Are YOU charging your iPhone correctly?

You should always let

your

iPhone's battery reach zero before

charging

it. Charging

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iPhone overnight is bad and you should always charge it in airplane mode. Be honest, how many of those claims have you heard and, better yet, how many have you believed? Well, no. Surprisingly, there are many claims about

charging

iPhone batteries. How many of them are true? That's what I'm going to try to discover in this video. I'm going to look at 10 common claims about iPhone charging. batteries and find out if they are true or false stay with me until the end of the video.

I think there will be at least one claim here that you can officially stop worrying about. Okay, let's start charging your phone overnight. No good, this is a bit classic, right? I think we've all had this at one point or another, this idea that we should only charge our phone when we can keep an eye on it. and remove it from charging the moment it is full for fear that it will somehow overload any quality modern device such as a smartphone, tablet, laptop or smart watch, it will not be overloaded even if you leave it on the charger overnight.

Your iPhone has the intelligence to know when the battery is full and will essentially stop charging at that point and if the battery runs low enough while the phone is still on the charger it will charge again to recharge it, in fact if you recently picked up your iPhone in the middle of the night while it was charging, you may notice that it now uses optimized charging. This is where the phone will start charging immediately when you plug it in, but it does know that you have it plugged in. during the night and if the phone knows that your routine is usually sleeping until, say, 7 a.m. m., the phone will only charge about a percent initially and then finish charging much closer to the time you wake up, this not only means that your phone is full and ready to go in the morning it means that instead of charging the battery With a full high-speed charge very quickly, you can charge it much more gradually, which is better for the overall health of the battery.

If you want to see if you have this feature enabled, head to settings, then battery status, and make sure optimized battery charging is enabled. Note here that you can also see the current maximum capacity or chemical status of your battery. You should not charge your phone under your pillow. This is true, but not necessarily for the reason you might expect, let's put aside concerns about your phone with all its radioactivity being so close to your head at night put aside for a moment the battery recharging process from a phone generates heat there is not enough heat to set your bedding on fire if that happens you have a bad phone or battery but heat however heat is the number one enemy of modern lithium ion batteries lithium and can cause serious permanent damage.

This is the main reason why you should never leave your iPhone exposed to the sun and while your iPhone will warn you if it starts to reach a dangerous temperature level and although it may not reach those same temperatures when charging under your pillow, Prolonged exposure to that kind of temperature really isn't good for the battery at all and is a guaranteed way to reduce your phone's lifespan. To be fair, phone life is extreme. Extreme heat is not good for any part of your phone, so leaving it exposed to the sun is something you should avoid at all costs.

If you charge your phone overnight, do so in a place where there is enough water. A space for airflow on your nightstand or charging pad should be more than enough and don't cover it with anything. If screen lighting is a problem for you, change your phone's settings so that it doesn't bother or just sit down. with the screen facing down instead of up, the cable you are using doesn't matter, this is not true, technically any cable with the correct connector can charge your phone, but just because something can do something doesn't mean you should. You wouldn't apply the same logic to the brake pads in your car or the windows in your house.

There are certain products that you really need to meet a certain standard, even if that means paying a little more, this doesn't mean you have to buy official Apple cables. Apple charges a premium, but you should also avoid dead-cheap basement cables unless they come from a reputable manufacturer or retailer. You should know that the cable you are using is MFI certified. mfi stands for made for iPhone and is an Apple licensing program that covers all types of iPhone peripherals. An MFI certified product will be able to display the badge on its packaging and, when it comes to a charging cable, it means that the cable can properly pass power to your phone without the risk of overcharging.

Mfi cables aren't expensive in the grand scheme of things, so while it may be tempting to go for the cheapest cables you can, I recommend that you don't completely discharge the battery every time. time before charging the need to completely discharge the battery is another popular battery myth and it is simply not the case today thanks to the type of battery that phones use, there are many different types of batteries, some nickel cadmium, for example. For example, they should be almost completely discharged before recharging, while lead-acid batteries should never be fully discharged. Fortunately, lithium-ion batteries, like those found in modern phones, are much more forgiving and designed for the kind of charge and discharge patterns you'd expect from a regular phone.

