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How many of you care about your battery seriously?

Tumms

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Iphone battery's don't use a charge cycle every time theyre plugged in

"Charge your Apple lithium-ion battery whenever you want. There?s no need to let it discharge 100% before recharging. Apple lithium-ion batteries work in charge cycles. You complete one charge cycle when you?ve used (discharged) an amount that equals 100% of your battery?s capacity ? but not necessarily all from one charge. For instance, you might use 75% of your battery?s capacity one day, then recharge it fully overnight. If you use 25% the next day, you will have discharged a total of 100%, and the two days will add up to one charge cycle. It could take several days to complete a cycle. "
-Straight from apples website.
 

Ledsteplin

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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.

It's not good to leave them plugged in all the time. It doesn't hurt to leave it plugged in overnight, but it needs to be removed asap.
Power is to your iPhone battery as sweets are to a human: It has the potential of inflicting too much of a good thing. Keeping your iPhone plugged into power can shorten its battery?s life span, or the amount of time before you must replace it. You actually strengthen your lithium-ion battery and prevent its premature demise each time you make it power your iPhone on its own, without the crutch of a power source. As Apple puts it, ?It?s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally.? So, if you keep your iPhone plugged in in an attempt to save a charge cycle, you'll actually defeat your purpose. The best way to conserve charge cycles is to use the device less. If you average 8 hours per day usage, cut it back to 7? hours per day.
 

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In my world, battery life is measured in days, and battery life is the greatest integer function assigned to the time the phone lives.

There are very few 2 day battery phones in my world (maybe the pluses, but it's close). A number of android devices are 0 days phones in my world, ie you can't trust them to last to the next charge at end of day.

The iPhones 6S+ is the closest thing on the market to a two day device.
 

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I plug in all my Apple devices every night when I go to bed. I don't look to see how much battery is left, I just put it on the charger. My iPhone 6s Plus is my third iPhone and I've never had a problem with a battery.
 

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