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Every night.
Even when plugged in over night, the battery is being used. Everything goes through the battery. Each night the iPhone is left plugged in it chews into the battery's life span, nibbling about 10% or more of a loadcycle every night.

Apple stated publicly that the reason they believe iPhone sales were down (their life blood) was because of their 2018 battery discount replacement program.

What incentive does Apple have for making sure your battery lasts forever? Zero. It's suicide to them. That's why they say "it's fine" to leave the iPhone plugged in over night (when in reality it degrades it rapidly).

But don't take my rant for it, do your own li-ion battery charging research- then you'll see the light too.
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I think you should take your tin foil hat off.

Batteries degrade in ALL devices. Apple can’t defy science.
 
now i see it said:
Every night.
Even when plugged in over night, the battery is being used. Everything goes through the battery. Each night the iPhone is left plugged in it chews into the battery's life span, nibbling about 10% or more of a loadcycle every night.

Apple stated publicly that the reason they believe iPhone sales were down (their life blood) was because of their 2018 battery discount replacement program.

What incentive does Apple have for making sure your battery lasts forever? Zero. It's suicide to them. That's why they say "it's fine" to leave the iPhone plugged in over night (when in reality it degrades it rapidly).

But don't take my rant for it, do your own li-ion battery charging research- then you'll see the light too.
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Interesting. I'm not seeing overnight drain on my XS Max, much like with my iPad Pro. On the other hand, my Android devices with the same setup - phone connected to LTE, WiFi on - do lose a few percent overnight.
 
Never. We don't have a home phone so they need to be on in case of emergencies.

I do have an Activator action (my phone is jailbroken) that restarts the phone every evening though. Without that my alarms sometimes fail to go off in the morning. That's a problem when I am the one that wakes everyone else up.
 
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eyoungren said:
Never. We don't have a home phone so they need to be on in case of emergencies.

I do have an Activator action (my phone is jailbroken) that restarts the phone every evening though. Without that my alarms sometimes fail to go off in the morning. That's a problem when I am the one that wakes everyone else up.
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I still have a home phone, the only people who I really talk to on my iPhone would be my girlfriend and my sister. That's why mine is so out of date... Don't see a reason to get the newest as of now.
 
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I still have a home phone, the only people who I really talk to on my iPhone would be my girlfriend and my sister. That's why mine is so out of date... Don't see a reason to get the newest as of now.
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We gave our home phone up sometime in 2002-2003. I couldn't see paying $51 a month for a phone that never got used because we were always on our cell phones.

The other thing with that is that my mom can call either me direct or my wife direct. No calling the house and leaving a message. If she wants to get a hold of her grandkids she has their info too.

As far as what anybody else is using it doesn't really matter. My mom happens to use iMessage but the largest percentage of people I deal with on a normal basis a text message will do.

I'm on a 6s+ until I can afford to replace it with the Pixel 2XL I want.
 
I turned my 5s off when I removed the sim to put into my SE. I will occasionally restart it (turn the phone off, wait 10 seconds, turn it back on) but I never leave it off ... not even on a plane.
 
I rarely turn my phone off, but I do place it in Airplane mode at night or anytime it goes in my pocket. Not sure why others don't.

The EMF emitted from your phone next to your "tool" is not a good thing. If it's sporadic, of course it's not going to cause any harm. But you have to remember that some people - especially dudes - carry a smartphone in their pocket virtually all day long.

This long term exposure can't be good for you, no matter what anyone tells you. And now with 5G coming, wow, don't even get me started. I sure hope people understand the health ramifications that will come with it. And yes, I'm one of those who also turns off his wifi at night. It literally makes me sleep better.
 
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I rarely turn my phone off, but I do place it in Airplane mode at night or anytime it goes in my pocket. Not sure why others don't.

The EMF emitted from your phone next to your "tool" is not a good thing. If it's sporadic, of course it's not going to cause any harm. But you have to remember that some people - especially dudes - carry a smartphone in their pocket virtually all day long.

This long term exposure can't be good for you, no matter what anyone tells you. And now with 5G coming, wow, don't even get me started. I sure hope people understand the health ramifications that will come with it. And yes, I'm one of those who also turns off his wifi at night. It literally makes me sleep better.
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If you put it in airplane mode anytime you put it in your pocket it basically negates one of the main uses of a mobile phone of someone being able to reach you while you are out and about, unless you yourself get the phone out and disable airplane mode and have various notifications and apps get updates and check for what you missed.
 