Consumer, as long as you follow the other battery tips such as not allowing them to overheat by using certified cables and charging with them, you can charge your phone fully overnight if you want or you can plug it in for 10 minutes for a quick recharge. before going out or a combination of all these things, it doesn't really matter, your phone's battery has been designed to work with you and not the other way around, you must charge it using airplay mode. This is not true, but it is also true. It is not false as such, the belief here is that charging in airplane mode will allow you to charge your phone much faster than charging it in normal mode and this is not entirely false.

Airplane mode essentially turns off all of your device's wireless communication features, so there's no Wi-Fi, no cellular connection, and since your phone is usually constantly looking to create and maintain Wi-Fi and cellular connections while it's on, this It will reduce some of the phone's power usage, the charge entering the phone is none. more powerful it's just that the incoming power isn't offset as much by the power usage, but if you really want to charge your phone faster, let's say in an emergency, a much more effective way to do it would be to turn off your phone and charge it with the power off because even in airplane mode your phone is still using power for the screen for any apps that may be running or apps you have running in the background.

An analogy would be to fill a bucket with water and the bucket has several holes, if airplane mode covers one of those holes the bucket will fill faster, but if there are still other holes you will still lose water, only by covering all the holes can you really take. It takes advantage of all the water that you're pouring and that's the case with your phone and you charge it, but it's still generally considered that with a good fast charger unless you're using your phone at the same time as charging it, you should be able to quickly charge your phone. phone without the need to put it in airplane mode.

Keep in mind that airplane mode basically disables the telephone element of your phone. You have to ask yourself if it's worth it to just slightly speed up your phone. Charging If it is off, the phone charges it quickly and then turns it on again. Batteries have memory. This is more or less the same belief as the belief that batteries should always be completely discharged. It's simply not true with modern lithium-ion. batteries where some people get it wrong is mixing battery memory with battery status. You can find out the battery status by going into your iPhone's settings, choosing battery, and then battery status.

My iPhone 13 pro, purchased about seven months ago, still has 100 percent battery health, which is great, but if I had left it in the sun all day, perhaps using dodgy cables, that figure could have gone down If it were, say, 80, that just means I have 80 battery capacity to play with compared to the 100 I have. I had when it was new, so if a new battery gave me 10 hours of constant use, that figure is purely illustrative, then I would expect to get only eight hours from a full charge when it has 80 capacity, but this aging process is unfortunately, it is completely normal, you can see Apple alluding to this here when they talk about chemical aging of your iPhone battery.

Your battery has a limited number of charge cycles before it can no longer charge, so if you have a particularly old iPhone, you'll notice that it doesn't last as long as it did when you first bought it, no matter how careful you were when charging it. When you get to this point the best thing to do is to change your phone and a new phone will of course have a new battery or if that is not an option for you, changing the battery would also be a good solution and there are companies that can help you with this, you should use low power mode all the time.

This is another myth that is more of an opinion response than an absolutely objective answer, but I'm going to call it false. It is not necessary to use low power mode all the time. Low Power Mode is exactly what it sounds like. switch your phone to a mode where it affects a number of power-hungry features of your phone, according to Apple this includes 5g data, auto lock, screen brightness, screen refresh rate, some visual effects, syncing with iCloud, automatic downloads, email recovery and background app refresh. It would be perfectly fine if some of these features were disabled, but many of these features are what make the iPhone experience so good, so it would be a shame to routinely disable them all.

I guess the comparison would be buying a Porsche but installing a limiter that stops. prevents it from going more than 20 miles per hour. Low Power Mode is designed to consume the last power your phone has, so Apple will suggest you turn it on once your phone reaches 20 or 10 percent power. It is there to help maintain it. Your phone will run a little longer until you can plug it in to charge. Note that once you reach 80 charge, Low Power Mode will automatically turn off so you can see that from Apple's perspective this is not the feature they are expecting.

If you have it on all the time, you can save battery by closing applications. This is another myth, but the opposite is generally true. The theory behind this is that phones that have apps running in the background have to dedicate battery to those apps, so if you have 10 or 20 apps running in the background, that means 10 or 20 a lot of power from your battery being used. It's dedicated to running apps you're not actively using, so closing them would save you some battery life. The reality is that your iPhone is designed for multitasking and is generally very good at putting those apps in the background in a low-power, near-idle state - essentially those apps don't run the same way as the app you're using. currently on your iPhone, but when you swipe on your phone to go from an active app to a background app, your phone has that background app in a state that makes it very easy for it to come to life for you, the user, the experience feels like all the apps are running constantly, so the fact that it doesn't is irrelevant to you, this is actually one of those myths where it's the opposite, opening apps is what requires the Higher power usage, so constantly closing your apps and then opening them again can consume more battery.

