There is one usage pattern that impacts battery life. It needs two conditions to be really bad.
-A certain number of major iOS updates will degrade battery life even with 100% health, but…
-Battery health is irrelevant if the device isn’t updated, but poor battery health affects battery life if it is updated.
So, a usage pattern of a long-term device user is the following: I buy the device. I use it. I update it. If that’s the case, battery life matters. Have 100% health on the original iOS version and finish the day with 20%, and by iOS 28-29 and lower health you’re not making it through the day anymore.
I do it all the time. Most of my phone use is in the car, where it’s plugged in to CarPlay and constantly charging. At home and work I use a MacBook or iPad because phone screens are too small to do anything useful.
FWIW, if you car happens to have an old school cigarette lighter socket, with the right USB-C adapter, you'll get much faster charging. You have to get the right adapter which may depend on your car. I did that for my car even though it came with 4 USB outlets.
I have a (probably overly cautious) approach to this due to a house fire 3 years ago at my neighbors house that started from charging a bike. In the aftermath there were numerous articles out about the fire danger of charging anything overnight. So I don’t 😅
Do what you will with yourself ... but there is a massive difference between a 2,438 mAh Apple iPhone Mini and a (likely) 20,000 mAh (unknown brand/model) e-bike in terms of fire hazard.
You should have more in the neighborhood of 95% with under one hour of screen on. 70% EoD is actually a disaterous number if you are using your phone for less than 1 hour per day.
Exactly - and this is why I said overly cautious. But it’s never caused a problem honestly since I usually have plenty of time to top it up either before bed or in the morning ☺️
I'm not sure if there was a question there, or just a statement, but you do you petal 😁
For sure, this post wasn’t for those that don’t get it..it’s ok, most brick users won’t.
The "brick" is no exaggeration, and this comes from someone who always buys the Pro Max and even pre-ordered the 17 Pro Max. But honestly, I can’t stand how thick these phones are—not the screen size, the thickness---. The iPhone Air seems to finally address that: large screen, super slim, premium build.
I’m happy to trade off a bit of battery life and a simpler camera for those changes. Some people just don’t get the importance of form factor and design, focusing only on bigger batteries and more cameras (and by the way, the camera on the 17 Pro Max isn’t that special, with its fake 8x zoom—it's just cropped digital, not a true optical lens).
Another win for the iPhone Air is that it’s all Apple’s in-house chips now. I have a feeling the 17 Pro Max will be forgotten after just a couple of days of use (coming from the 16 Pro Max), while the Air will always feel fresh and impressive thanks to its new, modern design.
I charge everything over night because it's cheaper in So Calif.
My wife's 17kWh PHEV, my 72kWh BEV, all my rechargeable devices, etc...
Helps to have a state of the art smoke and heat detectors from the garage to almost every room in the house.
Plus built in fire sprinkler in every part of the house in the event of a fire.
Review talks about the battery at 20% at the end of the day!
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