a question about battery cycle count

[TrancyGoose]

Heya all, on my new MBP M1, I pretty much used it with the wire all the time (lockdown, WFH, can't go to Starbucks etc etc). I maybe had to charge it up twice from roughly 93%.

From owning a MacBook years ago, I remember that a cycle is when the battery is fully recharged from empty. My question is, can anyone say why do I already have 2 cycles on it, while the lowest I went to was 93%? Is it an M1 thing or did something change in the last 4 years?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Determine battery cycle count for Mac laptops - Apple Support

Learn how to determine the number of cycles your Mac laptop's battery has.

support.apple.com

 

[Argon_]

Heya all, on my new MBP M1, I pretty much used it with the wire all the time (lockdown, WFH, can't go to Starbucks etc etc). I maybe had to charge it up twice from roughly 93%.

From owning a MacBook years ago, I remember that a cycle is when the battery is fully recharged from empty. My question is, can anyone say why do I already have 2 cycles on it, while the lowest I went to was 93%? Is it an M1 thing or did something change in the last 4 years?

A cycle is one use of the battery's capacity. This can be addative. If you've drained the battery from 100-95% twenty times, that'd be a cycle. So would two drains from 100-50.

 

[thesweetp]

I charged it 3x and it's at 3 now.