I Need to Drain My Battery Health below 80% [Help]

[donleon]

Hi Friends,

I hairline cracked my 2021 M1 MBP 16" screen yest 😭 Luckily in the corner so its still usable.

Brought it into apple and its $850 + tax to repair. They replace the whole display.

If my battery is in poor condition they will replace that too in the same price.

I'm at 86%.

Looking for advice on how to bring the condition down to <80% so I can at least get a new battery with this massive expenditure and make it worth the investment.

Thanks!

P.S. I will always buy apple care from now on.

 

[Jackbequickly]

Good Grief!

 

[iMacDragon]

Not going to happen, basically.

 

[Audit13]

Only way to bring down the battery health is time, charge cycles, and usage.

It may take quite a while to drop from 86% to 80%.

 

[chrfr]

Hi Friends,

I hairline cracked my 2021 M1 MBP 16" screen yest 😭 Luckily in the corner so its still usable.

Brought it into apple and its $850 + tax to repair. They replace the whole display.

If my battery is in poor condition they will replace that too in the same price.

I'm at 86%.

Looking for advice on how to bring the condition down to <80% so I can at least get a new battery with this massive expenditure and make it worth the investment.

Thanks!

P.S. I will always buy apple care from now on.

It will likely take months to perpetrate this scam. There's nothing you can do to rapidly damage the battery like this.

 

[masotime]

P.S. I will always buy apple care from now on.

Yes... people avoid buying AppleCare+ until it really hurts them... the Apple repair tax is a lot more expensive than just buying some insurance aka peace of mind.

 

[Honza1]

Typical battery health profile drops relatively quickly early and then it has plateau and very slow drop between 95 and 80%. It might take months of daily full charge cycles to drop those 6%. Good luck loading M1 MBP to discharge it quickly enough, mine has really 15+ hours battery life. There is no simple way to predict when any specific battery drops below 80%. Keep in mind, that Apple states it should take ~1000 cycles. Each my battery died well before 1k cycles, but then it died usually due to age.

 

[Spock]

Yes... people avoid buying AppleCare+ until it really hurts them... the Apple repair tax is a lot more expensive than just buying some insurance aka peace of mind.

Apple planned it that way, no way it costs them anything near what they charge for repairs.

 

[masotime]

Apple planned it that way, no way it costs them anything near what they charge for repairs.

As you like... it's a free market, if you're not happy with Apple's repair charges, just don't buy Apple products?

If you're going to buy Apple stuff though, AppleCare+ is a no brainer unless you're someone who is comfortable with the risks and won't whine when things go wrong....

 

[Doctor Q]

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