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iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro Max Charging Speeds Tested: Here's What to Know
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I rub my phone over the rug at night with hopes the static electricity generated will turn it back on someday. It’s great for preserving the integrity of the battery. 😬
You realise that by constantly staying between 20% and 80% in an effort to save the battery health, you're actually living as if the battery is already down to 60% of its original capacity, right?
It's like hopping around on your left leg your whole life so you never damage your right leg. You're already living as if you right leg is gone.
Presumably charge to 100% on those days when one knows one will need full capacity. Problem is, life is messy and that can be hard to predict
That's fair but for me I'll use the brick from my old X to charge it so one less brick for Apple to produce and got left in the box.Apple is surely saving the environment and charging back to every customer who buys these adapters separately even after spending $799 - $999+USD (or $1,099+ CDN) for their phones. Total insanity.
I guess many people who's not techie will be like me.
Good to know. Would have been nice if MagSafe could charge a bit faster.
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As long as you don't leave your iPhone to roast in direct sunlight, leave it drained for no good reason, or leave it plugged in for days at a time, you're fine.
Battery health is a lottery, and for every person who babies their battery and thinks it's working, there's another person who babies their battery even more and has abnormal battery degradation. And then there's me, who just charges my iPhone with magsafe whenever I feel like it and my 13 Pro Max was at 100% battery health after a year.
Live your lives, people.
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I've been doing the same since Friday and I still have not gotten my phone to 100% charge yet. Likeeee....the charging is VERY slow. do I need to buy a new brick or whats going on? Didn't expect this tbh
Lol. 😆
I always cringe at all the battery babying tipe I see on mr threads and reddit posts.
-Next to none of it is proven to make a difference. And the few strategies that do make a difference only make a marginal difference at best.
Also, spending $999+ on a new iPhone every 1-3 years and then micro-managing and constantly worrying about a battery that costs $99 to replace is beyond ridiculous.
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Sadly, next to nobody is going to listen to this and will keep doing their superstitious battery "rain dance" because it one of their older iPhones never went below 100% battery capacity (despite the well known fact that capacity gauging was highly inaccurate a few years ago) and that one website posted an article back in 2012 about how bad charging can hurt smartphone batteries.
We'd all be much happier if we dropped this neuroticism.
Even if they were right, it would still be ridiculous. Say you micromanage it so you're keeping your battery in this theoretical 20% 80% range. That means you're only using 60% of your battery capacity.
What are they trying to avoid with this behaviour? The battery capacity dropping... So you're creating a situation where you're living as if your battery capacity has dropped to 60%, in order to stop the battery from degrading 5% worse than it might have. Absolute madness.
It's a mass hysteria.
5W charger for overnight FTW.
Only have 20W charger in my bag for quick recharge if needed.
Only have 20W charger in my bag for quick recharge if needed.
For less than $29 I could get a nice 65watts GaN charging brick with dual USB-C output and extra USB-A for whatever.
Been using one for Magsafe Duo along with C cable for iPad Pro, and extra Lightning for occasional emergencies. Best charging setup ever.
Been using one for Magsafe Duo along with C cable for iPad Pro, and extra Lightning for occasional emergencies. Best charging setup ever.
I strongly suggest buying a 20W adapter.
It changed my life when I bought my iPhone 12 and I'm not being sarcastic.
Don't limit your search to studies specific to iPhone batteries - it's well-established of all lithium-ion batteries. Lots of research papers and articles are behind academic paywalls, but here's one: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.905710/full which also includes a raft of references which cover the same area of research.
A question for a tech-savier than me:
my girlfirend has an iphone 13 ; I am waiting for an iphone 14 pro to arrive.
Will this duo (35W) be faster (than 30W, 20W, etc?) when both are connected? Are there better solution?
Thanks a lot
my girlfirend has an iphone 13 ; I am waiting for an iphone 14 pro to arrive.
Will this duo (35W) be faster (than 30W, 20W, etc?) when both are connected? Are there better solution?
Thanks a lot
I do and I have no problem with it. It's the best for prolonging battery life and it's not too inconvenient.
There are no Apple stores in my country so no trade in program. There's iStyle but you could only get about 430$ for a used 12 Pro and given that prices are a lot higher here it's simply not worth it. And when you're selling your old phone the first thing anyone asks about it battery health.
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Many chargers with more than 1 port are only rated for the max output on one port at a time
Therefore a 40w charger with 2 ports can do 40w if only one device is plugged in, or 20w on each port if 2 devices are plugged in.
I would get an Anker Nano Pro (521), that way at worst you will both get 20W charging, and if only one phone is plugged in at a time you may even get slightly more wattage than that. This is optimal for anyone needing to charge up to 2 iPhones at a time. Other devices may have more requirements