How I Maintain 100% iPhone Battery Health

This video is sponsored by Squarespace. What's happening? My name is Brandon and since

battery

health

was introduced in iOS 11, many of you have been asking me questions about how to keep that percentage as high as possible for as long as possible. So in this video I'll share some tips on how I've personally

maintain

ed 100%

battery

life here on my iPhone 11 Pro, which I've been using every day for the last 4 months, and on my iPhone 10, which I've used daily since 2018, now I also have my current daily device here, the iPhone 11 Pro Mac, and you can see this guy is at 98%, this is the one my SIM card is in most of the time right now. and then I also have my iPhone 10s max here, which I use almost every day during 2018 and it's at 93%, but this one stayed at 100% for a little over seven months, almost eight months, in fact, this one stayed at 100 %. battery capacity, so I'll share some tips on how I've

maintain

ed such good battery life and

health

on all of these devices.

Now also make sure you watch my video on the best battery saving tips for your iPhone. It's more about these software changes that you should address, whereas this video will be more about the daily use and daily maintenance and hardware side, but if you use the tips in this video in combination with the tips in that video you will see amazing results. on your iPhone when it comes to battery life, so now let's look at the battery health panel within settings and what it really means. As I said, this feature was first introduced in iOS 11.3 to inform you of your overall battery health and will let you know if your iPhone can operate at its peak performance, which is another important aspect to pay attention to over time and, of course you can see mine says my max capacity is at 100%.

I will tell you if your battery is strong enough to run at maximum performance, which is basically like running CPU intensive games, benchmark tests, recording long 4k videos and stuff like that, it will just tell you if your phone can work harder hard when necessary and with time. the lithium ion battery in iPhones will degrade and of course it won't work as well as the day you bought it and this type with any device with a lithium ion battery, not just an iPhone, when the battery degrades Over time you gradually start to notice that you have less and less time between charges and, according to Apple, a normal battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity in 500 full charge cycles when operating under normal conditions, so which looks at how Apple uses a term. charge cycles This is very important to know, so a charge cycle is basically when you charge your phone to one hundred percent and then it turns off later that night or the next day and then you charge it again from 0% to 100% now.

Just because you don't specifically wait until your phone turns off doesn't mean you don't have charge cycles on your battery because every time you charge your phone it adds to a charge cycle, for example if you start your day at 100% battery life and then plug it in before bed with, say, 25% left, that means that once you use your phone again the next day and get down to 75 percent battery life, you'll have gone through a cycle full charge, this is because of course the first day you discharged 75% of the battery which is what got you to 25% and then the next day you discharged the other 25% when you got to 75% the battery, so basically every time you charge and discharge your phone there is math behind the scenes inside the battery to determine when it goes through a full charge cycle.

I hope you follow me here and can now start to see why it makes a lot more sense to charge your phone. long before it runs out, if possible, and although it's recommended to keep around 80% battery life, I always let my phone charge overnight, so I've done this with every iPhone I've ever owned. and I always have. best battery life of any of my friends and I never had any kind of battery drain issue and charging your phone overnight isn't necessarily bad for your iPhone because it uses normal charging speeds to reach 80% and then switches to a slower trickle charge until you get to 100% and then once it's at 100% your phone starts running solely on the electricity from the charger and not the lithium ion battery itself so no it's not bad for the battery to charge.

It charges it overnight, as some people tend to think, but the sweet spot is 50 to 80 percent, so if you can always keep your iPhone around that percentage or in that range, you'll be golden, but Don't charge your phone overnight if you're done. 80%, so if you are at 80 90 95% before going to bed, there is no point in charging your phone, you will only know that it will damage your battery, so only if it is below you will know that 50% you should charge your phone during bedtime. evening. and before we move on to the next tip, I wanted to share a little more about today's sponsor, Squarespace.

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So instead of going from 99% to 100% through trickle charging, this new feature will keep your phone at around 80% until it thinks you're about to use it again, like when you're about to wake up and then it turns off. is going to load put it all the way in so it's quite useful and definitely makes the battery last longer. Another tip I can give you is to keep your iPhone out of the heat as much as possible, so I see people all the time going to the beach. with their iPhones and they leave them in the sun, they leave them like on their towel or something still in the sun and it makes me shudder because heat is the number one enemy of lithium ions. batteries so you want to keep it out of the heat as much as possible and the same goes for cold weather but not as cold as lithium ion batteries heat up on their own but still Apple recommends using your phone and temperatures of 30 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit and nothing above or below, now another tip is that if your iPhone gets very hot when it is charging you may want to remove the case that you have on it and the reason for this is because the case may be acting as a barrier and basically just slowed down all the heat dissipation from your iPhone to your iPhone and that lithium ion battery needs room to breathe and certain cases can restrict that passage for air, especially very tight cases as I imagine, maybe something like OtterBox cases or something.

That way, I don't really think most cases trap that much heat these days, but it's definitely something to consider if you notice your phone getting hot while charging. Another tip is to stay away from imitation Chinese chargers to get what you pay for and many studies have shown that cheap iPhone chargers are really bad for your iPhone, not only are they cheap and tear much faster than wooden cable. Apple, but they can also cause damage to your device and impacts. Some of these chargers have now been shown to increase the overall battery capacity on iPhones and iPads, which can lead to hardware damage and also affect the capacity of the battery itself, so avoid cheap cables if possible and if You lost your original cable and you don't want to buy another official Apple one because they are quite expensive.

I would buy from someone more reliable like an anchor or a Belkin or something like that before buying something just because it is highly rated and cheap on Amazon so just keep this in mind when it comes to chargers and the final advice is don't Use a wireless charger all the time, only use a wireless charger when you need fast and convenient charging, but definitely don't replace regular charging with wireless. charging now Apple included a fast charger with the new iPhone 11 pros this year and I normally say to always avoid using the fast charger as well, but I don't have enough data to say whether or not it is bad to use Apple's fast charger every single day or No, but anyway the reason you don't want to use a wireless charger or fast charger all the time is because the charging process involves a higher voltage being sent to the iPhone battery, resulting in a charge. fast. temperature rise and that's why I usually use just a normal charger and not the fast charger most of the time, you know, during the day, especially at night, unless of course I need to charge quickly, but the Most of the time I would avoid using a wireless charger. charger or a fast charger every time you charge your phone you can use them.

I'm not saying it's bad, but don't use them every time, especially wireless chargers and another thing I wanted to mention too is that it's worth it. It is necessary to change the battery every three years if you plan to keep your phone for a long time and this especially applies as the older the iPhone, the more frequently you will have to replace the battery, but even it snows. If you have an 11pro, you know that in three years you may want to buy a new battery for it. If you plan to keep this phone for the long term, you can simply look at the battery capacity and once it reaches your level. 80% that's probably what you should consider buying a new battery, maybe 85%, but most of the time, if you follow all these tips that I mentioned in this video and you know you combine them with my battery saving tips video and iOS 13 which I linked. on the cards, it will probably last for many years without having to buy a new battery, just remember to charge your phone whenever you can and follow all the other tips I mentioned in this video and you should be good to go and notice the health of your battery. stay at 100% or at least 90 percent for at least a year or two, so yeah, that's it for this video guys.

I hope you enjoy it if you learn something new and you enjoyed this video. I would appreciate it if you did. You would give it a thumbs up and, of course, you would subscribe so you don't miss more videos like this. I'm sure I'll have an updated guide for this once iOS 14 comes out, so be sure to stay tuned. but anyway guys, thanks again for watching and we'll see you soon.