If you want to upgrade, upgrade,
but as long as your battery hasn't reached 95% you won't feel a change in usage times
I think you can even wait until it reaches 90%
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iPhone 16 Pro Max Do I need to upgrade to the iPhone 16 Pro Max?
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but as long as your battery hasn't reached 95% you won't feel a change in usage times
I think you can even wait until it reaches 90%
I can’t even with all the serious replies.
I am surprised OP waited this long. Should have ditched it at 99%. Incredible resolve and patience to put up with double the battery degradation at 98%. By all means upgrade, it's time.
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Dang! Mine is at 99% after a year, and I am not careful at all about how/when I charge.
What happens when the new 16's battery life drops to 99%? Do you drop it out of a window and make an AC claim for a new 16? Perhaps you abstain from using a phone until a month away from the new one to be covered in case it drops even lower to 98% and becomes nearly unusable. What's next? A hairline scratch in the corner seen clearly under a microscope? Life is too short to deal with such glaring imperfections, am I right?
You got me 12 beat, the op is whining that his battery is old and he must update. Whilst I am doing the same thinking i have the oldest phone here.
A little facts check: batteries are degrading with the usage. Every single discharge/charge cycle is doing that. So 98% doesn’t mean anything: the battery surely isn’t the same as new. You can use your iPhone until the battery reach around 80/83% before experiencing a real impact on battery life. Really no reason to switch from a 15 PM to a 16 PM. Wait at least another generation to see some changes
And wireless charging doesn’t ruin your battery, if you are using a good quality charger.
Just use your iPhone and do not care about the battery.
Try not to discharge it under 15/20%, and don’t keep it at 100% for a prolonged time. It will helps to slow down the degradation, which is happening anyway.
80% is a too restrictive limit I would say: 85/90% will be enough
Well, 79% is a little bit on the low side. I would consider replacing that battery anyway.
Hey Tim Cook, how are you doing ? 😂
Why to recharge it ? Just buy a new iPhone when battery level drops under 20%: you’ll have a brand new battery every other day 😅😅😅
Thanks. Yes I'm already following this.
The 80% charging limit has been absolutely fine for the last 2 months. I only charge overnight. The lowest charge I had at the end of the day was 20%.
Yup, in the process. I got a battery replacement appointment booked for today.
IIRC, the phone did not need to be unlocked when we replaced the battery in my wife's iPhone 6S. Apple recommended we backup the phone as a precaution. Other than that we just dropped off the phone and came back an hour or two later for it, no erase/restore performed.
Thank you, sounds good. I wonder if it is as simple for later iPhone models with FaceID. 🤔
You may not be aware but it’s well documented even if not well known that the hardware that calculates the % compared to design capacity is not terribly accurate. I had a 13 pro max that got replaced for a failed Face ID assembly that had 83% but ran fine. My replacement one feels exactly the same as the other but with a new battery. So I’m more inclined to say it’s not Apple and instead it’s either an incorrect battery reading or a battery that wasn’t peak performance capable anymore. Neither are apples fault, batteries are consumable components after all.