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If you put it in airplane mode anytime you put it in your pocket it basically negates one of the main uses of a mobile phone of someone being able to reach you while you are out and about, unless you yourself get the phone out and disable airplane mode and have various notifications and apps get updates and check for what you missed.
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lol

Yes, I realize that I'm not reachable when my phone goes into airplane mode.

There are people who cannot live without their phone 24/7, every minute of the day. God forbid they miss an important text message from their boss or a FB update from their cousin-in-law whom they haven't seen in 20 years.

I guess I'm not one of those people. My life doesn't revolve around my phone. If I need to use it or care enough to use it, I take it out of airplane mode. If there was a call that I missed, great. No message left? - Even better... clearly wasn't important enough.

People are so incredibly addicted to their phones, it's worse than cocaine. No, really, it is.
 
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lol

Yes, I realize that I'm not reachable when my phone goes into airplane mode.

There are people who cannot live without their phone 24/7, every minute of the day. God forbid they miss an important text message from their boss or a FB update from their cousin-in-law whom they haven't seen in 20 years.

I guess I'm not one of those people. My life doesn't revolve around my phone. If I need to use it or care enough to use it, I take it out of airplane mode. If there was a call that I missed, great. No message left? - Even better... clearly wasn't important enough.

People are so incredibly addicted to their phones, it's worse than cocaine. No, really, it is.
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We aren't talking about addiction or anything like that, just one of the main basic benefits and really ideas behind a mobile phone being that someone can reach someone when they are out and about. I guess there's one extreme on one side of it all, just as there's the other extreme on the other side, with the vast majority falling somewhere in-between those.
 
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We aren't talking about addiction or anything like that, just one of the main basic benefits and really ideas behind a mobile phone being that someone can reach someone when they are out and about. I guess there's one extreme on one side of it all, just as there's the other extreme on the other side, with the vast majority falling somewhere in-between those.
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Define "reach someone". Surely you didn't mean call someone, since those days are long gone, it seems. All I see are walking zombies texting each other.

You cannot generalize the need or idea behind owning a mobile phone being the same for everyone. When this idea becomes that of always being reachable and responding to everything, then, depending on volume, it can and does become an addiction. From what I have observed, it doesn't appear that the vast majority falls somewhere in-between. In my office, people spend more time on their phone than they do actually working. On my way to or from the office (I walk), people can't see where they're going because they are busy starring at their screen. The list goes on...

The main basic benefit of a mobile phone for me is to use it whenever I want to use it. There are times when I don't want to be available. If I place it in my pocket and turn on airplane mode, being reachable clearly isn't a priority for me at that time. It also means that I'm not getting constantly bombarded with EMF.
 
s54 said:
Define "reach someone". Surely you didn't mean call someone, since those days are long gone, it seems. All I see are walking zombies texting each other.

You cannot generalize the need or idea behind owning a mobile phone being the same for everyone. When this idea becomes that of always being reachable and responding to everything, then, depending on volume, it can and does become an addiction. From what I have observed, it doesn't appear that the vast majority falls somewhere in-between. In my office, people spend more time on their phone than they do actually working. On my way to or from the office (I walk), people can't see where they're going because they are busy starring at their screen. The list goes on...

The main basic benefit of a mobile phone for me is to use it whenever I want to use it. There are times when I don't want to be available. If I place it in my pocket and turn on airplane mode, being reachable clearly isn't a priority for me at that time. It also means that I'm not getting constantly bombarded with EMF.
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Well, as I mentioned, there are the extremes on one side and on the other side and then a whole lot in-between.
 
Normally my phone is on 24/7 unless there's a problem. Turning it off for 10-15 seconds then back on usually clears it up.
 
When WiFi service starts to get a little wonky on it, I go ahead and turn it off/turn it back on again. Happens every 2-3 months or so. After a quick reboot, everything goes back to working just fine.

Other than that, it stays on all the time.
 
I only restart my phone when I upgrade it, or if I experience some weird software bug.

Other than that, I leave it powered off if I go to the pool and leave it in the locker, and I enable Airplane Mode if I'm flying. At night I enable Do Not Disturb.

Otherwise it's on 24x7.
 
Only to restart the phone for reasons like the OS is acting up or updates. I mean the point of a mobile OS like iOS is so that one shouldn't be required to "reboot" it, not like Windows.
 
after updating the software - force restart during the installation :D

i dont turn it off unless something odd happening...
 
Like once a week, mostly because of AirPods connection issues.
Since last week however, I had to reboot my X several times a day after the latest update...Really buggy.
 
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