How many of you care about your battery seriously?

[nagatofm]

Basically I don't care about battery life as long as it lasts through the day. I just plug it on every night.
In my opinion, that's just the same thing as worries about SSD lifespan: in our fast changing world you'll replace your device by the time you'll notice some battery life degradation or SSD's cells wear or whatever.

 

[Zach Nathan]

Fortunately, that's not how modern batteries work. They charge in cycles, so if your battery is on 70%, when you charge it fully, that uses 30% of a cycle. Once your battery depletes to 30%, you've used 70% of that particular cycle. So really your extra measures aren't doing anything beneficial, particularly with the advent of smart battery technology.

But I'm definitely a big proponent for keeping up on battery health, attempting to keep the device plugged in when possible so it runs off corded power, as well as constantly monitoring the general temperature and state of function for the cells. So yeah, I definitely care.

 

[ame]

With non-replaceable batteries, how many of you consider the longevity of your battery seriously?

For example. These batteries have a very limited lifespan, where after 180-200 charges, the battery starts degrading. So lets say if someone unnecessarily charge for 1 sec, that will count as one count.

I always have to take extra measure like...
1) I do not put it on charging until the battery percentage is less than 10%.
2) When I put it on charging I make sure that it is 100% charged, before taking it out.
3) I never follow that casual policy where people put it on charging, if receive call they take it out and then put it again.

How many of you, follow this strict battery practice, and is it really helpful in long life of the battery? Please share your openion

I go even further. No apps are allowed to background update, ever. No apps have access to my location except Find my iPhone, literally ever.

And every phone I've had thus far has benefitted from the way I operate. I charge every third day because i don't need to until then.

 

[erikbock]

I have never had a real problem with my batter on any iPhone and I am a pretty heavy user other than an iOS update on the iPhone 4 that was a begin iOS.

Even on an iPhone 6s with a smaller battery than on the iPhone 6 I have no problem. I have had the battery go to 0% late in the evening but rarely.

 

[GoingDark]

I used to worry about this, but with modern Lithium-Ion batteries I've noticed it doesn't really make a difference. Now I follow an "opportunistic charging" philosophy, where I juice up a little at a time whenever I can - in the car, for example.

 

[FrankUnderwood]

If the battery lasts the day that's great. I'm a new iPhone owner 5s coming from a BlackBerry Classic. The BB lasted the full day with heavy use, email and social media and I'm not holding my breath with the iPhone.

 

[Ledsteplin]

I go even further. No apps are allowed to background update, ever. No apps have access to my location except Find my iPhone, literally ever.

And every phone I've had thus far has benefitted from the way I operate. I charge every third day because i don't need to until then.

You can't stop apps from running in the background. It's neccessary that they do so. Most don't stay there long. But a few apps do. Like Facebook, TapaTalk, and the stock Mail app.
You don't use any weather apps?

 

[Sherry_B]

You need to wrap it in foil to get the charge rate up.

*scratches head*

Are you sure? I thought the tin foil was used to make a hat....

 

[zuhaibafzal]

I'm not getting good battery backup from my iPhone 6S

 

[ame]

You can't stop apps from running in the background. It's neccessary that they do so. Most don't stay there long. But a few apps do. Like Facebook, TapaTalk, and the stock Mail app.
You don't use any weather apps?

NEVER. I don't use the FB app, I use Safari. I have background app updating off, and I kill every app when I am finished with it. I leave things off that I don't need on.

 

[Ledsteplin]

NEVER. I don't use the FB app, I use Safari. I have background app updating off, and I kill every app when I am finished with it. I leave things off that I don't need on.

Apps need to run in the background. They work better that way. Most only do so a short time. A few seconds. Just because they sit in multitasking doesn't mean they are running. All Background App Refresh does is help the apps to do what they do more efficiently, thereby saving battery. There's probably only 2 or 3 apps you have that cause problems. You can see which ones run too much in Settings >Battery. Sitting in multitasking does not equal running.

