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Other Charge Limit - What Level Will You Try?
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Optimized Charging fast charges the watch to 80% and holds it there until shortly before it predicts you're going to use it, then tops it off to 100%. If your charge limit is set at 80%, Optimized Charging is redundant since it's going to stop at 80% anyway.
Maybe someone with a 15 pro still on iOS 17 can chime in and tell me if my memory is accurate or not.
I don’t see it as redundant if one has done nothing but changed the charging limit. Optimized Charging can still operate as intended with a new limit set. With iOS 18, I chose to keep ‘Optimized Charing’ enabled. I am not really worried about the battery as many here often get. If for some reason I have the phone for more than 2 years and in need of a battery, I have no problems paying Apple for the service.
This never worked for me since iPhone 13!? I turned if off/on and I checked the GPS settings....etc all good but it does for my watch and my Airpods.
I'm the same. I'm not going to obsess over my battery or make it a contest to see how long I can keep the battery health at 100%. I charge it to 100%, use it all day, and charge it to 100% again the next night using Optimized Charging and a MagSafe charger. My 13 Pro was at 79% battery health after 3 years of hard use, if I had kept it I would've replaced the battery and kept on trucking. I don't have any problem paying Apple for a new battery every 3 years if I decide I'm going to hold on to the phone longer than that (which I've never done yet, going clear back to the iPhone 3G).
I've charged my last 5 phones (upgrade annually) to 100% and at the end of the year one was at 97% and the other four were at 100%. I'm not a heavy user and I question the accuracy of those numbers, but I guess most of us here are going with Apple's reported percentage.
How are you doing this? I don't see that option on my M2 MBA battery settings on Sequoia.
No limits. I paid for the whole battery, I'm gonna use the whole battery!
Theoretically you could probably last a good 10 years doing it this way! LOL
My MacBooks are also plugged all the time and just do it by themselves to preserve the battery
M2 and M3 MBP
IDK, I use optimized charging on my M2 and it still usually charges to 100% when plugged in at my kitchen table. Thing is, I want 100% (or at least 90%) sometimes on weekends when I go mobile more often. I'd MUCH prefer to just be able to set a hard limit and toggle it off when I am preparing to go mobile.
I never believe on these optimal charging thing. Nowadays the devices are made to stop charging when reached 100% and will only recharge if needed. Always disabled optimal charging and plugged my phone every night. My 13 PM have 89% health after 3 years.
I think batteries are just a lottery. You can babysit all year and have a bad health after a year and you can charge whatever you want and still have good results.
I think batteries are just a lottery. You can babysit all year and have a bad health after a year and you can charge whatever you want and still have good results.