I'm not one to lean into the conspiratorial, but I've personally experienced my 2021 M1 Pro 16" battery drop much faster than I would have expected but then sit at 80% for months now. I noticed Coconut Battery's graph of similar machines has much the same result, with them dropping fast to 80% and then all of a sudden dropping below 80% after exactly 1000 cycles (conveniently after the Apple Care replacement number of cycles). Don't you think it's kind of odd or too much of a coincidence? Have attached screenshot
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Is there something fishy going on with Apple's reported battery health?
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There’s been the conspiracy that Apple purposely destroys the batteries in their devices after the warranty is up to force an upgrade.
It’s never been proven but maybe you’re on to something here.
It’s never been proven but maybe you’re on to something here.
Yeah, I mean that would definitely be another level up beyond just trying to avoid warranty claims. The thing is, Apple does have history with messing with batteries until they're called out on it, with the whole iPhone throttling thing back in the day
What they screwed up there was keeping it a secret and not telling everyone what they were doing and why, not that they were doing it.
If they had been transparent, then people could have made the right choices for their devices.
Right, I more mean that they've done something battery related without telling people and then had to come clean, so it's not out of the bounds of possibility