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iPhone 15 Pro Max iPhone 15 owners, what is your cycle count and battery health?
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Definitely type of use. My phone is always connected to my power bank throughout the day, and when I reach work, it’s immediately connected to my laptop. My phone has never been below 90%, and heavy gaming also contributes to the degradation. Sometimes I even leave my phone on for specific idle games overnight.
I wish i could. Just my normal usage and charging. I was actually disappointed in the numbers. I get an iPhone every year and I’ve never seen less than 100% at the time of trade in
15 PM
Health: 88%
Cycles: 384
Primarily charge nightly on my MagSafe duo and C cable when traveling. Honestly, my battery has always been ****, I think I got a defective unit Day 1, but Apple wouldn’t replace since the health was fine. Actually considering a 16 PM now bc of this. I only get 5 hrs SOT
Health: 88%
Cycles: 384
Primarily charge nightly on my MagSafe duo and C cable when traveling. Honestly, my battery has always been ****, I think I got a defective unit Day 1, but Apple wouldn’t replace since the health was fine. Actually considering a 16 PM now bc of this. I only get 5 hrs SOT
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Type of use is certainly a main factor to explain battery health over time, but there's also network quality. If you're in a area with bad wifi or LTE/5G, the phone will burn more energy trying to connect.
Today this 15PM got 1 year old and lets see if it lives for another year till the 17PM. Care+ will give me a new Battery as soon as it is at 79%.
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We must have the same dud battery. Will AppleCare swap it out? Australian consumer laws are weird, it's meant to be 24mths, but a loophole gives 12mths.
In my country it will it swap for free for the first year without any additional warranty and for 2 years if you have bought the care+ plan. The monthly paid care+ (which can go longer than 2 years) is not available we only have the 2 year plan for 229Eur.
I have managed to get a battery swap, actually via Express replacement, twice (once for 13PM and for 15PM) without hitting 80%. Here are my hints:
1) Have AppleCare+ - this is a necessity
2) Gather data that is useful and convincing (via the battery use screenshots (10 day screens are most useful) - use their own data against them. You basically need to show that you consistently cannot get through the day with your Phone (mine will die at 4:30 - 5:00pm at this point)
3) Explain that you said for AppleCare+ for the purposes of express replacement, and to avoid going into a store
4) Be willing to put up a full phone deposit
5) Be polite but persistent, never get angry, escalate to supervisor
Normally, somewhere in the process, someone will screw up, and Apple will make the offer to do something they typically don't to compensate for it. The majority of the above was done through chat or remote monitoring (let them look at my screen while I navigated the menus for them to see some of this data), but the last step is often a phone call
Alternatively, if you don't want to go through this, just crack the glass and pay the $99 for express replacement.
1) Have AppleCare+ - this is a necessity
2) Gather data that is useful and convincing (via the battery use screenshots (10 day screens are most useful) - use their own data against them. You basically need to show that you consistently cannot get through the day with your Phone (mine will die at 4:30 - 5:00pm at this point)
3) Explain that you said for AppleCare+ for the purposes of express replacement, and to avoid going into a store
4) Be willing to put up a full phone deposit
5) Be polite but persistent, never get angry, escalate to supervisor
Normally, somewhere in the process, someone will screw up, and Apple will make the offer to do something they typically don't to compensate for it. The majority of the above was done through chat or remote monitoring (let them look at my screen while I navigated the menus for them to see some of this data), but the last step is often a phone call
Alternatively, if you don't want to go through this, just crack the glass and pay the $99 for express replacement.
97% 236 cycles. I don’t limit the charge. I have mostly used a 20w charger but have recently been charging from a laptop which is 10w max apparently
