Other How often do you charge your iPhone

[AFEPPL]

Three times, or even four times each day.

Yep, I'm with you. Charged it twice yesterday and ran out of juice around 10pm.

 

[HEK]

But I set it as a new iPhone so its only downloading apps and maybe my photos and videos



But I set it as a new iPhone and I was connnected to Wifi. My home internet is 50 mb/ps so all of the background downloading and sync should have been done in the first night.

I have 120Mbps on home wifi and my phone was doing things, don't know what, pictures for sure, for three to four days before it settled down. I don't have explanation, just relating observation.

 

[Marshall73]

Common battery killers on phones:

Background apps
Notifications which wake the display
Screen brightness
Poor cellular signal

Cellular signal strength can decimate your battery life. If you are in a very poor signal area it's almost worth going into airplane mode just to save your battery otherwise the phone uses signal amplifiers to maintain a connection, you will notice this as the phone will start to feel warm.

 

[Micky Do]

Ten days to a fortnight between charging for my $20 Nokia…… another reason I don't want an iPhone.

 

[joeblow7777]

Having to charge a phone multiple times in a single day is crazy! Every 2 days is typical for me. Sometimes 3 days. I think I would have to deliberately try to drain my phone from 100% to nothing in just a single day.
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Ten days to a fortnight between charging for my $20 Nokia…… another reason I don't want an iPhone.

To be fair, if you only used an iPhone to do the things that your Nokia does, it could probably last almost as long. It's like never having to buy fuel for a bicycle, but it can't do what a car can.

 

[e93to]

Do you actually NEED to charge your phone that often, or do you just plug it in because you have the opportunity to?

I charge that often....

I'm at lab most of the day, and I use my phone for reading documents, browsing, news, messaging, YouTube, streaming, etc. Full charge lasts around 3.5 hours - 4.5 hours.

I charge my phone when battery is below 20%.

I usually charge my phone after lunch. And then again around evening. And lastly I charge my phone before going to bed. If I use my phone a lot, like I said in my previous post, I would charge 4 times in a day.

Right now (9:36AM), my phone has 74% remaining. Typing this post drained 3% of my battery

 

[mattopotamus]

I really only consciously charge it once a day (at night). Whenever I get into my car I charge it too, but that is mostly for carplay.

 

[Vicrooloo]

I have 120Mbps on home wifi and my phone was doing things, don't know what, pictures for sure, for three to four days before it settled down. I don't have explanation, just relating observation.

Hmmm. It is what it is then.

Ultimately, I'm getting amazing battery life out of my iPhone and its a Samsung chip so I back where I started saying that either chip is good enough

 

[Samuel79]

Just once a day now with the 6s+. Charge it to 100% always from lesss than 5% most times its 1% overnight and it lasts all day. never had any issues with it

 

[AZhappyjack]

iPhone 7+ ... charge it daily, overnight. Typically, I have 25-30% remaining when I go to bed. Charge it overnight to 100% and it will last all day most of the time. If it's a really bad day and I plan to be away, I will top it off before heading out... otherwise, I'm good all day on the overnight charge.

 

[wcroadie]

every night, it became part of my bed routine over the years lol

Yup, pretty much this

 

[lestere]

Every evening before I go to bed... a regular routine for me...

 

[Miss_Mac]

Usually every 2.5 days, if I am going out the next day then over 18 hours.

 

[SnyG]

Once a day, overnight. The battery life on my 8+ is so good that I could probably get away with once every two days though, since I almost always finish up on 50%+.

 

[CTHarrryH]

Overnight every night. Also obviously when I'm using Car Play it gets charged

 

[JonMPLS]

I just charge it overnight. Might be able to go two days off an on, but usually charge every night.

 

[Helmsley]

I never let my 8 Plus battery get below 30%. At the moment, it lasts nearly 40 hours between charges.

 

[sk2sep2304]

when i get in bed and also at work around 3pm so i leave with a full charge. i'm on my phone at least 4 hours a day. 2 of those hours is streaming music.

 

[Ash Pole]

The more frequently you charge the battery, the more cycles you put on the cells. After 500 cycles it's time for a new battery. But that number could be far less if you've subjected the battery to abuse i.e. leaving the phone in the car during a heat wave causing the iphone to automatically shutdown. Or constantly topping-off the battery. Or using a charger greater than 1 amp. I also replace my car battery after 24 months...no exceptions. I have zero tolerance for weak batteries no matter what the application may be.

 

[C DM]

The more frequently you charge the battery, the more cycles you put on the cells. After 500 cycles it's time for a new battery. But that number could be far less if you've subjected the battery to abuse i.e. leaving the phone in the car during a heat wave causing the iphone to automatically shutdown. Or constantly topping-off the battery. Or using a charger greater than 1 amp. I also replace my car battery after 24 months...no exceptions. I have zero tolerance for weak batteries no matter what the application may be.

Cycles aren't about how frequently you charge the battery, they are about how many times you use up and thus fill up 100% of the battery. Topping off or using a charger that provides more than 1 amp is hardly anything close to "abuse".

 

[tonybarnaby]

The more frequently you charge the battery, the more cycles you put on the cells. After 500 cycles it's time for a new battery. But that number could be far less if you've subjected the battery to abuse i.e. leaving the phone in the car during a heat wave causing the iphone to automatically shutdown. Or constantly topping-off the battery. Or using a charger greater than 1 amp. I also replace my car battery after 24 months...no exceptions. I have zero tolerance for weak batteries no matter what the application may be.

Heat does destroy batteries, but they perform FAR better with frequent top offs than deep discharges.

1 cycle is refilling a total of 100%. That could be going from dead to 100% or from 75-100% a total of 4 times. The second option is far better.