Life, no less, think of it as an oven or a teapot in general. It takes more electricity to heat your oven or boil a kettle of water than it does to simply maintain a high temperature. A professional kitchen will heat up your oven and then maintain them. at that temperature during the shift because it doesn't make sense in terms of energy efficiency to keep turning something on, waiting for it to warm up, turning it off, and then repeating the process, so yes, use your apps however you want them to be built into your phone. Multitasking intelligence has you covered, you can force quit an app if something goes wrong, but other than that it's good, you shouldn't use your phone while it's charging, this is kind of a myth, the true element ofThis comes from the fact that when your phone is charging, especially if it is charging fast, that fast charging puts some pressure on the phone and the battery, if you use your phone while it is plugged in, most phones will automatically go to a low-power charging mode to allow your phone to continue consuming the power it needs to do what you want it to do while charging.

You are absolutely fine if you use your phone while it is charging. You won't put yourself at any risk or damage the battery. The real consequence you will face is that your battery won't charge as fast as it could if you just plug it in, leave it alone and let it charge quickly, but ultimately you are the consumer, it's your phone and you should use it however you want, so I wouldn't really worry too much because this fast charging kills your battery again. Another myth, fast charging has gone from being a kind of oh, by the way, a few years ago we had the fast charging function to an important and almost decisive feature of modern smartphones and, for good reason, the latest iPhones are essentially incredibly powerful computers that you can carry with you in your pocket and every year their capabilities become even more impressive.

Consumers would be more than happy with more powerful and longer-lasting batteries, as long as that is not equal. a thicker phone and while battery technology is improving all the time, one area where manufacturers have realized they can make improvements and increase consumer satisfaction is charging time if you can get to the point where a battery can be fully charged from 0 to 80 in just 10 minutes, battery capacity is suddenly no longer a big deal, you can use your phone all day and then plug it in for a quick charge while taking a drink. coffee, plus the charging of your iPhone is not that fast, it certainly doesn't compare.

With what other phone makers are doing right now, the iPhone 13 Pro can charge up to 27 watts with a compatible charger and tests have shown that a Pro Max phone can charge from empty to full in about 90 minutes at this speed, which is fast. but when you consider that there are phones like the vivo iq7 that boast 120 watt charging and can go from empty to full in 18 minutes, you realize that Apple is treading carefully with this. Apple sells millions of iPhones and there is really no interest in selling phones whose battery seriously degrades every time you charge it.

Some of the technology behind it is the same type of technology that prevents phones from overcharging. With fast charging, your iPhone will automatically receive a charge in different phases. The first phase. Charging is the higher voltage phase that charges the battery from anywhere between 50 and 80 percent of its capacity very quickly, generating some additional heat and putting some pressure on the battery, but for the remaining part After charging your phone will switch to a slower trickle. charging phase which greatly reduces the stress on the battery during that part of the charge and keeps the charging process safe and healthy for your battery.

That's why you'll often see a notification telling you exactly how much time you have left on your current charge. The cycle and what time your phone will fully charge the iPhone is smart enough that it can calculate exactly how long the charge will last, so quickly, and as Apple releases iPhones with even faster charging, you can be pretty sure that They'll have done their homework before launching the phones, so here are 10 claims about battery charging with my thoughts on whether or not there's anything you need to worry about. I think the main takeaway from all of this is that ultimately you are the Consumer, it is your phone and you should use it however you want.

Phone manufacturers like Apple know this and build their devices based on your usage habits. They don't expect you to significantly change what you do to make it work for them. Use your phone how and when. want to use it, charge it how and when you want to charge it, and trust that your phone is smart enough to take care of itself. What's up with you? How often do you charge your phone? Are there myths or tips about battery charging? I haven't included it here, leave me a comment and let's talk about it and as always, if you found this video helpful, consider leaving me a like and subscribing to my channel for more content like this in the future.

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