Other We should petition Apple to have a setting option to not charge to 100%

[one more]

I get what you're saying... but what's the point of preserving the phone's battery capacity if you're never even using said capacity?

It just depends on how much battery power you really need. Tesla advise their clients to charge the car batteries up to 80% for regular use and all the way to a 100% for long trips. This just puts less physical pressure on the battery. So if you see that you finish your day with, say, 40% of the battery remaining, you can easily leave it it charge slowly overnight to 80% and then do a quick top-up during the day if really needed.

 

[mrfunnypenguin]

Another solution would be to buy a smart plug and set it up with HomeKit, then charge your iPhone on the smart plug, and add an automation in Shortcuts for when the iPhone reaches x% to turn off the smart plug.

 

[flashflooder]

It just depends how much you need. Tesla advise their clients to charge the car batteries up to 80% for regular use and all the way to a 100% for long trips. This just puts less physical pressure on the battery. So if you see that you finish your day with, say, 40% of the battery remaining, you can easily leave it it charge slowly overnight to 80% and then do a quick top-up during the day if really needed.

car spends most of its time sitting, you don't want it to sit around for hours/days at 100% charge. It makes sense for Tesla to advise that for their Li-Ion batteries.
For the amount of time your phone will actually spend at 100% charge, it's just not worth worrying about imo.

 

[Jackbequickly]

Yep, the above negative comments were exactly like I got over a year ago!

Glad Apple is listening and is going to give us the ability to control the charging.

You do have the option to NOT use it!

 

[donawalt]

There isn't even a way to do this on Mac. There's 3rd party software but they're rife with edge cases and conditions under which the program isn't allowed by the OS to run, making them mostly useless

This is so not true. Do some searching on AlDente.

I just checked Coconut battery, my MacBook Pro has mfr date 12-6-2020, I use it plugged in about 9-12 hours a day, Max charge is still at 99% (8683 mAh/8694 mAh), cycle count is 4.

AlDente among many other tweaks will charge direct from the outlet bypassing the battery which is one way to preserve max charge and cycles used. It also, as you can see from the image, can be connected but not charge until it drifts down to a lower limit of a user-selectable range (for me it's 60% - 65%). I am on latest Ventura 13.5.2, so it runs flawlessly with any of the OSs I have used in the last several years.

 

[LiemTa]

Dog reply. Al Dente was the literal example I had in mind when I made my post.

 

[Bananasaurus]

Charging to 100% is hard on batteries-- it results in faster rates of wear, so you get less cycles out of them. Perhaps relevant to Apple, this is bad for the environment.

I always keep charge mine to 100% and use fast charging and my 14 PM was at 100% battery health before I sold it last week.