 

[w00cash1020]

Wow some people are really crazy about their batteries

 

[Sherry_B]

Apps need to run in the background. They work better that way. Most only do so a short time. A few seconds. Just because they sit in multitasking doesn't mean they are running. All Background App Refresh does is help the apps to do what they do more efficiently, thereby saving battery. There's probably only 2 or 3 apps you have that cause problems. You can see which ones run too much in Settings >Battery. Sitting in multitasking does not equal running.

I have a question. I know Android and iOS aren't the same, which is why I'm curious if iOS works similarly;

With Android there is a difference between a running app and a cached app. Killing a cached app only causes it to refresh itself, which does use resources. Android is hard coded to kill a task when more memory is needed, when you haven't returned to it for a long time, or when it's done doing what ever it needs to do. So again, killing it only causes it to run again until what ever was using it is done using it. The only true way to prevent something from running is to just remove it from the phone. On the Android OS cached apps don't use any CPU or battery. (I'm getting this from an Android forum.. it was written by an app developer.)

Does iOS work similarly?

 

[Ledsteplin]

I have a question. I know Android and iOS aren't the same, which is why I'm curious if iOS works similarly;

With Android there is a difference between a running app and a cached app. Killing a cached app only causes it to refresh itself, which does use resources. Android is hard coded to kill a task when more memory is needed, when you haven't returned to it for a long time, or when it's done doing what ever it needs to do. So again, killing it only causes it to run again until what ever was using it is done using it. The only true way to prevent something from running is to just remove it from the phone. On the Android OS cached apps don't use any CPU or battery. (I'm getting this from an Android forum.. it was written by an app developer.)

Does iOS work similarly?

Killing an app stops it. It does nothing until you launch it again. And that uses resources. But it eventually does it's thing. Most apps only run in the background a short time. They need to. Those don't need to be killed just because they sit in multitasking. But there's a few like Facebook, TapaTalk and others that run for 1 or more hours per day. I never kill my apps for no reason. If they misbehave I do.

 

[Sherry_B]

Killing an app stops it. It does nothing until you launch it again. And that uses resources. But it eventually does it's thing. Most apps only run in the background a short time. They need to. Those don't need to be killed just because they sit in multitasking. But there's a few like Facebook, TapaTalk and others that run for 1 or more hours per day. I never kill my apps for no reason. If they misbehave I do.

I understand, I think. Thanks!

 

[chaoticbuddhist]

I let my phone talk in the background as much as it needs to and I let it notify me whenever it wants, except between 10pm and 7am.

I charge my phone about every three days because I don't need to until then, and my phone is a hell of a lot more useful as a result.

 

[robertk328]

I go even further. No apps are allowed to background update, ever. No apps have access to my location except Find my iPhone, literally ever.

And every phone I've had thus far has benefitted from the way I operate. I charge every third day because i don't need to until then.

NEVER. I don't use the FB app, I use Safari. I have background app updating off, and I kill every app when I am finished with it. I leave things off that I don't need on.

Imagine how long the battery would last if you shut it down after you used it each time.

Your methods seem excessive, but if they work for you, who am I to say? I've always chuckled at the posts (whether in the news/blog section of this site or others, as well as in forums) that suggest turning all this stuff off to save battery. Certainly an option, but some of it is actually useful!

 

[Sherry_B]

Your methods seem excessive, but if they work for you, who am I to say? I've always chuckled at the posts (whether in the news/blog section of this site or others, as well as in forums) that suggest turning all this stuff off to save battery. Certainly an option, but some of it is actually useful!

I don't understand completely turning off location services. Per app sure, but completely no. Doesn't that make the Find My Phone feature useless? My fiance' and I use Life 360 so it's pointless to disable location services. If something happened to one of us we could find the other via the history in Life 360. Maybe it's just my age, but I want someone knowing where I am.

Honestly though, if someone even looked at my phone the wrong way or tried to run off with it, I'd be Dolly Parton in 9 to 5 chasing the theif (Dabney Coleman). Always did think that scene was hilarious.

 

[anon(153966)]

I merely want to have my device active from 06:00 - 19:00, and I'm good...

 

[mumfoau]

I merely want to have my device active from 06:00 - 19:00, and I'm good...

Yeah if your device will give 13 hrs on battery, most are back at home by then or at the least in a situation where they can easily charge-such as on their commute.