Should I enable a charge limit?

[sim667]

I have the optimised charging turned on, and my charging habits are sporadic as I work shifts, and I spend a lot of time on my phone on a daily basis dependent on how busy I am.

I also use a MagSafe bedside charger which I’ve noticed does get a bit warm when charging, so now with a new phone I’m going to try and stick to only putting it on charge when it needs to be charged.

But should I enable a charge limit?

 

[russell_314]

I have the optimised charging turned on, and my charging habits are sporadic as I work shifts, and I spend a lot of time on my phone on a daily basis dependent on how busy I am.

I also use a MagSafe bedside charger which I’ve noticed does get a bit warm when charging, so now with a new phone I’m going to try and stick to only putting it on charge when it needs to be charged.

But should I enable a charge limit?

Yes? Maybe? No? It’s impossible to say without knowing how much battery percentage you use between charging. Limiting charging to 80% would be helpful but if that causes the battery to drop down to 5% I suspect any benefit would be lost.

 

[barkomatic]

If you use your iPhone a lot then I wouldn't set a charge limit. People do that to avoid battery degradation but by setting a lower charge limit you effectively have a lower capacity battery from new every day you use it. Why do that?

I'd just charge it when you sleep so you can start your waking time with a full charge. If you keep your iPhone long enough for the battery to significantly degrade then it's not a big deal and relatively inexpensive to get a new battery installed.

 

[DaveS86]

I used to be precious over charging to a limit and not discharging below 20. Now I don’t care, batteries are relatively cheap and meant to be used, no point being precious about it for that extra couple of charge cycles you get by limiting charge.

 

[darthbane2k]

Considering that optimised charging doesn’t work reliably, I just set a limit to 95% and forget about it